53rd NSNA Convention April 6-10 Salt Lake City, Utah

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53rd NSNA ConventionApril 6-10Salt Lake City,
Utah
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A day in the life

• 9-10 Plenary session
• 1030-12 House of Delegates
• 12-230 Lunch and Exhibit Hall
• 230-330 Candidates Forum
• 330-430 Focus session
• 730-9 Resolutions Hearing
• 9-10 NCANs Meeting

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Convention Highlights

• Keynote Speaker Surgeon General Richard Carmona
• Once a nurse always a nurse, his career as a
  nurse has influenced all aspects of his life
  surgeon, military officer, professor, and Surgeon
  General
• In Washington now, he is trying to change the
  focus of healthcare from treatment to prevention

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• The most recent Gallup poll shows that nurses
  rank 1 in public confidence and trust above
  doctors, policemen, and teachers!
• -Mary Behrens, ANA Opening Comments

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Convention Highlights

• Plenary Session on Mentorship
• New NSNA video on mentorship
• Testimonies from students, educators, and leaders
  in the field about how mentorship has contributed
  to the lives of both new nurses and experienced
  practitioners
• Mentors identify strengths and gifts
• Mentorship provides a source of energy at the
  middle or end of a career all nurses are
  teachers!

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• Mentoring changes the culture of a hospital or
  university.
• -Panel discussion on mentoring

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Convention Highlights

• Focus Session on Magnet Hospitals
• Program started to recognize excellence in
  nursing examines the environment in which
  nursing is practiced
• Focuses on nurse leaders
• 14 Forces of Magnetism
• Nurses in Magnet hospitals are expected to
  communicate, participate, be autonomous and
  responsible, use evidence-based practice, lead,
  and be committed to life-long learning
• www.nursecredentialing.org

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• Competence is not about having skills, but using
  them to achieve desired outcomes.
• - MaryMoon Allison, American Nurses Credentialing
  Center

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Convention Highlights

• Focus Session on Writing and Getting Published
  (Cheryl L. Mee, Editor-in-Chief Nursing2005)
• Any nurse can be an author
• There is currently a great demand in the
  publishing world for perspectives from nurses
• Learn the process
• Start small
• Letters to the editor, tips column, student
  newsletters (like the DSNA website!)

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• Writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out
  the wrong words.
• -Mark Twain

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Convention Highlights

• Focus Session on Financial Aid Government NELRP
  Program
• Work at a designated critical shortage facility
• Apply to program
• Government will pay 60 of your loans in two
  years of full-time employment, with an option for
  an additional 25 the third year

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NSNA Government

• House of Delegates
• Resolutions hearings and debates
• Vote new NSNA motions into practice
• Issues addressed Osteoporosis screening,
  shortage of nursing educators, physical education
  and pediatric obesity, etc.
• Parliamentary procedure

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NSNA Government

• Election of new officers
• New board, new vision
• Representatives from across the country
• President-elect Rebecca Wheeler, ABSN student at
  Emory University
• Goals NSNA as a key resource for all nursing
  students, increase membership, emphasize the
  importance of involvement in organizations on
  every level (school, state, national), NSNA needs
  to take stands on nation issues and be a resource
  for legislative action for state organizations

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North Carolina Caucus

• Met with outgoing NCANS board
• State Convention Mid-October in Raleigh!

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Exhibit Hall

• Over 400 exhibitors from all over the country
  schools, hospitals, publishers, merchandise
• Lots of brochures, lots of sign-up sheets, lots
  of goodies!

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Points to Take Home

• STATE CONVENTION!
• October 13-16, North Raleigh Hilton
• Nursing One Profession, Many Roles
• www.ncans.org
• This would be a great way to get involved in the
  larger world of NSNA and get our voices heard!
• Lets bring a resolution and some new classmates!

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Points to Take Home

• Mentorship Program
• A great way to both provide and receive
  encouragement and support
• Student-to-student Seniors to new students,
  MSN to us
• Most importantly, look for a mentor as you start
  your career!

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Points to Take Home

• Theres a lot more to nursing and our future
  careers than we see here at Duke
• LOOK at the opportunities, THINK about every
  possibility, and BE OPEN to new ideas and
  settings.
• (We brought back lots of brochures and toys!)

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Questions?

• For more pictures and links to NSNA/NCANS and
  lots of interesting organizations, check out our
  website!
• http//www.duke.edu/web/nsna