Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! jobs.nmc.edu. Current openings include:
Recognize your colleague for a job well done! Nominations are being accepted for Employee of the Semester!Please take a few minutes to show appreciation and to honor an NMC employee who has gone above and beyond. Nominate your colleague for Employee of the Semester-Summer Semester.
Respond to/Click the NMC values that relate to the employee’s outstanding performance for spring.
Send your nominations to Human Resources by Wednesday, October 5. Please provide details to help the Committee identify outstanding performance for the semester. All nominees will receive a letter of recognition if they are not selected.
Thank you!
The Employee Recognition Committee
Lori Hodek, Co-chair
Hollie DeWalt, Co-chair
Marcus Bennett
Cathryn Claerhout
Miku Crouch
Kim Gourlay
Constanza Hazelwood
Scott Herzberg
Rita Kucera
Paul Martin
Susan Odgers
Pam Palermo
Nancy Parshall
Amanda Woodruff
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Open Recreation Volleyball is now available on Saturdays from 2-4 p.m. in the gymnasium in the Rajkovich Physical Education Building.
Come and enjoy some volleyball with friends.
Learn more about TextAid, a complete, easy-to-use reading, writing, and studying solution for struggling readers and language learners.
Free For NMC Students
To request your username and password, stop by the Tutoring Center in Osterlin 152 or contact Leanne Baumeler at 995-1929 or lbaumeler@nmc.edu.
Nurse George Bullard has a ready reply when patients at Munson Medical Center tell him fear of falling makes them reluctant to get out of bed and move around, a standard pre-release recommendation.
“ ‘You’re a piece of cake. You’re not going to fall,’ ” said Bullard, a 2013 graduate of NMC’s nursing program and, most recently, qualifier for 2017 U.S. Strongman national competition.
The muscles and tattoos beneath Bullard’s scrubs initially belie his profession. But he says patients love hearing stories and seeing pictures of his competitive weightlifting life outside the hospital. And their roads to recovery and his own in the gym actually run parallel.
“It’s all about achieving goals,” said Bullard, 30. Patients have the goal of getting better, and he helps them achieve it. In doing so Bullard earned an achievement himself earlier this year, winning the Daisy Award, a national award for nurses who provide extraordinary, compassionate and skilled care.
At Munson Bullard is also a preceptor — teacher — for both nursing students and newly hired nurses. They shadow him to get a better understanding of how the general medical floor works.
“The biggest thing we have to teach them is how to advocate for the patients,” he said.
In the case for which he received the Daisy Award, Bullard argued against a physician’s discharge recommendation, believing the patient wasn’t strong enough yet. The doctor agreed to a walk test. The patient didn’t fall, but did become short of breath and his oxygen level dropped. Subsequent tests revealed two liters of fluid on the man’s lung. Had he been released, Bullard said, he could have drowned.
“It’s one of the biggest roles we have as a nurse,” Bullard said of the advocacy role. “Sometimes, I spend more time with the patient than the family does.”
Bullard’s floor at Munson sees the most patients with the most varied conditions of the entire hospital. He says his NMC education equipped him well for the challenge.
“I had such a variety when I was a student. I was confident when I got there,” said Bullard, a Flint native who was drawn to a nursing career after moving up north to take care of his aging grandmother.
Next year, in addition to training for the national strongman competition, Bullard plans to advance his career by enrolling in Ferris State University’s BSN program at the University Center. He ultimately hopes to become a nurse practitioner.
“I’m a nurse. I love it,” he said.
Nurse George Bullard has a ready reply when patients at Munson Medical Center tell him fear of falling makes them reluctant to get out of bed and move around, a standard pre-release recommendation.
“ ‘You’re a piece of cake. You’re not going to fall,’ ” said Bullard, a 2013 graduate of NMC’s nursing program and, most recently, qualifier for 2017 U.S. Strongman national competition.
The muscles and tattoos beneath Bullard’s scrubs initially belie his profession. But he says patients love hearing stories and seeing pictures of his competitive weightlifting life outside the hospital. And their roads to recovery and his own in the gym actually run parallel.
“It’s all about achieving goals,” said Bullard, 30. Patients have the goal of getting better, and he helps them achieve it. In doing so Bullard earned an achievement himself earlier this year, winning the Daisy Award, a national award for nurses who provide extraordinary, compassionate and skilled care.
At Munson Bullard is also a preceptor — teacher — for both nursing students and newly hired nurses. They shadow him to get a better understanding of how the general medical floor works.
“The biggest thing we have to teach them is how to advocate for the patients,” he said.
In the case for which he received the Daisy Award, Bullard argued against a physician’s discharge recommendation, believing the patient wasn’t strong enough yet. The doctor agreed to a walk test. The patient didn’t fall, but did become short of breath and his oxygen level dropped. Subsequent tests revealed two liters of fluid on the man’s lung. Had he been released, Bullard said, he could have drowned.
“It’s one of the biggest roles we have as a nurse,” Bullard said of the advocacy role. “Sometimes, I spend more time with the patient than the family does.”
Bullard’s floor at Munson sees the most patients with the most varied conditions of the entire hospital. He says his NMC education equipped him well for the challenge.
“I had such a variety when I was a student. I was confident when I got there,” said Bullard, a Flint native who was drawn to a nursing career after moving up north to take care of his aging grandmother.
Next year, in addition to training for the national strongman competition, Bullard plans to advance his career by enrolling in Ferris State University’s BSN program at the University Center. He ultimately hopes to become a nurse practitioner.
“I’m a nurse. I love it,” he said.
The City of Traverse City will be closing part of East Front Street off Munson Avenue between the main entrance to NMC’s main campus and the Hawk’s Nest for road construction several times during the next few weeks. A detour will be available via Indian Woods Drive, east of the road closure.
The planned closure dates are:
Please note these dates are subject to change depending on the weather. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Monday, October 3, 2016, Noon to 1 p.m.Learn how you can pursue a degree in primary care and how to make money to pay for your degree. The presentation will focus on how students can get money for loans by putting their skills and abilities to work in communities in need. Topics to be discussed will include the National Health Service Corps and the Michigan State Loan Repayment program.
Register online at http://miahec.wayne.edu/nhsccm2016.php
October 20, 12:15-1 p.m.
Location: Founder’s Hall, room 110
The Passport Student Lecture Series is a chance to explore other cultures through the experiences of NMC international students. Bring your lunch and hear Jettarin (Jay) and Jitpanu (Joe) Issaravanich speak about their home country of Thailand.
If you are a Global Endorsement student, please bring your GE passport so that it can be stamped and earn your GE event points!
The next phase of MAP (MyAcademicPlan) is here! Faculty advisors will now be able to use Plans, the digital degree planning tool. Accessed from the MAP portal, Plans will allow Faculty advisors to create a semester-by-semester plan with student advisees, helping them see the pathway to degree completion.
If you missed your department area training and the drop-in training, we recommend attending a session on Plans during the October 18 Professional Development day. If you have questions or would like to schedule an additional area training session, please contact Kim Schultz in the Advising Center or Lisa Wilmeth in Records & Registration.
Over 30 university representatives will be on NMC’s campus on Tuesday, October 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to talk with students, staff and faculty about their programs and the transfer process. The university representatives will be in two locations:
This is your opportunity to discuss transfer requirements and get information on degrees available at a variety of schools without having to travel to each university. Bring your questions and explore your options! A list of colleges attending and a list of questions to ask at a transfer fair is available here.
See you there!
Advising Staff
Let the NMC Green Team point you in the right direction! The last hazardous waste drop-off event of 2016 is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1.
Read more, courtesy of RecycleSmart, the Resource Recovery program of Grand Traverse County:
Are you a household that has hazardous waste in need of disposal?
KUDOS- (praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved) defined by Merriam-Webster.com
Kudos to Stephen Drake- He went above and beyond in helping me understand concepts in college algebra. I previously had thought there was no way I would ever pass the class (having taken and dropped it TWICE at a different school), but Drake’s patience and knowledge has proven me wrong. He is without a doubt one of the best teachers I have had.
Kudos to Steve Dixon- Steve works many hours in the Fitness Center as he continues his undergraduate work. He is fully self-supporting and exhibits an extremely positive attitude and approach to everyone he encounters in the Fitness Center and all of the tasks required of him.
I began using the Fitness Center just over a year ago, a first for me (and I am now in my mid-60’s). Steve’s presence is always welcoming and encouraging, no matter what age or level of fitness exhibited. Using him as personal trainer this past summer assisted me in becoming more dedicated to my own goal of strengthening and enhancing my fitness as I move into my aging years.
Never judgmental, ALWAYS positive & encouraging, no matter how often I showed up or how intensively I worked … has provided me with an environment where I feel that whatever I do is good and beneficial.
Kudos to Tina Ulrich- I am an NMC faculty member and a board member of MI Writers. On 9/17, NW Cinematic Storytellers and MI Writers hosted an all-day Screenwriting Seminar at NMC.
Numerous scholarships were given to students, community members and military veterans.
Tina created a multi-page bibliography of the Osterlin writing/film collection (which was put in registrant packets)and created a specific display table in the library of some of those resources. There was even a large sign welcoming MI Writers! The registrants; which included our students, community members and folks from as far away as Chicago were delighted by Tina’s efforts. One registrant from Ann Arbor told me “How thoughtful and helpful your library staff is! It’s these little touches that are both welcoming and say everything about a place.”
Kudos to Scott Goethals- I interview a lot of people who have been through NMC’s IT program. Every single person raves about what an outstanding instructor Scott Goethals is. His courses are tough, so I think that says a lot. He earns their trust and invests in their growth. These former students say all their instructors were good, but Scott was GREAT. The graduates come out of that program very well prepared for a career in computer network administration and technical support. It takes someone willing to go “above and beyond” to stay current with an IT curriculum. Lastly, his collaboration with our company, both on curriculum and placement of qualified candidates, has been invaluable. Kudos to Scott!
Kudos to all of those involved in planning the College-Wide Picnic on August 19! The event was an outstanding success thanks to the enthusiastic support from the following people and departments:
– Roy Bartle, Robert Scott, & the Sodexo catering staff
– Paul Perry, Linda Glaesmer & the Facilities staff
– Kyle Morrison, Educational Media Technologies
Kudos to Sam Foster, Steve Dix, Dan Wasson, Zeb McCauley, Jeff Send, & others that helped from facilities- The dental assistant department recently acquired new digital x-ray equipment & everyone that was mentioned helped to facilitate the steps needed prior to installation & helped during the install.
Thank you for all you do!!!
Kudos to NMC Communications instructor, Teresa Scollon, related to the September 16 Record Eagle article: Reinvented program takes shape at TBAISD Career Tech Center. Teresa is co-leader of a writing program Front Street Writers, a course that teaches writing as a craft and leads students through several writing styles. Her students will gain the opportunity to meet and learn from working writers.
Kudos to Laura Schmidt- Congratulations to Laura Schmidt for her nomination to the OADN (Organization of Associate Degree Nursing)Board of Directors.
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! jobs.nmc.edu. Current openings include:
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
National Coffee Day is Thursday, September 29! Stop by the bookstore in the lower level of West Hall on NMC’s main campus September 27-30 for 20% off all coffee mugs and travel mugs!
The road less traveled may be fraught with danger, but its journey offers endless possibilities. This semester, NMC Magazine delves into its latest theme: Adventure! Send in your stories, poems, essays, artwork, photographs, or other designs by Monday, October 24.
Bring hard copies to the Communications Office, Scholars Hall 214, Attn: Alissia Lingaur -OR- to the Humanities Office, Fine Arts Building, Attn: Caroline Schaefer-Hills. Email submissions to nmcmag@mail.nmc.edu.
Make sure to include the submission form, available here: nmc.edu/nmcmagazine/submissions.pdf