NEWS
Scholarship Gala
Bienvenidos to our scholarship gala, we will take this opportunity to recognize and honor our recipients. The fiesta begins at 7pm, all friends and families are welcome to attend the celebration!
Excellence and Leadership during COVID-19
OC NAHN Board Member, Yolee Casagrande, was featured for the great work and leadership at Keck Medicine of USC! Read the article below.
Gauchos Take On COVID-19
OC NAHN Board Member, Javier Moreno, is one of our nurses working on the front lines of COVID-19 and is featured in an article for his work. Please read below.
Community Education in the time of COVID-19
OC NAHN Chapter President, Dr. Maria Matza, joined colleagues in cooperation with CSUF Latino Communications Institute to deliver community education about COVID-19 at a Northgate Market in Orange County. Watch video below.
TOY DRIVE!
By Javier Moreno - November 3, 2019
OC NAHN is partnering with Flying Samaritans at Cal State University Fullerton for their holiday toy drive in 2019. Please donate an unwrapped toy and bring it to our General Education Meeting on November 21st. The meeting is taking place at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange.
The Future of Nursing: Where are we now?
By Javier Moreno - March 20, 2019
The National Academies of Science, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been paying special attention to the role of nursing in healthcare and how to best advance the nursing profession. The original report published in 2009 was titled The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which set a vision for nursing into 2020. A committee was formed and has been tasked with extending the vision for the nursing profession into 2030 and “will chart a path for the nursing profession to help our nation create a culture of health, reduce health disparities, and improve the health and wellbeing of the U.S. population in the 21st century.”
Nurse Leader magazine summarized the most recent updates in their article titled “The Future of Nursing: Where are we now?” where they identify how much progress has been made in nursing toward the IOM’s Future of Nursing recommendations.
A public session of the Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 is planned for March 20th at 10:30 a.m PST. You can join the public session by clicking HERE. Dr. Angie Milan, on the board of our sister chapter in Los Angeles, has been appointed to the committee and we are excited to have some NAHN representation at the national level with a committee at the academies.
Please read the above-mentioned article on Health Leaders: THE FUTURE OF NURSING REPORT: WHERE ARE WE NOW? by Jennifer Thew, RN by clicking HERE.
Latino Nurse Values Self Care and Gives Back to a Greater Good
Being a nurse requires giving a lot of one’s self, being on for 12 hours at a time and being extremely patient with your patients. This is why there is such a high nurse burnout rate among Registered Nurses – the state of emotional exhaustion in which the individual feels overwhelmed by work to the point of feeling fatigued, unable to face the demands of the job, and unable to engage with others- and the incidence of burnout in RNs has been shown to be as high as 70%. (Bakhamis, L, 2019). This is where self-care, diet and exercise are of monumental importance when working such a demanding and stressful job, both physically and mentally.
Javier Moreno is a Registered Nurse working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA and has been a member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses since 2015 and on the Board of Directors for the Orange County Chapter of NAHN since 2017. Being a newer nurse, there was an added rigor to kicking off his career on the right foot with completing a new grad residency program but still highly valuing self-care. “Some days after working 12 or 13 hours, I wanted nothing more than hearty food and sleep,” states Moreno, “But this needed to change. I quickly saw the impacts of this vicious cycle, in addition to being pre-disposed to diabetes and high cholesterol, I acted.”
Javier had always wanted to participate in the annual AIDS/Lifecycle charity ride, where individuals ride their bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles over the course of a week, with 2500 other cyclist and an additional 1,000 volunteers. Each cyclist sets a fundraising goal which then goes back to support the efforts to end HIV/AIDS via the services provided by the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. This past November 2018, Javier signed up to train for the 2019 AIDS/Lifecycle and this in itself has allowed Javier to maintain physical activity, eat healthier and also gain a great group of friends from joining one of the teams.
Javier has been ardently training with his teammates in and around the Los Angeles area, and with recent rains in cycling studios like CycleBar in Culver City. “My butt is on a bike seat, indoor or outdoor, for an average of 10-12 hours each week just training and getting stronger to be able to complete the 545 miles from SF to LA”, says Javier.
Physical activity is critical in the balance of self-care for nurses. Javier is not only cycling but also bringing awareness of HIV/AIDS, an issue that most certainly affects the Latino community.
Javier is aiming to raise $10,000 to help END HIV/AIDS.
Another Patient Free of HIV
HIV/AIDS is a disease that disproportionately affects minorities in the U.S.A, Latino Gay men being one of those groups. Read about a patient who has been “cured” of his disease with bone marrow transplants.
By Javier Moreno - March 5, 2019
A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows HIV particles (orange) infecting a T cell, one of the white blood cells that play a central role in the immune system.