Massachusetts Emergency Nurses Association

President’s Report

June 21, 2006

 

 

1.          Visit www.ena.org for information on:

            **Institute of Medicine Report on “The Future of Emergency Care in the United

    States System”

            **Celebrating 30,000 members!!

                        Contest to win a membership renewal

                        30 submissions will be randomly chosen

                        Share your thoughts in 50 words or less about “What ENA means to me”           

                        Submit on-line or download form

                        Deadline for submission is July 19th

 

            **Resource specialist program

                        application and list of subjects

 

2.         Visit www.mass-ena.org to see

**Up-to-date NERS 2007 information

            **Meeting agendas and minutes

            **Safe Staffing legislation information

 

3.         Delegate’s applications due to Robin by July 1st

 

4.         Mass ENA elections:

            Secretary

            Treasurer

            Board of Directors (5)

            Applications due to Robin by July 1st

            Ballots will be sent out to all MENA members in August

 

5.         State Recognitions Awards

            *Nurse Educator                       *Nurse Practice

            *Nurse Manager                       *Behind the Scenes

            Criteria and nomination form on-line

            Deadline for submission is September 1st

            Awards presented in November

 

6.         Going to San Antonio?

            O-MA-TINY party Friday evening

            You don’t want to miss it!!

 

7.         Be an Annual Conference Mentor

            respond to marketing@ena.org with your name, state and e-mail address

            Annual Conference mentors volunteer to respond to e-mails from members who are

considering attending but have questions regarding the conference experience and

how to obtain employer support

 

 

8.         I am looking for help with the newsletter.  Please send me ideas about items or even better

            send me something you’ve written and want to share with our members.

            Committee news

            Chapter news

            Member news

 

9.         Nurse Manager survey:             We sent out 74 with self-addressed stamped return

envelopes and have received about 15 back.  So please encourage your NM to return the survey.  We will collate the findings, share and create forums for the nurse managers

 

10.        Let us know what you think about the meeting time change.  Do you have other suggestions

for time, format, day, or other changes for our meetings?

 

11.        Next meeting is Wednesday September 6th at the Westborough Wyndham

            Committee meetings:      3:30pm

            Business meeting:          5:30pm

            Dinner:                         6:30pm

            Delegate’s meeting:       7pm 

            Send agenda items!!