Hi Everyone.
First I would like to wish
everyone a Happy New Year! We have some business and planning to do for
the new year, and I am looking for some help. Please contact me if you
would like to be involved in meeting planning or committees.
First item of business is our
member list. Below is a list of all our members. Please check to
make sure your name is on the list as I need to submit to INS by the end of
January. If you are not on the list and would like to become a member,
please send me an email and I will send you an application.
In an effort
to keep costs low this year and considering the changes made by INS requiring
you to also be a national member, yearly dues are reduced to just $10.00 per
person. Let me assure you, this is a bargain. In 2012 we had the
pleasure of some nationally recognized experts in Infusion Therapy speak
including Lyn Hadaway and Kay Coulter, we had some fabulous dinners. For
those of you who missed it the Mill House Inn dinner sponsored by Alexion
pharmaceuticals and featuring guest speaker Apurv Agrawal, MD was great!! We also had some
valuable facetime with INS director of marketing Jason Beal.
In addition, I have found a
great outlet for personal and professional networking while starting this
chapter and meeting some really fun and interesting people at our meetings over
the last year. Please encourage your friends and co-workers to come to a
meeting and get involved. We also had the pleasure of teaming up with our
sister chapter the Penn Valley Chapter. It has been very rewarding to
meet and talk with Peg Boyle the president of this chapter. They have a
lot to offer with experience and knowledge. I look forward to growing
this relationship and partnering in future meetings and events.
Yearly dues are now being
collected. You may mail to me at the following address or bring to the
first meeting.
Please mail dues to
Attention Hea Sook Koh
(treasurer DVINS)
152 N. Woodbine Ave.
Langhorne, PA 19047
I am currently in the process
or creating an INS library for our members to utilize for studying for the CRNI
or just for research and reference materials. I have had some suggestions
by members for what might be helpful but any other suggestions would be
great. I am also looking for someone to be “Librarian” this person will
be responsible for keeping, loaning, and tracking all DVINS library
materials. Library materials will be loaned to DVINS members who are up
to date with dues only, and will be signed out for a limited time to help keep
these materials available to all members. More information on this will
be given out at our first meeting. Please email me if you are interested
in the position of “Librarian”.
I am a little behind (the
holidays kept me very busy) but I am in the process or organizing an IV Nurse
Day meeting/celebration. I am also starting to map out our winter and
spring meetings. Our members from the Cancer Treatment Centers of America
are very interested in hosting a meeting at their facility (I haven’t forgotten
about you) so this is something I would like to set up in the coming
months. If any of our members would like to suggest a speaker or meeting
idea, please contact me.
The spring INS conference is
coming up as is the March CRNI exam. Good luck to anyone taking the exam
and be sure to let me know when you pass J as we love to
share good news.