Committees
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Archives Committee
- Collaborate with Archivist at Barbara Bates Center on best approaches for documenting ACHNE's contributions and the role of PHNs.
- Transfer previously missing critical documents from 2010-20 to ACHNE’s collection at Barbara Bates Center
- Implement new archiving procedure with ACHNE Secretary and management company for annual document transfer to Barbara Bates Center
- Interview 2 Past Presidents using revised script
- Mentor at least 1 student in process of interviewing Past Presidents
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Awards Committee
- Member education through continued reports and information via the web and email.
- Yearly review of actual awards given to determine if awards are appropriate (fitting and attractive) and economical (reasonable).
- Encourage members to nominate students for student awards for more exposure to the student population.
- Work closely with committee members with ongoing communication.
- Recruit one current member to become chair one year prior to current chair leaving and mentor in all activities.
- Identify needs or questions from members that apply to nominating people for appropriate awards and add to/change current information and instructions.
- Make sure members know that the committee is available to answer questions.
- Recruit members for the committee annually at the Annual Institute with current members offering input as to their roles.
- Provide the format and means for honoring nurses in areas of public health nursing: education, research, service, and practice.
- Encourage new students in graduate education related to public health nursing by offering a membership.
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Bylaws Committee
- To complete review of the operational manual in relation to the agreement between the manual and Robert’s Rules of Order.
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Communications Committee
- Support and promote new website.
- Increase promotion of ACHNE, by creating communication that will recruit new members, and by increasing communication that promotes ACHNE activities.
- Through ACHNE newsletters, which are to be published 3 times per year, we will increase communication with membership about ACHNE, committees, and newsworthy items.
- Create a YouTube production that will:
- provide an overview of ACHNE and value of membership.
- increase awareness and promote ACHNE.
- For all members of communications committee, will:
- Hold monthly conference calls.
- Seek engagement and ideas from all committee members.
- Welcome new members.
- Currently 2 co-chairs for the committee.
- Co-chairs and editor work on newsletter.
- One additional editor is available as needed.
- 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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Education Committee
- Determine best practices for communicating innovative teaching strategies and other education committee related resources.
- Develop materials for distribution to the general membership including a list of Innovative Teaching Strategies and other education resources.
- Offer mentoring services for members seeking guidance on development of innovative teaching strategies or other education projects.
- Draft a position paper regarding inclusion of Population Health/PHN concepts in the BSN, MSN, and DNP Essentials.
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Finance Committee
- Reviewing the monthly budgets and investments accounts and planning and overseeing the yearly budget.
- The FC supports the different committees to have their request for financial resources met to fulfill their goals.
- The FC will support the membership committee for membership developing and mentoring to provide them with the needed financial resources.
- The FC will support the membership committee for membership developing and mentoring to provide them with the needed financial resources.
- FC proposes a membership scholarship for one or two non-academic PHN(s).
Membership Committee
- Review and expand engagement with general membership to promote long-term retention.
- Engage student members to promote general membership.
Nominating Committee
- Explore social media (Twitter, Facebook) within the planned organizational web page as a means of communicating information about ACHNE leadership opportunities.
- Develop a consistent repository for documents (checklists, letter templates, minutes, previous reports) used by the committee including development of a guide for the chairperson.
- Improve process and accountability for obtaining candidate information and contacting candidates after election.
- To implement an on-line process for accepting leadership nominations.
- Explore use of forums within other national nursing organizations (AACN, STTI, NLN) to promote involvement and engagement.
Program Committee
- Operationalize the timeline for the program committee to be placed in the operations manual to guide the program committee.
- 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.
- Plan and execute quality AI’s based on yearly AI evaluation surveys and continue to plan joint conferences with related organizations, such as APHN.
- 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.
- Create strategies to increase numbers of students joining ACHNE and registering at conferences by 50%.
- 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.
- Collaborate with external nursing agencies-such as AONE, to design and implement mentoring and leadership programs with presentations at each AI.
- 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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Research Committee
The Research Committee meets monthly via conference call to:
- Promote innovative academic practice partnerships
- Increase ACHNE and its members’ involvement in public health policy
- Initiate recruitment, engagement, and retention to better reflect diversity in membership
- Communicate and rapidly respond to issues consistent with the mission and promoting a unified voice for ACHNE
- Establish a mechanism for mentorship internal and external to the organization related to public health nursing
Seven subcommittees function to carry out the goals:
- Small Research Awards
- EBP Project Awards
- Pre-conference workshops
- Symposium
- Mentor Groups
- Research Priorities
- Policy Committee representation
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