Speed mentoring pairs up prospects

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Speed mentoring pairs up prospects
By MC1
Charlemagne Obana
NHB Public Affairs
Naval Hospital Bremerton
nurses hosted a speed mentoring event for nurses,
hospital corpsmen, support
staff and students interested in career opportunities
in nursing at the hospital’s
Terrace Dining Room, May
11.
“The concept is a spin
on speed dating, where you
spend a few minutes talking
to somebody, in this case it
was a potential mentor,” said
NHB Command Lean Six
Sigma Black Belt, Lt. Cmdr.
Wendy Cook, one of the
event coordinators. “Each
person will have approximately three to four minutes to talk before moving
on to the next station and
meet the next person.”
The coordinators lined
up 17 different subject matter experts for the event.
“We tried to select mentors who have a wide variety
of experiences,” said Cook.
“Every mentor has their
primary topic or specialty
area that they’re interested
in talking about, and each
mentor also has several secondary topics to talk about
such as interesting schools
they’ve attended, programs
they’ve completed, and duty
stations they’ve served.”
The specialties represented at the event included
preoperative nursing, flight
nursing, certified nurse
anesthetist, and critical care
clinical nurse specialist.
“A lot of these different
career paths, you really need
someone to guide you,”
said Cook. “Some of these
programs are somewhat
MC1 Charlemagne Obana
Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) Quality Management Department
Head, Capt. Lisa Houser listens to Hospitalman Celinna Pascual
describe her nursing aspirations during a speed mentoring event in
the Terrace Dining Room of NHB. The event brings together nurses
and prospective officer and enlisted Sailors interested in a specific
field of nursing with 17 available experienced subject matter expert
mentors. The opportunity is part of the National Nurses Week
celebration at NHB.
complicated, particularly
the nurse practitioner and
certified nurse anesthetist
program. You actually have
to shadow someone on the
job in order to apply for the
program so it’s important
to make those contacts if
you’re interested in those
fields.”
“I came to the event
because I am currently an
active duty corpsman and
I plan on getting out of
the Navy to get my bachelor’s degree in nursing so
I can come back in as a
Nurse Corps officer,” said
Hospitalman
Celinna
Pascual.
“We all can benefit from
a mentor because mentors
are essential for everyone
at any stage in their career,”
said Lt. Amanda Schaffeld,
NHB staff nurse and cocoordinator of the event.
“Mentors help by being
there to answer questions,
give you feedback, advocate
for you, and help you learn
and develop positive habits.”
“With a good mentor,
Sailors succeed,” added
Shaffeld. “The diversity of
the Navy enables us to continuously benefit from the
many backgrounds, experiences and resources that are
here in the staff at NHB.”
As part of the National
Nurses Week celebration at
NHB, the speed mentoring event also presented an
opportunity for some of the
mentors on hand to network
with fellow nurses who had
retired or serve in the Naval
Reserves.
“There’s a nursing shortage nationwide so it’s important to promote our profession, not necessarily just in
the Navy Nurse Corps, but
nursing in general to make
sure we get people interested in nursing and keep
them interested in nursing,”
said Cook.
Navy League recognizes base PAO Asian-Pacific meal planned
NBK Public Affairs
Tom Danaher, Naval Base
Kitsap public affairs officer, was recently awarded
a certificate of appreciation
from the Navy League of
the United States during a
ceremony at the Admiral
Theater in Bremerton,
Wash. on May 15.
Gary Gunderson, president of the Bremerton
Olympic Council of the
Navy League, presented the
award at the Navy Leagueís
Armed Forces Gala in recognition of Danaherís years
of ìbehind-the-scenesî work
in community and government relations in Kitsap
County and throughout
Washington.
“When we meet and listen to community goals and
challenges, we can often be
part of a solution and we
should not miss an opportunity to do that,” Danaher
said, regarding the large
NBK photo
Capt. Mark Olson, Naval Base Kitsap commanding officer, left,
congratulates Tom Danaher, NBK public affairs officer on receiving
a certificate of appreciation from the Navy League of the United
States. Danaher received the award at the Navy Leagueís Armed
Forces Gala in Bremerton May 15 in recognition of with work
in community and government relations in Kitsap County and
throughout the state of Washington.
Navy presence in Kitsap
County. “The municipalities surrounding Naval Base
Kitsap are full of wonderful, appreciative people who
welcome our collaboration
when we can ethically and
legally offer it, and I enjoy
working with them.”
As the base PAO,
Danaher assists Capt. Mark
Olson, Naval Base Kitsap
commanding officer, in
developing and maintaining a positive relationship
with the local community
and area government officials. “Tom’s behind the
scenes work has proven to
be exceedingly valuable in
developing important and
robust community, government and tribal relation
programs at Naval Base
Kitsap.” Olson said.
“I remain humbled by the
recognition, and I’m both
surprised and honored by
this award from an organization as great as the
Navy League,” said Danaher
“Community and government relations are so vital
to any military installation
implanted in a community.”
MWR partners to launch custom car competition
Navy MWR has signed a commercial sponsorship agreement with Scion
to launch a unique car customization challenge for active duty military
personnel. The contest will tap into
the creativity, teamwork and can-do
attitude of today’s U.S. Military and
challenge them to design a customized
Scion xB.
Teams of service members will
describe their vision of how they
would customize a Scion xB based on
a $15,000 budget.
All design entries must be submitted online by June 11. Rules and
BattleoftheBuilds.com.
Three finalists will be announced
July 5 and receive a Scion xB and
$15,000 to make their vision a reality. Teams will have approximately 12
weeks to complete their build project.
One car will be selected as the Grand
Prize winner, and the team will be invited to the 2010 Specialty Equipment
Market Association (SEMA) Show in
Las Vegas to showcase their modified
xB in the Scion booth.
“Members of our military work as
a team and have unmatched technical
and mechanical skills,” said Jack Hollis,
designed to let our service members
showcase these talents in a fun and
exciting way. Creating a design competition especially for the military is
one of the ways Scion thanks and
salutes our country’s finest.”
Car enthusiasts, team supporters,
and other interested parties can register on the Battle of the Builds website
(www.BattleOfTheBuilds.com) to cast
a vote for their three favorite designs
between June 16 and June 30.
During the voting and build phases,
the program can be followed at www.
Naval Base Kitsap is hosting a Asian-Pacific American Heritage Meal at
Trident Inn (Bangor) Galley
on May 27, from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. The specific focus
will be a celebration of
traditional foods that pay
tribute to the generations
of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched
America’s history and are
instrumental in its future
success. This has been
designated as an official
“special event day”. All
military, family members,
retirees and other civilians
are authorized to dine and
encouraged to attend.
The cost is $4.25.
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