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The WaterlineThe Waterline Vol. XXXII No. 42

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By James RosenfelderU.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs Office

October is the unofficial start of flu season, and the Navy Bu-reau of Medicine and Surgery wants to make sure all Sailors, Marines, and beneficiaries are ready.

Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, Navy surgeon general and chief, BUMED; Rear Adm. C. Forrest Faison III, deputy surgeon gen-eral; and Force Master Chief Terry Prince, director of the Hospi-tal Corps, received their flu shot at Defense Health Headquar-ters Oct. 15.

By getting their flu shot early in the flu season Navy Medicine leaders aim to encourage all beneficiaries to do the same.

“It’s important to get your flu shot. The readiness of our Sail-ors, Marines and their families is vital to the operational suc-cess of our Navy and Marine Corps team,” Nathan said.

According to the Center for Disease Control, last year’s flu season saw 125,462 positive tests for influenza, up 42 percent

from 2013-2014. To help prevent the spread of the virus, Navy Medicine administers approximately 1.2 million flu vaccines every year.

The height of flu season is in December and January, but getting your flu shot early can help prevent the spread of the virus. Early action benefits Sailors, Marines, their families, and the community.

“Getting your flu shot is in your own best interest and in the interest of those around you, including coworkers, family and friends,” said Cmdr. Eric Deussing, head of Public Health, Emergency Preparedness and Response, BUMED.

Stressing the importance of taking the necessary precau-tions, Deussing says the flu vaccine is the single best way to protect against flu. Everyday preventive actions can also pro-vide added defense against the flu virus.

“Hand washing is one of the most important things that people can do, in addition to limiting contact with sick people,” he said.

While personal hygiene combined with other precautions,

such as coughing into your sleeve and being aware of surfaces can help as well. Deussing encourages everyone to get their flu vaccines in order to prevent illness.

Navy Medicine military treatment facilities around the globe are preparing to administer the flu vaccine to more than one million Sailors, Marines and their families in 2015.

Navy Medicine beneficiaries can receive their flu shot at a local MTF or at a retail pharmacy free of charge.

For more information visit the Navy and Marine Corps Pub-lic Health Center.

Navy Medicine is a global health care network of 63,000 Navy medical personnel around the world who provide high quali-ty health care to more than one million eligible beneficiaries. Navy Medicine personnel deploy with Sailors and Marines worldwide, providing critical mission support aboard ship, in the air, under the sea and on the battlefield.

For more news from Navy Medicine, visit www.navy.mil/lo-cal/mednews/.

Navy Medicine leaders urge readiness for flu season

U.S. Navy photo by James Rosenfelder

Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, Navy surgeon general and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, receives his flu shot from Seaman Carl Parker Jr. at Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Va. Navy Medicine is urging all personnel to get their flu shots early.

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Recently, I had the opportunity to be involved in a two-day training on Cog-nitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for Post traumatic Stress Disorder led by Steffany J. Fredman, Ph.D., Pennsylva-nia State University and Lisa Banks-Wil-liams, MSN, CNS, Psychiatric Continuity Service, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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personal environment of the client that exists on a day-to-day basis by capitaliz-ing on the support of their spouse and/or other significant relationships while they work through PTSD treatment. In this way, CBCT for PTSD helps improve relationship issues that often occur with PTSD and makes the most of the rela-tionship to make each individual better.

There are numerous individually de-livered treatments for PTSD that are effective, but they can be challenging to tolerate and there isn’t evidence to ad-vocate that individual therapy will im-prove one’s relationship. Couple’s ther-apy may be necessary following these treatments.In contrast, CBCT for PTSD

provides a way for people to make use of their social support to get through treatment.

Currently this treatment is offered at Walter Reed National Military Medi-cal Center by Lisa Banks-Williams. She along with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery chaplain also offer a weekend workshop based on the CBCT for PTSD material. The workshops are designed to help couples understand how PTSD has affected their relationship and how they cope with it as a couple. The weekend provides couples with the opportunity to learn from each other as well as the instructors. For more information on the workshops and/or 15 session counseling please contact Banks-Williams at (301) 400-2104.

PTSD therapy for couples at Walter Reed

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Gordon

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder can effect military personnel, and their significant others, in a number of ways. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is offering a two-day train-ing on Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD aimed at improving individual PTSD and intimate relationships.

By Center for Information Dominance Public Affairs Office

Navy Credentialing Opportunities On-line, a program providing Sailors a way to take the skills they have learned on the job and trans-late them into civilian credentials, introduced a new website Oct. 16.

“We’ve made things easier to read, easier to find, and easier to use, whether you’re at your desk or on your phone,” said Keith Boring, Navy COOL program manager. “We know to-day’s Sailors look for information in different ways, and we want to make sure that informa-tion about this very important program is ac-cessible to them, wherever they are and how-ever they are connected online.”

Navy COOL helps Sailors find information on certifications and licenses related to their jobs and can even provide funding to pay for credential exams and maintenance fees.

The website upgrades include a responsive design that adapts to the device a Sailor choos-es to use to explore the site, whether on a desk-top, tablet or phone. Interactive credential ta-bles also give Sailors more tools when looking at credentials related to their rate, designator or collateral duty. Applying filters and sorting and searching by key words help create cus-tomized, printable lists.

“We reorganized the content, too,” said Boring. “All of the supporting information on COOL, from the credentialing steps along the top of each page to the pages you access from

the top navigation bar, has been redesigned and rewritten to make it easier to understand credentialing and what it means to you. Most importantly, it makes it easier for you to un-derstand what you need to do to get a creden-tial.”

A new site-wide search box also provides re-sults in three tabs, showing all results, military occupations on summary pages and COOL credential snapshots pages.

Along with the Navy COOL website, the De-partment of Navy COOL portal site has also been updated.

The Navy COOL office is located at the Center for Information Dominance based at Corry Station, part of Naval Air Station Pen-sacola, Fla. CID is the Navy’s learning center

that leads, manages and delivers Navy and joint forces training in information operations, information warfare, information technology, cryptology and intelligence.

With nearly 1,300 military, civilian and con-tracted staff members, CID provides training for approximately 22,000 members of the U.S. armed services and allied forces each year. CID oversees the development and adminis-tration of more than 200 courses at four com-mands, two detachments and 12 learning sites throughout the United States and Japan.

For more information on the Navy COOL program or to start your credentialing, visit www.cool.navy.mil/usn.

For more news from Center for Information Dominance, visit www.navy.mil/local/cid/.

Navy Credentialing Opportunities On-line launches new website


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