September 10, 2018
Open Call for Volunteers: NAP Social Media Advocates
Are you interested in helping to grow NAP’s social media presence? Sign up to be a NAP Social Media Advocate! Duties include submitting tweet content for the NAP Twitter page as well as drafting articles for the NAP LinkedIn page (coming soon). Time commitment is approximately one hour or less per month. Email Ashley Peter   by September 24 if interested.
Students from Various Healthcare Disciplines Come Together to Collaborate and Provide Services at Community Clinic
A clinic in Apopka created by University of Central Florida faculty allows students to collaborate and provide healthcare services to farm workers who wouldn’t have access otherwise. The clinic is a service learning opportunity, where students from different disciplines work together gaining real-world experience that will help them become more prepared entering the workforce, said Heather Peralta, Ph.D., a nurse and college of nursing faculty member.

“I’ve seen a huge development across disciplines, they’re starting to talk to each other about each other’s scope of practice… they’re starting to see how each role is very important and we’re all part of a bigger puzzle to make healthcare work,” Peralta said.

Over 80 faculty and student volunteers from the colleges of nursing, medicine, social work, physical therapy and University of Florida college of pharmacy, came together for the one-day event June 28, where they saw 126 patients, Peralta said.

Peralta emphasized the importance of this type of clinic for students to start working together as a team from now, since this is something they will be doing after they graduate as they enter the workforce.
Get to Know Your NAP Council
Iris Fineberg, PhD, MSW, ACSW, OSW-C, FAOSW, Social Work Academy Chair

Title : Interim Director of the PhD Program (Social Welfare) and Associate Professor

Year Inducted as NAP Fellow: 2017

Academy: Social Work

Education : Post-Doctoral Fellow: University of California Los Angeles, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA.; Ph.D: Boston University - Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Work. M.S.W. (Master in Social Work): New York University, School of Social Work, New York, NY.; B.S.: Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca, NY. Major: Human Development and Family Studies. Concentration: Gerontology

Fun Fact: Spent several years as a faculty member in England.

Number One Reason You Volunteer for NAP: I have always believed that interprofessional education and practice provides the best opportunity for optimal care.