2017 SDNA Annual Convention

2017 South Dakota Nurses Association
District Reports
District 5-7
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Greetings from District 8/9 to the membership.
District 8/9
Our new meeting year begins with celebrating the Holidays at Roberta Olson’s home. There is nothing like a pot-luck to bring out
great food, and desserts! Along with fellowship we do get down to basics and plan out our upcoming year. We try and use the 4th
Tuesday of the month for our meetings. Along with planning comes election of the new officers for the upcoming year:
President - Eileen Bruner-Halverson
VP - Tom Stenvig
Sec - Lois Tschetter
Adm. Assistant - Roberta Olson
Scheduling and Programs - Robin Brown and Heidi Pelzel
These officers, many times, are the people who keep our organization active.
Meetings in 2017 have brought a variety of events, or non-events, such as the January meeting being cancelled due to severe
weather conditions. In February a number of members were able to attend NDL in Pierre, where there was a great turn-out of
legislatures, RN’s, and CNP’s. It was with our help in lobbying those congress men and women that we helped advance the state’s
CNPs.
Hosting our own legislative policy information gathering we met in March with Deb Fisher-Clemens. We had invited her to give
us a detailed explanation of the Obama Care Health Policy, as compared to the recently failed Health Care Policy. This was an
educational opportunity for local legislators, instructors, nurses, and nursing students. A lot of work goes into hosting such an
event, and I would like to thank all of those who made the contacts and set up the meeting.
The April Meeting began with pizza being served to the Nursing Student Association. We wanted to congratulate the graduating
seniors and we talked to the nursing students about the importance of being an active member of their professional nursing
organization after graduation.
We did not hold a May meeting, but the June meeting was quite important with the start of the planning process for the 2018
Annual SDNA convention!! The group also went through the process of nominating members of our District for the prestigious
state awards that are announced at the Annual SDNA Convention.
District members, we will be needing everyone’s help to put on a pleasurable, educational, and financially successful State
Convention in 2018!! Looking forward to meeting more of you personally, as we look for volunteers.
Eileen Bruner-Halverson
Eileen.bruner@sdstate.edu
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