Committees

1. Member education through continued reports and information via the web and email.
   
   
2. Yearly review of actual awards given to determine if awards are appropriate (fitting and attractive) and economical (reasonable).
   
   
3. Encourage members to nominate students for student awards for more exposure to the student population.
   
   
4. Work closely with committee members with ongoing communication.
   
   
5. Recruit one current member to become chair one year prior to current chair leaving and mentor in all activities.
   
   
6. Identify needs or questions from members that apply to nominating people for appropriate awards and add to/change current information and instructions.
   
   
7. Make sure members know that the committee is available to answer questions.
   
   
8. Recruit members for the committee annually at the Annual Institute with current members offering input as to their roles.
   
   
9. Provide the format and means for honoring nurses in areas of public health nursing: education, research, service, and practice.
   
   
10. Encourage new students in graduate education related to public health nursing by offering a membership.

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1. Support and promote new website.
   
   
2. Increase promotion of ACHNE, by creating communication that will recruit new members, and by increasing communication that promotes ACHNE activities.
   
   
3. Through ACHNE newsletters, which are to be published 3 times per year, we will increase communication with membership about ACHNE, committees, and newsworthy items.
   
   
4. Create a YouTube production that will:
   • provide an overview of ACHNE and value of membership.
   • increase awareness and promote ACHNE.
     
     
5. For all members of communications committee, will:
   • Hold monthly conference calls.
   • Seek engagement and ideas from all committee members.
   • Welcome new members.
     
     
6. Currently 2 co-chairs for the committee.
   • Co-chairs and editor work on newsletter.
   • One additional editor is available as needed.
     
     
7. In newsletters: A newsworthy piece is included in each newsletter with latest info about public health and public health nursing. This type of article is being promoted and requested from members.

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1. Reviewing the monthly budgets and investments accounts and planning and overseeing the yearly budget.
   
   
2. The FC supports the different committees to have their request for financial resources met to fulfill their goals.
   
   
3. The FC will support the membership committee for membership developing and mentoring to provide them with the needed financial resources.
   
   
4. The FC will support the membership committee for membership developing and mentoring to provide them with the needed financial resources.
   
   
5. FC proposes a membership scholarship for one or two non-academic PHN(s).

1. Explore social media (Twitter, Facebook) within the planned organizational web page as a means of communicating information about ACHNE leadership opportunities.
   
   
2. Develop a consistent repository for documents (checklists, letter templates, minutes, previous reports) used by the committee including development of a guide for the chairperson.
   
   
3. Improve process and accountability for obtaining candidate information and contacting candidates after election.
   
   
4. To implement an on-line process for accepting leadership nominations.
   
   
5. Explore use of forums within other national nursing organizations (AACN, STTI, NLN) to promote involvement and engagement.

1. Operationalize the timeline for the program committee to be placed in the operations manual to guide the program committee.
   
   
2. Use the Program Committee timeline in the Operations Manual- task assignments, to complete work and to address and determine the role of ACHNE management in providing needed resources and requests for support.
   
   
3. Plan and execute quality AI’s based on yearly AI evaluation surveys and continue to plan joint conferences with related organizations, such as APHN.
   
   
4. Provide an evaluation survey at AI registration desk to ask attendees who would like to be matched with another member for mentoring re: to ACHNE involvement online and at AI.
   
   
5. Create strategies to increase numbers of students joining ACHNE and registering at conferences by 50%.
   
   
6. Identify nursing schools near the location of each Annual Institute. Send special invitations to students to attend the AI.Offer students a reduced registration fee with discounts for four or more students attending from the same school.
   
   
7. Collaborate with external nursing agencies-such as AONE, to design and implement mentoring and leadership programs with presentations at each AI.
   
   
8. Collaborate with other PH partners, such government, school health nurses and the global nursing community as examples, for the development of the AI conference in 2017.

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