Vermont Nurse Connection
Vermont Nurse Connection Quarterly Circulation 20,000 to all Registered Nurses, LPNs, LNAs, and Student Nurses in Vermont Volume 11 • Number 2 Vermont State Nurses’ Association Offi cial Publication May, June, July 2008 Inside... President’s Letter June M. Benoit, MSN, FNP crucial to VSNA staying on top of issues affecting our nursing profession and patient safety/ quality care. She By the time you are provides regular reports to the VSNA Executive Board reading this edition of the and through the VSNA list-serve members are notified of VNC, hopefully the cold impending bills needing nurses’ input to elected officials. weather and snow storms Recently Margaret asked members to contact Committee of the winter will just be Chairs and legislators about H. 11, An Act Relating to a memory and navigating Commissioner of Health and S. 281, End of Life Care through mud season will be and Pain Management. I hope many of you participated. National Nurses Week our latest challenge! Our nursing profession can only be as politically strong as our members. You can view the VSNA Legislative Page 3 “I think one’s feelings waste Platform on our website: www.vsna-inc.org by choosing themselves in words, they the “Mission/Vision” link on the home page. You can ought to be all distilled into also find information about general legislation, track bills, actions and into actions that check voting records, and find contact information for which bring results.” Benoit your elected officials by choosing the “Political Action” Florence Nightingale link on the home page. This page also gives you a link to the VSNA Lobbyist Guide.
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