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Taking Care of Nurses
I know what a nurse's life look like because I am a nurse like you. We give a lot of ourselves to others; we take care of others more than our own. It is a difficult task and yet we do not regret. It is a vocation that we accepted freely as we receive the Lamp and recite the Oath of the Florence Nightingale Pledge.
A lot of us live a lifestyle so different from the rest of other professionals. We have to multi-task in order to survive the demands of this profession, for us and our families and friends. In the realization that we can do better, The Nursing Office.Com has come about to add another specialty in nursing practice: Nursing the Nurses/Taking Care of Nurses.
If you would like to do something for your career, health and well-being, The Nursing Office. Com with its professional services and programs designed especially for you is definitely the right place. We are your very own nursing office. See what we and our professional experienced team can do for you.
Taking Care of Communities
It is my great pleasure to announce that The Nursing Office.Com has developed programs to extend its health and nursing services to the community. The Nursing Office Community Service Center has opened its doors to several communities in greater New York area. This is perhaps the first time that a Nursing Office will be made available to communities serving the minorities, ethnic groups and marginalized population of both urban and rural America.
Will you "Stand by Me" ?
In my efforts to take care of nurses, I know by this time that I can do it, as I’m committed to this cause, however, I know as well that I need you all to stand by me…..
January, 2012
On a personal note...
Suddenly, The Nursing Office is six years old and counting. Time flew; however, I will never forget how it started with the question among my classmates in graduate school, “What shall we do after we finish our masters?”A lot of discussion went on for days and a lot longer, it stayed in the back of my mind. That’s right, “what shall I do?” At that time, the stress of sleepless nights and paper chase is sinking into me. Little did I know that I will be capitalizing on it in my future career in nursing. My stress strengthened me in my desire to influence nursing and make a difference to take care of nurses.
While taking care of nurses is a major role and that I am very ambitious, I started in my own shy ways to find my target audience. I have to find nurses, mingle with them, network with leaders and study their culture. I have to cross states to find nursing communities and find out what they are doing. The challenges were real; however, I was determined and was having fun in the process.
I produced the first Nurses Show Live in 2007 as a stress reduction program. I followed up with the publication of the Filipino Nurse Magazine which was later changed to Modern Nightingale to make it through the mainstream. The ideas were grand: shows, magazines and websites. The question was “Will nurses accept and buy me?”
Today, I have no doubt that I will one day realize the mission and vision I have set for nurses. Resistant to change as I am, you have given me a chance to serve you. I thank you very much for believing that I can.
I dedicate this mission to all of you who have inspired me. To my family, friends and my patients who made me who I am, a professional nurse. To the most beautiful people in the world, with the hands that care, NURSES.
Our Newsletter MAY 2012 Issue
Campaign for Nurse Driven Healthcare Solutions
Nurses Role in Healthcare
Nurses have long fought for a more humane healthcare system based on individual patient need, not ability to pay. More than ever, nurses play a major role on issues of healthcare providing solutions for a healthier tomorrow. We are gaining significant momentum as professionals. This is indeed a compliment and empowerment to us and yet on the other hand, a call of a challenge to us in caring for the American people as well as the international community. How big and how important can this challenge be? Do we have an answer for that? Yes, we do, and yes, we will!
As the new Healthcare Reform Act take effect, The Nursing Office.Com takes the challenge to promote solutions that are based on the evidence and actual experiences of nurses who are behind the scenes of healthcare. It is the time for us to come forward and be in charge of a domain that is always, and rightfully, ours.
We have managed through those years, though it was not recognized. This time, we will take the responsibility and leadership to show our wisdom. We will stand up and define our roles. We will no longer be in the background but rather, we will be visible as we walk our talk. We will re-think why it failed and why we need reforms. We will come up with our own nurse driven solutions, initiatives and programs to support a massive change in our healthcare so that we may deliver affordable healthcare to the American people and to the international community.
IN THIS ISSUE
Evidently clear: Nurses spur healthcare changes
Moving Up:The Nursing Office.Com partners with NYU Applied Project
Telenursing/Distance nursing: The art of caring in the 21st century
How should hospitals celebrate Nurses
BEST FINDS for YOU
Nurses House for nurses in need
The Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Discover Nursing with Johnson & Johnson
INSIDE FEATURES
What are nurses doing?
Remarkable Modern Nightingales
Joy Abraham, MSN, RN, ANP
Getting Ready to Give Back
Joy Abraham, a Fil-Am nurse from Mt Sinai Hospital, NYC, took a vacation to visit her hometown last October, just to see how impoverished her people are and upon return to the US, became determined to give back. She organized a group she called TEA to stand for Toboso-Escalante Association. In just a few months, she has the website, did a fundraiser and scheduled a medical-dental mission to Toboso and Escalante, Philippines, this coming May 26-27, 2011.
www.toboso-escalanteassociation.webs.com
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The garbage man
As a good interpersonal practice in the workplace, I always treated the housekeepers as a part of my nursing team. I know my garbage man for the past twenty years. He does his job so well that I have no complaints.
When lay-offs predominated the past recession era, he tells me in the most enjoyable way “I love garbage, give me all your garbage! He explains further that he loves them, because it has been his livelihood for a long time and what happens if there is no more garbage, and then he will lose his job as well.
I got the message, simple and true why he loves garbage. Talking to him further, that at home, he doesn’t even care to look at his garbage.
Same in nursing, we should love our patients because our trade depends on them.
Golden Nuggets are Food for Thought
Apostles in the making
It’s a bitter cold day of winter. As I was parking my car in the church’s lot, I saw the familiar faces of the young boys directing traffic every Sunday. As it was extremely cold, when I passed by them and saw that they have no gloves and head caps, with their noses as red as apples, I said, “Please come inside the church, it’s too cold out here”. The boys were so brave and determined and proud, when they replied to me, “We have work to do, it’s okay”.
Egg with an Attitude
What about this for fun?
My friend Chad is always busy.
Yesterday, we had a community reception in the church after the traditional Midnight Mass (Simbang Gabi). It was dinner, (supposed to be) and yet I found some hardboiled eggs with stickers on it, like those Easter eggs. Anyway, I took one; first I thought it’s healthy, secondly, it’s convenient. I’ll just put it in my pocket. When I was about to eat it, another friend said, “Oh where did you get those eggs?” And then somebody said, “Oh that is the egg with an attitude! Chad made that.”
I found out that Chad’s idea is to make simple things special. As she does not have time to cook, she thought of those stickers on the egg to give them a statement, a signature, if not an attitude.
It’s time for new ideas!
We are traditionalists. Change and new ideas do not excite us. We have no room for them. We have enough things going already and we don’t want anything more. We are doing well. We are in our best comfort zones. But are we in our best shape and state of nursing practice?
In this age of evidence-based practice, (EBP) we need our open mind not to resist the new wave of proven facts to guide a safe nursing practice and culture. Let us open the windows and let the fresh air come in. Let us give chance to new ideas. Let us listen, think and accept them as they may be the answer to a better, safer, and easier practice after all.
Not just violating a law!
Like any other rush hour morning commute, as I squeeze myself in a tight subway train, I tried to sneak a bite on my bagel. I haven’t swallowed, when I heard a tiny voice who said ,“There’s no eating on the train allowed”. I looked at him, a 7-year old boy, holding his bottle of juice. I scrambled for an answer and it has to be right. I said, “That’s right, I just violated a law. Don’t you follow me, okay?”The little boy smiled at me, I could see the feeling of heroism in him as he acknowledged that he caught a “violator” in the act. A minute later, I saw him opened his juice and took a sip.
As he enjoyed his drink, I felt my first blunder of the day as well as a lesson learned for life: I am a role model as a person, as a professional. If I break anything, no matter how slight it is, that will have an impact to somebody. In this case, I’m not just violating a law, but failed to give a good example, especially to this young child who looks at the adults as their role models.
As nurses and professionals, we are always challenged by deep thoughts and critical thinking. We are trained to be always correct and to make good decisions. There is nothing wrong with that. However, when we are trapped into so many issues, and it comes to a point when we are almost sorry for thinking “I could have…., I should have…”, we should let go and forget about it. “The past is history, the future is a mystery. All you must truly be concerned with is the present. No matter what has gone before, you have the option to make changes, to make new choices, right now.” This is an excerpt from Keep it Simple and Sane, by Barb Rogers
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Kalusugan Coalition
Kalusugan Coalition Board of Directors and Dr.Kevin Nadal (Awardee)
Horizons for Health
The Kalusugan Coalition, a non-profit organization that contributes to advance the health and quality of life of Filipino Americans living in New York Metropolitan Area, held its second Annual Benefit and Awards night at the Helen Mills Theater, (NYC) last October 1, 2010.
The event was made possible by the team effort of its Chairman, Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza, and its Board of Directors, three of whom are members of Philippine Nurses Association (PNA-NY): Potri Ranka Manis, Mary Joy Dia and Myrna D. Santos.
Special Awards were given to Dr. Ramiro Cadag, a private practitioner in Internal Medicine, Brooklyn NY, and is dedicated to providing medical services to Fil-Americans in NY as well as the Philippines; The Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS(APICHA) dedicated to providing medical care and other vital services to those with the greatest needs, and to those who face the greatest barriers to health care services; and Dr. Kevin Nadal,a professor, psychologist, performer, activist and author, whose works and services focus on Filipino American, ethnic minority and LGBTQ issues in the fields of psychology and education.
APICHA Benefit Gala at Grand Hyatt Hotel NYC
APICHA Turns 21
Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) celebrated its 21st anniversary in style with a Benefit Gala last October 13, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in NYC. Four distinguished and extraordinary New Yorkers were honored for their commitment and support to both the organization’s vision of health equality and social justice:
Honorable Richard Gottfried is a member of the NY State Assembly and a partner in the government who is not only a leader in health care, but drafted, introduced and passed vital legislation in the areas of women’s health, care of the uninsured and care for those living with HIV/AIDS.
Grace Lyu Volkhausen is the president of Tiger Baron Foundation. She has provided important guidance to APICHA as the organization transitioned from its grassroots beginnings into a professionally run organization. She pointed to the organization in the direction of expanding its services to the needs of the LGTB (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community.
B.D. Wong is a pioneering actor and activist who has been devoted to social justice and has known APICHA since its early foundation when he served as a volunteer.
Jorge Ortoll is the executive director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, who brings the voices and issues of the communities to the stage. This partnership between the theater and the community organizations like APICHA create opportunities to educate theater goers about vital issues.
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