The Florida Nurse - September 2018

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Florida Intervention for Project
Welcomes New Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Shannon Large, DNP, ARNP, ANP-BC,
CARN-AP, recently joined the Intervention
Project for Nurses (IPN) as its new Chief
Executive Officer. Dr. Large was formerly
with the UF Health Florida Recovery Center,
Gainesville, providing primary care services to
patients with substance use disorders, and UF
Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital providing
leadership and care for dual diagnosis patients.
Her areas of expertise include alcohol and
substance use related medical conditions,
internal medicine, and the assessment of
impaired professionals.
Dr. Large received her Doctor of Nursing
Practice in 2013 from University of Florida and
is a Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner.
She also is certified by the Addictions Nursing
Certification Board as a Certified Addictions
Registered Nurse in Advanced Practice.
Linda L. Smith, IPN/DOH Consultant (former
Chief Executive officer) introduced Dr. Large at
the IPN/FNA Annual Conference stating, “IPN
is very pleased to have someone with Shannon’s
excellent skills and broad expertise as a key
part of IPN’s leadership team to lead into
Pictured from left to right: Myrtle Greene,
Chief Operations Officer; Shannon O. Large,
Chief Executive Officer; Linda L. Smith,
IPN/DOH Consultant
the future. Shannon has worked with health
practitioners with impairing conditions for
several years doing comprehensive evaluations
and interfacing with healthcare monitoring
programs across the country.”
Nursing Community continued from page 15
• 187 faculty vacancies as of 9/30/2017.
• Lack of qualified student applicants and
limited clinical sites were the greatest
barriers to maximizing capacity for all
program types (LPN; ADN; BSN).
• The ratio of enrolled students to fulltime
faculty continues to increase in all
program types.
• New graduate ADN nurses decreased by
865 while pre-licensure BSN graduates
increased by 35.
• Even with an increase in the number
of LPN programs, the number of new
graduates continues to decline.
Please read the 2017 Florida Nursing
Statewide Strategic Plan: Strategies to
Successfully Provide Floridians an Adequate,
Qualified Nurse Workforce and consider
how you can make a difference. Essential
to meeting the needs of all Floridians are
continued commitment to nursing and
purposeful interventions to strengthen
the nurse workforce by key stakeholders.
You are a stakeholder! You can influence
other stakeholders! Be a part of the solution.
THANK YOU!
Silver Spring, MD – The
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Membership Assembly elected
Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the
North Carolina Nurses Association
as the association’s next president to
represent the interests of the nation’s
four million registered nurses. The
term of service for Dr. Grant and
other newly elected leaders will begin
January 1, 2019.
Dr. Grant, the current ANA vice
president, is an internationally
recognized burn care and fire safety
expert and oversees the nationally
acclaimed North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at
the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals
in Chapel Hill. He also serves as adjunct faculty
for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing,
where he works with undergraduate and graduate
nursing students in the classroom and clinical
settings.
ANA’s Membership Assembly also elected four
other members to serve on the nine-member board
of directors. The newly-elected board members
ANA Update
American Nurses Association Elects
Ernest Grant as Next President
are: Secretary Stephanie Pierce, PhD,
RN, CNE, of the Louisiana State
Nurses Association; Director-at-Large
Tonisha Melvin, DNP, CRRN, NP-C,
of the Georgia Nurses Association;
Director-at-Large Varsha Singh, MSN,
APN, of the New Jersey State Nurses
Association; Director-at-Large Staff
Nurse Jennifer Gil, BSN, RN, of ANA
Massachusetts.
The following ANA board
members will continue their term in
2019: Treasurer Jennifer Mensik, PhD,
RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, of the Oregon
Nurses Association; Director-at-Large
MaryLee Pakieser, MSN, RN, BC-FNP, of ANA
Michigan; Director-at-Large, Recent Graduate,
Amanda Buechel, BSN, RN, of ANA-Illinois.
Elected to serve on the Nominations and
Elections Committee are: Bonita Ball, MSN,
RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC, of the Delaware Nurses
Association; Rebecca Huie, DNP, RN, ACNP, of
the Alabama State Nurses Association; Heidi
Sanborn, MSN, RN, CNE, of the Arizona Nurses
Association.
Membership:
What's it Worth?
One of the common comparisons of the
cost of membership dues is related to the
cost of a cup of coffee. According to a
CBS news report, assuming the LOWEST
consumption the average cost per year to a
national recognized coffee house is $65 a
month or $780 a year.*
For full membership in both the national
and state level of your professional
association, the cost is: $25.26 a month.*
*Select discount rates apply.
Join us at http://members.floridanurse.org
and have your say!
*http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/
pdf/012909_coffee.pdf
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