Campus & Community News
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Living with Heart Failure Classes
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Participating in your own care, or that of your loved one, is the key to living successfully with heart failure. Experts from the Creighton Cardiac Center can teach you more about steps you can take to combat the signs and symptoms of heart failure. "Do More with Heart Failure" is a special one-time, two-hour class for people who have been diagnosed with heart failure. You will learn more about: daily weight monitoring; observing symptoms that may signal worsening heart failure; medications; overcoming fears about living with heart failure; restricting salt and fluids; and enjoying life and exercise. The class is offered twice a month at the Creighton Cardiac Center, 3006 Webster St. Located just northwest of Creighton University Medical Center, free parking is available. Classes are held from 2 to 4 p.m. Choose from one of these dates: Aug. 10, Aug. 24, Sept. 14 or Sept. 28. To learn more about the program and to register, call 402.280.4929.
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Volunteers Needed for Back-to-School Backpack Program
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Volunteers are still needed by the Salvation Army to assist with the Back-to-School Backpack program. Available shifts to assemble backpacks at the Salvation Army campus at 3612 Cuming Street include the following: Aug. 2, 1-4 p.m.; Aug. 9, 9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m.; Aug. 10, 9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m. Thank you to the 23 Creighton volunteers who have already signed up to assist. If you have not signed up but would like to help, contact Celeste Hubbard (celestehubbard@creighton.edu) or Michele Shearer (Michele_shearer@usc.salvationarmy.org) and let them know your availability.
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News from Creighton Medical Associates
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The latest issue of the Creighton Medical Associates e-newsletter, Check-Up, is now online. In this issue, you will find information on: lung expert, Ariel Modrykamien, M.D., joining CMA; living with heart failure classes; healthy advice at the farmers' market; and research study opportunities.
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Human Resources News
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Fall Tuition Remission Applications
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Human Resources is accepting online tuition remission applications for the 2010 fall semester from Monday, June 28, through Wednesday, Aug. 25. Applications can be found at www.creighton.edu/hr/benefits/tuition/index.php. For more information, please contact Sharon Kuhn at 280.5841 or skuhn@creighton.edu. For your planning and budgeting purposes, the new tuition remission administrative fee beginning with fall 2010 is $857 per semester for full time students and $60 per hour for part time students. Call Bob Leahy at 280.3024 if you have questions regarding the administrative fee. Eligibility questions should be directed to Human Resources.
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Professional Development
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Using The BlueLine Gradebook Training Session
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The BlueLine Gradebook - Keeping your grades online is such a nice thing. Got a student who is always asking "what's my current grade?", just tell them to look it up on BlueLine. This session will provide an overview of BlueLine Gradebook functions and will help you get set for keeping your grades online securely for the new semester. Register for one of the upcoming training session: Monday, Aug. 9, 2 to 3 p.m. (click here to register); and Thursday, Aug. 19, 2 to 3 p.m. (click here to register).
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Introduction to BlueLine Training Sessions
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This session is meant to be a general overview of how BlueLine works and how to use some of its basic tools. At the end of the class, you will be ready to use many features in BlueLine and see how this application can work for you in your classes. Sign up for one of the following classes: Thursday, Aug. 5, 2 to 3 p.m. (click here to register); Friday, Aug. 6, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. (click here to register); and Thursday, Aug. 19, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. (click here to register).
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CHRP Meet the Researcher Series
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You are invited to an informative hour-long presentation hosted by Creighton’s Center for Health Services Research and Patient Safety (CHRP). Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Ph.D., associate professor at the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will present “Post-marketing Surveillance on the Use of Biologics in Cancer Care: A Claims Data Analysis of Transtuzumab.” The presentation will be held Thursday, Aug. 5, at 10 a.m. in the Health Sciences Library, Seminar Room. To reserve a seat or for more information about the Meet the Researcher series, contact Kelly McColley-Anderson at 402.280.3426 or kellymccolley-anderson@creighton.edu. Click here for more information the speaker.
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Research & Scholarship
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Free CEU Opportunity
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"Management of the Patient with Osteomyelitis" will be held Thursday, Aug. 5, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at CUMC, Becic Dining Room. Please send your RSVP to lmahon@creighton.edu if you would like to attend this 1 hour CEU.
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Dairy Study for Teenage Girls
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Girls, ages 13 and 14 year olds, may be eligible to participate in a research study at the Osteoporosis Research Center. Your daughter may qualify for a one-year research study looking at the role of dairy consumption on weight management. The study includes five visits, painless evaluations and a monetary stipend. Contact a pediatric nurse at the Osteoporosis Research Center at 280.4070 for more information.
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Healthy Kids Can Help
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The Osteoporosis Research Center is conducting an important study of bone health in growing children and adolescents. Your child may qualify if he/she is between the ages of 5 through 18 years. This study would include: one time visit and a monetary stipend. Contact a pediatric nurse at 402.280.4070 for more information.
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Faith & Spirituality
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Catholic Comments Podcast: Catholics and Immigration
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Catholic teaching on immigration is the focus of the conversation between Catholic Comments hosts John O'Keefe and Wendy Wright and Creighton's Andy Alexander, S.J., vice president for University Ministry, and Maria Teresa Gaston, director of the Center for Service and Justice.
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Open to the Spirit Retreat: Aug. 27-29
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Come away to Creighton University Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa, and be “opened to the Spirit.” As we stand on the threshold of fall, take this opportunity to explore new possibilities. Using scripture, music and other creative activities, we will explore what it means to be open, what we are called to be open to and what may be keeping us from being open. The weekend will offer opportunities for fellowship, engaging topics, private prayer, spiritual direction, an opportunity for reconciliation and Mass as well as a lot of great food – all of this in the beauty of God’s creation. The retreat director is Amy Hoover. Hoover is an experienced spiritual and retreat director. She has served in parish ministry as director of adult faith formation. This summer, Hoover is completing her master’s degree in Christian spirituality from Creighton. The weekend begins Friday, Aug. 27, at 7:30 p.m. and concludes before lunch on Sunday, Aug. 29. Open to men and women. The retreat package rate is $130 per person, including room and all meals. Contact Terri Lou Duggan at 712.778.2466 or curc@netins.net to register or with questions, or visit www.creighton.edu/ministry/retreatcenter/.
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Spiritual Direction and Ignatian Retreats
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Cardoner will fund a four to eight day spiritual retreat or spiritual direction through June 30, 2011. Your retreat will include a spiritual director (find sites here). E-mail Janine ter Kuile for more information on how to be reimbursed. Only one retreat reimbursed by Cardoner is considered within a five-year period.
Ignatian spirituality, the vision of the relationship between God and the human person grounded in the mystical experiences of St. Ignatius, has its primary expression in his book of The Spiritual Exercises. More than 20 retreat houses and spirituality centers in the United States provide a variety of services based on The Spiritual Exercises for clergy, men and women religious and lay people. The Creighton Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa, can set up a retreat for you. Contact Fr. David Smith for more information.
What is Spiritual Direction? Spiritual direction is the process of accompanying people on a spiritual journey. Spiritual direction exists in a context that emphasizes growing closer to God (or the holy or a higher power). For more information on spiritual direction and how to find a person to direct you, visit www.sdiworld.org/. Cardoner will pay for four visits for spiritual direction (for a total of $100 at $25 per hour). For further assistance in choosing a director, contact Janine ter Kuile.
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