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STAND TOGETHER
OPHA Nursing Celebration Luncheon The Celebration luncheon was held Monday May 9th, 2016 at the Portland State Office Building Room 1A. Lunch was provided by the OPHA Nursing section. Kudos to Carol Easter for leading the luncheon committee and ensuring this event was such a success!! Sherry Archer, OHSU School of Nursing Instructor, along with several of her nursing students shared information about the unique student collaboration with the Gresham Fire Department. Click here for more about this wonderful public health collaboration. Dianna Pickett followed with a wonderful nursing leadership presentation highlighting two contemporaries noted for their nursing care of soldiers during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and the less known Mary Seacole. Click here to learn lots more about Mary Seacole. The OPHA Nursing Leadership Award was presented by Dianna Pickett to Charlie Fautin, Deputy Director of Public Health for Benton County, for his ongoing achievement and commitment toward improving the health of the public through Nursing Leadership.
Features
Page1: OPHA Nursing Celebration Luncheon
Page2: Chair’s Corner &
Conference update Page3: Nursing Section S Social Page4: Legislation Page5: PHAB Page6: Leadership anyone? Page7: More Luncheon Photos! Page8: PH in the news
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Chair’s Corner Notes from my desk: I hope you are planning on attending the annual OPHA conference October 10th and 11th in Corvallis. The abstract review committee has looked over the submission and I know are negotiating with presenters date, time, and length so we don’t know the exact number of nurse presentations. However I do know there at least 23 of the 140 abstracts had a nurse as presenter or author. We know there are more because not everyone included license or degree information with their abstract. We should be quite proud and supportive of the nursing presence. Elsewhere in the newsletter you see the announcement of the Monday evening gathering for nurses – I hope to see you there. I hope you have been following the Oregon and National efforts to protect us from harmful chemicals. Most recently congress passed a Toxic Substances Control Act reform bill. As expected there are good parts and other parts. It is important that nurses keep ourselves educated about this issue and continue to advocate for good protection. Couple sites that you can look at about the federal bill: http://saferchemicals.org/2016/06/10/key-takeaways-from-the-passage-of-tsca-reform/ http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060038540 http://www.psr.org/resources/psr-statement-on-chemical-safety-act.html http://www.ewg.org/release/senate-sends-obama-toxic-chemicals-reform-bill-fails-protect-public-health Here is my Gedankenexperiment on the matter – A woman plans to get pregnant and wants to bring her baby into a world that is less toxic than today. Now that Oregon and Congress have passed legislation when can she do that? Nine months from now? A couple years? Decade? When? The answer to that question will separate rhetoric from reality and show us the work still to be done. I hope you are aware of the OCN monthly nurse gatherings around the state. This is quite an opportunity for public health nurses to interact with nurses of
other disciplines. You can lead a gathering yourself. Connect and get
information at: http://oregoncenterfornursing.org/news/ocn-launches-monthly-nurse-gatherings/ Be well. See you in Corvallis at our annual meeting. te
Upcoming Events
2016 OPHA Conference & Meeting
It's an exciting time to be in Public Health; how decision makers and
communities think about health evolves daily. Where will public health in our state go next? Come and find out at OPHA's 72nd Annual Conference & Meeting, it's the perfect place to discover, network, share, and recharge.
Download the 2016 Annual OPHA Conference & Meeting flyer here.
Date: Monday, October 10th & Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Time: Doors open at 8:00 am; presentations begin at 9:00 am and run throughout the day.
Location: LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University 100 LaSells Stewart Center 875 SW 26th St Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3101
Early Bird Registration opens in August!
At OPHA 2016 you'll find the latest in public health research and trends, focused learning sessions, thought-provoking speakers, and plenty of networking opportunities. Highlights include:
Education: More than 100 presentations on key functional
areas of public health; facilitated discussion forums to learn from your peers; and an interactive poster session.
Networking Events: Connect with
other public health professionals and stakeholders from around the Northwest during plentiful breaks, receptions, and evening events.
Association Awards: Join OPHA in recognizing Oregon's public health advocates and leaders.
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PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
What is all this talk about public health modernization?
House Bill 3100 (2015) Legislators used the recommendations from the Modernizing Oregon’s Public Health System report to
introduce House Bill 3100. House Bill 3100 adopted the foundational capabilities and programs for governmental public health. In
addition, it changed the composition and role of the Public Health Advisory Board on January 1, 2016. It also required an assessment of
how foundational capabilities and programs are provided and what additional resources are needed.
The July 2016
PH Modernization
Manual can be found
here.
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Have you heard of PHAB?
The Public Health Accreditation Board is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving
and protecting the health of the public by advancing and ultimately transforming the
quality and performance of state, local, tribal, and territorial public health departments.
PHAB’s national public health department accreditation process seeks to advance quality
and performance within public health departments.
The tangible benefits of working on accreditation will vary among health departments.
Since accreditation is about performance and quality improvement, the actual benefits to
a health department will depend on its identified needs. Accreditation provides a
framework for a health department to identify performance improvement opportunities,
to improve management, develop leadership, and improve relationships with the
community. The process is one that will challenge the health department to think about
what business it does and how it does that business.
On May 17, 2016, PHAB awarded five-year accreditation status to 17 state and local public
health departments. Since the launch of the national accreditation program in 2011, 134
public health departments and one integrated local public health department system have
achieved accreditation through PHAB. The recent accreditation decisions mean that the
transformational benefits of being served by a PHAB-accredited health department are
now reaching 167 million people, or 54 percent of the U.S. population.
In Oregon, the following state and local health agencies have been accredited:
Clackamas County Public Health, Oregon City, Oregon
Crook County Health Department, Prineville, Oregon
Deschutes County Health Services, Bend, Oregon
Marion County Health Department, Salem, Oregon
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division, Portland, Oregon
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OPHA Nursing Section Save the Date
Nursing Section Gathering during the
2016 OPHA Conference Date: Monday, Oct 10th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm Location: Laughing Planet, 127 NW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97330 What: The Nursing Section invites nurses to get together for a fun dinner and conversation. After ordering your food, join us upstairs for dinner, conversation and a presentation. If you need a ride, meet at the front door of the Alumni Center Lobby (near the Poster Session Hors d’oeuvres) at 5:30 PM for transportation.
http://laughingplanetcafe.com/menu/
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OPHA Nursing Leadership Opportunities
Open Board Positions: This October during the Nursing Section Meeting at the OPHA Annual Conference we will have two Section Executive Committee positions open for election: Chair-elect and Treasurer. Both positions are three year commitments. The Chair Elect leads the planning for the annual Nursing Leadership Celebration. The following year, the chair-elect becomes the chair of the nursing section, where this person will be responsible for all matters within the section, followed by the last year serving as the past-chair. The Treasurer oversees the OPHA Nursing section budget and coordinates with the OPHA Board treasurer. In addition to these roles, as a part of the Executive Committee, you will be involved in decision making for the section, planning events, and more. Nurses of all experience are welcomed and encouraged to run for either of these openings. If interested in any opportunity, please email [email protected] by October 1st. Other Opportunities: OPHA Nursing Website Design: Do you have skills in designing a website; or, do you want to learn how to design a website? If you answered yes to either question, then join the OPHA Nursing Section Website team. On this team, you’ll learn all the in-and-outs of designing, managing, and putting together a website. The job expectations are about ~1 hour a month. OPHA Nursing Newsletter: Want to be an editor for the OPHA Nursing Section Newsletter? Then join our newsletter team!! The job is fun and job expectations are a few hours each quarter. Contact Pamela Ferguson if you have any questions!!
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More photos from the Nursing Celebration Luncheon
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Nursing Section
Want to submit an article for the newsletter? We’re happy to review it and add it to our next newsletter. Deadline for Fall Newsletter submission is September 15th. If you have any questions, need guidelines for writing an article or if you have ideas how to make this more interactive, please email: [email protected]. Newsletter editor: Pamela Ferguson
Public Health in the News…….
The Road to Zero - CDC's Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic
The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the first in history. The first case was reported in
Guinea in March 2014, and the disease spread in the neighboring countries of Liberia and
Sierra Leone. Over the span of a year, the Ebola epidemic has caused more than ten times
as many cases of Ebola than the combined total of all those reported in previous Ebola
outbreaks. As the outbreak became more widespread, travel-associated cases appeared in
Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, and even countries outside Africa, including the United States.
Download: The Road to Zero: CDC's Response to the 2014 Ebola Epidemic here.
