A Brief History
The Mayday Pain Project was created in 1997 by an educator and a pharmacist with critical care nursing experience and funded by a grant from the Mayday Fund of New York. The team sought initially to improve the pain assesment and care of patients in Michigan's rural, isolated Upper Peninsula. The original version of the web site was created with the invaluable technical assistance of Dennis Staffne, an Art & Design professor at Northern Michigan University. The most recent version of the web site has been created with the assistance of BrownBoots Interactive.
A major difference between our site and the hundreds of other health care sites on the Web is that we try to present well researched resources for educational purposes only. We do not promote any treatment nor do we sell any products. We also do not ask you to make any direct contributions though we are a fully recognized non-profit organization.
It is our intent to provide you with a respite from the confusion that abounds on the Web and offer you a place where you can trust that the information being presented is for your benefit and you determine if it is useful to you or not.
We are accountable to you. If we are not presenting information that you find useful then you can tell us and we will respond. You can contact us directly at maydaypain@aol.com. We do not collect your personal information and we do not share information with third parties.
We encourage you to seek out as much information about pain care as you can and then make an informed choice on how to deal with your condition or that of a loved one or patient.
There are solutions; sometimes you just need help finding one. Who We Are Tim Havican
Executive Director
Mr. Havican has worked as an educator and health care advocate in Michigan, Misouri and Wisconsin for nearly twenty years.
Mr. Havican can be reached at: maydaypain@aol.com Nadra Havican, R.N., R.Ph.,
Health Information Director
Nadra Havican has worked as an oncology nurse in a major metropolitan hospital and later joined a specialized burn unit. In the burn care unit she found that patient specific interventions d3eveloped for burn patients had an incredible impact with unbearable pain. Her work in oncology and burn care taught her groundbreaking pain care techniques. In the late '80's she broadened her base of pain care knowledge by returning to school to become a pharmacist and a health care pioneer as one of the nation's first "PharmaNurses".
In the last twenty years she has been a hospice nurse, director of two hospital pharmacies, manager of a major retail pharmacy and has received recognition as national pharmacist of the year and young pharmacist of the year. She now works with one of the top multi-specialty clinics in the United States.
She looks forward to your comments and questions and can be reached at: maydaypain@aol.com.
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