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2009 Annual Business Meeting Report
November 22, 2009
REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ANNUAL
BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ADVANCE NURSES OF THE OZARKS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
The business meeting was conducted by Jodie Kates current President of APNO. Reports were given from the various officers and committee chairs. General reminders were shared with those present regarding keeping their membership information updated, especially their e mail address. The fiscal year is from January 1 thought December 31 of the calendar year. Therefore yearly dues cover from January 1 thought December 31. Everyone was encouraged to renew online and fill in ALL the blanks. Renewals may start now for 2 010. The organizational protocol regarding dues is as follows: any member whose renewal is not received by February 1, 2010 will be dropped from the membership list. Please keep your membership current.
Election results for 2 010 were announced by Candi Griffin, Immediate Past President. The election results were as follows:
President Elect Melissa Dixon
Membership Sarah Jones
Marketing(Networking/Public Education) David Lafevers
Website Administrator Paula Maize
Annual Conference Chairperson: Kim McGinn-Perryman
Incumbent officers for 2 010 are as follows:
President Janice Jones
Secretary Sharon Giboney
Treasurer Anita Evangelista
Treasurer(in training) Terry Sondermann
With great pleasure the recipient of the annual APNO Nurse Practitioner of the Year as voted by her colleagues was announced as Paula Maize.
All out going, incumbent, and newly elected officers will meet on Monday, January 4, 2010 @ 6 PM. Notice of the meeting with instructions will be e mailed to all concerned.
We welcomed Bob Dixon and his wife Melissa to our meeting. Mr. Dixon is currently serving in the MO. legislator as a Representative for the 140 District. In 2010 he will be running for the Senate seat in District 30. He is a big supporter of nursing and nurse practitioners. He briefly reviewed the history of nursing. He shared with his high regard for nurse practitioners. He and his family have had extensive personal experience with the care and caring given by nurse practitioners. Mr. Dixon emphasized to those present importance of nurse practitioners communicating with him and other Legislators. It is from his/their constituents that they are able to learn our real concerns, frustrations, needs, barriers to patients in seeking care and barriers to our practices. He explained how e mail is handled and filed for reference. Real examples/situations of the problems are always best to present. Email with bullet points is best. Phone calls to his/their offices are appropriate when a bill is about to be voted one. Representative Dixon finished by reviewing how bills progress though the House and Senate including how collaboration on a bill is accomplished. His presentation was excellent. He fielded many questions with direct answers.
Next Debra Frye from the State Board of Nursing addressed the group. She is the Practice Administrator. She used a very informational and educational PPP with her talk. She offered to share the PPP with us so we could make it available to all our members. She explained the process of a statute being passed thought the state House and Senate.. After the statute has been signed into law by the governor, the State Board of Nursing is charged with promulgating the rules to enforce the statute. The promulgation of a rules or rules is a very detailed, long process with opportunities for public comment. Other disciplines may also be involved in the writing and promulgating of the rules.
Both of these presentations were very informative and educational.
If anyone has any questions or concerns about APNO please visit our web site APNO.net and contact one of the officers that are listed.
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