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Texas Long Term Care Institute to offer Community
Faith Nursing Basic
Preparation Course
March 6-8, 11-12, 2010
Central Texas Medical Center,
San Marcos, Texas
This non-demonminational Parish Nursing Basic Preparation Course offers experiened RegisteredNurses and Heatlh Advocates (retired RNs, LVNs, allied health and non-medical participants) an educational program based on the 2009 core corriculum developed the International Parish Nurse Resource Center in St Louis Missouri.
Parish Nursing provides a wholistic blending of nursing expertise and spritiual care as professional nurses and health advocates in congregations as part of the ministry team. This educational program is organized to assist all faith communities to grow toward wholistic health from a global perspective.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, # 14885, for 32 contact hours." This activity meets Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward re-licensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas .
Contact Parish Nurse Educator, Jan McCann or Kay Marlow for futher information and registration forms.
Texas Long Term Care Institute in partner with the Wimberely Lions Club hosted a successful Health Fair, Saturday Noveber 14th at the Wimberely Community Center. Hope Hospice of New Braunfels, Mututal Adoption Pact, CTMC Endoscopy Center, Curves, the Barnabas Connection and the Parish Nurses of St. Stephens Episcopal Church distributed information on health services in the Wimberley and San Marcos area. The Lions provided vision, blood pressure and diabetes screenings. Over 70 people received Flu, H1N1, or pneumonia shots. Thanks Dr. Strickland for sending you staff to administer the shots. Many thanks to those who helped with this first Health Fair.
Congratulations to Jan McCann, our new Institute Director of Education and newly confirmed
International Parish Nurse Educator/Trainer.
Jan R. McCann, RN, MSHA is a graduate of Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. She received an undergraduate degree in Health Administration at Park College in Austin, Texas. She received a Master of Science Degree in Health Professions from Texas State University and serves as an academic lecturer in the College of Health Professions at Texas State University-San Marcos.
Jan has served the healthcare industry for over 40 years in clinical and leadership roles across the United States. Her nursing expertise encompases the fields of Ambulatory Surgery, Neurology, and Geriatrics. She has served as a consultant in Long Term Care facilities, and an advisor to the Seton and Seton Northwest Ambulatory Building projects in the early 1990”s. She presented Seton's model at the American Hospital Association conference in San Francisco during this time. In 2001, Jan was named the Texas Health Care Association's "Director of Nursing of the Year" during her employment as Director of Nursing at Deer Creek Nursing Home in Wimberly, Texas. She actively supports the International Parish Nursing program as an Educator and Trainer. Training classes for RNs wishing to become Parish Nurses are scheduled to offered early 2010 at the Institute.
"Spirituality and Aging: The Journey of Life"
Here's what attendees had to say about their experience at the conference:
"Very pleasantly surprised with compassion and creativity of sessions. Enjoyed it very much. Thank you for your leadership on the subject. Sharing by speakers, awesome!"
"Almost every aspect of spirituality and aging was included in these cutting edge presentations"
"I really struggle working with Alzheimers' patients. This presentation was very comforting and helpful."
"Very inspiring and informative."
"Very touching and dynamically presented - outstanding."
"Very Healing!"
The Conference was a great success thanks to our generous sponsors:
Texas Health Care Association
Hope Hospice of New Braunfels
Angels for Elders of Wimberely,Texas
Community of Hope
Health Ministries Association, Texas
Senior Care Services
Faith in Action NN
Lutheran Social Services
Texas State University Bookstore
Central Texas Medical Center
And our guest speakers: Verna Benner Carson, Helen Appelberg,
Howard Hovde, Paula Lilja, Lolly Lockhart, Rick Nauert,
Sundra Spears, Bailey Barton, Jr., Jeff Maisongale, Maureen Keely,
Judith Helburn, and Eileen Morrison.
The wonderful poster created by ASTUDIOZ of Wimberley, Texas
Special thanks to Ruth Welborn, Dean of the College of Health Professions, Texas State University-San Marcos and Dr. Michael Nowicki, Chair of the School of Health Administration, for their encouragement.
Sandra Ransom,
Director of Texas Long Term Care Institute, retires after 15 years of service.
Sandy Ransom is recognized as a national leader in the long term care culture change movement. Under her direction the Institute has produced such notable projects as:
- Development of Validation Training, authored by internationally know Naomi Feil
- Longitudinal study on the The Eden Alternative®
- Development of the Alzheimer's Disease Education Program
- Analyses of Warmth Surveys from organizatrions throughout the US, Canada, and Australia
- Multiple publications concerning Elders and their caregivers in LTC settings.
- Most recently, a study of the effects of using essential oils in nursing homes.
Sandy has provided training in leadership and Culture Change to hundreds of people in the US and Australia. She has given testimony to the Texas State Legislature and at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. She has served on the Culture Change Survey Development Committee (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Sandy will be joining Pinon Management in Lakewood, Colorado as their Culture Change Specialist.
The Texas Long Term Institute partnered with Shannon Williams, director of the Strong for Life program, in this unique research project. Seniors from Allenwood Homes and Springtown Villa of San Marcos participated in two nine week trials. Dedicated students, Brian McAdams, Emily Padgett, Laura Rodriguez, and Doreen Ruiz collected data and monitored the seniors as they played the Interactive Wii® gaming system. Seniors played twice a week for twenty minutes per session. Dr. Denise Gobert supervised the sophisticated balance measurements taken before and after the nine week sessions. Other data collected were the Geriatric Depression Scale, the Short Form Health Survey (SF12), Mini Mental Status Exam, and cardiac changes during playing time.
The Warmth Survey is a set of questionnaires that allow you to measure the climate of your long term care organization. You will find the surveys on the Eden Alternative site: www.edenalt.org/about/tools-for-an-eden-garden.html
The Institute no longer does the anaylsis of Warmth Surveys. Contact the Eden Alternative for instructions on analysis of Warmth Surveys.