Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
College Forward
ACTHNA was asked to participate on the medical panel for the College Forward Program orientation class held at Southwestern University in Georgetown this Saturday. Two hundred eleven jr. high students form eleven high schools RSVP’d, however over 300 students attended.
College Forward provides college access and college persistence services to motivated, economically disadvantaged students, in order to facilitate their transition to college and make the process exciting and rewarding.
This was a wonderful experience. Members of the Medical Panel: Pediatric Dentist, Dentist, Physical Therapist, EMS Captain, Nurse, Internal Medicine, Pediatrician. We had a full room with well over150 junior high school students that are interested in these pathways. Afterwards we broke into groups and the students were able to ask more questions about their specific interest. I am happy to report that nursing was very popular. I gave the students our website information and invited them to join us at some of our outreach activities.
What a heart-warming experience!
For more information about this great program go to: www.collegefoward.org
College Forward provides college access and college persistence services to motivated, economically disadvantaged students, in order to facilitate their transition to college and make the process exciting and rewarding.
This was a wonderful experience. Members of the Medical Panel: Pediatric Dentist, Dentist, Physical Therapist, EMS Captain, Nurse, Internal Medicine, Pediatrician. We had a full room with well over150 junior high school students that are interested in these pathways. Afterwards we broke into groups and the students were able to ask more questions about their specific interest. I am happy to report that nursing was very popular. I gave the students our website information and invited them to join us at some of our outreach activities.
What a heart-warming experience!
For more information about this great program go to: www.collegefoward.org
Sunday, November 1, 2009
PSA Tin Woodman American Heart Association
Lady's Let's all take care of our Hearts...and pass this on.
Stroke educational Blogs: English and Spanish
Please check out the New BLOGS:
Share these with your family and friends and have them sign up as followers!
Great up to date information!
www.strokeed.blogspot.com
www.conozcasusalud.blogspot.com
Share these with your family and friends and have them sign up as followers!
Great up to date information!
www.strokeed.blogspot.com
www.conozcasusalud.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Recognise stroke F.A.S.T.
Thursday is WORLD STROKE DAY! Please share this video with family and friends...Lets hlep STOMP Out STROKE!!!
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
ACTHNA -1st Capital of Texas Awards Winners!
ACTHNA received the Capital of Texas Award at the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 1st Annual Awards Banquet. This very special event recognizes successful, dedicated small businesses and organizations that lend their valuable time, talent and resources to a variety of programs and initiatives in the Greater Austin area.
All of us at the ACTHNA can be very proud of such an honor. The support we received from our community was heartfelt. When our name was called as a finalist, the applause filled the room and got even louder when we were announced as the winners!. We know we are making a difference.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
2009 AHA Hispanic Health Fair
The 2009 AHA Hispanic Health Fair
Saturday aims to catch those people who don’t have health insurance.
Hundreds of people spent Saturday afternoon at the Travis County Expo Center. The American Heart Association held a health fair today with free screenings. KUT’s Erika Aguilar reports the fair was targeted Hispanics who often don’t seek medical attention and are at risk for heart disease.
Texas House Passes Staffing Bill
Monday June 15, 2009
The Texas House approved Senate Bill 476, which seeks to increase the role of nurses in hospital staffing decisions, according to the Longview News-Journal. It would require that 60% of the members of a hospital’s nurse staffing committee be nurses and would prohibit mandatory overtime for hospital nurses in most cases.
“At a time when our state is in dire need of nurses, we cannot afford to lose good hospital nurses due to mandatory overtime and grueling work schedules,” said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, according to Longview. “This legislation will help retain bedside nurses and ensure that they have a voice in issues such as nurse-patient ratios, work schedules, and other issues affecting patient care.”
The House and the Senate have to work out minor differences in their versions of the proposal before the measure could go to the governor.
Monday June 15, 2009
The Texas House approved Senate Bill 476, which seeks to increase the role of nurses in hospital staffing decisions, according to the Longview News-Journal. It would require that 60% of the members of a hospital’s nurse staffing committee be nurses and would prohibit mandatory overtime for hospital nurses in most cases.
“At a time when our state is in dire need of nurses, we cannot afford to lose good hospital nurses due to mandatory overtime and grueling work schedules,” said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, according to Longview. “This legislation will help retain bedside nurses and ensure that they have a voice in issues such as nurse-patient ratios, work schedules, and other issues affecting patient care.”
The House and the Senate have to work out minor differences in their versions of the proposal before the measure could go to the governor.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Check our Job Posting page for: RN Supervisor at the Austin Travis County Health and Human Services Dpt.
Paula G. Gamez
Human Resources Advisor
Health and Human Services Dept.
Human Resources Unit
Phone: (512) 972-5105
Fax: (512) 972-5113
email: paula.gamez@ci.austin.tx.us
Great opportunity for someone!!!!
Paula G. Gamez
Human Resources Advisor
Health and Human Services Dept.
Human Resources Unit
Phone: (512) 972-5105
Fax: (512) 972-5113
email: paula.gamez@ci.austin.tx.us
Great opportunity for someone!!!!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Post Screening
Today Jose Pena (recent graduate from UT pre-med) and I went to perform the post screening at the Seven Day Adventist Church. We were able to screen approximately 40 participants but unfortunately we ran out of testing strips and weren't able to screen our last two attendees. Afterwards, Jose and I discussed the importance these screening provides to the community and ways that our organizations can can work together to make this happen and continue to offer these services. Unfortunately our screenings revealed that over 70 percent of the participants were pre-diabetic and this is a young congregation.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
TEXAS HOUSE PASSES STAFFING BILL
Texas House Passes Staffing Bill
Monday June 15, 2009
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The Texas House approved Senate Bill 476, which seeks to increase the role of nurses in hospital staffing decisions, according to the Longview News-Journal. It would require that 60% of the members of a hospital’s nurse staffing committee be nurses and would prohibit mandatory overtime for hospital nurses in most cases.“At a time when our state is in dire need of nurses, we cannot afford to lose good hospital nurses due to mandatory overtime and grueling work schedules,” said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, according to Longview. “This legislation will help retain bedside nurses and ensure that they have a voice in issues such as nurse-patient ratios, work schedules, and other issues affecting patient care.”The House and the Senate have to work out minor differences in their versions of the proposal before the measure could go to the governor.
Monday June 15, 2009
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The Texas House approved Senate Bill 476, which seeks to increase the role of nurses in hospital staffing decisions, according to the Longview News-Journal. It would require that 60% of the members of a hospital’s nurse staffing committee be nurses and would prohibit mandatory overtime for hospital nurses in most cases.“At a time when our state is in dire need of nurses, we cannot afford to lose good hospital nurses due to mandatory overtime and grueling work schedules,” said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, according to Longview. “This legislation will help retain bedside nurses and ensure that they have a voice in issues such as nurse-patient ratios, work schedules, and other issues affecting patient care.”The House and the Senate have to work out minor differences in their versions of the proposal before the measure could go to the governor.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
You are cordially invited to attend the following program entiled
Immune-Mediated Coagulopathy: An under-recognized post operative complication
Presented By:
Patrick Hartsell, MD, FACS
Vascular Surgeon Associates
on
Thursday, July 09, 2009
6:30 PM
At
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
11600 Century Oaks Terrace
Austin, TX
(512) 835-9463
Please RSVP to your sales Consultant, Margaret Sammis at (512) 422-3716 or margaret.sammis@bayer.com by Tuesday, July 07 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Vote for your favorite logo design. All logos will contain our organization's name and ACTHNA on them.
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE LOGO: Voting Poll on the right.
Note from Marcy A Villafaña from Modcat Design:
Anything can be changed on the logos. If you like the fade of the state.. or star … or white words or blue words.. or even a thicker ekg line.. all things can be used or changed.. So please vote and add your comments to the blog.
Website and Blog
Please review logos below and vote for your favorite one. Please vote ASAP so we can get the logo on our banner and t-shirts. Our Website ( acthispanicnurses.org) is also up and running , we even have a place for new job postings. Please e-mail me any suggestions. (mwilson@seton.org)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
We are currently awaiting a new customized logo design since our previous logo is already being used. As soon as we receive a few logos to choose from we will post them on our blog and have our membership vote on their favorite. Once we have a winner we can proceed to having our banner and ACTHNA polo shirts made for our community outreach.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Austin & Central Texas Hispanic Nurses Association understand that in order to meet the challenges of the shortage of Spanish speaking professionals in the health care field, we must be committed to the recruitment and retention of Hispanics into the nursing profession. In spite of the large Hispanic population in Texas, only seven percent of the registered nurses are Hispanic. Our organization, in partnership with our sponsors are very dedicated to this effort and are providing financial support to our Nursing Scholarship Foundation.
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