REGION NEWS

New Jersey Nurse, May/Jun 2004

REGION 1

Liz Burger, RN VP Communications

Please make note of a change. . .The June 11th meeting has been cancelled. There will be no meetings over the summer, but will resume in September; please look for future dates.

Sunday, June 6th Region 1 will be running a blood pressure booth at the Denville Street Festival from 12pm-5pm, rain or shine, and we will need volunteers to staff the booth for an hour at a time. If you would like to volunteer your time or if you have any patient teaching materials, you could donate, please call Vivian Contreras 973-625-2808.

NOMINATIONS: There is still time to submit your nomination for a Region I office. For further information please contact Eileen Specchio (973) 290-4073 or email: especchio@cse.edu, Ellen Ehrlich (973) 290-4072 or eehrlich@cse.edu.

Thanks to our Region I President Vivian Contreras for her work on the NJSNA convention in April.

Region I Board member, Dr. Eileen Specchio, presented her dissertation at Seton Hall on April 16th.

Our annual dinner at the Sheraton hotel on April 28th was a great success.

Lolita Navarro-Iqbal, MS, APRN, BC, presented the interesting topic of "Nursing and phsychopharmacological interventions in Depression, Dementia, Delirium".

Have a great summer!!

REGION 2

John Fajvan, RN VP of Communications

This has been a time of change here in Region 2. Our President, Sherri Boseski has resigned, and we wish her success in her future.

Our Vice-President of Communications, Scott Croonquist has taken over the role of President for the region. Some other familiar region faces have been appointed to the Region 2 board: John Fajvan, our immediate past Vice President to the Institute for Nursing, has assumed the title of Vice-President of Communications, finishing out Scott's term. Cindy Sonzogni, immediate Past-President of Region 2, has been appointed to the position of Chairperson, Bylaws.

We enjoyed meeting Region 2 members at the New Jersey Nursing Convention in Atlantic City in April, and we would like to encourage all of the new faces that we met to become involved in the Region activities. Anyone that is interested in becoming more involved in your professional organization, is asked to contact Scott (SCroonquist@humed.com), John (JohnJr1965@aol.com), Cindy (IMSCES@aol.com), or any Region 2 board member. We look forward to seeing all of you at our meetings!

Region 2 member and former NJSNA President, Jo Anne Penn is running for the office of ANA Board of Directors at the ANA Convention in Minneapolis at the end of June. Good Luck Jo Anne!

Region 2 is already making plans for our annual business meeting/ luncheon, to take place at the end of September. Anyone interested in assisting with this project, is asked to contact either Karen Long, Vice-President to the Institute for Nursing at Karen416@aol.com, or John Fajvan at JohnJr1965@aol.com.

REGION 4

Sandy Quinn, RN President

The Annual Dinner Meeting of Region 4 was held on May 6, 2004 at the Doubletree Hotel and Executive meeting center in Somerset, New Jersey.

A call for nominations is underway for the following positions on Region 4's Board of Directors; Treasurer, VP of Communications, VP of Policy and Practice, VP of Nominations and Elections, and Members at Large for Hunterdon and Mercer counties. If anyone from Region 4 is interested in running or would like to nominate a Region 4 member for one of the positions please contact Dana Robinson at DKR1002@aol.com.

A scholarship award was distributed through the Institute for Nursing at the New Jersey Nursing Convention to Region 4 member Suzanne Smeltzer for her Health Promotion for Women with Disabilities at Villanova University. You can read about the project in the April 12, 2004, Greater Philadelphia/Tri-State Metro Area issue of Advance for Nurses.

Congratulations to Sandy Quinn for receiving the Faculty Excellence Award from the National Coalition of Hospital Associated Schools and Colleges of Nursing on March 12, 2004.

REGION 5

Heather Keesing, RN VP Communications

Spring has sprung and summer is upon us. . .Some of our board members will be moving on and new ones will soon be joining us! By this time, we will have introduced all of the newly elected board members at our transitional meeting scheduled for June 24, 2004 at President, Shelly Schneider's house. The planned yard sale scheduled for June 12 may possibly be rescheduled for a later date that will be announced. Again, anyone who is interested in becoming a member or Member at Large (we can always use one more) for Region V, please contact Shelly Schneider at Shellyapn@hotmail.com. It has been a pleasure writing as VP Communications for Region V! I hope that everyone has a healthy and happy summer.

REGION 6

Anne Vitale, RN VP Communications

On March 15, Region 6 Atlantic County Chairperson, Janice Leach, facilitated a very informative program: International Nursing Care of Children with Facial Deformities. Barbi Harris, RN C, a member of Operation Smile, presented an overview of the outstanding work in third world countries done by nurses like her and other health care professionals and numerous volunteers. How inspiring she was! We also had a few non-members join our membership that evening, so they received a free dinner from Region 6.