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Greetings!
Nurse Appreciation Night at the Reno Bighorns is Saturday at the Reno Events Center. If you haven't purchased your tickets yet, contact Sandy Olguin at sandyolguin@live.com. This is a great opportunity to support nursing in Nevada!
We will be testing a new Nursing NewsFlash, which you will start receiving twice a week. The purpose of this publication is to provide a benefit to you as members. Check it out and let us know if you like it. If not, you can unsubscribe from it at any time without interfering with your NNA communications. |
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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Requests Meeting with Interested Nurses | |
Lindsay Dahl of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families will be in Las Vegas the end of the month, and she would like to meet with nurses interested in working with them on issues of common interest. She is planning a meeting on March 30 at 10 a.m. and has agreed to provide a teleconference hook up for those who want to attend from other areas of the state.
If you are interested in attending, please email me at imcmlrc@aol.com. |
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NNA Now Ready for Mentor/Mentee Sign-Up | |
The NNA Mentoring Project site is now operational. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please sign up at www.mentornet.net. The site will talk about STEM students and make frequent references to science, math, and technology. However, if you select the Nevada Nurses Association as your organization, you will be paired with appropriate mentors/mentees.
To become a mentor, follow the link to find a protege. Mentors need to be registered nurses in Nevada willing to share their experience, network, etc, and with at least 15 minutes per week to spend in providing email mentoring for a new grad.
Are you interested in finding a mentor? Mentees/protegees for the first phase should be new grads in the first 2 years of practice. Some advantages you can gain from having a mentor include:
- Access to career wisdom and guidance
- Job and personal opportunities
- Increased confidence
- Problem-solving skills
- The knowledge that you are not alone
If this sounds interesting, sign up today by emailing sapna@mentornet.net. |
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Please let me know if you have comments, suggestions, or information you want included in the next News You Can Use.
Warmest regards,
Margaret
Margaret Curley, RN, BSN
Nevada Nurses Association
775-747-2333
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| Upcoming Events | |
March 17: Nurse Appreciation Night at the Reno Bighorns
March 30: Meeting with Lindsay Dahl, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, 10 a.m.
April 2: Legislative Committee,7 p.m.
May 12, 2012 IFNN Awards Dinner/Dance, Las Vegas
June 1: Article due date for RNFormation
August 10, 2012 District 3 Alaska Cruise
October 5-6 NNA State Convention, Grand Sierra Resort, Reno
October 17 Nurses CAN (Campaign Activity Night)
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| NNA Career Center | |
New jobs are being added frequently to the NNA Career Center. Please check back often. Go to our website at www.nvnurses.org and follow the link under Especially for You. |
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CEU Opportunities | |
NSBN will present a one-day conference on Behavioral Health, approved for 6 CEUs will be held on March 30 at Saint Mary's in Reno.
For more information, visit the NSBN website at
www.nevadanursingboard.org |
Nevada Healthy Homes Partnership will hold "Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners" Training Course on March 20-21, 2012 at the State of Nevada Health Division. CEUs will be available. For more information, contact Teresa Hayes, 775-684-4074, thayes@health.nv.gov, or visit www.nvhhp.org
Rural health researchers present best practices in a Summit sponsored by Idaho State University's Division of Health Sciences, August 8-10, 2012. The call for abstracts and more information is available online at
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