2005 slate of candidates

AORN Journal,  Jan, 2005  

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As a director at Highland Park Hospital, I oversee five departments with a combined annual budget in excess of $60 million. Mentoring my managers' financial and leadership skills develops future leaders, guaranteeing a transition of talent. Team leaders run their own businesses or service, monitoring their volume while managing their expenses. As a whole, perioperative services continually meet or exceed budget expectations.

While a member of the Board of Directors, I have served on the Finance and Audit and Policy Committees, building a solid foundation for Treasurer. In the boardroom, I have participated in many challenging debates and watched how passion can lead us away from the fiduciary objectives of AORN. A successful Treasurer must be able to differentiate money versus mission. As your Treasurer, I will make sure the Association's money is managed properly and will guide the Board in reaching fiscally sound decisions.

We must find new creative ways to engage members and recruit new ones while supporting the mission and vision of AORN. Conducting Board chapter visits has been an honor and an opportunity to listen to the heart of the Association--its members. I will continue my service to the members, represent you in the legislative arena, and with your vote for Treasurer, balance AORN's checkbook.

Board of Directors (Four to be elected)

Susan K. Banschbach, RN, BSN, CNOR, is director of surgery services at St Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Okla. She earned her diploma in nursing at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa, and her bachelor of science in nursing degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville, Okla. She currently is pursuing a master of science in nursing administration degree from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.

Banschbach has been a perioperative nurse for 37 years and a member of AORN for 25 years. She is a member of AORN of Northeastern Oklahoma (1995-present) and the Oklahoma State Council of Perioperative Nurses (1997-present). She is a member of the Ambulatory Surgery (1997-present), Nurses in Business, Industry & Consulting (2002-present), and Leadership (1995-present) Specialty Assemblies. She has attended Congress 10 times in the past 10 years, three times as a delegate and three times as an alternate.

Banschbach received a board award from the Association of Surgical Technologists (2000).

Highlights of Banschbach's service to AORN include that she is a member of the Perioperative Nursing Data Set Task Force (2003-present). She was chair of the Membership Committee (1995-1996); Board liaison to the Academic (2003-2004) and Member Access (2004) Task Forces; and a member of the Bylaws (2003-2004), Policy (2003-2004), and Credentialing (2003-2004) Committees.

She was chair of of the Leadership Specialty Assembly (2002-2003) and chair of the Oklahoma State Council of Perioperative Nurses (2003-2004). She is chair of the legislative committee for AORN of Northeastern Oklahoma (1997-present).

Banschbach is a member of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (1995-present), the Society of Gastrointestinal Nurses (2001-present), and the editorial board for Point of View (2001-present). She was a member of the Premier National Clinical biomedical committee (1998-2003) and the steering committee for a high school Medical Explorers program (2003).