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Course Information for LGBTQ+ Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Training

This is a 2 hour course that will provide 2 CEUs

The course is designed so that it can be viewed all at once or broken up into segments or what we call chapters.  The On-demand Education Library website features an abundance of resource material available in printable format.

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the importance of affirmative, client-centered care for LGBTQ+ people
  2. Implement what you have learned and apply that to various workplace situations
  3. Feel comfortable addressing and working with LGBTQ+ client.
  4. Distinguish between and understand the major terminology around LGBTQ+ experience and identity; and 
  5. Identify various resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ people 

This free 2 CEU course is presented by the Nurse Alliance of SEIU California and open to all SEIU licensed nurse members. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing – CA Provider Number 3413.         

 To register for the Education Library:  tinyurl.com/SEIUNACAregister                                                 

For questions email: hughesk@seiunaca.org

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SEIU Nurses! CEU Courses and More are Available Now Through Our Education Library!

 

The Education Library is available to all SEIU nurses (RNs & LVNs) in California. It is more than just an opportunity to get free CEUs for your license renewal. The information provided is vital for safe nursing practice, protections that you have at work that include health & safety and workers’ rights. These are courses that will you not find anywhere else

The new explainer film has been posted for our Education Library. This video explains how the new mobile app (Apple download & Google Play download) works by allowing nurses to gain access not only to CEU courses but also discussion forums and a social wall so that SEIU union nurses can connect to each other from across the state. Take a look at the explainer film and discover for yourself just how convenient this new app is. Regular updates will be sent out to nurses who subscribe here.

Just click on the registration link, fill it out and then you’ll receive an email with a personal invite to join us. Every SEIU nurse member who registers will create their own account (with username and password) and be able to take any of our offered courses. Because the courses are pre-recorded and available any time, nurses can take our courses at their convenience. (That means even night shift nurses can join us!)

  • Subscribe to our newsletter to get regular updates on featured courses, new content, discussion topics and news important to nurses. ·
  • The Nurse Alliance of SEIU California has an explainer film that shows how the new mobile app for phones work. It allows nurses to gain access not only to CEU courses but also Discussion Forums and Social Wall so SEIU union nurses can connect with each other from around the state in a safe space. You can discuss topics such as, staffing issues, share model contract language, unjust discipline and grievance strategies or just talk to one another about what’s going on in your work life.
  • Be sure to take a minute to explore all that the Library has to offer! New courses and other materials are added to the Library often.

These free CEU courses are presented by the Nurse Alliance of SEIU California and open to all SEIU licensed nurse members. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing – CA Provider Number 3413.

 

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SEIU Registered Nurse, Sasha Cuttler Explains Similarities Between Fighting COVID-19 And HIV/AIDS

This is a three minute piece that was produced about a week ago for December 1st World AIDS Day. Mary Magee, SEIU 1021 retiree  sent the journalist to me.

By very sad coincidence, on World AIDS Day,  the first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID 19 in the U.S. was discovered in San Francisco. This variant appears to be even more contagious than the Delta variant and was bravely announced by scientists in South Africa. South Africa has suffered preventable deaths from HIV/AIDS because U.S. drug companies refused to allow South Africa to produce generics. Some scientists think that the mutation of COVID 19 may have occurred among people infected with HIV whose immune systems could not eliminate the virus from their system. At the same time, Moderna tested their COVID 19 vaccine in South Africa but then failed to supply the country with it.

Please join me in demanding that South Africans (and ALL people)  have access to COVID 19 vaccines and HIV/AIDS treatment. As the old slogan goes: Silence=Death.

 

Sasha Cuttler RN PhD

RN Chair

SEIU Local 1021

P.S. Get your COVID 19 vaccine booster and flu shot: It’s NOT too late.

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