NAINA VIRTUAL LISTENING ROUNDING
Please join our NAINA Board of Directors as we begin our scheduled Listening Rounds. During these virtual meetings we hope to hear from our members about their insight regarding improving NAINA’s visibility and overall branding. Your contributions will help us develop the Strategic Plan for the 2021-22 term. We appreciate your time and support!
Please register using the Form below based on your availability. You will be emailed with a Zoom link to participate in our upcoming Virtual Listening Rounding session. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!
NAINA PILLARS
Globalization has brought changes in the business of a non-profit organization. Our goal is to increase visibility, membership and continue to enhance our brand. We will invest in tools that will improve workflow coordination and reduce silos. Tools such as communication apps, centralized storage space, and dashboard and data management will be part of the strategic plan for the next term. We look forward to increasing the transparency between our organization and its members.
“Advocacy is a pillar of nursing. Nurses instinctively advocate for their patients, in their workplaces, and in their communities; but legislative and political advocacy is no less important to advancing the profession and patient care” (ANA, n.d.). In our strategic planning goals, we will outline our aspirations for advocacy in local, national, and global arenas while focusing on human rights and becoming a visible force in the legislative process. We plan to send NAINA members to Washington DC to learn more of the legislative process and become more involved in supporting legislation affecting nursing and health care. NAINA will align itself with the ANA’s plan of establishing legislative and regulatory priorities, recommending strategies for the execution of the advancement of a policy issue, and educating members about the political realities as well as advancing NAINA agenda. NAINA will forge ahead with the philosophy of “Making a difference and advocating for others”.
Research helps us expand our knowledge and implement evidenced-based practice. Research Interest groups will be created, and the APN committee will work alongside the research committee. This committee will focus on research topics related to the health and well-being of Asian Indian immigrant, social structure, patterns of immigration, effect of COVID 19 on mental health.
This term we will engage and embrace community education alongside enhancing offers from our provider unit. Our education committee chairperson Sandra Emmanuel has been on the roll with our first education offer with contact hour will be in February. Our speaker, Dr. Solymole Kuruvilla, Director of Occupational services at health and hospital services of New York and Advisory Board member will speak on Facts and Fears of the COVID-19 vaccination. My appeal to all experts in your areas of practice is to engage yourselves by sending us your name if you would like to be part of the speaker panel. The need assessment survey will be posted in January.
We want you tell us your stories and highlight your experiences, your struggles as chapter executive board members, your achievements and what you would like to see us accomplish in the next term. These stories will remind us that while transformations are almost universally assumed to be top-down processes, in reality, NAINA members can make a significant change when they have the right mindset.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
This is an opportunity to meet and speak with NAINA Leadership to provide suggestions to improve NAINA and give our Executive Board your invaluable feedback.
Definitely. This is the perfect avenue for you to share your ideas and suggestions to NAINA Leadership who will listen to you and develop a Strategic Plan in order to provide the best of NAINA for all of us. Your input and suggestions are key in this process!
No. NAINA will email you a Zoom link to click on to join the meeting – regardless of whether or not you have an account.
Yes, you will be notified with our Strategic Planning details for 2021-22 as soon as our Executive Board finalizes it. Please see below for more details regarding this process.
You are more than welcome to stay for the entire meeting, but you may leave at any time. The time you stay in the discussion is entirely up to you.
It is okay if you prefer to schedule all three days, but you only need to attend a single session.
Preferably, to accommodate time for all attendees to make their own contributions, please limit yourself so that everyone will get a similar opportunity.
No, sessions will start promptly at the time presented in the follow-up email you will receive after registering with the form below. Please save all suggestions and comments for the session itself.
Of course! Your attendance is entirely voluntary. If, for whatever reason, you have a schedule clash but would still like to join when you are free, please do so!
If you would like to, you are welcome to contribute after the plan is finalized by our Executive Board. However, if not, the EB can handle this process for you and keep you updated.
What will happen after Virtual Rounding?
LISTEN
As part of NAINA Family, we would like to hear from you. Please share your ideas, suggestions, expectations etc.
PLAN
Once we hear from you, NAINA Executive Board will discuss and strategize our plan for 2021-22 to make NAINA better.
DELIVER
We will try our best to make NAINA visible and accessible to all Nurses while protecting NAINA’s mission, vision and goals.
Any questions?

Suja Thomas
MSN. Ed., RN, CWOCN
Secretary
nainasecretary@gmail.com