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2016 Oklahoma Nurses Association President’s Report It’s hard to believe that it’s already been two years since I stood on the stage of the 2014 Convention and took the oath of office as President of ONA. As Alice Walker observed in The Color Purple: “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” Maybe age has something to do with that phenomenon? The progress made by the Oklahoma Nurses Association over the past two years truly has been amazing. As you remember, at the 2014 Board Retreat, the Board worked very hard outlining and setting up a framework to revamp ONA, make it more membership oriented, in line with The Standards of Excellence and place the financial status of the organization on firm footing. The Board also developed a Vision Statement, a Brand Promise and revised the Core Values statement to be more reflective of what we actually do as an organization of registered nurses. Then the hard work began – redesigning and implementing the goals and changes proposed during the first Board meeting. For the past two years, the majority of the efforts of the ONA Board and staff have been focused on making these changes a reality. All of the manuals have been revised so they are now congruent with The Standards of Excellence to the point where they apply to small not-for-profit organizations. As you’ll remember from the 2015 Convention, we made a number of major changes in the Bylaws that updated what we were doing as a professional organization. Don’t give too big of a sigh of relief yet, we still have more changes to make in the Bylaws as we enter into the second year of the pilot program with ANA. This project has been highly productive and very advantageous for ANA. Because of the pilot program, we have and continue to save a significant amount of money in the day-to-day operations of the office. We are also now eligible for a new pricing policy offered by ANA to increase membership. Based on recommendations by an ANA panel that made a complete review and analysis of ONA with an onsite visit, the old office building complex was sold for a very good price. The old building really was not meeting our needs to the point where if all the Board members every attended a board meeting, we wouldn’t have any place to put them all! While the new office space itself is a little smaller than the old office, we now have access to two rooms for meetings. One is large enough to accommodate the entire board and a smaller one for small committee meetings. The Board also voted to put a large portion of the sale price into a reserve account that will earn interest and cannot be accessed without approval of the Board. The establishment of the reserve fund was one of my top goals. The rent for the new building is just slightly more than the monthly fees and upkeep for the old building which is pretty much offset by ANA’s contributions to office activities such as bookkeeping. A few of my goals were not fully implemented. I had really wanted to have the ONA as a CE Provider Approver by the time I left office. I guess I really wasn’t aware of how involved this process is or how long it takes. As that great philosopher, Murphy would say: “Everything takes longer than you think it will!” We have got a good start on the CE project and I plan on becoming more involved after October. If you might think that you are even a little interested in this project, please contact the office. We sure can use you! I believe that it will become a major source of non-membership income after it is initiated. Significantly increasing ONA membership was the other major goal that fell short of my expectations. Even with ANAs substantive investment in membership advertisement, we only increased our membership by about 10%. Of course, we were acting as one of the “control groups” where ANA compare the push for heavy advertisement with the new pricing policy. I fully expect our membership to increase markedly over the next two years. 66
2016 Oklahoma Nurses Association Overall, I enjoyed my time as president of ONA and hope my efforts have produced some significant and lasting changes. Of course, no one person can do much without the support and help of a group of dedicated and intelligent people working with him or her. I have truly been blessed by two Boards that have the drive and foresight to help guide ONA into the future. The efforts of Jane and Candice to keep the train on the tracks and headed in the right direction has been invaluable! For a long time, I have believed in the power of positive thought. Neuroscience has shown us that you can actually rewire your brain by thinking positive and avoiding negative thoughts, people and even conversations. When you really start paying attention and really listening to what people say, it seems a lot of these people only see the negative and live in some kind of depressing world where nothing is ever right or good. I reject that outright! Of course things could always be better, but they already are pretty good. Negative people believe that realism equals negativity and positive equals the unrealistic. As health care providers, we see a lot of bad things in our day to day practices, yet I believe (as does Patricia Neal) from what I’ve seen over the years that a strong positive mental attitude will create more cures than any wonder drug or expensive machine. Thank you for your support and please remain active in ONA, Joseph T. Catalano, PhD, RN President, ONA 67
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