ADVOCACY & POLICY COMMITTEE
Monitor, research and provide comments and recommendations on federal, state, and local policy issues and trends of interest to NAINA.
Responsibilities Include:
- The Policy Committee ensures that the board has policies and procedures in place to guide the operation of the organization in a legal and ethical manner.
- Evaluate lobbying issues of like organizations over email and assess whether NAINA should support the issue. This requires a quick response on behalf of the committee chair and members.
- Evaluate issues in alignment with NAINA’s mission and goals to determine if appropriate.
- Develop awareness of current healthcare issues and opportunities for NAINA to be represented to (1) support an issue already in discussion in public arenas; (2) anticipate an issue to be on the agenda of national decision-makers; or (3) initiate an issue in a public policy debate.
- Writes position statements as of and when called by the president
- May be requested to represent NAINA before legislators in Washington, DC.
- Build relationships with legislators and lobbyists to support NAINA’s position on an appropriate cause
- Build relationships with other healthcare organizations to collaboratively advocate for opportunities that promote NAINA
- Discuss advocacy visions and or advocacy opportunities with the NAINA Board of Directors and obtain the approval of the BOD on advocacy issues that require NAINA action.
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ADVANCE PRACTICE NURSE COMMITTEE
Focus:
Roles and responsibilities:
- Researches, reviews and analyzes practice issues affecting APNs and make
recommendations to NAINA - Serves as a liaison to represent NAINA in clinical practice projects
- Implements annual APN clinical excellence conference
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Awards & Scholarship Committee
Focus: review of awards and scholarships applications and related activities
Roles and responsibilities:
- Initiates/reviews for awards/scholarships criteria
- Assists fund raising related to awards/scholarships
- Publishes the criteria locally and nationally to select awards/scholarships recipients
- Selects the recipients with the approval of the executive board
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Bylaws Committee
Focus: Review and revision of governing rules and regulations on an on-going basis.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Initiates amendments to the bylaws for review by the Governing Board
- Presents the proposed amendments to the membership after review by the Executive Board at least thirty (30) days prior to voting
- Reviews and recommends change of Chapter-Bylaws.
- Submits annual reports to the Governing Board in a timely fashion.
Members can access a copy of the bylaws by request or available on our website in the Members-Only section.
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Communications Committee
MISSAM MERCHANT
MBA, BSN, RN, CENP, CCRN-K, PCCN, CV-BC, GERO-BC, MEDSURG-BC, NE-BC
Chair
Email: nainausanews@gmail.com
The committee responsibilities are:
- NAINA news publications & Communications to NAINA Members at large through email, website & social media.
- Compilation and publication of the NAINA Newsletter.
- Maintain NAINA website including contents update.
Roles and responsibilities:
- NAINA News publications.
- Manage and update contents of the NAINA website.
- Solicits contents postings to the website/Newsletter
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EDITORIAL & JOURNAL Committee
The committee responsibilities are:
- Makes recommendations towards strategic plan.
- Solicit and publish news and articles for the peer reviewed journals – electronic version every odd year and in addition to the electronic, a commemorative journal to be released at the biennial conference.
- Sends publication materials to website committee
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ELECTION Committee
sujaya devarayasamudram
PhD, M. Phil, MSN, RN, ACUE
Chair
Email: nainaelections@gmail.com
Roles and responsibilities:
- The Election Committee Chairperson will appoint the two other members of the committee.
- The Election Committee Chairperson will oversee the execution of the election process.
- The Election Chairperson is solely responsible for the safekeeping of the ballot box, ballots and voter registry.
- The election committee will work to ensure an unbiased and fair election. It is the Committee ‘s responsibility to ensure that the Election policies and procedures are strictly enforced.
- The election committee will review and amend election policies and procedures during a. contested election where the policies and procedures are suspect.
a. to accept and review any petitions that contest election results.
b.To determine the eligibility for voting rights of any member. - The Election committee is responsible for compiling a voter registry of all eligible voters.
- The Election committee members are responsible for counting the ballots.
- The Election committee will review candidate nominations and notify nominees of his/her nomination.
- The election committee chairperson will notify the winners of the election/ selection and the governing board minimum three weeks prior to the installation of the officers
- The election committee will assist the Executive board with the installation of new officers.
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FUNDRAISING Committee
Roles and responsibilities:
The Fundraising Committee is a standing committee with the goal of raising funds to ensure the financial viability and stability of the organization. The Fundraising Committee Chair, Committee Members, and the NAINA Executive Vice President will work together to determine committee needs. Members of this committee will be local chapter committee chairs.
Responsibilities include:
- Reviews all previous years’ fundraising activity and make recommendations for improvements for the new fiscal year.
- Develops an annual calendar for the committee’s activities, including critical dates, milestones, and required board actions
- Finds, creates and implements fundraising opportunities throughout the term.
- Focuses on raising the number of funds needed to meet the organization’s budget.
- Tracks and presents reports on proposed fundraising activities at board and Association meetings for approval.
- Conducts meetings with all committee members at least once a quarter
- Actively participates in meetings, contributing to the discussion, brainstorming, and sharing innovative ideas
- Stay in regular communication with NAINA Executive Vice President
- Analyze relationships with current and prospective major donors and funders and develop individualized strategies to cultivate or strengthen those relationships.
- Along with NAINA Executive Vice President, meets with current and prospective major donors and funders (foundations and corporations).
- Tap respective networks for potential donors of money, time, and in-kind support
- Monitor & support fundraising efforts to be sure that ethical practices are in place, that donors are acknowledged appropriately, and that fundraising efforts are cost-effective
- Analyze relationships with current and prospective corporate sponsors, devise sponsorship packages, and work with committee members and the NAINA governing board to develop relationships.
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membership Committee
pressanna parackal
DNP, RN, RN-BC, CCRN, CNRN, CRRN
Chair
Email: nainamembership@gmail.com
Focus: to increase and support membership, including the creation of new chapters.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Initiates programs for membership recruitment of the Association
- Provides assistance in the formation of chapters of the Association.
- Maintains a copy of the membership roster of the Association
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professional development Committee
Focus: Educational initiatives at the national level. The biennial national conference is under the purview of this committee as well.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Continuously assesses, identifies, plans, implements and evaluates educational program to meet membership needs.
- Acts as a resource for local chapters and other nursing organizations in developing and implementing educational programs.
- Develops educational content of all NAINA conferences.
- Prepares and publishes official conferences brochures/ handouts, etc.
- Collaborates with chapter Presidents in planning & implementing all NAINA educational conferences.
- Identifies national healthcare trends that need to be presented in regional, national and international conferences.
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RESEARCH & GRANT Committee
Focus: Research and grant related activities
Roles and responsibilities:
- Initiates/reviews research/grant criteria
- Assists fund raising related to Research/Grant
- Publishes the criteria locally and nationally to select research scholarship/s recipients
- Selects the recipients based on merit scores assigned by the Research Committee
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