OFFICERS
PRESIDENT: 
Ruth Sedgwick         DHMC     e-mail
PRES ELECT: 
Eva Daniels              DHMC     e-mail
SECRETARY:
Linda Thompson        DHMC     e-mail
TREASURER: 
Lorraine Heslop      Concord    e-mail

                    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

                         ABOVE OFFICERS, plus
Joyce Hurd                  APD       Second year of term
Monte Murphy              APD       Newly elected to the board

                   NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Monte Murphy              APD              Second year of term
Greg Moore                  APD               Newly elected

CHAPTER 3001 BUSINESS MEETINGS/EDUCATIONAL OFFERING DATES

MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT  

   In 2005 it seems more appropriate to wish you a safe and healthy New Year.  2004 ended very sadly and I can only hope that all this terrible destruction and tragedy can rally people all over the world to help each other and learn from this disaster in the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.  

   For the first time AORN Chapter 3001 is hosting an educational offering north of Hanover. We are meeting at the new Littleton Regional Hospital in Littleton N.H. We have wanted to bring AORN to the members up north and now it is finally going to happen! Not only is this a new happening but even more exciting is the formation of the new AORN Chapter "Above The Notch"!   Jeannie Courteau at Littleton Hospital is a contact person for this evolving chapter. Please come to this Saturday session and offer your support to this new chapter! Dr. John Sutton, Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of Trauma at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is speaking on Moose and ATV Trauma. This is a wonderful talk and he is well known for this lecture. Anyone who has heard it will tell you how informative it was. There is a fee of ten dollars and three contact hours will be awarded.  We will have an AORN business meeting after the talk. All members and interested nurses are welcome to attend. The date for this is Saturday January 15, 2005 at 0900a.m.-1200a.m. Morning refreshments will be provided. 

  Another event we will be hosting is something new for us. On Saturday March 5, 2005 at New London Hospital we are having a Perioperative Nursing Information Meeting. I am very pleased to announce that Elizabeth Berter R.N. BSN CNOR from AORN National Headquarters will be coming and will provide us with an AORN program developed especially for nursing students to create an awareness of what Perioperative Nurses do. We will have a panel of our members that will share what they do in their particular specialties. We can use member support, so if you're interested and would like to participate, please contact me ruth.j.sedgwick@hitchcock.org. After we have finished the Periopertive Nurses Meeting, Ms. Berter will speak to us about her position with AORN as our regional membership and retention liaison. 

  Don't forget national AORN Congress in New Orleans in April! If you've never been before this is a wonderful chance to mingle with nurses from all over the U.S. and Canada and other countries as well. Speaking of other countries, the World Congress will be in Barcelona, Spain in September 2005! 

   In February the nominating committee will be making up Willingness to Serve forms and next year's ballot. It's not too early to start thinking about helping out your chapter by taking an active part in its proceedings. Please take a moment and reflect back on your career. Notice I said career, not job. All of you who are members know that there is so much more to nursing than just going to work everyday. We have members in our chapter that have gone to Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Vietnam. They have taken their skills into third world countries and taught foreign nurses about operating room nursing. They did this with a solid foundation of  knowledge and good standards of care that they learned form AORN  (I'm not naive I know there were no windows in some of these places or if there were, they were open because of the heat, but these nurses could trouble shoot and handle difficult situations)  Share your passion! Participating in chapter happenings. This introduces you to colleagues, who may be able to solve a problem you have in your everyday work environment Participation in chapter offerings brings you onto another team where you have a say in what our chapter does.   That's how our education programs evolve. Maybe you have a special project you have worked on and would like to share it, you can do that easily if you are on the Board of Directors. I wanted to have a chance for us to get together and just have fun and I believe that was accomplished with our First Crazy Car Rally this past October. Try joining the nominating committee. It's a simple commitment. All you have to do is make up a ballot with the help of the Board of Directors and send out the Willingness to Serve forms. If you want to do something in nursing that will make a difference to your colleagues and especially you, help us out and run for an office or committee. We need your ideas .Help us by helping your chapter! Your nursing career will be enriched by the experience! 

  On May 7, 2005 at Concord Hospital Lorraine Heslop will be hosting an  educational program " O.R. Nursing and Sterile Central Supply- Partners in Patient Care".This program will offer three contact hours and the fee is ten dollars. Refreshments will be provided. 

  Correct if I'm wrong but wasn't it a nurse, Clara Barton who formed the American Red Cross? 

Hope to see you at some or all of these gatherings. 

Ruth Sedgwick R.N. CNOR
Chapter 3001 President

Ruth Sedgwick 603-989-9859 

Respectfully submitted,
Linda D. Thompson  RN BSN CNOR