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.

All this information will also be posted on our blog at www.delawarevalleyins.blogspot.com .