Category: Sna

Professional Nursing Lecture Series

4/7/2011

by Shay Carchedi

ATTENTION! Hello to all of our fellow nursing students and fellow ARCC students! The Student Nurses Association and the Student Senate are excited to be hosting a presentation from the Emily Program.

The Emily Program is set up to offer holistic and personalized care for individuals dealing with eating disorders and related issues.

Please join us April 31 in room G202 at 7 p.m. to hear speaker Trish Thacker discuss: recognizing the warning signs and symptoms of eating disorders, healthy and unhealthy coping patterns, how to talk to and support someone who is dealing with eating disorder issues, and where to find help. Millions struggle secretly with food and body image, please come and join us as we shed some light on this topic.

The SNA is also sponsoring the Blood Drive on April 4 from 11 a.m. -5 p.m. in room E241. We encourage you to pre-register on the Red Cross website givebloodgivelife.org or you can come to room E241 that day.

April 8 the SNA will be beginning their "Professional Nursing Lecture Series". We will be hosting a soup & salad luncheon in room E241 from 12-1 p.m. This will be the first of a series of professional nurses sharing their personal stories and answering questions for us!

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Good Afternoon fellow nursing and pre-nursing students!

11/29/2010

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The SNA would like to say HUGE congratulations to the graduating class of 2010! All of your hard work has finally paid off and we wish you all luck in your upcoming careers! Our spring semester schedule for SNA meetings are still being coordinated, so look for signs in our information window (located next to E241). The meeting dates will also be posted in the student life office area. Keep in mind that our meetings are geared towards helping each other to be successful, and we want to see more of your glowing faces at the meetings. This semester we would like to focus on and create more opportunities to practice our skills and learn from each other! At our last meeting, we were privileged to hear Beth Knudtsen-Spears speak about her specialty area of alternative medicine. It was a great discussion and we want to thank her for taking the time to speak to us! If you have any questions about the meetings, or want some more information about the Student Nurses Association contact: Alanna Tuttle [email protected] or Deb Mansell [email protected]

We are wishing you a great Christmas holiday and a Happy New Year!

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SNA: We raised $900 at Box City

11/16/2010

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by Shay Carchedi

Hello fellow nursing students and pre-nursing students! For those of you who missed out this year, we had an awesome time at Box City on October 18. Our "hospital" box was a huge success and we raised a total of $900.00 for New Pathways. We want to say a HUGE thank you to all of our sponsors!

We are also very excited about our upcoming flu clinic opportunity. Please, come and check out a meeting for yourself and get involved! The SNA hosts numerous experiences that look great on resumes and opportunities to gain confidence in the skills we are all learning in class. We are also dedicating half of our regular meetings to practicing NCLEX type questions and discussing testing techniques. We have some questions prepared for us by instructors and we pull questions from other sources as well. We want to be a support system and encourage each other to be the best nurses we can be.

There will be a special presentation from the student nurses who attended the nursing convention on Dec. 2 in room E21. Anyone is welcome to come and hear about the wisdom they gleaned and the information they brought back to share with all of us!

We want to see your wonderful faces!

Upcoming meetings: Oct. 28, Nov. 18 and Dec. 2. They will all be held in room E241.

See you there!

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Student Nurses - October update

10/12/2010

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by Shay Carchedi

Hello to all you fellow nursing students, pre-nursing students and all ARCC students! The student nurses association (SNA) wants to say a BIG thank you to all who donated blood on Sept. 27! Thank you also to those of you who volunteered to help pull this off! There were a total of 36 units of blood donated!

The SNA is also now officially under new leadership! We are thrilled to be a part of this organization and looking forward to doing lots of exciting things together and supporting each other in the journey becoming Registered Nurses. Everyone is invited to attend our meetings; you do not have to currently be in the nursing program. The commitment level is whatever you want it to be, there are no expectations from members or those participating in the meetings. Our hope is that you come away with educational support for the nursing program, as well as the comfort in knowing you are not alone in your studies and future goals. PLEASE come and check us out! Keep an eye on the communications board outside the nursing lab for future information and fun events to come. We are always open to new ideas and suggestions. The following dates are set up for the SNA meetings and they will be held at noon in room E241.

• 9-30-2010

• 10-14-2010

• 10-28-2010

• 11-18-2010

• 12-2-2010

We also have an exciting upcoming event being held Oct. 16 at the Isanti County fair grounds. The SNA is going to be participating along with the school in the Box City event. We will be constructing a "box hospital" and gathering donations for New Pathways to help support the homeless families in our five-county areas. We would love for volunteers to help out with the construction, raising money, or performing free blood pressures for the people at the event. We will be accepting donations until Oct. 13.

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