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Upcoming Religious Dates
Lent – February 14 – March 28
Ramadan – Monday, March 11- Tuesday, April 9
This observance includes complete fasting while the sun is out as well as additional prayer.
MEETINGS/TRAININGS
Mandatory nurse staff meetings/trainings on the following days: (this is for regular nurses only. Substitute nurses do not need to attend.
- Wednesday, February 28, 245-4, Mountain View Auditorium – Raptor Student Safe Early Intervention (make up day due to 2 snow days). Action needed: please bring suicide risk screens and a screen for NSSI (if you have one) as well as your charged computer. We will be learning how to enter these documents into our system and how to navigate StudentSafe.Questions? Please reach out to Jess Calbreath or Jamie Gunter.
- Wednesday, March 6, 2024 – OSNA Power Hour Acuity Tool Discussion
- Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – All Nurse Meeting
- Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Friday, April 12, 2024
- OSNA Spring Conference 2024 (in Bend)
- April 18-19, 2024
OSNA
OSNA Spring Conference 2024
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
April 18-19, 2024
Riverhouse, Bend Oregon
- Looking for help with conference “add ons” – We are looking for activities that can be offered to nurses outside of the conference. Wine tour, brewery tour, hike, any type of show
- There will be a silent auction. Any ideas on donations? Mt. Bachelor tickets?
- Gift baskets. Every year, school nurses bring gift baskets from their districts to raffle. We are looking for items that are from Central Oregon to put in our BLS gift basket.
SNOW DAYS
Due to the weather closures in January, there will be two makeup school days at the end of the school year. The days will be June 17 and 18. (Hopefully you haven’t purchased airfare tickets yet.)
The last workday of the school year is Thursday, June 20, 2024, for all regular nursing staff. (3 people have already requested these days off.)
**Per Lora Nordquist on 2/26/24 – Approval of these requests will be made by HR leadership, not direct supervisors. For those nurses that have already requested this time off, Tami will let you know what the process is for submitting a request when information becomes available.
LINKS
AED Supply Order Form – Complete this form to request any AED supplies.
All About You Form – Please complete the form so Tami can know more about you.
BLS Nurse Check-in Survey Form – Having a stressful week? Need some extra support? Suggestions for nurse meeting ideas.
Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools (OHA/ODE)
Concussion Brain Injury Reporting Form
Nurse Meeting Topics – Please enter meeting topic/training information you would like to see in the spreadsheet.
OHA: Oregon Respiratory Virus Data: COVID-19, Influenza, RSV
OSNA – Communities of Practice
PPE Supply Order Form
Return to School Project, Concussion/Brain Injury Reporting Form
UKG
- How to log extra hours in UKG after the pay period has ended can be found here. *Must have prior approval from Tami.
- Requesting Time off in UKG – directions
Weather – Inclement Weather Delay Guidelines
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Tips for Self-Care
Over the next 6 weeks, the BLS Nurse Blog will have 1 self-care tip per week. Rather than put all 6 tips at one time, let’s break them up with the goal to work towards achieving the presented self-care tip of the week during the following 7 days.
Tip #1
RECOGNIZE YOUR VALUE
Remind yourself that you are making a difference despite all the long days and many challenges.
Get in the habit of positive affirmations to remind yourself how important you are.
Some steps you can take to get yourself comfortable with positive affirmations include:
- Every morning you should wake up and say to yourself one thing you like about yourself.
- Write something motivational on a sticky note and put it on your mirror.
- Get a friend or family member to repeat these affirmations to you.
IMPORTANT DATES
- February 26 (330-5) – *OSNA Mentoring Monday – Asthma – Life long implications Dr. Baker: Wendy and Larissa Fain on community partnerships (register here)
- February 27 (2-3 pm) – OSNA Conference Planning for BLS Nurses – We’ll talk about various ways our team can help with the spring conference. Just a bit of your time is all we need. Pretty please!!!
Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5214263489 - February 28 (245-4) – Raptor Student Safe Early Intervention, MVHS
- March 6 (230-4) – OSNA Power Hour Acuity Tool Discussion
- March 13 (230-4) – All Nurse Meeting – location TBD
- March 18 (330-5) – *OSNA Mentoring Monday – Acuity Case Studies (register here)
- March 20 (location/time TBD) – Omni Pod training