Spring RN/APN Conference 2010-Healthcare Updates
This year's keynote speaker is Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN. Ms. Hassmiller is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing, where she is tasked with shaping and leading the Foundation’s strategies to address the nurse and nurse faculty shortages in an effort to create a higher quality of patient care in the United States.
Ms. Hassmiller is also the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine, an effort that will identify new solutions for nursing in areas of recruitment, education, retention and new technologies; in the delivery of nursing services in a variety of care settings; and in the context of the entire health care workforce. Her keynote address will be on the Future of Nursing.
Click here to register online or here to view the brochure.
Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program
The Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program is a selective program of the U.S. Government that helps alleviate the critical shortage of registered nurses currently experienced by certain types of non-profit health care facilities by helping nurses working at them to repay their student loans.
In exchange for two years of service, participants receive 60 percent of their total qualifying nursing education loan balance. For an optional third year of service, participants may receive 25 percent of their original total qualifying nursing education loan balance. Participants also receive the salary and benefits they have negotiated with their employing facility.
The due date for applications is March 4, 2010. For additional information, click here.
Haiti Deployment
The American Nurses Association (ANA) continues to recruit nurses who are interested in becoming emergency first responders. Nurses can access information and the online form for ANA’s database at www.nursingworld.org/haitirelief. Response efforts are now being coordinated through a multi-national cluster system, ANA has reached out to organizations working with the health cluster to offer support and nursing staff.
DNA Reporter Online Supplement
Each quarter, DNA receives a number of informative and pertinent articles for our quarterly newsletter, The Reporter. Due to the limited number of pages allowed, some of the submitted articles are not published in the paper copies sent to all registered nurses in Delaware.
As of this quarter's edition of The Reporter, additional articles will be published online. To sign up for a free subscription to The Reporter or to view the current online supplement, click here.
Delaware RN license plate
The Delaware Nurses Association is proud to offer the first ever Delaware license plate celebrating nursing. The funds generated from the license plates will go toward the development of the Delaware Nursing Foundation and scholarships. In order the plates to go into production; the DNA must have 200 applications.
The numbers 1-20 are being held for a silent auction to be announced at a future date.
At this time, the license plates are available for DNA members only.
To order a DNA license plate, please follow the instructions below. Plates are issues in numerical sequence only. Application received without payment will not be considered complete and a plate will not be assigned.
DNA Members
1. Make sure your membership to the Delaware Nurses Association is current. All membership categories are eligible for the discounted price. To check the status of your membership, please contact DNA at (302) 998-3141.
2. Complete the Specialty License Plate form. License plate numbers will be assigned in the order the application and payment are received. Click here to download the required form.
3. Write a $50 check payable to the Delaware Nurses Association. The check covers the $10 DelDot fee and $40 will go toward the development of the Delaware Nursing Foundation and scholarships.
4. Mail the completed form and payment to:
Delaware Nurses Association
5586 Kirkwood Highway
Wilmington, DE 19808
5. The DMV estimated processing time is 6-8 weeks.
