NOVA Webinars

Nancy Claflin DNP MS RN NEA-BC CENP CNEcl CCRN CPHQ FNAHQ

Chair, NOVA Education Committee

NOVA provides live webinars every month and the webinars are available on the NOVA website after the presentation.  NOVA is in the third year of its three-year Caring for Veterans Program.  The webinars in this program provide information on veteran healthcare topics to help VA nurses care for Veterans.  They are especially helpful for new nursing graduates and nurses new to the VA.  These webinars make excellent additions to nursing orientation and transition to practice programs. 

In the next few months NOVA is presenting webinar topics specifically designed for VA nurses.  If you can’t see it live, watch it on the NOVA website.  Webinars are scheduled at 12:30pm ET.  On September 16, Beth Waters BSN RN CCRN PHN presented “Pathway to Healthy Work Environment:  HRO Journey Benefits All.”  On September 24, Samantha McCandless MSN RN CEPC presented “Suicide Prevention Strategies.”  On October 7, Rachel Sprunger BA MSW LCSW will present “Anxiety.”  On November 4, Carol Ebert MA BSN RN CHES CWP will present “Managing Holiday Stress.”  On November 18, Michella Savoy-Carter MSN RN-BC CDCES will present “Primary Care Virtual Diabetes Clinic.” 

As a NOVA member, you can register for a webinar, and then schedule a room in your facility to show the webinar.  You can send an email from your private email address to VA nurses with information about the webinar.   You can also post flyers on bulletin boards to let people know about the webinar.  Have people sign an attendance sheet, and send it to nova@vanurse.org after the webinar so people who attend can receive an evaluation and a continuing education certificate as NOVA is also an accredited provider of nursing continuing development credits (NCPD).  

Remember that you can always access webinars on the NOVA website https://www.vanurse.org/page/memberonlywebinars.  Webinars currently available include:  A Look into VA Community Care; Acute Pain Management;  Adjustment Disorders; Addressing Homelessness and the HUD-VASH Program; Aromatherapy in Nursing; Breast and Cervical Screening Updates; Caregiver Support Program; Caring for Veterans with Rehabilitative Needs; Eligibility for VA Care, Compensation, and Pension; Empowering Seamless Transitions:  Enhancing Care Coordination Through the VA Consult Toolbox; Evaluating Your Self-Assessment for Promotion to Nurse II with Educational Waiver,  Evaluating Your Self-Assessment for Promotion to Nurse III Gulf War Illness; Guarding the Frontline:  A Powerful Approach to Preventing Workplace Violence; Hospice and Palliative Care; Military Sexual Trauma/Intimate Partner Violence; Nurse Safety Proactive Personal Protection; Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation; Phototherapy; Providing Equitable Healthcare for LGBTQ+ Veterans; SAAs, SAPs, and Cash Awards; Safe Patient Handling; Substance Use Disorders; Suicide Prevention Strategies; Understanding Depression:  Recognizing, Treating, and Supporting; VA Community Care Quality Improvement Program Train the Trainer:  Veteran Specific Population; Veterans Justice Outreach; Visually Impaired and Blind Veterans and Blind Rehabilitation Services; Waking  Up to New Science on Why You Can’t Sleep and What You Can Do About it; What is PTSD and How Do You Address it with Veterans?; Whole Health; and Wound Care.