Navigate the World of One Nurse At A Time

David Fox and Sue Averill just finished working on this little gem for One Nurse At A Time. It is an excellent video and it takes about 4 minutes of your time to watch. The video briefly describes what we do, how to use the website, what is on the website and some great educational tools at your disposal.





I hope you enjoy this little gem of a video! I did! Please pass on to others if you wish!


Navigate the World of One Nurse At A Time - Video




Cheers -

ONAAT

News from ONAAT

Couple of things have happened over the last week. One great, and one kind of a bummer.

Let's get the bad news out of the way first...our Jo's Mission is cancelled for this November. It is cancelled because we did not have enough nurses to make sense for us to pursue this mission. If I remember correctly, I think we had 2 nurses sign up and we would have considered it IF we had a total of 4 or 5 nurses sign up...
However, this isn't all together bad news. We are not going to just write it off the list and forget about it...Sue is going to contact her network and see if this spring we can try and get another mission going for our first time nurses. I am hopeful.
One of the bigger stumbling blocks, we discovered with the requirements for an applicant was the Spanish speaking requirement. A lot of my ED nurses said "Hey! I was going to sign up for that, but I DEFINITELY do not speak Spanish." So with that thought in mind, I think we will look at the spring for a trip and possibly without the requirement that you must speak Spanish. Please stay tuned!
Ok- one to the great news. Sue with her endless abilities to work 24/7 has signed up ONE NURSE AT A TIME with CharityChoice Gift Card. Yeah! An answer to our never-ending questions to raising money for our organization.
The CharityChoice Gift Card is a program that enables ONAAT to be offered as an option for gift-recipients to select when redeeming their CharityChoice Gift Card. Our hope is that the more people we tell about our little organization the more we have to give to our nurses helping communities across the world!

Here is a link to the Charity Choice Gift Card: CharityChoice Gift Card

Fundraising, a battle

This spring my church talked about a difficult topic. The topic was money. HUSH!  Don’t talk about that!  It’s like a forbidden word- it’s never a fun topic at home, you usually don’t have enough, when you do have a little extra, you worry you may lose it, basically money although you think it is, it’s just not pleasant! 

The pastor who gave the sermon about money- gave an amazing sermon- she discussed the issues people have around it, why it is difficult to talk about it, and how to support each other and the church without breaking the bank. My in-laws who NEVER attend church (only did that day because our daughter was being baptized) walked out at the end of the service, in amazement. They were moved to discussion and that’s a big deal for this family, because money is simply NOT discussed.

   

This last ONAAT meeting we had last week, we talked about money…extensively. How do we get more of it!? Who do we need to talk to? Where do we go? What do we need to learn? Fundraising has never been a word I particularly enjoy. In my opinion, it is not FUN. I mean, really, who thinks it is fun asking people for money? I definitely do not.

Well our organization depends upon it- We depend upon donations from family, friends, grants, and sales from our gift shop. If we don’t have money, we are not able to help nurses, help our community, and help people!

You might ask how do we fundraise for One Nurse At A Time?

Here they are:

-  Buy our logo items  - scrub tops, sweatshirts, hats, teddy bears…etc. http://www.companycasuals.com/OneNurseAtATime/start.jsp

-  Make a charitable donation http://onenurseatatime.org/donate/ways-to-give/

- Make us your charity you would like to donate to this winter http://onenurseatatime.org/donate/ways-to-give/

- Use iGive (totally easy and simple) http://www.igive.com/

- Buy one of our books  “Womankind” or “Nurses beyond Borders” $10 plus shipping- email onenurseatatime@gmail.com

These are our current methods. They make a dent and help us grow our organization. We can't thank all of you enough, with making this dent!

 

Thanks for your help. 

                                                                - ONAAT Crew