COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
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
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/EDUCATION 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.
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
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
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
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
ADVANCE PRACTICE NURSE COMMITTEE
- 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 conferences
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.
EDITORIAL/JOURNAL COMMITTEE
- 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
ELECTION COMMITTEE
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.
