Monday, October 4, 2010

Health Care Reform Conference Call: Nurses, Michelle Obama and Mary Wakefield

Health Care Reform Conference Call: Nurses, Michelle Obama and Mary Wakefield

Did you get to participate in the September 28th nurses-only health care reform conference call with First Lady Michelle Obama and Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)? Dr. Wakefield is the highest ranking nurse in the administration. The conference call helped ensure that the voices of nurses were heard in Washington.
Nurses were able to hear first-hand from the First Lady about Health Care Reform and what it means for nurses and their patients. The White House conferencing capacity was exceeded because nurses were overwhelmingly interested in participating - and the White House knows it!
You can read a summary or the full remarks as well as listen to the conference call.
Don’t forget your opportunity to stay involved this election season by pledging to participate in the October 20th Nurses Campaign Activity Night (Nurses CAN 2010). Won’t you take a few hours to ensure we have a friendly voice for nurses at the local, state or national level? Together, Nurses CAN continue to make our voices heard!


Sincerely,
Dr. Tart

2010 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research


This week Dr. DeMonica Junious and I attended the 2010 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research presented by the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS). We were in Washington, DC with 942 other nurse scientist from around the world. We spent our time visiting with other nurse researchers and learned about new opportunities for research in our field of nursing.

Dr. Junious presented her research, “Foreign-Born Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Stress”. You can read her article in the Journal of Nursing Education! The picture is of us standing at her poster presentation.

The final evening was the National Institute of Nursing Research “NightinGala” celebrating 25th years of Nursing Research – 1985-2010. The pictures are of Dr. DeMonica Junious and Sister Callista Roy. It was an honor to take our picture with Sister Roy! She is one of the “rock stars” in nursing!! (Google her if you don’t believe me!!)

Sincerely,
Dr. Tart