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IDEAS FOR THE YEAR! HELP US!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

These are descriptions of events that UPSNA is planning on putting on for YOU this Spring!! To make it happen, we need your help to research the costs so that we can get the appropriate funding from ASUP. Our budget is due to ASUP NOV. 3rd! We need your help!!

Mock Disaster

University of Portland has been involved in a Mock Disaster in Portland very recently, and through UPSNA we want to do it again. One of our nursing students Anna Vernon has suggested partnering with Providence St. Vincent’s Medical Center. St. V’s has great resources for the purpose of Mock Disaster preparations. Justus Green, one of our co-presidents has also been in contact with Lori Chorpenning as she was the coordinator for the Mock Disaster preparation event that UP put on recently, she is a wonderful resource!!

§ What UPSNA needs is a committee of students that would be able to make contact with St. Vincent’s’

§ We need to know what kind of funding we would need to make an event like this happen

§ Please sign up on the Budget Committee if you are interested in looking into the associated costs!

§ Contact Anna Vernon vernon10@up.edu with questions about how to get in contact with St. V’s for this event!!

§ Contact Lori Chorpenning chorpenn@up.edu about her experience coordinating the previous Mock Disaster preparation event!

§ Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any questions!

UPSNA Dance

We are planning on putting on a UPSNA Dance at a site on campus! Currently, we are hoping to use Franz Hall for the event. We thought this would be a fun way to build community within the nursing school and with students from another school on campus.

• We have estimated costs for the event, but we need the committee to find out if those estimates are accurate.
• We also need to know the maximum capacity of the Franz lobby based on fire codes.
• We need to know if there is a cost for Public Safety’s presence at the event
• We need to know if there are other costs we have not anticipated. Members of the committee will need to research and plan this event so that we can request the money we will need to make it happen from ASUP.
• Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any questions!

Résumé Workshop (Juniors & Seniors)

We thought this would be a very valuable event to help juniors and seniors prepare for the job market and how they will need to present themselves ‘on paper’ to compete for jobs. We also want to make this event a success so that it is available to underclassmen when they reach the upper division nursing curriculum and are closer to entering the job market.

• We need a committee to make contact with Career Services (they are located in Orrico Hall below the Health Center) to find out if we could partner with them for this event.
• We also need to know what kind of funding we will need to make this event happen.
• Please see the estimated budget as a guide, and research from there as to what the costs will be. We need to know if there are costs that we haven’t anticipated.
• Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any questions!

Mock Interviews (Seniors)

This is another event that we thought would be very valuable for seniors about to enter the job market. Our goal is to have faculty involvement as the interviewer, and then through the Mock Interview and a review of the interview afterwards, students could learn how to interview most effectively.

• What we need to is for students to research the costs of this event.
• There is a maximum amount of money that ASUP will approve for reimbursement of anyone involved in putting on an event that clubs can offer as an incentive and partial compensation for participation. We need to know what that amount is, we’ve heard it is between $25-$50.
• We also need students to recruit faculty for this event!
• Remember that we are hoping to make this event a success so that it can be available through UPSNA for future members of the upper division nursing program!

Mr. Murse Pageant

Several of the board members have been involved with pageants as a fundraiser for a charity. We have not chosen an organization yet, and are open to suggestions of where proceeds from this event could be directed.

The pageant would have different portions, currently we are thinking of including a casual wear modeling session and dance, talent segment, future fantasy, etcetera. If you have ever been to an event similar to this you probably have an idea of what the UPSNA board is trying to put on, if not, it is similar to Mr. Corrado.

• Beyond the participants, we will need a lot of people to be involved in this event.
• Before that, we need to know what it is going to cost to put this event on. You are welcome to use the estimated budget as a guide.
• Of the estimated costs, we need committee members to research whether or not those are accurate estimates.
• We will need judges and an M.C. for the event—so similar to the Mock Interviews, we need to know what the amount of money is that we can request from ASUP for reimbursement of anyone involved in putting on an event that clubs can offer as an incentive and partial compensation for participation. Again, we need to know what that amount is, we’ve heard it is between $25-$50.
• We also need to know what it would cost to use a space like BC Aud for the event, if Public Safety will need to present and those costs.
• Please use what we have estimated as a guide, but also research to see if the estimates are correct!
• Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any questions!

Guest Speakers with Student Alumni Association

The Student Alumni Association (SAA) is planning on sponsoring panels of alumni to come and do a panel discussion from each school on campus. When they have their School of Nursing Alumni Panel, we have talked with them about co-sponsoring this event. It will be a great opportunity to hear from alumni about their experiences, where they have gone since they graduated, and the potential for networking with them!

• We need the committee to contact the SAA President Malori Pierce piercem09@up.edu to find out more about this event.
• We need to know what the SAA needs from us financially and volunteer wise.
• We need to know when they are planning to have the event, etcetera.
• Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any additional questions!

Relay for Life

University of Portland hosts a Relay for Life event every year in the spring. We need to know what the costs would be for us to have a team, potentially make t-shirts and anything we haven’t anticipated.

• Contact Carling Vaux vaux09@up.edu with any additional questions!

Guest Speakers We Invite Through UPSNA

In addition to the School of Nursing Panel event, we are hoping to bring more speakers to campus, especially in areas that most of us will not have clinical or other exposure to during school. Some of the examples we thought about were a nurse from Pediatrics and OB since everyone will not have clinical experience in both areas. We were also considering nurses from Life Flight, ED (Emergency Department), NICU (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit), and a nurse from an international organization such as Doctors Without Borders or Medical Teams Northwest. We are certainly looking for any other suggestions of areas of nursing that you would like to hear from, including advanced practice nurses such as Certified Nurse Anesthetists!

§ Again, we need to know what amount of financial reimbursement and partial compensation ASUP will approve for us to offer to speakers that would be willing to participate in our event. We need to know what that amount is, we’ve heard it is between $25-$50.

§ We also need to know if there is a cost of reserving a space, BC Aud ideally in this case for the event.

§ If we are able to provide refreshments, what would the cost through Bon Appetit be?

§ What would our advertising costs be? Etcetera.

§ Contact eschmidt@up.edu or upsna@up.edu if you have any additional questions.

NSNA Conference

This year we are hoping to send several board members of UPSNA to the National Student Nurses Association Conference in the Spring. University of Portland has not been represented by students of UPSNA for years, and this is something we want to be involved in. We have a lot to offer at a conference like this one. A great example of what we can bring to the table is our experience on Dedicated Education Units (DEUs). UP is one of the few nursing schools in the country that has created these units in local hospitals where our students go for clinicals, and this is a great opportunity to share this with other nursing students around the nation.

• We need to research what the costs of sending some of the UPSNA board members to this conference would be so that we can request the appropriate funding from ASUP. This includes:
• Flights
• Hotel
• Food
• Conference Costs
• Justus Green, one of our co-presidents is one of the leaders for this committee. Please contact greenj09@up.edu with any questions!

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
1. Help with the Budget
2. Be on one of these Committees to plan!

GENERAL MEETING!!

Hey It's time for our next General Assembly Meeting!

MONDAY OCT 27 12:00 --BC 309



UPSNA really wants the involvement of allll nursing students! Come see what we're about!

If you have negative connotation from previous years please give it another try!

We can all make a difference individually, but together we can do MUCH bigger things!


See you there, force your friends to come :)

Resume Booster! Students are FREE!

Inaugural Pacific Northwest Diabetes Health Summit Notice:


Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be served. To RSVP via e-mail, please contact Jodi Larsen at larsenj@ohsu.edu or call Jodi at 503-494-7924.


Join our distinguished visiting and local speakers, presenters and moderators:

§ Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Director, Division of Diabetes Translation and President, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

§ Francine R. Kaufman , MD Head, Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Communications, University of Southern California

§ Brian Gibbs, PhD, MPA, OTR/L, Senior Research Scientist and Director, Program to Eliminate Health Disparities, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

§ Andrew J. Ahmann, MD, Director, Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center and Associate Professor of Medicine, OHSU

§ Bruce Boston, MD, Medical Director, Pediatric Diabetes, Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center

§ Darlene Cain, 2007 National Chair of the Board, American Diabetes Association

§ Lynn L. DeBar, PhD, MPH, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

§ Chris Dudley, CEO and Founder,The Dudley Foundation

§ Honorable Elizabeth Furse, Director, Institute for Tribal Government, PSU, and former member of the United States Congress

§ Bruce Goldberg, MD, Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services

§ Mike Greene, 1999 National Chair of the Board, American Diabetes Association

§ Michael A. Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Director of Psychology, CDRC, OHSU

§ Yves Lefranc, MD, Adventist Health System, and member of the Health Equities Committee of the Oregon Health Fund Board

§ Corliss McKeever, MSW President and Chief Executive Officer, African American Health Coalition and Asst. Professor, School of Nursing, OHSU and Member of the Board of Trustees, Legacy Health System

§ Sally Norby, Executive Director, Oregon and Washington Office of American Diabetes Association

§ Joe Robertson, Jr., MD, MBA, President, Oregon Health & Science University

§ Roy Sampsel, Director, Institute for Tribal Government, PSU

§ Harold Schnitzer, President and CEO, Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation

§ Sharon Stanphill, Dr. PH, RD, Director, Cow Creek Health & Wellness Center, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians


Pacific Northwest Diabetes Health Summit

November 7, 2008



Ambridge Event Center

300 NE Multnomah Street

7:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am Welcoming Remarks

8:45 am “How States Can Respond to the Pandemic” –

Ann Albright, PhD, RD

9:30 am Panel “Let’s Change the Status Quo on Public Policy”

Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Honorable Elizabeth Furse, Francine Kaufman, MD, and Bruce Goldberg, MD

11:15 am “Is There a Psychologist in the House? Treating Youth with Diabetes” - Michael A. Harris, PhD

Noon Lunch Address “Facing a Lifetime of Diabetes: An Impassioned Call to Action”
Francine R. Kaufman, MD – introduced by Andrew J. Ahmann, MD and Harold Schnitzer

1:15 pm “Why One Size Does Not Fit All in Special Populations” Brian Gibbs, PhD, MPA, OTR/L

Panel - “What’s Working and What’s Not: Three Case Studies in Cultural Competency and Diabetes Health”
Corliss McKeever, MSW, Yves LeFranc, MD, Sharon Stanphill, PhD, RD

3:00 pm Panel - “Healthier Futures for Children”
Sally Norby, Chris Dudley, Lynn L. DeBar, PhD, MPH

4:00 pm Conclusion



Please RSPV as soon as possible as seating is limited. Thank you in advance for your support of our mission of reversing the diabetes epidemic in our region.


You can't beat free! Don't forget Friday Nov 7 RSVP by Oct 31st!

Arthritis Foundation Adventure Race

UPSNA and your friends! ---

The Arthritis Foundation needs volunteers to help at the 2008 Portland Oyster Urban Adventure Race. The Oyster is an adventure race where teams of 3 or 6 participants navigate the city by running, biking, hiking, skating and lots of other crazy athletic stuff. The course is unknown to participants until the day of the event which makes it even more fun!

Saturday, October 18th Pioneer Courthouse Square – Downtown Portland.

We need help in the following areas.
Transition Area and Team Check – 6am-7:30am

Passport Monitors (recording times, punching passports and handing out new passports)
Shift # 1 7am-Noon
Shift # 2 Noon – 4:30pm

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Kim Mellen at 503-245-5695 or kmellen@arthritis.org
Thank you for your support of the Arthritis Foundation.
Kim

Kim Mellen
Campaign Coordinator
Arthritis Foundation
Pacific Northwest Chapter - Oregon Branch
9700 SW Capitol Hwy., Suite 160
Portland, OR 97219
503-245-5695 Ext. 100
1-888-845-5695
503-245-5691 - Fax

Be there with bells on at the Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis.
Bend - Saturday, December 6th
Portland - Sunday, December 7th

AIDS WALK

TO ALL UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND NURSING STUDENTS:

Hi everyone. My name is Andrea Noonan and I am one of the AEMUP students. Previous to joining nursing school, I interned and frequently volunteered with Cascade AIDS Project in Portland, Oregon. It is a wonderful organization that provides job placement, housing, HIV/AIDS education, an informational hotline, Men's Wellness Center and many other services right in our community. All services and funding are put directly into Portland and Vancouver programs. I hold this organization in the highest regard and strive to supports all the programs that CAP provides. As nurses we know the importance of preventing communicable diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, and in the near future we will all be faced with educating the community and providing resources. So I am asking all of you to join me and walk for the fight against HIV/AIDS! We will not only be providing strong community support, but will have an opportunity to learn about the organization and represent our school in a positive light.

AIDSWalk is on Oct. 12, 2008. It is free to participate, involves a 5K walk (that isn't fast by any means..), and all kinds of fun activities in Pioneer Square. The name of our team is UP Nurses: Pilots for Protection. I would love as many people as possible to participate, and I would love to get to know some of the BSN and AEMUPs I have never met. In order participate follow these instructions:

1) Go to http://www.aidswalkportland.org/
2) Click on Registration
3) Agree to the waiver/agreement
4) Click the box: Join a team. A drop down list will pop up and scroll down until you get to UP Nursing: Pilots for Protection.

5) Once you have picked our team, then fill out the rest of the registration. (Some notes for the registration...our company does not do gift matching, choose general registration (unless you think you could raise $1000!!!), and if you don't feel like donating right then, or at all, just put a 0. Also set a goal for yourself, it can be fun to see if you can reach it...you can always donate later and change your goal as you go along. Remember this is YOUR site, so whatever you want.)

-This creates your own personal website where you can email friends about contributing and keeping track of your donations and your goals. You can even add a picture of yourself and write a blurb about why you are participating and what it means to you.

I know we are all starving students and money is really tight, so if you can't make a donation, don't feel bad, do the best you can. Five dollars is a contribution: Consider it buying a drink for your friend :) You can even ask your family to donate $5 each and you will find most people will love to. The website is totally secure and through your site a link and generic email can be sent to friends.

Thanks so much for reading and I really hope our team represents the strength and support that UP Nurses offer to the community. If you have any questions please email me at noonan10@up.edu.

Best Regards,
Andrea Noonan

P.S. If you are interested in volunteering with the event (which doesn't mean you can't walk) contact me!!