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Show HILLTOP TIMES friday is Certified Nurses Day f MDG to celebrate by Ipnoring 19 board-certified rfarses on its staff BY-LT. COL. PENELOPE GORSUCH 7$8j.Medical Group ty Group Commander/Chief Nurse | he 75th Medical Group is celebrating Certified Nurses Day, Friday, March 19, by honoring its board certified nurses. Board certification of nurses plays an increasingly important role in the assurance of high standards of care for patients and their loved ones. Nursing, like health care in general, has become more complex. While a registered nurse (RN) license provides entry tcj general nursing practice, the knowledge-intensive requirements of modern nursing require extensive education, as well as a strong personal commitment to excellence by nurses. The Air Force Nurse Corps encourages national board certification for all its nurses. Patients are encouraged to inquire whether there are certified nurses on staff when they visit a hospital or their primary care provider. There are many nursing certification specialties such as medical-surgical, pediatric, pain management, cardiac vascular, oncology, hospice, case management, emergency nursing, critical care and many others. Many nursing certification bodies exist to serve the full range of specialized nursing care offered in the contemporary health care system; national nurse-certifying bodies should be accredited by either the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification or the National Organization for Competence Assurance or both. Please join the 75th MDG and the nation's national nursing certification organizations in honoring those hardworking, dedicated nurses for their professionalism, and a job well done. The 75th MDG CNAs and their areas of specialty are: • Lt. Col. Penelope Gorsuch, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist/Advanced Nursing Administration • Lt. Col. Jeannine Ryder, Nursing Administration • Lt. Col. Jean Marie Eagleton, Medical Surgical Nurse • Maj. Linda Hagemann, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner • Maj. Connie Patterson, Inpatient Obstetrical Nursing • Maj. Gary Ruesch, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner • Capt. Tracy Rue, Emergency Nursing • Capt. Kim Trnka, Ambulatory Care Nurse • Capt. Jennifer Curtis, Family Nurse Practitioner • Capt. Cindy Craddock, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner • Danielle Morris, Diabetic Educator • Jerrie Ellis, Professional Utilization Management • Linda LeCain, Occupational Health Nurse-Specialist • Sharla Orton, Occupational Health Nurse • Shanna Walton, Occupational Health Nurse • Stacey Flint, Occupational Health Nurse • Candi Ackerman, Case Manager • Elena Acap, Emergency Nursing Courtesy photo The Hill Air Force Base Ruff Riders intramural basketball team were repeat champions for the third year in a row as they defeated the Aircraft Maintenance Group team Feb. 11, in a hard fought game, 51-62. Members are: Marcellus Dow, Jason Caldwell, Art Rice, Kevin Palmer, Skyler Wallace, Danny Mack, Jared Barnes, Mario Bush, Chris Napier and Gary Green. , SPUDS From page 9 come to us for help. Part of our mission is to support these families. "Our primary mission is readiness, to make sure that our war fighters are ready and we do this From page 9 presentation of an Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association it given to Ogden High School on March 4, leaders stand together at the event, t to right) They are: Curtis Nielsen, with the Ogden School District; Kurt Jensen, Jjgden High School Career and Technical Education faculty member; Essye Miller, jtfRCEA Wasatch Chapter president and director of Hill Air Force Base Communications Ip'rrectorate; and Jim Taggart, of the Ogden Weber Applied Technology College. IFCEA presents grant to Ogden High methodology that canvassed all the schools in the local area. From that list, it was very LPublic Affairs Office competitive choosing the winner." ssye Miller, Armed Forces ComEvery year AFCEA provides $1,000 munication and Electronics Assogrants through 144 AFCEA chapters worldIciation, Wasatch Chapter presiwide to worthy and deserving programs St and director of Hill Air Force Base that augment science, technology, engineerlmunications Directorate, awarded ing and math, or STEM, activities in the rt Jensen, Career and Technical classroom. Ogden High School was selected jcation faculty member at Ogden from 14 other high schools and four private jh School, the AFCEA Wasatch Chapschools across Box Elder, Weber and Davis counties. iducational Foundation's Science "Mr. Jensen has shown tremendous initiaiching Tools Grant worth $1,000, on tive in promoting STEM education at Ogden rch4. High School and has achieved sustained suc)gden High School was the recipient of r cess promoting many worthwhile initiatives CEA Wasatch Chapter Educational with several community partners," Drollette idation's Science teaching Tools Grant ram for the 2009-2010 academic school said. "Through Mr. Jensen's leadership and Ogden High School's administration support, Ogden High School currently has six secjliller explains that the purpose of the tions of engineering, two sections of machinJEA Educational Foundation is to proing, two sections of drafting and ten sections :e effective science teaching and to of automotive technology and students can ce the abilities of capable science, lology, engineering and math program earn college credits for those courses." After accepting the grant, Jensen exhers worldwide. r e did not require proposals this year," plained the funds would go to good use Edward Drollette, with the Defense by covering ongoing costs of supplies and upkeep for their 3D printer/Rapid Prototypirmation Systems Agency. "We recogd that often, schools and teachers do not ing machine which was purchased by the Ogden Weber Applied Technology College the staff or resources to develop grant poseHs so we chose to develop an in-housefor Ogden High SchooL . . 1ST CLASS MEUSSA DEARSTONE March 18,2010 BASKETBALL CHAMPS MEET Courtesy photo TIMES wife and I had arrived here a few months after that, so we were all still unfamiliar with the area when we decided to meet in August," said Kirchner. Deciding where they should meet posed a few challenges. Their unfamiliarity with the area discouraged them from traveling too far. They also wanted to meet at a place where they both would feel comfortable. The Hill Aerospace Museum seemed to fit the needs of their situation. Albertson attributed the decision to meet at the museum to his wife. "She was instrumental in helping chose a place easy enough for us to both find and that would hold everyone's interest so that the sometimes awkward silences were not so difficult to get used to." "It was a better place to meet than anywhere else," said Kirchner. "It gave us something to talk about since I had a vested interest in being in the military and he did as well." "It was a long time coming, and the museum couldn't have been a better place to meet," said Albertson. "So much to see there, so much to take in, it sort of took the 'pressure off the meeting and let us share experiences we both had involving the things we were seeing." After the formal introductions, the father and son were able to focus on the static displays around them and share military experiences. "We walked around and he showed me a plane on display outside of the museum that is like the ones he jumped out of," said Kirchner. He learned that Albertson competed recreationally in world military skydiving. That reunion not only informed Kirchner of Albertson's military service history and what type of person his father is, but it also helped Kirchner understand himself more as well. "I was able to learn more about my life — like character traits and genetics — from learning about his life. It helps to know why I develop the way I do and whether I am more prone to certain conditions," through helping the families in need," he said. "But we serve civilians and military — anybody at Hill Air Force Base, so it's not limited to any particular group. "The best part of it for me is knowing that we have made a difference, whether it's with a . potato, financial assistance or just bringing people together who share in this experience called 'the mission.'" he said. As for character traits, Kirchner said he was pleasantly surprised to find out that Albertson and his family are good people. "They turned out to be the happiest, most accepting family. When we went to their house to visit I would see pictures of me and my wife on their computer screensavers. We also started attending their church." Albertson is the deacon chairman at the North Hills Christian Fellowship church in Tremonton. Kirchner said he is glad to have had the opportunity to see his father's fledgling church grow from having half the seats filled to seeing the whole congregation filled. "On holidays, people can be crowded to the door," he said. "We are a pretty small church, and I am quite happy that Chris and his family often travel all the way from Hill Air Force Base to go to church with us," said Albertson. Albertson was likewise impressed with Kirchner's character, as well. "He looked in good shape, he acted like he was well adjusted, had adjusted well to a military environment, he had his new wife with him — he had grown up so much, matured so much, in comparison to the stories I had heard about his childhood. The Air Force had definitely been a tremendously positive influence on him." Being assigned to Hill AFB, Kirchner's first official Air Force order, had been serendipitously changed at the last minute from an assignment to Royal Air Force Lakenheath in England, and resulted in the unexpected growth in the Airman's family which now includes Albertson and his family. It also provided closure for the father and son's pasts and optimism for their future. "Having my dad out here is like having my family around me, whereas most Airmen are isolated from their families when they are assigned to their first base. We were placed where I could meet my new family," said Kirchner. "He has a giving, caring and just attitude that is basically what I think would be in a good person. It makes me think that maybe those traits are inside of me, too," he added. "I feel really lucky that I met him." |