The UNAP is looking for up to 12 people to play the parts of doctors and nurses in Bedside Manners at the UNAP Professional Issues Conference on September 20.   This will be "readers' theater", so you will not need to memorize any lines.  There will be a rehearsal for all volunteer actors on Sunday, September 19 at 4:00 PM at the UNAP office, and dinner will be provided.  The rehearsal will be led by playwright, actor, and director Lisa Hayes. 

This is going to be a lot of fun, and we hope you will join us! 

If you would like to sign up to be a reader-actor, click here.

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The UNAP will host its bi-annual Professional Issues Conference on Monday, September 20 at the RI Convention Center.  To register, click here.  Over 200 Registered Nurses and other health care workers are expected to attend the conference, which will feature presentations and workshops related to health policy, clinical practice, and other professional issues, including the following topics:

• Empowering caregivers at the bedside
• Multi-disciplinary Care of Breast Cancer
• Medical malpractice & professional liability
• Shift work, excessive hours and sleep disorders
• “Greening” health care
• Understanding federal health care reform
• Difficult patients & dysfunctional families
• Disaster relief and international service
• Bedside Manners:  A play about MD-RN relations

The conference is pending approval  of 5.5 contact hours by RISNA/ANCC Commission on Accreditation. Certificates will be awarded upon completion of the program.  The cost of the conference -- including materials, lunch, and CEUs -- is $50 for UNAP members and $90 for non-members.   For more information and to register, click here.

The UNAP / RI Hospital Health Care Education Trust invites you to join us on Thursday, July 15 for our next CEU program on Difficult Decisions / Difficult Conversations: Principles of acute and chronic, non-cancer pain management, and Communication with patients and families near the end of life.  The seminar will be presented by Edward Martin, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island and Rachel Roach, RNP, WCC, Registered Nurse Practitioner, RI Hospital and Miriam Hospital.
 
Don’t miss this excellent presentation!
 
Thursday, July 15, 2010
12:30 - 2:30 PM and 4:00 - 6:00 PM
George Auditorium • RI Hospital
  
Cost
Free for RI Hospital UNAP members: ($50 will be deducted from employee’s CEU bank).   Refreshments will be provided. Pre-registration is NOT required.
 
CEUs
This program is approved for 2.0 contact hours by RISNA/ANCC Commission on Accreditation. Certificates will be awarded upon completion of the program.

June 22, 2010 -- The RI Hospital UNAP was featured today on a Turn-to-10 flashback of a rally and march against mandatory overtime that we held on June 22, 2000 outside RI Hospital and the Coro Building.  The State of Rhode Island passed a law outlawing mandatory overtime in 2007.

The following people have each won a $1,000.00 scholarship for 2010.  Each applicant had to write an essay describing one of two things.  One was the major problem facing our healthcare system and how it could be corrected or addressed.  The other was to describe the importance of a Union and the role of themselves or their parent or guardian in the Union.  Also what did they feel was the Union's most important accomplishment.

The winners (pictured here with UNAP President Linda McDonald) are:

Laurie Deruosi, a registered nurse who works in the PACU at Rhode Island Hospital.  She has applied at the URI College of Nursing and wants to earn a Master of Science in Nursing Education degree to become a nurse educator within Lifespan and at the University.  To read Laurie's essay please click here.