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Community Health Project
Greetings fellow New Jersey nursing students! My name is Carolyn and I am your 2011-2012 Community Health Director! I am thrilled to announce the board has elected to invite DKMS Americas: Where Leukemia Meets Its Match as our 2011-2012 Community Health Project! DKMS Americas is a non-profit organization which enlists volunteers to become potential bone marrow donors. DKMS Americas facilitates the cost, process and paperwork required to become listed on the Be The Match Registry.
We are excited to incorporate DKMS Americas this year at our fantastic COSP event on October 8, 2011 in Trenton with information on the organization, the bone marrow donation process, and ways you can host your own bone marrow drive on your local campus. DKMS Americas will also be involved at our annual convention in February 2012 at Bally’s Atlantic City. Please look for more information on our Community Health Project. You can visit getswabbed.org.
Carolyn Isabelle Bogdon
Community Health Director
We are excited to incorporate DKMS Americas this year at our fantastic COSP event on October 8, 2011 in Trenton with information on the organization, the bone marrow donation process, and ways you can host your own bone marrow drive on your local campus. DKMS Americas will also be involved at our annual convention in February 2012 at Bally’s Atlantic City. Please look for more information on our Community Health Project. You can visit getswabbed.org.
Carolyn Isabelle Bogdon
Community Health Director
Breakthrough to Nursing
Hello, my name is Avery Gardner and I am your NJNS, Inc. Breakthrough to Nursing Director for the 2011-2012 academic year. If you are interested in educating others about the wonderful world of nursing then becoming a Breakthrough to Nursing (BTN) Chairperson or committee member is right for you! The goal of Breakthrough to Nursing is to increase the number of qualified students enrolled in and graduated from nursing schools.
To meet this mission, this year our Breakthrough to Nursing project is focused on recruiting junior and senior high school students into the nursing profession. Our goal is to create a BTN committee at all interested nursing schools, comprised of 5-10 nursing students who are willing speak to and work with potential nursing students at their local high schools and teach them about the nursing profession. We will attend high school Career Days and communicate with the high school guidance counselors to organize a forum to speak to the students about career opportunities in nursing, academic prerequisites, personal attributes needed for professional nursing, the values of nurses and their service to society, and will discuss the nursing schools in their area.
We will remain in contact with all interested high school students and will walk them through the process of enrolling into a nursing program. Through this process, we will become their mentors and will help them reach their goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. Together, we will facilitate the development of peer support systems, which will enhance recruitment and retention within the nursing profession.
If you are a student who is passionate about nursing and want to get young people interested in nursing as well, then you would make a great Breakthrough to Nursing Chairperson at your nursing school. The school Chairperson will be the one responsible for implementing the project. To create your own school BTN Project you will need 5-10 committee members which would be your fellow nursing students, one Chairperson which would be the student who I will be communicating with throughout the year, and a faculty representative. Once a committee is established, we will contact your local high school guidance counselor and organize a forum to speak to the potential nursing students. As your college’s chairperson you will hold a leadership position that future employers are looking for when they hire new nursing graduates.
If you are interested in creating a Breakthrough to Nursing project at your nursing school, or simply want to be a committee member and participate in one of our information sessions at a high school, contact me at btn@njnsinc.org. Together, we can educate, inspire, and prepare students to become future nurses. I look forward to working with you and wish you the best of luck this academic year.
Avery Gardner
Breakthrough to Nursing Director
To meet this mission, this year our Breakthrough to Nursing project is focused on recruiting junior and senior high school students into the nursing profession. Our goal is to create a BTN committee at all interested nursing schools, comprised of 5-10 nursing students who are willing speak to and work with potential nursing students at their local high schools and teach them about the nursing profession. We will attend high school Career Days and communicate with the high school guidance counselors to organize a forum to speak to the students about career opportunities in nursing, academic prerequisites, personal attributes needed for professional nursing, the values of nurses and their service to society, and will discuss the nursing schools in their area.
We will remain in contact with all interested high school students and will walk them through the process of enrolling into a nursing program. Through this process, we will become their mentors and will help them reach their goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. Together, we will facilitate the development of peer support systems, which will enhance recruitment and retention within the nursing profession.
If you are a student who is passionate about nursing and want to get young people interested in nursing as well, then you would make a great Breakthrough to Nursing Chairperson at your nursing school. The school Chairperson will be the one responsible for implementing the project. To create your own school BTN Project you will need 5-10 committee members which would be your fellow nursing students, one Chairperson which would be the student who I will be communicating with throughout the year, and a faculty representative. Once a committee is established, we will contact your local high school guidance counselor and organize a forum to speak to the potential nursing students. As your college’s chairperson you will hold a leadership position that future employers are looking for when they hire new nursing graduates.
If you are interested in creating a Breakthrough to Nursing project at your nursing school, or simply want to be a committee member and participate in one of our information sessions at a high school, contact me at btn@njnsinc.org. Together, we can educate, inspire, and prepare students to become future nurses. I look forward to working with you and wish you the best of luck this academic year.
Avery Gardner
Breakthrough to Nursing Director
Resolutions
In a world where epidemics strike right and left, one in particular has stood out and come to NJNS Inc’s attention. This epidemic — water pipe smoking — is commonly known as hookah around the United States, but is also known as argileh, goza, hubblebubble, and shisha (Knishkowy, Amitai). This epidemic has taken over college students by storm and has also specifically impacted different cultural groups from which it originated. The common misconceptions associated with water-pipe smoking have led to many detrimental effects on users’ health and longevity.
A mixture of tobacco, water, and flavoring is smoked from an apparatus composed of a head, metal body, glass bottle, and a connecting tube with a mouthpiece (Knishkowy, Amitai). Due to the “sweet, aromatic, and fruity quality of hookah smoke” many young adults “believe it is less harmful than hot, acrid cigarette smoke” (Quenqua). In actuality, the risks of water pipe smoking are just as detrimental as cigarette smoking, if not more.
The common misconceptions have made water pipe smoking a seemingly harmless social activity. Because it is commonly used for socializing, smoking in groups is not out of the ordinary. However, when the mouthpiece is passed around, communicable diseases may also be passed along.
Evidently, there are many unfavorable effects that accompany water-pipe smoking and a need to raise awareness to these effects.
Though there is a lot more research to be done on this topic, it is decidedly an issue worth confronting as a resolution for NJNS. Thus the board has supported the commencement of a resolution in regards to water-pipe smoking. We invite you to look for this resolution in the future.
Knishkowy, B., and Yona Amitai. "Water-Pipe (Narghile) Smoking: An Emerging Health Risk Behavior." Pediatrics 116.1 (2005): E113-119. Print.
Quenqua, Douglas. "Putting a Crimp in the Hookah." New York Times 31 May 2011, A1 sec. Print.
Stephanie Huang
Resolutions Director
A mixture of tobacco, water, and flavoring is smoked from an apparatus composed of a head, metal body, glass bottle, and a connecting tube with a mouthpiece (Knishkowy, Amitai). Due to the “sweet, aromatic, and fruity quality of hookah smoke” many young adults “believe it is less harmful than hot, acrid cigarette smoke” (Quenqua). In actuality, the risks of water pipe smoking are just as detrimental as cigarette smoking, if not more.
The common misconceptions have made water pipe smoking a seemingly harmless social activity. Because it is commonly used for socializing, smoking in groups is not out of the ordinary. However, when the mouthpiece is passed around, communicable diseases may also be passed along.
Evidently, there are many unfavorable effects that accompany water-pipe smoking and a need to raise awareness to these effects.
Though there is a lot more research to be done on this topic, it is decidedly an issue worth confronting as a resolution for NJNS. Thus the board has supported the commencement of a resolution in regards to water-pipe smoking. We invite you to look for this resolution in the future.
Knishkowy, B., and Yona Amitai. "Water-Pipe (Narghile) Smoking: An Emerging Health Risk Behavior." Pediatrics 116.1 (2005): E113-119. Print.
Quenqua, Douglas. "Putting a Crimp in the Hookah." New York Times 31 May 2011, A1 sec. Print.
Stephanie Huang
Resolutions Director
