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Research, trends, tips Clips&TipsMeyer honored for advocacy
The Association of Women’s Interim Executive Director Karen The value of nursing — quantified
Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Peddicord, RNC, PhD. “Her In December, the American Estimates from the study
Nurses presented its Award of leadership on perinatal mood Nurses Association released suggest that adding 133,000
Excellence in Advocacy to Birdie disorders will help to drastically afirst-of-its-kind study RNs to the acute care
Gunyon Meyer,RN, MA, CLC, changethe lives of manynew quantifying the e c o n o m i c hospital work force would
for her work mothers and families worldwide.” value of nursing. C o n d u c t e d save 5,900 lives per year.
on behalf of On the local and state levels, by the Lewin Group and The productivity value of total
women of all Gunyon Meyer has developed published in Medical Care, deaths averted is equivalent
ages, with a postpartum depression programs the study is the result of years to more than $1.3 billion
special focus and support groups. She of analysis of per year — about $9,900 per
in maternal continues to educate clinicians, data on the additional RN.
mental health. communities and f a m i l i e s about correlation The additional nurse
Gunyon The award was postpartum depression. She between staffing would decrease
presented at AWHONN’sannual recently was awarded Healthcare patient hospital stays by 3.6 million
convention in Los Angeles, Calif. Hero finalist by the Indianapolis outcomes days. More rapid recovery
Gunyon Meyer has been a Business Journal. and nurse translates into
strong advocate for federal Gunyon Meyer holds a staffing levels. increased
legislation that addresses bachelor’s degree in nursing The national
postpartum depression and and a master’s in psychology research culled productivity,
psychosis and is the coordinator and counseling. She has worked findings from 28 different conservatively estimated
of the Perinatal Mood Disorders in the women’s health field for studies that analyzed the at $231 million per year.
Program at Clarian Health. She 25 years as a mother/baby relationship between higher Medical savings is estimated
is a renowned speaker on nurse and manager, a childbirth RN staffing and several at $6.1 billion, or $46,000
perinatal mood disorders, the educator and a lactation patient outcomes: reduced per additional RN per year.
subject matter expert for a PMD counselor. She’s best known hospital-based mortality, Combining medical savings
e-learning program in conjunction for her work in maternal mental hospital-acquired pneumonia, with increased productivity,
with Indiana Perinatal Network, health and was recognized unplanned extubation, the partial estimates of
and president of Postpartum last year by PSI with the Jane failure to rescue, nosocomial economic value averages
Support International. She also is Honikman Award, given annually bloodstream infections and $57,700 for each of the
acertifiedPSIPMDtrainer. for outstanding contribution to length of stay. additional 133,000 RNs.
“Birdie’s tireless advocacy the goal of increasing awareness
efforts are truly making an of emotional health related to Source: The Economic Value of Professional Nursing,MedicalCare,
impact in the maternal mental childbearing. www.lww-medicalcare.com
health arena,” said AWHONN
RNs are hot From the Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs list:
2006 2016 Annual AnnualHot Job Employment Projection Growth Openings Wage
1 Computer software engineers, 5,356 7,319 196 274 $69,345
applications
2 Network systems and data 3,721 5,475 175 251 $63,833
communications analysts
3 Computer systems analysts 6,715 8,418 170 348 $65,583
4 Dental hygienists 3,946 4,994 105 180 $64,679
5 Physical therapists 3,840 4,872 103 150 $68,413
6 Registered nurses 54,428 68,511 1,408 2,307 $54,398
7 Pharmacists 5,600 6,735 114 211 $96,212
8 Postsecondary teachers 22,460 27,965 551 926 $57,745
9 Medical and health 6,595 7,759 116 240 $68,776
services managers
10 Management analysts 8,194 10,104 191 331 $60,387
Licensed practical and 18,840 21,526 269 782 $36,89424
licensed vocational nurses
Source: Indiana Department of Workforce Development
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