Nurses take up
public-health issues
Emily Dieker, assistant professor at Emporia State University’s Newman Division of Nursing, was among more than 600 elected registered-nurses on hand as the American Nurses Association House of Delegates considered proposals designed to improve nurse-retention rates and advance public health.
The association, gathered for its biennial meeting in Washington, D.C., resolved to support proposals that support the successful environment of new nurse into the work environment and to support research into plans to deal with the problem of half of all new graduate nurses’ leaving their first professional assignment in less than a year.
Dieker, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing, was also part of resolutions to increase nurses’ awareness of and education about the effects of intimate-partner violence on families, children and communities and to advocate for the use of evidence-based clinical guidelines in treating victims of violence.
The group also focused on public-health measures including climate change, health care for veterans, the effects of food additives and contaminants, human trafficking and Social Security and Medicare.
Completes bank school
Joe E. Jones, assistant vice president of Lyon County State Bank, has completed the 2007-2008 Advanced School of Banking, which met for a week in late June in Grand Forks Nebraska.
The course, Year 2 of a two-week school, focused on a computer-generated simulation bank-management program that required teams of students, working as “banks,” to make critical management decisions required in successful commercial-bank operation.
Graduation from the school represents more than 80 hours of classroom study and 50 hours of independent study of banking research projects.
The school is sponsored by the Kansas and Nebraska bankers associations and is endorsed by bankers associations in Colorado, Louisiana, South Dakota and Wyoming.