Wyoming Nurses Association Quarterly Publication Direct Mailed to Approximately 13,000 NURSE Rns and Lpns in Wyoming
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December 2018, January, February 2019 Vol. 31 • No. 4 WYOMING The Official Publication of The Wyoming Nurses Association Quarterly publication direct mailed to approximately 13,000 NURSE RNs and LPNs in Wyoming. President’s Message It is with great honor Healthy Nurse/Health Nation. We cannot keep that I address you as the our clients healthy if we neglect ourselves. The HNHN President of the Wyoming movement is also touching on all aspects of health: Nurses Association. My nutrition, exercise, mental health and workplace involvement with the WNA issues. You can like their Facebook page and/or has been consistent for over subscribe to their emails. ANA’s emails are succinct, 30 years. I have served in allowing you to quickly decide if it is information you both district (now region) want and click a link to expand that information. and state positions over Violence in the Workplace Includes links to that time. When I made the articles and information. decision to run for President Nurse Staffing. The ANA is lobbying for staff Elect over two years ago, I nurses to have a greater than 50% voice at the table did so knowing I would be on hospital committees that discuss nurse staffing. retiring from full time work. I Kathy Luzmoor, They are not advocates of legislation prescribing wanted to have something in MS, RN, CNE nurse patient ratios. 2 nursing to keep me fired up! Professional Issues Panels. The ANA requests Advocating for nurses and the profession of nursing help on all issues it researches. At any one time Jones Appointed fires me up. So here I am! there may be 10 or more panels meeting to discuss ANA Vice President Wyoming Nurses Association means a great deal issues such as Palliative and Hospice Nursing, Nurse to me. From my early years attending state events Fatigue, Moral Resilience, Work Place Violence and (convention and Nurses Day at the Legislature), I Incivility. Once the panel and steering committees learned how passionate nurses in WY are about have exhausted their findings, a statement or position nursing and health care. I wanted very much to be part paper may be issued. This is a great way to get of that group and have worked hard over the last 30 involved on the national level. years of my career to empower nurses and encourage The WNA Board of Directors has recently them to be patient and self-advocates. My favorite completed a day of strategic planning. A great quote from a nursing mentor, Barbara Blakeney RN, deal of hard work beginning with excitement and past president of ANA is “You don’t all have to do the anticipation and giving way to exhaustion goes into work (of the association), but you all have to care that this retreat. Our three goals involve 1) promoting the work gets done.” The WNA/ANA do great work health 2) promoting the nursing profession and 3) promoting and advocating for nursing and health care. legislative presence (our legislative agenda can be 6-7 Your membership dollars and attendance at our two found at http://www.wyonurse.org/legislative/wna- conferences each year allow us to do this work. The legislative-agenda/. You will hear more about the WNA website has a great deal of good information for strategic plan as it is fine-tuned. The board spent a Convention Highlights you. I hope you will visit it http://www.wyonurse.org/. great deal of time discussing where we believe we All members should be receiving an electronic WNA can make a difference, as well as what being an newsletter. If you are not receiving this newsletter, first engaged member means. Merriam Webster has two check your spam (it will come from nurse@wyonurse. definitions that fit: greatly interested or involved in. It org) and if it is not there, contact your Region President is anticipated that your membership suggests you are or [email protected] with your correct email ‘greatly interested’ and we hope we can offer ways to address. allow you to be ‘involved in’ if that is your desire. The ANA website, though a bit daunting until you As your president, I will be traveling to Washington have been there a few times, is also a treasure of DC in late November for a Leadership Summit with breaking news and evidence-based practice. Here are Tobi Moore, Executive Director. State presidents and a few pointers can help you find the great information executive directors gather to help set an agenda for that you need. What used to be ANA, ANCC the ANA Board of Directors. In June we meet for 8-9 (American Nurses Credentialing Center) and the ANA the ANA Membership Assembly, where policy is set. Foundation have come together to be known as the It is a great honor to be among nurses from across ANA Enterprise. Nursingworld.org will take you to the the United States and beyond in the common goal of Nurses Day at the Legislature ANA Enterprise website. promoting the profession of nursing and advocating As a member, if you are interested in what the ANA for health care. is doing on the national level, subscribe to the ANA I would like to take an opportunity to congratulate Insider, an email that delivers the down and my friend, Faith Jones, MSN, RN (Powell-NW Region) Presort Standard dirty. Scroll through the headlines, if you are past WNA President on her appointment to Vice US Postage interested you can click to get more information. President of the ANA. This is a great step for Faith PAID To find periodicals, such as the Online and a benefit for WY to have her great leadership Permit #14 Princeton, MN Journal of Nursing and American Nurse Today, and advocacy for all nurses on the ANA Board of current resident or 55371 click the Resources tab and scroll down to Directors. ANA Journals. https://www.nursingworld.org/ As your president, I am here to serve the nurses of membership/ana-periodicals/. The American Wyoming. We are proud to have increased Wyoming Nurse Today also has a Facebook page. Nurses Association to over 400 members for the first A great deal of worthwhile information can time. We would love to continue adding members be found under the Practice Policy tab. This and serving nurses in WY. includes: Page 2 • Wyoming Nurse December 2018, January, February 2019 ANA Board of Directors Appoints WNA Member as Vice President The American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors announced that Faith M. Jones, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, has been appointed vice president of the board effective January 1, 2019. The “WYOMING NURSE” is the official Jones will assume the role when current Vice President Ernest Grant, publication of the Wyoming Nurses’ Association, PhD, RN, FAAN, becomes ANA President. Grant was elected in June and a constituent member of the American Nurses will be the first man to serve as president of the association. Association, published quarterly every March, Consistent with ANA’s Bylaws and ANA board policies, the board June, September and December. solicited nominations to fill the vacancy for the remaining one-year term of the vice president. Jones currently serves as Director-At-Large on the WNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANA board until Dec. 31, 2018 and will then serve as vice president for one year, with her term ending Dec. 31, 2019. President: Kathy Luzmoor Thank you, Faith, for representing Wyoming Immediate Past President: on the national level! Dee Gilson President-Elect Marianne Madariaga Vice President: K. David Bodily Secretary: Ann Marie Clevenger Treasurer: Suzey Delger Central Region: Karen Jones Northwest Region: Christina Brewer Northeast Region: Alicia LePard Southwest Region: Sara Hooten Southeast Region: Karen Clark-Bond Wyoming Center for Nursing Liasion: Mary Behrens Executive Director Tobi Lyon Moore 301 Thelma Drive #200, Casper, WY 82609 Phone: 307-462-2600 Email: [email protected] For advertising rates and information, please contact Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc., 517 Washington Street, PO Box 216, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613, (800) 626-4081, [email protected]. WNA and the Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. reserve the right to reject any advertisement. Responsibility for errors in advertising is limited to corrections in the next issue or refund of price of advertisement. 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