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Page 4 New Jersey Nurse & Institute for Nursing Newsletter July 2019 R egion News Region 1 Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Warren Sandy Foley, DNP, MSN, RN President Greetings from Region 1: www.facebook.com/ NJSNARegion 1/ Accolades Dr. Vivek Agnihotri, DNP, APN received a Don Award 4/4/19 at Institute for Nursing Annual Diva and Don Gala. This honor was bestowed on him based on his long-standing achievement as https://mrc.njlincs.net/signup/ a constructive influence on nurses and nursing practice. Vivek is an APN Hospitalist for Vital Medical Forces and a Professor of Nursing at William Paterson University and County College of Morris. Furthermore, he has generously donated monies creating Region 1’s Education Scholarship! Congratulations: Nancy Toth, RN, awarded 3/30/19 as National Champion of Quality Care by American Center for Home Care/National Center for Assisted Living Association for her work as Resident Care Director at Sunrise Assisted Living, Madison, NJ. Accomplishments: Congratulations to our post BSN Graduates of 2019: Jackie Galante, Master’s in Nursing Education from Drexel University and Sandra Foley, with a Doctor of Nursing Practice from William Paterson University. These nurses are worthy of our honor as we all can recall the rigor of nursing school and the tenacity one must demonstrate to graduate. If you are graduating with a post RN degree, please contact Francesca Nordin fan.pnp@gmail.com so we can celebrate with you. Scholarship Recipient: The Dr. and Mrs. Agnihotri Scholarship was awarded to Lorrie Murdock at the IFN Scholarship Luncheon 4/7/19. Lorrie is attending Ramapo College studying nursing. Check in Fall 2019 for deadlines to apply in 2020. Events/Meetings: We were honored to have CEO of NJSNA, Judy Schmidt, MSN, DHA(c), CCRN, as our Guest Speaker for our Annual Dinner Meeting/CEU event on 5/9/19. She addressed Legislation and Nursing. This is the pinnacle event for NJSNA Region 1 and was well attended. Dr. Sandy Foley provided the educational program Laughter Yoga for Region 1 on 6/15/19 at Newton Hospital. What a great time of relaxed merriment we enjoyed! Mark Your Calendars: 10/1/19: Guardians of the Ribbon Northern NJ Chapter, Autism Speaks: Union and Morris County Walk, Nomahegan Park 10/6/19: American Foundation of Suicide Prevention WALK Waterloo Village Stanhope 10/26/19: General Business Meeting 11 AM- 1PM Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, Cafeteria Conference Room Community Service: • NJSNA President Elect Mary Ellen Levine spoke at NJ Nursing Students, Inc giving the opening discourse for their annual event. • Region 1 President Sandy Foley spoke at New Jersey Student Nurses Association annual meeting about her doctoral nursing research. • Thank you to Morris County Coordinator Josie Sanchez for connecting Region 1 with the Faith Kitchen in Dover, NJ. On 4/1/19 nurses had opportunity to prepare and serve a meal for 90. The next opening for Region 1 to serve is Monday 9/2/19. To participate please contact Josie (973)979-2727. NursingALD.com can point you right to that perfect NURSING JOB! NursingALD.com Free to Nurses Privacy Assured Easy to Use E-mailed Job Leads • Sussex/Warren County Coordinator, VP Membership Lauren Krause created a display of NJSNA Region 1 history for an exhibit at the Wantage Library. Call for Nominations: Join Region 1 2020 Leadership Team. Contact Sue Weaver sweave29@gmail.com for more information. Open Board Positions: President- Elect, Vice President for Membership, Vice President for the Institute of Nursing, Vice President to the Congress on Policy and Practice, Morris County and Sussex County Coordinator (one for each county) and two members for Nominations Committee. Would you like to present some new research or project for professional advancement? Contact Region 1 President, Sandy Foley sbkbfoley@gmail.com or VP Education, Tifanie Sbriscia sbrist2@hotmail.com. Respectfully submitted, Francesca Nordin, MSN, APN, PNP-C Region 1 VP Communications/COPP Committee Member Region 2 Bergen, Hudson Fatima Sanchez MSN, RN, President Region 2 is springing off to a great start. We have scheduled one zoom meeting and our second educational meeting. A meeting was held on April 3, 2019, entitled “Aristada into a long acting injection for Schizophrenia.” Our thanks to everyone for coming out and supporting our region and especially to Maureen Connors for providing this educational opportunity. The Region will continue to use zoom to reach the greatest amount of the Region’s nurses to provide important communications about upcoming meetings, community service events and briefings on other events. At the last zoom meeting held on April 15, 2019, we discussed providing scholarships for two nursing students who are NJSNA members; the details are under review. We understand the challenges of nurses and are reviewing ways to support second degree nurses who have work place challenges. Google Wall is a sounding board to review past meetings and nurses can write their concerns that can be answered within one week by one of our Region nurses. We also explored contact hours for nurses to enable them to meet the NJ Board of Nursing requirements for mandatory continuing education. We will continue to explore and provide these educational opportunities for the Region’s nurses. These methods of communication ideally will continue to foster the professional growth of the Region. Please join in and download the free app and use the code NJSNA; you can use the video mode to see everyone, or just the talk mode. Please reach out to me if you need help with the app. Region 2 membership has increased by 83 new members so far this year which is fantastic; I welcome all new nurses to reach out to me, and Erma Moore at Felohay@optonline.net. New members should be receiving my information on a welcome card, please use this and contact me with any concerns you may have. Congratulations to Nicole Wrobel, who is the Recipient of the $1,000 Region 2 scholarship. Nicole Wrobel is a nursing student enrolled at Felician College. This recognition is reserved for the most advanced nursing students in NJ who have demonstrated exceptional academic ability and potential for leadership. I attended the NJSNA Board Meeting on March 26 via phone. At the Divas and Dons Gala, Region 2 sponsored two nurses to attend the dinner. Thank you to Cindy Sonzogni for being a COPP board member; she will assist our Region to review nursing bills and legislative policies that need our voice. Congratulations to Myla Passporte in a new nursing role at Hackensack Hospital. Our region will continue to collect socks, hats, gloves, for the winter homeless
July 2019 New Jersey Nurse & Institute for Nursing Newsletter Page 5 R egion News drive to “keep our neighbors warm.” The date for the next Region 2 meeting TBA via NJSNA emails, and Facebook. Region 4 Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Lower Bucks Beth Knox, DNP, APN, President Region 4 Meetings/Programs for 2019 Annual Meeting: The annual meeting was held on Saturday, May 4th at the historic Cranbury Inn in Cranbury, NJ. Donna Cardillo, RN, FAAN, a nationally known nurse speaker shared her thoughts about “ Nurse Power” to more than 60 nurses and their guests. In addition, we celebrated all nurses for their contribution to our nursing profession. A Day at the New Jersey State House in Trenton: The day at the Statehouse was held on June 24, 2019. President Kate Gillespie, Presidentelect Mary Ellen Levine, and Judy Schmidt, CEO reported on the NJSNA legislative agenda. This has been an interesting year of legislative activities that have and will affect nursing practice. The Region 4 Board encourages each of our members to engage in dialogue and correspondence with your state Senate and Assembly representatives. as well as keeping abreast of the activities of INPAC and COPP throughout the remainder of the year (see the NJSNA website for ongoing information). Region 4 members Keith Hovey, INPAC chair, and Erica Edfort, COPP chair continue to provide strong leadership for these NJSNA units. Stay Connected: We continue to encourage Region 4 members to contact your Region 4 County Member-at-Large to promote any programs, nursing activities in your county that other Region 4 members may wish to join/attend. In addition, we welcome members to share any honors that you have received (pictures included) We will post the information on the Region 4 website. Contacts: Hunterdon: Yvette Shangold yshangold@comcast.net Mercer: Robin King kingsinnj@aol.com Middlesex: Marge Drozd mdrozd@saintpetersuh.com Somerset: Megan Allen meganallen21@gmail.com VP Communication: Susan Rux ruxsusan@gmail. com (Facebook and NJ Nurse posts) Scholarship: The first annual Region 4 Educational Scholarship for $1,000 was awarded to Hilda Aluka, APN, on May 4. NJSNA Region 4 member, Hilda Aluka is currently enrolled at Rutgers University, School of Nursing, DNP program. Congratulations and continued success in your studies! A special thank you goes to Barbara Wright, Marge Drozd, Yvette Shangold and the three Region 4 Expert Nurses who conducted a blind review of the applications for working on this inaugural scholarship project. Fall 2019 Election: The following Region 4 Board of Directors’ positions will be on the ballot in the fall of 2019: President-elect, Treasurer, VP for Policy and Practice, VP for Membership, VP for Nominations and Elections, and Member-at-Large for Somerset and Hunterdon counties. The nomination of a VP for Education is under discussion. Please submit your resume and inquiry regarding any of these opportunities to serve on the Region 4 Board to Barbara Wright wigbarb@aol.com, VP for Nominations and Elecions. (See NJSNA Region 4 Facebook page for a list of current Board members and contact information). Region 5 Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem Summer Valenti, BSN, RN-BC President NJSNA Region 5 supported The Institute for Nursing (IFN) by purchasing a table at the 2019 Divas and Dons Institute for Nursing Awards and Scholarship Gala. Ten NJSNA Region 5 members enjoyed attending the event which recognized nurses and community members for leadership, excellence in nursing and community impact on April 4, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. At the time of this writing, NJSNA Region 5 is planning an event at Rowan College at Burlington County in Mount Laurel on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. NJSNA Region 5 Burlington County Coordinator, Martin Manno, PhD, RN, ACNS- BC, NEA-BC, will be presenting on the topic: The Role Transition Characteristics of New Registered Nurses: A Study of Work Environment Influences and Individual Traits. The presentation will follow refreshments and a board meeting. As the event will have already occurred by the time of publishing, please look on our social media for information for upcoming events. The NJSNA Region 5 board is looking for opportunities to engage with members. Do you want to be more involved? We currently have a vacancy in the position of Director of Education and are hoping an interested candidate will make him or herself known. The nurse who fills this role must have a BSN or greater. If you are a candidate, please email summer.valenti@gmail.com. We are looking forward to a busy year of activity and we hope to see you at our events. Please connect with us on social media via Facebook and Twitter @ NJSNARegon5. If you are not receiving emails from NJSNA Region 5, please log into your account on the NJSNA home page and ensure that the correct email address is listed. Also, check your spam folders for messages from njsnanews@njsna.org since these might be blast emails from NJSNA or NJSNA Region 5. Region 6 Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean Kathleen Mullen, DNP, MA, RN, CNE, VP Communications The Region’s Facebook page continues to gain likes and followers! Each week several posts about nursing or healthcare in varied practice settings are shared, and our educational meetings are posted as events. It’s a great way to stay connected to the Region. Find us at New Jersey State Nurses Association Region 6. Follow our page, like and share our posts! This year the Region’s education programming is focused on increasing political advocacy by nurses with local politicians and within the state legislature. NJ legislation impacts nursing practice and the provision of patient care across the healthcare industry across the state. Nursing professionals need to become conversant in legislative processes and grassroots activism to influence legislation. To that end an education program titled, “Political Advocacy and You, the Nurse” was presented at AtlantiCare in Atlantic City in April and at the Annual Meeting at Captain’s Inn in Ocean Cty in June by Anne Ugrovics MSN, RN and Kathy Mullen, DNP, RN. The program featured a role-play between Anne and Judy Schmidt as a legislator learning about the Nurse “Title” bill. New graduates of the prelicensure RN programs at Atlantic-Cape May Community College, Brookdale Community College, Georgian Court University, Jersey City State University, Ocean County College, and Stockton University, were invited to attend the Annual Meeting at a discounted rate. Lucky region members and guests won prizes from the annual Executive Board gift basket auction which benefits the scholarship fund. The recipients of the annual Beulah Miller Scholarship for Nursing Education were announced: Maryann Martirano attaining an AAS at Ocean County College. Caitlin Opirhory, attending Villanova University RN to BSN program Call for Nominations: please contact Colleen Nauta at colleennauta@aol.com to learn more about leadership positions within the region. This year the term of office is expiring for the Region 6 positions of Treasurer, Vice President Membership, Vice President for the Institute, Nominating Committee, and Chairperson for Atlantic and for Cape May counties. Region 6 members: If you did not receive an email blast from NJSNA about the Region’s educational meetings this year, please contact jennifer@njsna.org to verify and update your membership information. Emails will come from njsnanews@njsna.org. Join Us For An Open House Industry leader with 70+ years experience providing quality nursing education. LPN to RN Associate Degree Program Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 11:30 am RN to Bachelor of Science Degree Program Monday, June 17, 2019, 11:30 am Generic Bachelor of Science Degree RN Program (no nursing experience required) Thursday, June 20, 2019, 11:30 am To register, please contact Allie Ittoop at 212-616-7282 or Allie.Ittoop@helenefuld.edu 24 East 120th St. New York, NY • www.HeleneFuld.edu • 212-616-7282
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