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Happy Braham Pie Day, HRD! Braham, Minnesota, is the “Homemade Pie Capital of Minnesota,” and the first Friday in August is celebrated as Braham Pie Day! Braham became famous for pies in the 30s and 40s when people would stop over in the town for pie and coffee on their way to cabins. If you’re nearby, you should check it out – it looks really fun!
Strategic Planning Next Steps: Volunteer for Strategic Objective Action Teams! Last week’s Strategic Planning presentation covered our next step – action teams! Each Action Team will focus on one of the strategic objectives and will identify potential actions that support our objectives. The teams will be small groups (~4 people) and will start working around September 1, with the goal of being complete by the end of 2022. If you’d like to participate in this work, please Volunteer to participate on a Strategic Objectives Action Team; thanks to the people who have already signed up!
SharePoint training with the MDH Center for Workforce Development is August 10: The Center for Workforce Development at MDH offers a variety of training throughout the year, including New Employee Orientation (NEO) and New Supervisor Orientation. As part of their NEO presentations, they hold monthly training sessions to introduce staff to Teams and SharePoint. August sessions will be on the following dates:
- SharePoint: August 10, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Teams: August 18, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Sessions are open to all, even if you aren’t a “new” employee. For more information and to be added to the meeting invite, please reach out to Dionna Jones.
Collaborative Safety Provider Calls begin this week: Beginning this week, Collaborative Safety Steering Team members will be calling providers to invite them to participate in the Collaborative Safety process. Our first review sessions will explore correction orders related to Individual Abuse Prevent Plans and Tuberculosis Infection Control Plans in late August and early September. You can find more information about Collaborative Safety in the Collaborative Safety Fact Sheet.
Learn how to make Word documents accessible on August 11: If you work on documents for your team, whether they are internal or externally-facing, we highly encourage you to sign up for the Introduction to Creating Accessible Word Documents class which is being held on August 11, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. You can sign up for the class through Self-Service's Learning Management by searching for the word "accessible" or entering the code H12WBTLM0811221.
It’s time for another LinkedIn Learning Challenge, and this time we’ll be focusing on taking a few minutes a day to manage our mental health. Remember, you can’t take care of others unless you take care of yourself!
We’re launching the LiL August Challenge: Keep Calm and Learn On, kicking off August 10th. The content focuses on understanding anxiety in week 1, followed by coping strategies in week 2, and tips for supporting others in week 3. You can follow along with us over in the LinkedIn Learning Challenge channel on our HRD Team; we’ll have the full calendar posted there, as well as daily reminders for you.
 All HRD staff have a LinkedIn Learning account, and it’s a great resource to learn all kinds of things! You can learn more about it in this article from a previous issue of Have You HRD: Activate your LinkedIn Learning License. If you need help accessing your account, you can reach out to Siobhain Rivera or Dionna Jones for assistance.
Kari Cistera has been a Nurse Evaluator with the Licensing and Certification Program of HRD since January of 2021. She is currently working with Metro Team C and willing be leaving MDH this month to move to Indiana where she will work in the same position with the Indiana Department of Health.
During her time with us, Kari has distinguished herself by her passion for her work and her drive for excellence. Kari has taken great pride in the quality of her work and in the team she works with, and this has been reflected daily in her work. We wish her the best as she continues her work with another state agency.
Kari’s last day with HRD is August 11, in case you’d like to send her a note. Thanks to Pete Cole for writing this segment celebrating Kari’s contributions to HRD.
This week, we have the following positions available, and more are coming soon. Please share them with anyone that you think would help make HRD a better place to work!
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Health Facility Evaluation Supervisor 1 (State Operations), Job ID: 53437: The Regional Supervisor will plan, organize, direct and implement policies, procedures and activities related to evaluation of state licensed health care providers. This position will supervise a group of state evaluators responsible for the evaluation of regulated providers, facilities, practitioners, and technicians. Closes August 8, 2022.
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Nursing Evaluator (State Operations), Job ID: 57470: These positions provide regulatory surveillance to licensed assisted living and home care providers using nursing and health related knowledge in an effort to assure quality care and services through compliance with State regulations laws and rules which directly relate to the provision of assisted living and home care services. Closes September 30, 2022.
These positions are open to internal and external candidates. If you would like to apply, please follow the steps below:
- Sign into Employee Self Service
- On My Homepage, click on Careers and enter the Job Opening ID in the Search Jobs box and click >> (Search).
- Click on the Job Title to view the job posting.
- Click Apply for This Job in the top right-hand corner.
Name / Pronouns / Position: Shannon Christensen (she/her) / Nursing Evaluator
Location: Home office in Central MN
Tell us about your background. How long have you been in HRD?: My background includes long term care, home care and psychiatric nursing. I was a DON [Director of Nursing] in homecare for 21 years.
How did you get here?: I was ready for a change and up for a challenge! I started at MDH early March of 2020 as a Nursing Evaluator. I worked in the St. Cloud District office for my first two days of orientation, then due to Covid, remained at my home office to complete orientation. The end of April 2020, I was reassigned to the Nurse Aide Registry to assist the staff and NA training programs with the ever-changing world of Covid.
What's your role within HRD? What do you work on?: Over the past two plus years, I have completed LTC surveys, HHA surveys and Nurse Aide training and test site surveys. Currently I am working primarily in the Nurse Aide Registry. This involves survey, approving new training programs and providing outreach to providers throughout the state.
Describe a current project you're excited about, or an accomplishment you are proud of: Working in the registry the past couple years, I have been involved in creating policies, procedures and assisted in the transition to our new NA test vendor. I feel our team has made wonderful progress and I am honored to be a part of it!
What do you like to do when you aren't working?: As a family, we love to travel, camp, boat and kayak. Anything outside!
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If you haven’t used OneNote much, you might not know about some of the really cool features it has to make it easier for you to take meeting notes and share them with the other members of your team.
Let’s start with the basics. When you want to take notes for a meeting, you probably start with just creating a new page in your OneNote notebook and giving it a title. Then you take notes. Pretty straightforward, right?
 Your notes might include things like the agenda, action items, and who attended the meeting. And when you’re done, you probably want to share those notes with the attendees, so that they can follow up with anything that needs to be done, or have a record of what was discussed and agreed upon. OneNote gives you two buttons to help you do those things, the Meeting Details button and the Email Page button. This week, we’re going to focus on the Meeting Details button, and next week we’ll talk about the Email Page button.
Meeting Details Button
The Meeting Details button in the Home tab will show you a list of meetings (outlined in red) that are on your calendar that day when you click on it. You can select one of those meetings if you’re taking notes for a meeting you’re having that day, but you can also choose a meeting from another day (circled in green) – maybe you’re prepping for something later in the week.
When you select the meeting you want, the page will populate with the information from the meeting invite on your calendar, and if you didn’t already put in a title for the page, it will automatically fill in the name of the meeting and the date.
The Invitation Message includes whatever text was in the meeting invite, including the Teams meeting link and call-in numbers. You can click on the Expand link or the little plus sign next to the text (outlined in red) to show the meeting information, or you can leave it collapsed if you don’t need to see it.
The list of people who were invited to the meeting shows in the Participants section, and it also shows whether they accepted or declined the meeting in Outlook. There’s a little checkbox next to each name, and you can use that to check off the people who attended, if that’s important to you.
 Below that, is a heading called Notes, which is where you… put your notes! It’s pretty straightforward.
And that’s the Meeting Details button – try it out and see if it is something you find useful! Tune in next week to learn about the wonders of the Email Page button.
Curious to learn more about using OneNote? Check out the OneNote for Windows 10 Essential Training or the OneNote Tips and Tricks course on LinkedIn Learning to pick up some more tips for your toolbag!
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