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Making Diversity Work

 

March 13, 2012
Tam Alumni Center at UNLV (Map)
7:30am - 9:30am
Our Diversity Award Breakfast

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This Event is Sponsored By:
UNLV

 

 

Our Diversity Breakfast will be held March 13th, 2012, at UNLV. We will honor diversity with a special award at the event.

 

Our Keynote Speaker will be Ginger Fidel from Valley Health System, presenting Making Diversity Work.

 

This year, SNHRA will present the OYA Award to the company that demonstrates the highest level of diversity awareness, initiatives and/or accomplishments.

 

In order for your company to apply for the OYA Diversity Award you must have:

• Initiated and/or maintained a diversity program between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011
• Demonstrated a significant contribution toward diversity
• Demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the value of diversity
• Demonstrated outstanding efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination
• Worked to provide management, staff and employees an experience rich in perspectives and opportunities to learn from each other.

To Nominate and Apply for the OYA Diversity Award, please complete and submit all portions of our online application form no later than February 17, 2012 to apply for a diversity award. If you have any questions, please contact one of our Diversity Committee Co-Chairs. Maggie Burke can be contacted, at Maggie_Burke@tjx.com or Leo Gobbo can be contacted at lgobbo@me.com.

 

This coveted OYA Award represents Oya (pronounced Oh-yah), the Goddess of Change. In Africa, Oya is the Yoruban Goddess of weather, especially tornadoes, lightning, rainstorms and transformation. She is also one of the most powerful of Brazilian Macumba deities.

 

MORE ABOUT OYA: Oya storms in your life to tell you that change is calling, beckoning, and camping out on your doorstep. The way to wholeness for you lies in embracing change. Choosing to dance with change means you will flow with it. Prepare yourself for growth. Enter deeply into change’s chaotic dance and you’ll be richly blessed with abundant possibility. The Goddess says that the earth must be dug up before anything can be planted and that change always brings you what you need on your path to wholeness. Diverisity is embracing differences and embracing change, therefore allowing you to be richly blessed with abundant possibility.

 

SNHRA will proudly present our OYA Award during our Diversity Awards Breakfast 2012! ABOUT OUR DIVERSITY COMMITTEE: Our Diversity Committee is responsible for carrying out the Chapter's Diversity Initiative; through education and collaborative efforts, the committee members will encourage human resources professionals, at all levels, to value and promote diversity within their own organizations and in the Southern Nevada community as a whole. Committee members will celebrate diversity by appreciating individual differences and fostering an inclusive work environment in which all employees are inspired to contribute their best, strengthened by their different perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences.

 

Goals of our 2012 Diversity Breakfast:

• Celebrate Diversity in Southern Nevada
• Create Awareness of the Diversity of Our Population
• Deliver a Definition of Diversity
• Recognize those Companies Who Embrace Diversity
• Announce the Diversity Committee Goals for 2012

click here to fill out our online Diversity Awards Application

 

Making Diversity Work

 

This presentation will focus on identifying and acknowledging a diverse workforce from a socio-cultural and intergenerational perspective. It will also discuss using these differences to benefit not only the organization but the customers that are being served as well.

 

Ginger Fidel

Ginger Fidel is a Clinical Nurse Educator at Valley Health System University; she has practiced as a nurse for fourteen years. She is a doctoral candidate in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona. Ginger received her graduate degree from the University of Phoenix with a Master's of Science in Nursing Leadership in 2006; during this time of study she focused on human capital, specifically recruitment and retention of nurses in acute care settings.

 

She has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing students at Georgia Health Sciences University for three years before moving to Las Vegas and has taught at UNLV as a visiting professor; prior to educating nurses, she has worked in a variety of nursing roles including practice areas such as oncology, diabetes education, urgent care as well as management. Ginger has presented at local, state, national, and international meetings and conferences about her current research passion--end-of-life care.

 

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