Norma Newman - CNA Heroes on CNA-TV
Channel: CNA TV - NAHCA Broadcasting Network
Date: 29/06/2019

For the last year, I have filmed these weekly segments with the mega talented Gary Ohmart behind the camera.  We have featured CNAs who have performed CPR on strangers, jumped into deep and moving water to rescue drowning children, rescued others from burning houses or horrific car accidents.  These CNAs have saved lives, both on the job and off!  They are truly CNA Heroes!

Sometimes though, a CNA Hero is borne of a situation that causes them to take action, to take a stand and help others that are often cast off by society.  Today’s CNA Hero did just that.  Thank you to ABC JET 24 and YourErie.com for initially publishing this story.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, every day more than 130 people die after overdosing on opioids—including prescription pain pills, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.  This is a serious national crisis that affects public health and social and economic welfare.

The state of Pennsylvania has been particularly hard hit and the governor authorized the free public distribution of Naloxone, more commonly known by its brand name Narcan, a drug that blocks the body’s opium uptake, reversing an overdose as it occurs.  It is available as a nasal spray and an injection.

Norma Newman, CNA, was in line at the Blasco Library in Erie, Pennsylvania for a free naloxone kit.  When asked why she was in the line to pick up naloxone, Norma stated that she was on her drive home from work when she saw two bodies lying in the grass.  As a CNA, she felt she should stop and check on these individuals.  
Norma stated that she did not know what was going on until the police arrived.  If she’d had the naloxone, she says she one of the gentleman may have survived.  

After learning such a painful lesson, Newman says she plans to keep the medication on her at all times, despite the stigma.

“We don’t know what they’re going through, what their life is.  But somebody needs to be there to help them.”

For standing up for what is right, Norma Newman, you are a CNA Hero!

Everybody please join me today in celebrating Norma Newman, CNA Hero!

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