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Come and support the Cleveland Kids' Book Bank for a night of food and fun. Be a part of our story!

• Enjoy tasty appetizers, wine and desserts
• Enter to win our Grand Prize of a Seven Springs Mountain Resort Weekend Getaway - details below!
• Take a chance on our literary-themed raffle (read on to see what we have in store!)
• Make a Blind Date with a Book
• Challenge your literary knowledge with guessing games

** Purchase a Grand Prize Raffle ticket to win a Seven Springs Mountain Resort Weekend Getaway!

Includes 2 nights lodging at the Main Lodge, breakfast, pizza in the room both nights, dinner one night at Slopeside, skiing for 3 days and other activities! Grand Prize Raffle Tickets: 1 for $20 or 3 for $50. Need not be present to win. Tickets available under the "Tickets" tab on this evite.

Great prizes in our literary-themed raffle include:

• LENSC Nature Nuts class for 3 seasons, plus a Family Membership - value $1050.
• Your child(ren) can be the famous "Bus Stop Forecast" kid(s) and appear in the morning and evening newscasts on Channel 3 News AND receive a WKYC basket
• Autographed Jason Kipnis bat from the Cleveland Indians
• A chance to meet Seth Myers at a Meet and Greet in New York prior to his show, 2 tickets to his show and children's books autographed by Seth Myers himself!
• Four Field Box Seats to a Cleveland Indians home game of your choice
• and more (including spa certificates, Sabika jewelry, leather handbag from the Cleveland Flea....)

Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted at the event. 

Tickets can also be purchased with a check by mail - just drop us a note at 3635 Perkins Avenue, Suite 1E, Cleveland, OH 44114 by March 31st.

Sponsored by:

Silver Sponsors: WKYC; Hyland Software; Cliffs Natural Resources; Seven Springs Mountain Resort

Register here

Wright State University College of Nursing and Health is offering a 45 hour Advanced Pharmacology CE offering to meet House Bill 216.  

Please see the flyer for additional information. 

University Hospitals is holding their annual APN Conference on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at Corporate College.  

Please see the flyer for additional details. 

For more information, please see the below announcement and flyer.

Case Western Reserve University Neuro Boot Camp  

https://nursing.case.edu/neuro-boot-camp/

May 23-24, 2017

This 2-day seminar prepares the advanced practice provider to practice in the field of neurocritical care. Didactic, simulation, and cadaver training will be provided by faculty at Case Western Reserve University and clinical staff from MetroHealth Medical Center.

Day 1 focuses on didactic and case-based scenarios including anatomy/physiology, neurocritical care management, neuropharmacology, neuroimaging, and best practice guidelines.

 

Day 2 provides on-site training in the MetroHealth Simulation Center with highly trained staff to provide group and individual instruction on complex patient management, placement of invasive lines and monitoring devices, suturing, and communicating with interdisciplinary teams. High fidelity, interactive simulation systems and cadaver models are used to provide realistic, hands on training. 

 

Registration Link:  https://nursing.case.edu/neuro-boot-camp/register/

Summa Health is hosting their 6th annual Advanced Practice Provider Pharmacology Conference on Saturday March 4th. 

Please see this flyer for additional details.

The NACNS 2017 Annual Conference is fast approaching! The NEOCNS affiliate will be recognized as affiliate of the year. Please leave a comment if you &/or your colleagues will be attending. 

This update is from the Ohio Association of Advanced Practice Nurses:

     

APRN Colleagues,

H.B 216 was signed yesterday, January 4, 2017.  The changes made by this new law become effective on 4/4/2017 (90 days after signing).  The current law remains in effect until 4/4/2017.  You should not do anything not currently authorized in ORC 4723 until 4/4/2017.

For future reference and planning, the key aspects of this legislation are summarized below.  They are not effective until April 4, 2017

• Licensure. APRNs who apply for authorization to practice in Ohio will receive two licenses, if all requirements of the Ohio Board of Nursing are met.  The first license will be as a registered nurse.  The second license will be as an advanced practice registered nurse with role designated as CRNA, CNM, CNS or CNP.
• • An APRN may not practice as an APRN without an active registered nurse license and an active APRN license.
  • APRNs who apply for license renewal in 2017 must have a total of 48 hours of CE:  (1) 24 hours for the registered nurse license which must include one hour of Category A CE on Ohio Nursing Practice Law. (2) 24 hours for the advanced practice registered nurse license which must include 12 hours of pharmacology.  Forty-eight hours of CE every two years will be the baseline continuing education hours needed for APRN license renewal moving forward.
  • The new APRN license provides prescriptive authority for all CNMs, CNSs and CNPs.  The certificate to prescribe (CTP) and the externship ( CTP-E)  has been eliminated.
  • • APRNs who currently have a COA and a CTP/CTP-E will be grandfathered into the new APRN license.
    • It is not known how the OBON will transition APRNs who currently do  not have a CTP or have a CTP-E. 
• APRN Drug Formulary. The new formulary will be exclusionary only.  The formulary will only list those drugs or classifications that an APRN may NOT prescribe.  The column, “In accordance with the SCA” will be eliminated.  Essentially, if the drug or its classification is NOT listed in the Formulary, the APRN may prescribe it.
• •  All restrictions on furnishing sample medications have been revoked.
  • • APRNs may not provide samples of controlled substances.
  • The collaborating ratio of 3 APRNs to 1 physician for prescribing has been expanded to 5 APRNs to 1 physician.
• Schedule 2 changes. APRNs with DEA numbers may now prescribe Schedule 2 medications to residents in assisted living facilities.  Additionally, the three conditions required to prescribe Schedule 2 medications in non-authorized sites has been modified:
• • The patient must have a terminal condition.
  • The initial Schedule 2 medication must have been prescribed by a physician (no longer needs to be the collaborating physician).
  • The Schedule 2 medication may now be written for 72 hours instead of 24 hours.
• Standard Care Arrangement changes:
• • The Standard Care Arrangement (SCA) no longer requires a provision for 1) a Procedure for Regular Review of Referrals to Other Health Professionals and Chart Review and ( does this mean we don't have to do chart review?  This is a little confusing) 2) a policy for care of infants up to age one and recommendations for collaborating physician visits for children from birth to age three.
  • There will now be a 120 day “buffer” period to secure a new collaborating physician if the current collaborating physician terminates the collaboration agreement with the APRN.  Upon notification by the current collaborating physician of an intent to end collaboration, the APRN will notify the OBON.  When the OBON receives the notification the 120 day buffer period will begin.  During this buffer period the former SCA remains in effect to allow the APRN to continue to practice while searching for another collaborating physician.
  • A copy of the SCA does not need to be located at all work sites.  However, the SCA must be kept on file by the APRN’s employer.
• Collaborating physicians for psychiatric certified CNSs. A certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist may collaborate with a psychiatric certified collaborating physician or a collaborating primary care physician certified in family medicine, internal medicine or pediatrics.  Psychiatric certified nurse practitioners were not included in this new change and they must continue to have a psychiatric collaborating physician only.  [We believe that the exception made for psychiatric CNS’s, which does not include psychiatric certified nurse practitioners, is a simple technical problem that will be addressed in the very near future.]
•  APRN Advisory Committee.  The OBON is required to form an APRN Advisory Committee to advise the board on APRN practice issues.

•  Diabetic school children. APRNs and physician assistants who provide care for school age children with diabetes will be able to write orders that are followed by healthcare providers at the schools.

•  Advanced Pharmacology Course.  The Advanced pharmacology course will be valid for five years instead of three.

December 13, 2016  the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a final rule regarding Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) providing clinical care in the Veterans Health Administration. The rule grants three of the four APRN roles (nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and clinical nurse specialists) the ability to practice to the full extent of their education and training, but does not include certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). The VA has provided an additional 30-day comment period on full practice authority for CRNAs.  Follow the link to read the document which will be published in the Federal Register on 12/14/16 and available online at https://federalregister.gov/d/2016-29950, and on FDsys.gov

 

from the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists:                                                                  

Before the busy holiday season begins, please take a moment to complete the 2016 CNS Census. If you have already completed it and forwarded it to your CNS-educated colleagues, thank you for helping us to gather data that allows NACNS to be able to better represent the CNS and articulate the issues impacting our practice around the nation. 

If you haven’t already completed the survey, it is vital we hear from you! Follow the link to the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016cnscensus or click on the logo above.

NACNS is pleased to have the support of two leading health care publishers in this important effort. Springer Publishing Company, LLC and Wolters Kluwer, publisher of NACNS' official journal the Clinical Nurse Specialist: The International Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice.

CNSs who complete the survey will be automatically entered in a drawing for an Apple Watch, donated by Springer Publishing, and an iPad Mini, donated by Wolters Kluwer.  NACNS will be offering a $250.00 NACNS gift certificate.  NACNS staff and Board members are not eligible for the drawing.

Thank you for your participation!

NACNS

At our February meeting we collected books to donate to the Cleveland Kid's Book Bank. They now need our vote to help them win a Yelp Foundation Gives Local Grant! Please take a few minutes and help this wonderful organization out!

Great news! Kids' Book Bank has been selected as a finalist in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest. If we get the most votes, we'll win $5,000!  Go to yfgiveslocal.org to cast your vote once per day from November 29 to December 9. No personal donation is required to participate. It only takes a minute!   We so appreciate your support! Please vote every day and forward this to friends!

VOTE HERE! ​Judy and Judi Co-Founders Cleveland Kids' Book Bank kidsbookbank.org