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Beverly Hugo talks with Karen Brewster on March 15, 2005 in Fairbanks, Alaska about...
1) Health care for Alaskan Natives.
Anaktuvuk Pass\ North Slope Borough\ Tanana Chiefs Council -- coverage area\ health care -- cost\ Fairbanks\ Indian Health Service\ Alaska Native Health Services -- health care Natives\ doctors|
2) Meeting Dr. Peter Marshall and deciding to become a Physician's Assistant.
Dr. Marshall, Peter\ doctor -- emergency room\ fox pelts\ daughter\ allergic reaction -- animals\ skin rash -- hospital\ Marshall , Dr. Peter -- meeting\ work on her patients\ information\ Physician's Assistant -- training\ Anchorage\ Community Health Aide Program|
3) Continuing education to become a Physician's Assistant.
University of Alaska Fairbanks\ Inupiaq Language Arts degree\ PA program -- acceptance\ University of Washington\ Seattle\ classes -- length of\ clinical training -- length of\ Seattle Indian Health Board\ clinical clerkship\ Chief Andrew Isaac -- clinic\ Fairbanks\ graduated -- Physician's Assistant\ Anaktuvuk Pass\ Hugo, Clyde -- birth\ school health service provider\ Barrow\ North Slope Borough School District -- superintendent\ Holloway, Dr. Shirley\ Aamodt, Patsy -- associate superintendent|
4) Trying to set up a health aide training center in Barrow.
CHAP director\ health aides -- training\ Barrow\ Mclean, Dr. Edna\ community health aide training center\ staff -- hire \ cultural and family systems program\ Native community\ western world\ Native culture\ work together\ identity -- cultural|
5) Why the Barrow CHAP training center didn't open.
CHAP training center -- Barrow\ curriculum\ University of Alaska Fairbanks Rural Health\ accreditation\ Native lifestyle\ subsistence\ Native food -- health of\ North Slope Region -- politics\ training center -- open\ TCC\ people -- investment in\ Barrow Health Center -- current status\ care givers -- not local\ North Slope villages\ providers -- itinerate \ non-Native|
6) A disconnection between the health care providers and villages on the North Slope.
health care providers -- Inupiaq\ subsistence life -- lack of understanding\ doctors -- cultural sensitivity\ Bureau of Indian Affairs school -- experiences\ Indian Health Service -- administrators\ Barrow\ doctors -- temporary\ Tanana Chiefs Conference\ James, Dr. Bill\ committed doctors\ PA -- North Slope\ 5 physician assistants\ Ahtuangaruak, Rosemary\ Nuiqsut\ Smith, Margie\ Mercier, Leanne -- Public Health Nurse\ Kunkel, Dennis\ Native vs. Non-Native\ training -- differences in\ education -- differences in\ nurses -- CHAP program|
7) Why she stayed with the CHAP program for so long.
training\ Anaktuvuk Pass -- clinic in\ skills list\ health assessment\ teach\ Barrow\ nurses -- control\ Barrow Public Health System\ job -- satisfying\ job -- challenging\ improving life\ records -- not computerized\ Finkler, Chris\ database -- immunizations\ North Slope Villages|
8) Other challenging projects.
database -- immunizations\ CHAP -- career ladder\ health aides training\ pay -- increase\ CHAP -- crisis\ CHAP -- chairman\ Indian Select Committee\ Inouye, Senator Daniel K.\ Certified Community Health Aide Practitioner -- highest level of health aide\ experience -- clinical \ PA school\ Marshall, Dr. Peter\ funding\ Vent, Sonia\ Huslia\ Ivey, Dr. Gerald -- Alaska Native Service Director\ Anchorage\ CHAP program -- Chugach|
9) Being the only health aide in a village and the jobs she had to do.
Anaktuvuk Pass\ health aide -- only\ job -- shared\ job -- demands\ faith\ help\ family\ school -- Seattle\ neighbors -- Seattle\ balance school and family\ ferry -- Bremerton\ Seattle -- life\ school house services -- Barrow\ CHAP\ Arctic Slope Native Association\ CHAP director\ medical care -- parents \ job -- resignation|
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