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Official Newsletter of New Hampshire Nurses Association Quarterly publication direct mailed to approximately 21,000 Registered Nurses, LPNs, and LNAs in New Hampshire. www.NHNurses.org March 2019 | Vol. 43 No. 2 Please be sure to notify us with address changes/corrections. We have a very large list NHNA Elections to keep updated. If the nurse listed no longer lives at this address–please notify us to discontinue delivery. Thank You! The Annual New Hampshire Nurses Association Election Board Member at Large was conducted by electronic ballot on October 17, Carmen Petrin, MS, FPC-BC 2018. Election results were announced at the Annual Petrin has been an active Please call (603) 225-3783 or email Meeting on November, 2018. The following nurses board member with NHNA to [email protected] with have volunteered to support the mission of the New for many years, serving two Nursing News in the subject line. Hampshire Nurses Association on the Board of Directors terms as a Director at Large; and Commissions. and as acting Secretary when that position was President Elect vacant. She has become Issue Highlights Janice Deziel, MSN, RN the Board resident expert Deziel has served in a on Bylaws and provides variety of Nursing Leadership invaluable contributions in Critical Issue: Nursing Assistants – roles for over 14 years and drafting Bylaws changes and Licensed or Certified ..................... 2 currently is the Executive working with the American Update: LPN Membership in NHNA ............ 6 Director at Catholic Medical Nurses Associations (ANA) Legislative Update ........................ 7 Center. Throughout her Committee on Bylaws to ensure NHNA’s alignment with career, she has developed ANA Bylaws. Nurse Practioner in OZ ................... 9-10 strong relationships, building 2018 NHNA Conference ................... 14 skills across all professional Commission on Government Affairs (CGA). Caring for the Caregiver - Resource for Nurses .. 18 spectrums. Her particular The CGA focuses on legislative and regulatory affairs strengths include high related to nursing practice and health care; it is emotional intelligence, strong NHNA’s most visible work group. The Commission on communication skills both Government Affairs added three high caliber nursing written and verbal, forward thinking, and a profound advocates to its team. belief in the power of nursing. Deziel will serve on the NHNA Board for four years, first as President Elect, Shauna D’Alleva, MSN, followed by two years as President and a final year as MBA, RN is the Nurse Immediate Past President. Manager of Medical Specialty Care at the Manchester VA Secretary Medical Center. D’Alleva Pamela Kallmerten, DNP, RN, CNL noted “as a Federal Elected to a second term as employee, I have a unique Secretary for the Board of perspective of how legislation Directors. Kallmerten has affects nursing practice. served diligently for the past As a Registered Nurse in a two years, and as a Clinical nursing leadership position, I Associate Professor of Nursing continue to work as needed at the University of New in the clinical arena, therefore Hampshire offers insightful maintaining an acute sense of how legislation affects perspectives to Board nursing practice at the bedside.” discussions. Kallmerten, in her intent to serve wrote, Christina Lopez, RN, is the Director of Nursing / “Nurses have a duty to serve Resident Care Director at Ledgewood Bay in Milford. “As our patients, their families, I have become a more ‘seasoned’ nurse over the years I our communities and our profession. My knowledge and have become a self-proclaimed advocate for my fellow experience as a nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse educator nurses. I have built relationships with state surveyors and SAVE THE DATE and nurse leader will enhance my contributions to become more involved in being part of the changing NHNA.” regulations that affect both my residents and staff,” Innovation and Quality Lopez stated in her intent to serve application. Improvement Conference May 2 Carla Smith, MSN, RN, NCSN, GCPH, is a member of the National Nurses Week nursing faculty at Saint May 6-May 12 Presort Standard Joseph’s School of US Postage Nursing in Nashua. Red Sox Appreciation Night PAID Smith has experience May 15 Permit #14 in nursing advocacy Princeton, MN having served as current resident or 55371 the Advocacy Second Annual Excellence in Chair for the New Nursing Awards Banquet Hampshire School May 23 Nurses Association. Smith wrote “I am very passionate about legislation for quality healthcare Spotlight on Nursing NHNA Election continued on page 5 June 13 Page 2 • New Hampshire Nursing News March, April, May 2019 Guidelines for Submissions to NH Nursing News NH Nursing News (NHNN) is the official publication to [email protected] with NN New Hampshire of the NH Nurses’ Association (NHNA), published Submission in the subject line. quarterly – and available in PDF format at our website: NURSING NEWS www.nhnurses.org. Views expressed are solely Publication Selection and those of the guest authors or persons quoted and do Rights: not necessarily reflect NHNA views or those of the Articles will be selected for publisher, Arthur L. 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Davis Publishing Agency, Association (NHNA) was invited to attend a meeting Between November 29, 2018 and December 9, Inc. reserve the right to reject any advertisement. of key stakeholders to learn about proposed legislation 2018, NHNA emailed a survey link to 4,259 LNAs. Responsibility for errors in advertising is limited to to remove the licensure requirement for nursing The survey link provided a brief overview of the corrections in the next issue or refund of price of assistants in New Hampshire. Nursing assistants were current licensure process and the proposed legislative advertisement. certified prior to 2001, with licensure by the Board of change. The survey asked if the respondent was in Nursing required for the past 18 years. Responding support of this change, opposed to this change or to concerns regarding nursing workforce shortages had no opinion on this change. It also provided the Acceptance of advertising does not imply raised by constituents and working in concert with respondents with a 50 character free-text response endorsement or approval by the New Hampshire the New Hampshire Board of Nursing, Senator Jay box to elaborate on their opinion. Nurses Association of products advertised, the Kahn (D-Keene) and Chair of the Senate Education advertisers, or the claims made. Rejection of an and Workforce Development Committee, drafted Over the next two weeks, NHNA advertisement does not imply a product offered for legislation to remove the licensing requirement for received 228 responses (5.4%). The advertising is without merit, or that the manufacturer nursing assistants and revert