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Social Justice Through Sustainable Chemistry

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:41:12 +0000

Through education programs with the United Nations and the American Chemical Society, Dr. Grace Lasker is promoting sustainable chemistry, embedded with values of social and environmental justice.

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Recognizing the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:38:14 +0000

Nurses and midwives contribute a significant role in providing health services. They are committed to caring for mothers and children; maintaining health promotion and disease prevention; meeting everyday health needs and providing overall care to the community.

Join two 56�Թ�� Bothell faculty members in recognizing the vital role nurses and midwives have in providing health services.

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56�Թ�� Bothell Assistant Professor and midwife, Meghan Eagen-Torkko, shares the important work of a midwife and how that impacts her role as a professor, and what motivated her to become a midwife.

56�Թ�� Nursing Instructor and Nurse Practitioner, Justin Gill, shares the importance of nurse advocacy at the bedside up to the legislative level and the many different career opportunities an education in nursing provides.

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National Hispanic Heritage Month

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:53:46 +0000

Jason Daniel Ulloa, assistant teaching professor with SNHS, was interviewed for the campus news article on "How Hispanics Can Counter the Popular Narrative."

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Gender transformative programmes: our Dean in BMJ

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:00:27 +0000

Shari L. Dworkin, Dean, School of Nursing and Health Studies, has featured in the BMJ Opinion, along with colleagues about their work on examining how gender transformative programmes with men advance women’s health and empowerment. With the Beijing Platform for Action on Women (1995) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an increased attention in engaging men in programmes to advance gender equality and women’s health.

Masculine norms harm both gender equality and women’s and men’s health outcomes. Gender transformative interventions serve to challenge harmful gender norms and power structures. Specifically, these interventions work to prevent violence against women and contribute to reducing sexually transmitted infections and risks of HIV. A gender transformative approach will help prevent existing gender inequalities.

In order to ensure women’s autonomy and empowerment, health interventions that engage males must seek equal gender power structures and counter harmful gender norms. R.

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Justin Gill Receives the 2020 AANP Washington State Advocate Award

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:21:43 +0000

Justin Gill is a part-time lecturer in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, who teaches Health Policy and Organization of Healthcare. Gill has received the 2020 AANP Washington State Advocate Award after being nominated for his work on a legislative advocacy strategy for ARNP (advanced registered nurse practitioner) reimbursement parity with ARNPs United of Washington State. Mr. Gill completed this project as part of his doctoral work at Yale. He partnered with ARNPs United of Washington State to develop a legislative advocacy strategy to change the law in Washington State regarding insurance payments to nurse practitioners. Currently in Washington State, if an nurse practitioner owns his or her own practice, and bills an insurance company directly, they are often paid at a reduced rate for providing the same service as a physician, even when the outcomes are the same (approximately 85% of the physician rate). Oregon has a law that mandates reimbursement parity for NPs in primary and behavioral healthcare. Because of his background/interest in policy/politics, he chose to pursue a policy project here in Washington State to change the law. Gill worked with a mentor, Louise Kaplan, PhD, ARNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, to survey ARNP business owners about the impact this problem has with the sustainability of their practices. They used this data in combination with a legislative strategy to draft language (which ultimately was introduced in the 2019 and 2020 WA legislature)..

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Drs. Jody Early and Victoria Breckwich Vasquez featured on Crosscut

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:39:42 +0000

Paula Zambrano (pictured on the left) is a longtime farmworker in Yakima, and has faced many instances of sexual harasment on the job. Zambrano wrote a poem called "Basta! Basta! Basta!" to showcase her frustration with the system and the need for change regarding sexual harassment towards farmworkers. Her poem caught the eye of Drs. Jody Early and Victoria Breckwich Vasquez and the two worked for six years to create a curriculum called "Basta!", which is named after the poem Zambrano wrote. outlines that Dr. Early mission in having sexual harassment regulated as a workplace safety issue by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Drs. Jody Early and Victoria Breckwich Vasquez are working with farmworkers, advocates, experts, and growers across the state of Washington to better understand the nature of the problem of workplace sexual harassment in agriculture and to then develop solutions. The information and perspectives of workers and experts that were collected from their research were used to develop the Workplace Sexual Harassment Prevention Toolkit. This toolkit works to provide farms with the resources they need to implement a comprehensive sexual harassment prevention program on their operations, with resources in English and Spanish, including an educational curriculum and training video, and key recommendations for developing Sexual Harassment policies in the workplace.

The Basta! Prevent Sexual Harassment in Agriculture video, facilitator’s guide, and electronic toolkit are available through the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH). .

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Global Health Promotion in Guatemala

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:20:25 +0000

Global Health Promotion in Guatemala: Health Services Delivery in Resource-Poor Settings

Summer Quarter Terms A & B 2020: June 22-August 21 BHLTH 400 / BNURS 424 / BNURS 597 | 12 Credits

This hybrid service-learning course, conducted in partnership with a community-based organization, Guatemala Village Health, will expose students to health systems, global development, global public health issues, and policy contexts in which health care is delivered in global under-resourced communites.

Class Meetings:
Face to Face: 56�Թ�� Bothell, Up to 4 class meetings,
One day/week on Thursdays, 8:00am 5:20pm.
Specific dates TBD. Remaining meetings online.
Online Meetings: Specific dates TBD.
Fieldwork: Daily in Guatemala. July 31- August 15.

Academic Credits: 12 summer quarter
credits. Open to all majors. No language
requirements. The course meets required and
elective courses for MN, BSN, and Health
Studies students.

Program Fee: $5,200 financial aid and scholarships are available

For inquires, please contact the 56�Թ��B Study Abroad office at uwbworld@uw.edu or the program director, Dr. Mabel Ezeonwu at mezeo@uw.edu

PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 31, 2020
After Priority Deadline: Applications accepted on rolling basis until February 15

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Harassment Training for Agricultural Workers

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:58:10 +0000

SNHS faculty, Drs. Jody Early and Victoria Breckwich Vasquez, launch their community-engaged and culturally tailored WA intervention and campaign called, . The program took almost six years to develop with farmworkers and other stakeholder in agriculture.

¡Basta! — which means “enough” in Spanish — is a prevention-focused toolkit that is tailored for worksite intervention. It is developed in partnerships with women farmworkers and other agricultural stakeholders and is based on the farmworkers’ personal experiences. Read more about Drs. Early & Breckwich Vasquez Intervention and Campaign

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BSN Alumna on Tribal Canoe Journey

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:36:20 +0000

Samantha Capoeman, 56�Թ��B BSN '19, is a member of the and a nurse who is working in tribal clinics in the remote villages of Taholah and Queets on the Washington coast. While she was still a student at 56�Թ�� Bothell, Capoeman participated in the annual Tribal Canoe Journey, where she celebrated indigenous Coast Salish traditions with her family and community. Capoeman paddled five Quinault canoes 345 miles in 13 days around the Olympic Peninsula to the Lummi Nation. Capoeman hopes to become even more valuable to her tribe by applying her BSN degree and potentially Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree in her community. For the full article, please visit the campus news blog.

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Chemical & Engineering News interviews SNHS’ Dr. Lasker

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:58:08 +0000

Senior Lecturer and Director of Health Studies, Dr. Grace Lasker defines green chemistry as, “the science of making smart choices in how we design, make, use, and dispose of chemicals and chemical products.” Dr. Lasker and Dr. Edward Brush designed a symposium for Green Chemistry & Engineering conference (GC&E) about how green chemistry connects with social justice. The GC&E conference, the venue for Dr. Lasker’s symposium, is the largest green chemistry & engineering conference in the United States and included over 500 participants. In the July 13, 2018 Chemical & Engineering News article, ,” by Melody Bomgardner and Rudy Baum, Dr. Lasker describes her work and what she hopes to accomplish through the GC&E symposium. Those goals, which reinforce our School’s mission to support and improve the health of diverse communities, include promoting environmental justice. Drs. Lasker and Brush said they “view environmental justice as the state where all people, regardless of gender, age, race, or economic status, have the right to live, work, play, and learn in healthy and safe environments.” Read the full article on the

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