Year End Newletter

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Funds needed for new RN educator/public educator/nurse supervisor position

Nursing Educator Project


Funds Needed: $5,400

For: The amount needed to raise is the difference between the hospital funds available to hire a LPN and the needed funds to hire an RN with the potential to expand our hospital services to include public education, nursing education, and a Honduran-held nursing supervisor position.

Proposal: 

Hospital Loma de Luz hosts Honduran social service nurses who come and volunteer a year of their time in order to graduate nursing school.  Recently, we have had a particularly bright nurse in training that will be finishing her social service year in April, 2012.  The hospital currently has an open position for an LPN ($4,600US/yr. salary) but not an RN ($10,000US/yr. salary) due to lack of funds.  This nurse has the potential ability to be a nursing supervisor, nurse educator, public educator and, overall, generally raise the level of care at our hospital.  This nurse would also work the standard number of shifts of a full-time nursing position.

One of the long-term goals of Hospital Loma de Luz has been to gradually work towards educating, discipling, and gradually giving more responsibility for the work of the hospital to national (Honduran) hospital employees.  Hiring a nurse with this potential would transfer responsibilites currently being handled by an overwhelmed American missionary nurse and increase our ability to start new programs.  Our goal is to raise the difference in funds between an LPN and RN to supplement the hospital funds and hire this RN rather than another LPN for one year. We hope to keep this nursing position filled long-term with the possibility of renewing this project annually. 

 

Goals of Proposal: 

1. To begin desperately needed public education in:

      -Pre-natal classes:

             ~education on pre-natal health related topics (diet, vitamins, when to see your     
               doctor etc)

             ~Tour of hospital labor and delivery and OR

             ~education of birthing/stages of labor/pushing techniques

             ~Breastfeeding education (dispelling rumors from formula and baby food 
               companies that have a tight hold on the people who can't afford to but are 
               compelled to buy these products)

       -Diabetic education classes

              ~Diet education

              ~How to care for your body and prevent complication

              ~Education on lifestyle changes

        -Intro to solids for infants

              ~Dispelling the myths of formula and baby food companies.  (Some families 
                spend 1/4 of their monthly salary on formula alone!)

              ~How to introduce solids to your infant and how to know when they are ready 
                (hopefully lowering the amount of coffee and coca-cola drinking toddlers)

              ~Education on a healthy diet (with hopes of lowering problems with chronic 
                illnesses and poor weight gain seemly more common here)

2. Continuing nursing education and raise overall level of care in our hospital

               ~Basic Life Support, Neonatal Advanced Life Support, General nursing education 
                 (Medications, treatments, etc)
               ~Will shift responsibilities from missionary staff to Honduran staff

3. Possibility of this nurse becoming nursing supervisor with time and demonstration of good leadership
                ~Will shift responsibilities from missionary staff to Honduran staff


How to Donate:  If you would like to donate funds towards this project please send all donations to:

 World Medical Mission

Attn: Post-Residency Program

P.O. Box 3000

Boone, NC 28607

* Please write "Miknaitis/Project Code 003656" in the memo. 

****Please be sure to mark this donation for the Nursing Educator Project****

http://www.doctorandpilot.com/_/Donate.html

We NEED you! - Calling all doctors and nurses!

WE NEED YOU!

Calling all doctors and nurses!

Hospital Loma de Luz, on the beautiful, warm and sunny beaches of northern Honduras, really needs some extra medical help during the months of December and January.  If you're a physician or a nurse, come volunteer your time, change lives, and be changed and moved by God.  Come enjoy the beaches, the sun, and the waterfalls while your friends shiver in the cold!

Email me for more info:  abbyandrimas@yahoo.com  (10+ days work best.  The logistics of a week or less are a bit difficult)

Pregnancy in Honduras has some perks . . .

This, my pregnant Stateside friends, is my 28 week glucose challenge test.  No nasty orange syrup to drink here!  We get to do the test the common sense way.  It's supposed to be a 50g sugar challenge with a blood glucose level 1 hour later.  So, I was able to choose 50g of sugar of my choice.  My A&W was only 45g so I added a fun-sized Butterfinger that was another 8g.  My results: 91 which is all good and means more A&W's in my future!

I was pretty excited about this pregnancy test since I had to drink the nasty orange drink with my pregnancy with Aliyah.  I just don't get why the labs in the States insist you drink some sickening sweet thing that tastes awful and probably costs 50x the amount of my sweet little A&W.