Do you know the legal issues associated with EMR?

March 2015 Volume 28 Issue 2
APRIL 2ND DINNER MEETING INFORMATION
Do you know the legal issues associated with EMR?
Presented by: Karen A. Butler, RN, JD, Partner
Thuillez, Ford, Gold, Butler & Monroe, LLP, Attorneys at Law
Thursday, April 2, 2015 at the Century House, Latham, NY
7:00 – 8:30 PM
The purpose of this educational activity is to enable the learner to verbalize the legal issues associated with documentation in the electronic medical records. The nurse will learn steps they can take to reduce errors with online
documentation.
Program objectives:
Describe the legal issues associated with electronic medical records.
Identify steps the nurse can take to reduce online documentation errors.
The target audience for this program is RNs. The agenda for the evening is as follows:
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:15 PM
8:15 PM
– 6:00 PM Registration and Networking
– 7:00 PM Dinner
– 7:15 PM General Membership Meeting/Update
– 8:15 PM Program
– 8:30 PM Wrap Up and Evaluations
The program only fee is $10.
The meal and program fee is $35 for members and $37 for non-members.
The meal options will be Chef’s choice chicken or Chef’s choice vegetarian.
To register for the program, please send your meal selection and payment to NNYPNO, PO Box 11113,
Loudonville, NY 12211 by March 30, 2015.
This program is jointly provided by the Northeastern New York Professional Nurses Organization, Inc. and Albany
Medical Center, The Center for Learning and Development.
Albany Medical Center is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This learning activity will be awarded 1.0 Continuing Nursing Education contact hour.
Mail payment with this portion of reservation to NNYPNO P.O. Box 11113, Loudonville, NY 12211.
Reservations must be received by Monday, March 30, 2015 to guarantee your dinner choice.
Name________________________________________ Dinner choice:
□ Member $35
______Chicken
□ Non-member $37 Amount Paid _______________
_____Vegetarian
SAVE THE
DATE
NNYPNO Meeting Dates
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Thursday, June 4th, 2015 (Awards Recognition)
Membership Dues:
Annual dues are $45 - paid on July 1st of
each year.
Any new members joining the organization
between
January 1st and June 30th will pay
50% of the annual dues.
PRESIDENT: Sandra Farmer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
PRESIDENT ELECT: Rosemarie Casale
Cheryl Articola, Missy Belotti,
1st VICE PRESIDENT: Renee Gecsedi
Joanne Bonesteel, Rosemarie Casale,
2nd VICE PRESIDENT: Kim Hedley
TREASURER: Jane Falvo
SECRETARY: Teresa Smith
Kathy Morgan,, Barbara Orekondy, Gerry Vickers
Visit our new website for organization news, membership
forms, upcoming events, meeting minutes and more.
www.nnypno.com
We also have a new e-mail address: [email protected]
Has your contact information changed?
Please let us know by e-mailing:
[email protected]
Treasurers Report
October 1 to December 31, 2014
Opening Balance
Income:
Dinner
Dues
Scholarship
Total Income:
$28,857.20
$2,503.00
$713.00
$119.00
$3,335.50
$32,192.70
Expense:
Century House
$1470.12
Attorney Fee
Bank Fee
Mtg Supplies
Postage
Speaker
Other
Total Expense:
$617.05
$161.03
$38.80
$9.80
$75.00
$50.99
$2,422.79
Closing Balance:
$29,769.91
COUNCIL UPDATES
Nominating Committee
Northeast New York Professional Nursing Organization (NNYPNO)
The Nominating Committee is looking for candidates for these open positions
for our organization for the 2015 election.
First Vice President Position (Two year term)-Coordinates activities of all
committees and councils. Assists the Finance Committee and works in collaboration with the treasurer. In the absence of the president-elect assumes duties of
this position.
Secretary Position (Two year term)-Actively participates in Board and membership meetings. Responsible for all minutes, records, correspondence and notifications.
3 Board of Director Positions (Two year term)-Actively participates in Board
& membership meetings and serves as liaison to an assigned committee. Responsible for the corporate management and fiduciary affairs of Northeast New
York Professional Nursing Organization. Adopts an annual budget. Appoints
chairpersons of all committees with the exception of the Nominating Committee
and the Program Committee and will fill a vacancy on the Nominating Committee, if one exists. Determines the dates & places for the annual membership
meetings, etc. Assists the Board in carrying out its fiduciary responsibilities.
3 Nominating Committee Positions (Two year term)-Coordinates elections by
advising members of the offices that need to be filled, requesting members to
serve, preparing the ballot of members willing to serve, and conducting the election.
If you are interested or know of a member who would be interested in running
for a position please send an email to Lynn McNall, Nominating Committee
Chair, at [email protected] or call at 518-587-2100 ext 2488.
CARING & SHARING
1. Elinor Taylor-Rice
12/22/14
Samaritan Hospital SON
Karen Henchey
5. Eileen E. Murphy
1/9/15
St Mary's Hospital SON
Brady Hospital
St Peter's Hospital
IN MEMORIAM
8. Janet Gilbert Gardner
2/18/15
Union University SON @ Albany
AMC
2. Sharon A. Lauko
1/9/15
Albany Memorial SON
Amc, St Peter's, Ellis
3. Andrea E. Farrell
1/12/15
HVCC
6. Marion Conklin Wieczerzak
1/25/15
Albany Memorial son
Russell Sage
VA hospital
St Peter's
7. Jane Bailey Baum
1/23/15
John Hopkins SON
4. Nancy Jeanne Moore
1/8/15
Russell Sage College
DON Bellvue Maternity Hospital
AMC SON
7. Patricia P. Fannele
2/22/15
AMC SON
AMC
COUNCIL UPDATES
From The Education & Practice Committee
The symptoms of measles generally appear about seven to 14 days after a person
is infected.
Measles typically begins with
 high fever,
 cough,
 runny nose (coryza), and red, watery eyes (conjunctivitis).
Two or three days after symptoms begin, tiny white spots (Koplik spots) may
appear inside the mouth.
Three to five days after symptoms begin, a rash breaks out. It usually begins as
flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread downward to the
neck, trunk, arms, legs, and feet. Small raised bumps may also appear on top of
the flat red spots. The spots may become joined together as they spread from the
head to the rest of the body. When the rash appears, a person’s fever may spike
to more than 104° Fahrenheit.
After a few days, the fever subsides and the rash fades.
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History Corner
by Gerry Vickers
From the Position Statement of the American Association for
the History of Nursing, (2001):
“Nursing history content accomplishes several educational
goals. History offers not only contextual perspective, but also
enlightenment. Two early historians of nursing, Lavinia Dock
and Isabel M. Stewart expressed the depth of the gift that nursing history can provide: N
" o occupation can be intelligently followed or correctly understood unless it is, at least to some extent, illumined by the light of history interpreted from the human standpoint"(1938, p.3). Nursing does not exist in an unpredictable vacuum. The social pressures that have shaped nursing
in the past persist today in new forms. Today's challenges are
not easily understood nor addressed in the absence of such insight.”
“Our founder, Lillian Wald, was the first public
health nurse in the United States. - The Visiting Nurse
Service of New York is one of the oldest not-forprofit home health care agencies in the country.
Since 1893, VNSNY has been a vital part of New
York’s public health infrastructure
See more at: http://www.vnsny.org/about-us/history/
It was on a rainy day in March of 1893 that Miss Wald experienced a "baptism by fire" on the lower
east side which inspired the beginnings of public health nursing.
March 1
1887 Congress established a Hospital Corps
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 6
March 10
March 11
March 12
March 13
1885 Bertha Harmer born in Port Hope ONT
1903 NC passed 1st nurse registration law in US
1904 Maryland passed its nurse registration law
1886 1st nursing journal published, The Nightingale
1867 Lillian Wald born in Cincinnati OH
1912 Jane Delano named chair of Am. Red Cross Nsg. Serv.
1858 Jane Delano born in Townsend NY
1874 Alice Louise Florence Fitzgerald born in Florence, Italy.
March 14
March 15
March 17
March 30
March 31
1851 Anna Caroline Maxwell born in Bristol, NY
1901 Dita H. Kinney appointed 1st Supt. of ANC
1999 Hildegard Peplau died
1998 Eleanor C. Lamberston died
1927 Teresa Christy born in Brooklyn NY
February 2
1901 The Nurse Corps (female) became permanent
February 5
1871 Mary Gardner born in Newton MA
February 6
February 15
February 16
February 17
February 18
February 19
February 25
February 26
1866 Annie W Goodrich born in New Brunswick NJ
1904 Ohio Nurses Assoc. formed
1881 Mary Breckinridge born in Memphis TN
1943 First class of Army flight nurses graduated
1945 Nurse POWs awarded Bronze Star
1902 Agnes Ohlson born in New Britain CT
1858 Lavinia Dock born in Harrisburg PA
1890 Mabel Keaton Staupers born in Barbados
February 27
1857 Clara Weeks Shaw born in Sanborton NH
January 2
January 5
January 6
January 7
January 9
January 10
January 12
January 14
January 18
January 20
January 21
January 23
January 27
1916 Eleanor Lambertsen born
1929 Anna Maxwell died
1926 Mary Eliza Mahoney died
1869 Helen Scott Hay born in Lanark, IL
1975 ANA held formal ceremonies to honor 1st certified nurses
1928 Sophie Mannerheim, ICN president 1922-1925, died
1894 1st meeting of Society of Superintendents of Training
Schools in NYC
1870 Ada Thoms born in Richmond VA
1878 Isabel Stewart born in Fletcher ONT
1918 Helen Fairchild died
1863 Hannah Ropes died
2004 Mildred Montag died
1902 Lucile Petry Leone born in Lewisburg, OH
1955 ANF established