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Volume 51, Issue 13 | Wednesday, September 7, 2016 | ndsmcobserver.com
UHS debuts electronic records New system allows for easier monitoring of patients’ medical information By AIDAN LEWIS News Writer
This year, University Health Services (UHS), based in St. Liam Hall, has implemented Electronic Medical Records (EMR), a move director Sharon McMullen says will improve the quality and efficiency of care on campus. The change from paper to electronic records has a multitude of upsides, McMullen said, including an increase in student safety. “Our EMR interfaces with a national drug pharmacy database, and if we prescribe a medication that a student has an allergy to, the EMR alerts us to that,” McMullen said. McMullen said the EMR will also increase the efficiency of care, since the use of paper charts in the past meant necessary patient information was much harder to organize and locate. “The student waits while we go scurrying around for the paper charts, so it disrupts the continuity
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them with “green dots,” or individual decisions that promote change in this culture. “I think one of the most powerful parts of the training is the steps that a predator takes in order to find someone to prey upon,” she said. “I think it’s very intense, but it also helps people understand that when they see a situation playing out, while it may seem harmless, there’s actually an intentionality behind it that, as you see those steps, you see how you as a bystander may be able to intervene either before something happens, but also remind people that, regrettably, there are times that we can’t, but how they can intervene after and take care of the person who’s been harmed.” With the “strong momentum” from last year, Gebhardt said the GRC is
Saint Mary’s president Jan Cervelli launched her Presidential Listening Tour: “A Foundation for the Future” on Sept. 2 to gather feedback to inform the College’s next strategic plan, according to a College press release. According to the release, Cervelli will hold a series of meetings and attend events throughout the academic year with students, faculty and staff, as well as other members of the Saint Mary’s community, such as alumnae, parents and trustees. Surveys will also be conducted to gather data and personal input from members of the community in order to find areas for improvement in the College. Former College president Carol Ann Mooney initiated the current strategic plan, called “Boldly Forward,” to cover the years 2012 to 2017. Over the summer of 2017, Cervelli will use the data collected during her listening tour to develop the next strategic plan. Cervelli said in the release that she encourages everyone in the campus and in alumnae communities, as well as friends and supporters of the College, to make their voices heard in shaping the College’s future. “Saint Mary’s proud tradition inspires and reminds us that, though our service to the College will be short in the full sweep of its history, the influence of decisions we make today will be felt much longer,” she said in the release. “What do we want our influence on Saint Mary’s to be?” In a previous interview with The Observer, Cervelli said the listening tour is an opportunity to hear from everyone involved with Saint Mary’s. “It’s my objective to meet as many people as possible in as many different venues, to listen to what people have to say about Saint Mary’s,” Cervelli
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GreeNDot to receive award By MEGAN VALLEY News Writer
More than 100 students went through GreeNDot’s bystander training in its first year. Now, just starting its second year, the violence prevention initiative will be honored at Saturday’s football game against Nevada as one of the six organizations awarded the Presidential Team Irish Award. “I think two of the things that make GreeNDot remarkable for our campus is its cross-campus collaboration — you have faculty, staff and students all working in a way that’s different from every other violence prevention initiative I’ve ever been part of — and its impact on our campus has been really amazing,” Christine Caron Gebhardt, director of the Gender Relations Center (GRC), said. “People have really taken to the message, I think, because it’s
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very straightforward. It’s something people can get their hands on and it’s very practical.” The Presidential Team Irish Award recognizes a department as a group of people that live out core values of the University and do it in such a way that it impacts the entire University, according to the website for the Office of Human Resources. GreeNDot is a “campuswide initiative for violence prevention” that works by promoting culture change about violence and how everyone does their part. “W hat we like about GreeNDot is that it takes a large issues like sexual assault, or stalking or domestic dating violence and breaks it into strategies that a person can do in their everyday life and that is suited to who they are so that all of the individual efforts and individual choices to do green dots have an overall impact
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of changing Notre Dame’s culture, as well as preventing violence from happening here,” Gebhardt said. She said the main service GreeNDot offers is bystander training, which encourages participants to “do their part” to prevent violence with the “3 Ds”: delegate, distract and direct. Over 300 people have expressed interest in being bystander trained this year, she said. The GRC plans on holding six trainings this year. “This school year, we’d like to have over 500 people to be trained,” Gebhardt said. “We have a number of overview speeches that we’d like to make sure that we reach. We are trying to reach more faculty because we feel like faculty can be one of the strongest voices.” The training teaches participants about “red dots,” or individual decisions that contribute to a culture of violence, and how to replace
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