This FREE, no-obligation workshop is designed to give KCNA members an overview of financial planning and investing. Info including: how to start; common financial goals; investing; risk tolerance; investment options; and asset allocation. Speaker Adrian Hedwig is financial adviser at Salal Investment Services, which provides a full range of investment products and services through CUSO Financial Services, L.P. This event is available ONLY TO KCNA MEMBERS. 

     There is no cost for this event; register early. Registration deadline is October 16. 

Fall Nursing Summit:  Learning about Homelessness

Monday, November 20 * 5:30-8 p.m.

2018

Dinner Seminar:  Human Trafficking

Thursday, January 25 * 5:30-8 p.m.

Good Shepherd Center, Wallingford

2-hour Certificate of Completion

This presentation is entitled Trauma-informed Nursing: Responding to the Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth. See website for details.

Seminar: Ethics Conversations & Health Equity

Saturday, February 10 * 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Good Shepherd Center, Wallingford

4-hour Certificate of Completion

There will be three speakers. Details to follow. 

 

Dinner Seminar: District Meeting

Wednesday, February 28  *  5:30-7:30 p.m.

Good Shepherd Center, Wallingford

1.5-hour Certificate of Completion

Sally Watkins, PhD, MS, RN, executive director at Washington State Nurses Association, will talk about what's new at WSNA, provide a legislative update, and answer your questions. See website for details.

 

Dinner Seminar:  Ethics and Use of Patient Tissue

Wednesday, March 28 * 5:30-8 p.m.

Good Shepherd Center, Wallingford

2-hour Certificate of Completion

Join Bridget Carney, PhD, RN, health care ethicist, to discuss the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and bioethical issues related to the use of patient tissue and genetic material. Registration fee includes a copy of the book, sent early enough to finish by the date of the event.

Heart of Relaxation offers community stress reduction class

"Harvesting and Sharing Gifts" is the theme of an upcoming series of classes scheduled Thursdays, September 21-November 2 (no class October 12) at Swedish Ballard Hospital. Activate the mind and body's natural healing power of wholeness and cultivate ways to boost resilience and strengthen resources. Participants will develop a personalized self-care program that includes meditation, gentle yoga, relaxation and tools of wellbeing.

     Presenter Chris Prenovitz, MSW, E-RYT-500 is a highly respected stress management and yoga teacher. Classes are open and accessible to all, regardless of age or physical condition. Register by 8/31 for early-bird rate of $108 (after 8/31, pay $125). Send checks to Chris at 2814 NE 80^th St, Seattle, 98115.

 

Bastyr University offers variety of continuing education courses

Bastyr University has published its continuing education courses for August-December of this year. They offer many professional courses (only open to health care professionals) on a variety of subjects, including advanced craniosacral therapy, emotional freedom techniques, fertility, tinnitus, anatomy, evidence-based medicine and ethics. For more information, visit here or call 425/602-3152. 

 

New treatment removes oral blood thinner from circulation

At least 28 million prescriptions for blood thinners are filled annually for atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis, and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. On rare occasions, the anticoagulants can present risk of accidental bleeding or hemorrhage, or can delay emergency surgery. Idarucizumab, which recently passed Phase III clinical study, can act as an antidote to the blood thinner dabigatran, removing it from the blood stream within minutes. Read more.

 

Research finds no need to finish courses of antibiotics

  Really?? It may sound like heresy to health care professionals trained in the "modern age of medicine," but some recent research indicates that patients do NOT need to be instructed to take their full courses of antibiotics. The research, published in The BMJ, suggests there is no evidence that stopping antibiotic treatment prematurely leads to greater resistance.

     The article presents four takeaways from the research:

  Read a synopsis here.  To view the full analysis, click here.

Mary's Place, a provider of shelter services, is seeking volunteers to help with its Back to School Extravaganza event on Friday, September 1. At the event, volunteers will help Mary's Place families and others who need support getting ready for school. Hundreds of kids will receive school supplies, an outfit for school, a haircut, school pictures, school registration and more! 

     Volunteers are needed ahead of time to sort and pack supplies and help load trucks and during the event (September 1) to set up, greet, help families and clean up. Sign up here to help out. 

King County has information about safety during HOT weather

Admittedly it's not often that King County residents have to deal with dangerously high temperatures. So when it happens, many locals don't realize just how dangerous it can be. High temperatures are especially dangerous to older adults and young children. To be sure you know the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke and what to do if they occur, visit here. 

Northwest Harvest 50 years of hunger relief 

A message from Northwest Harvest, the largest independent hunger relief agency in Washington: "Each month, we provide more than two million healthy meals to a statewide network of 375 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. We focus on providing consistent, nutritious, and culturally-sensitive foods that are critical to the body and mind. For 50 years, we've been building coalitions and partnerships to help those in need. During this time, we've grown from a project of local social activists to our position today as the foremost leader in fighting hunger in the state of Washington.  We ask all those in our community to join us. Together, we can end hunger in our state."