AHCEM News. From the President. Educating Health Educators. Upcoming Dates. Sherri Klaers. In this issue: Quarterly - Winter 2009

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1 Quarterly - Winter 2009 Educating Health Educators Upcoming Dates Winter Conference February 27, 2009 Woodwinds in Woodbury Spring Networking April 30, 2009 Ridgeview Medical Center, Waconia Fall Conference September 24 & 25, 2009, St. Cloud In this issue: Message from the President Budget Update Winter Conference Nominations Thank You Member Spotlight Valentine s Puzzle AHCEM News From the President Sherri Klaers Happy 2009, While health educators have many challenges, I see us as a group as hopeful and creative people. We figure out how to make things work when budgets are flush and when they are not. As an organization AHCEM has been looking for creative, cost-effective ways to help our members stay current on the changing healthcare environment while helping each other figure out new ways to offer the old standbys like infection control! This is Your AHCEM. Let s work together to make it even better! Here are some of the things that we re working on in *Research new payment options for members: either with credit/debit card or online PayPal, etc to provide added convenience for members. *Research using video conferencing for board meetings to enable more members to become board members without added travel expense. *Develop a speaker s list for the website not just the name and contact information for a variety of speakers, but also add a rating for each speaker. *Develop a networking group for computer-based learning users no matter what learning management (LMS) system you have. *Provide timely, interesting and cost-effective programs for the Winter and Fall Conferences and continue with our new networking forum in May. All the dates and locations are on the website so mark your calendar! *Grow AHCEM membership because the more members we have, the more networking and resource possibilities we have. *Look for new ways and continue current ways to provide networking between members at conferences, through our website and . New ideas? This is Your AHCEM! We encourage you to or call an AHCEM board member if you have a new idea, a concern or a potential new member. Here s my contact information: skla@rice.willmar.mn.us Staff Education Coordinator, Rice Memorial Hospital, Willmar, MN. I look forward to seeing or talking or ing with most of you in It s going to be a great year! SimMan Technology 6 Sherri 1

2 Budget Update Heidi Miller, Treasurer AHCEM Treasurer s Report, Winter Newsletter On November 13 th, the board met and reviewed the projected 2009 budget; discussed spending options for the Change for Change fund and the 2008 Fall Conference. Some changes that were made to the budget consisted of insuring that AHCEM tries to keep a nice balance of income and expenses for the 3 conferences throughout the year. As a not for profit organization, there is an equal balance between our projected income and expenses for The 2009 budget expenses were adjusted slightly based on the expenditures of the previous year. Lots of good input was provided and the 2009 budget was approved on November 18 th. Once again the board worked hard at being optimistic but realistic in our projected budget for Also, during the November board meeting, there was a discussion over how best to use the AHCEM Change for Change fund. Several ideas were past around, some options that were considered, is possibly creating a credit card payment option for our conferences available through the AHCEM website. It was also discussed to possibly use the Change for Change fund to have a new speaker present on updated changes in technology and the health education world. Also, there were 34 attendees at the 2008 fall conference and AHCEM had an income of $6, and expenses of $4,537.23, ending with a profit of $2, For 2009, the board has balanced the budget for three exciting conferences; the winter conference, spring networking conference and the fall conference in September. Finally, the 2008 budget materials are being audited and finalized for the year. For 2009, the budget looks excellent and as always we encourage any input from our members on options for using our Change for Change fund, helping to make AHCEM a progressive organization in the health care field. Winter Conference Vickie Ruegemer, Programs Chair Our AHCEM Winter conference is scheduled for February 27, 2009 at Woodwinds Health Campus in Woodbury. You won t want to miss this event! Jill Frazier, System Director for Nursing and Clinical Education at HealthEast Care System, and Georgine Madden & Lynae Steinhagen from Madd-Steiny Productions will spend the day with us discussing Accountability in Nursing Education and Respectfull Teams. This is an opportunity to do some local networking and learning. The cost of the conference is $85 for members and $160 for non-members. To access a conference brochure or register on line, go to: Winter Conference Don t Miss This One! Addressing Challenging Issues in 2009 Friday, February 27 Woodwinds Health Campus Join us for great education sessions, networking and fun! Topics include: Accountability in Nursing Education respectfull Teams Fee: $85 for members $160 for non-members Registration deadline is Friday, February 20 2

3 Nominations By Berdelle Ingeman, Past-President and Nominations Chair AHCEM Membership: Many people helped in making 2008 a great for year AHCEM. We had a wonderful 10 th Anniversary celebration in September. We have new people that joined AHCEM and attended the conferences. The Buddy System was used so that each new member was hooked up with a seasoned member. (I was going to say old member, but none of us old.) I find that it is great meeting new people and hearing their ideas. We did a Networking Conference in May. I enjoyed the comment by one of the participants, Can I take all of you home with me, so we can continue brainstorming. Thank you to the AHCEM Board, 10 th Anniversary committee and especially all of the AHCEM members for assisting me in I have to say with all the help from everybody it makes the President s job easy. This takes me to I will be the Past President and Nominations Chair. I will need your help to have a slate of candidates for the ballot in August. The elected positions open in 2009 will be the Treasurer and President Elect. The Treasurer position is a 2 year term. President Elect is a 3 year term. The first year you are President Elect, second year President, and third year Past President. Committees that could use some assistance are Communications Outreach and Programs. If you would be interested in any of these positions please contact me at bing@rice.willmar.mn.us or To all AHCEM members: I want to thank each of you for honoring me with the Darling Mentor Award last September. It is my privilege to be associated with such a talented group of educators and am humbled you thought be worthy of this award from among the many other qualified mentors in our group. I hope to continue to live up to the spirit of this award and will cherish this honor forever. Get Involved If you see something that you are good at and would like to help (websites, special interest groups, communications) OR If you just have an idea for AHCEM, or call... Sherri Klaers skla@rice.willmar.mn.us Yours Truly, Jeanne Siedow, RN We re on the Web! 3

4 Build the Website Our goal is to have members share great websites, materials, and other resources they use on the job. If we all share a few things, we all benefit. If you have ideas for the website contact: Dennis Denning Information Manager drd.drdenning.com Speaker s Listing We are looking to build a speaker listing to add to our website, that will include a rating system. If you know of any good speakers, on any topic, please the information to Tracy Marquardt, tmarquardt@hahc mn.org. Please include the following: Name of speaker Contact Information Price Range - if known - or a range - low, medium, high Topics Rating: 1 to 5-5 being the highest Newsletter feature highlighting one of our AHCEM members Deb Sonnenberg Nursing Education Specialist Fairview Northland Hospital Princeton Education Background: RN, BS Position Responsibilities: Education and competency assessment of RNs and support staff (Hospital and 4 clinics). Favorite Job Duty: Love that power point! Length of time in position: Just under one year Other positions you ve had in health care: I started out as a Surgical Technologist, then OR RN. I moved into management for 5 years, and then was an Instructor at Anoka Tech for 3 years. I came to Northland 5 years ago as Nurse Clinician for Surgery Family: Married for 25 years. We have one daughter, who is newly married and having a baby in June (you know what that makes me!) Hobbies: Horses--I compete in barrel racing and other speed events Favorite TV Show: The Dog Whisperer (National Geographic Channel) Your favorite thing about AHCEM: The name - it says it all! Your favorite thing about out web site: All the great tools I can use--thanks everybody! Special note: Invited to present a paper at the National Evidence-Based Research Convention in Iowa in April '09, on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, for work done with my 2 favorite nurses on the planet Who is your mentor/hero and why? my boss, Pam Pringle. She is even-handed, professional, and clearly defines her expectations. She never gossips or nit-picks, and is a great nurse! 4

5 Valentine s Puzzle Anna Harvala, President Elect As part of my job, I am always looking for fun activities for employees to complete. Word finds, scrambles, etc are always a hit with our employees. Below is a little fun activity for Valentines Day. Match the language with the corresponding I Love You. 1. Jeg elsker dig! A. Hawaiian 2. Ik hou van je! B. English 3. I love you! C. Danish 4. (Mä) rakastan sua! D. German 5. Je t aime! E. Korean 6. Ich liebe dich! F. French Be a Volunteer - a Little or a Lot! We know how busy you are! The AHCEM Board had the idea that we could ask members to do short-term, small projects to help grow AHCEM. Could you Write a short article for the newsletter on a topic of interest to you? Work on a short-term committee project? Contact Dennis Denning drd.drdenning.com Aloha wau ia oe! G. Italian 8. t a gr a agam dhuit! H. Russian 9. Ti amo! I. Finnish 10. Kimi o ai shiteru! J. Swedish 11. Dangsinul sarahngee yo! K. Dutch 12. Te amo! L. Irish 13. Jeg elsker deg! M. Japanese 14. Ya tyebya lyublyu N. Norwegian 15. Jag älskar dig! O. Spanish Answers: 1.C, 2.K, 3.B, 4.I, 5F, 6.D, 7.A, 8.L, 9.G, 10.M, 11.E, 12.O, 13.N, 14.H, AHCEM NEWS...is published online and by four times a year by the Association for Health Care Educators of the Midwest. We welcome your suggestions for articles or improvements. Contact the Newsletter Editor at: Tracy Marquardt tmarquardt@hahc-mn.org

6 SimMan Technology Connie Osborne, Hospitality Chair We just had a visit from the new Simulation Training Coordinator at Ridgewater College, Ron Flannigan, who informed us that they have purchased a SimMan/Woman that is cordless, and able to do pretty much any physical response you could request for simulated training of staff. He is able to talk, turn blue or red, pupils dilate/constrict, heart rhythm changes as medications are simulated/programmed in. You can schedule their van to come and park in your parking lot and run your staff through at intervals in their ER, or you can take the SimMan to a home, call the ambulance, complete some competencies with ambulance staff, then bring the patient to the ER, run through some competencies there, admit the patient and run through some scenarios there.take it to Xray, etc. It has skin that can be pierced for IV starting, surgical maneuvers, chest tube placement, and then replaced. They are willing to stay at one facility for several days in order to give all staff the opportunity to practice what needs to be done. It can even deliver a SimBaby Wow! There are so many new ways to give our staff the training they need, and for a small acute care facility, with the variety of services provided, it is a great opportunity. Thanks to Sherri Klaers for sharing this cartoon - which unfortunately is so true! 2009 AHCEM Board of Directors Elected Officers President Sherri Klaers skla@rice.willmar.mn.us President Elect Anna Harvala aharvala@hahc-mn.org Past-President Berdelle Ingeman bing@rice.willmar.mn.us Treasurer Heidi Miller hmiller@crmc.sisunet.org Recorder Sandy Luehrs x6029 sandy.luehrs@ridgeviewmedical.org Committee Chairs Programs Chair Vickie Ruegemer ruegemerv@centracare.com X Nominations Chair Berdelle Ingeman bing@rice.willmar.mn.us Communications/Outreach Co-Chair Tracy Marquardt tmarquardt@hahc-mn.org Communications/Outreach Co-Chair Jeanne Siedow jsiedow@healtheast.org Communications/Outreach Co-Chair Jean Ignatius x5907 JSkyline@clearwire.net Hospitality Chair Connie Osborne , x242 cosborne@pahcs.com AHCEM Staff Information Manager Dennis Denning drd@drdenning.comhighlight your point of interest here. 6