BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President

Ann Bauer, LPN - Ohio. Ms. Bauer is a retired LPN and is also a Registered Parliamentarian.

Vice-President

Lola Crum, LPN - Missouri.

Secretary

Vera Brunson, LPN - Georgia.

Treasurer

Roy Wilson, LPN - Michigan.

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BOARD MEMBERS

Board Member

Mitzi Dixon, LPN - Arkansas.

Board Member

Tina Gerber, LPN - Missouri.

Board Member

Theresa Parker, LPN - Pennsylvania.

Board Member

P'Nina Sagraves, LPN - Florida.

Executive Director Emeritus

John Word, AAS, LPN - Washington D.C.

Immediate Past President.

Mattie P. Marshall, LPN - Alabama.

MISSION

To advance the practice, regulation, and education of practical and vocational nursing.

VISION

To be a catalyst for collaborative and innovative leadership in practical/vocational nursing education, practice, and research.

VALUES

• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Diversity
• Integrity
• Excellence
• Life-Long Learning

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
(3-5 Year Plan)

• Increase and engage membership.
• Develop current and new state-based membership.
• Provide on-line continuing education opportunities for practitioners and educators.
• Conduct research to develop innovative educational opportunities.
• Forge strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Advocate for public policy and nursing regulation.
• Collaborate to promote education, practice, and regulation partnerships.
• Promote professional and public recognition of practical nursing.
• Create innovative approaches to enhance life-long learning of LP/VNs and educators.
• Improve PN practice by developing additional certification.
• Create educational and practice partnerships focused on our core values.
• Promote a healthy work environment.
• Promote patient safety in all healthcare settings.

2010-2011 GOALS

• Implement strategies to increase membership.
• Evaluate current constituent state membership and member status with national organization.
• Implement strategies to develop and increase state associations.
• Develop web-based resources to enhance participation of NAPNES members.
• Create continuing education courses in both JPN and on-line for LP/VNs and PN educators.
• Develop innovative, evidenced-based educational standards in collaboration with other professional associations, lay public, employers and state regulators.
• Forge partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Develop educational materials promoting public policy and regulation of practical nursing.
• Engage PN schools, LP/VNs, and state boards of nursing to work with NAPNES to promote practical nurses and nursing.
• Create continuing educational opportunities for LP/VNs using media that enhances professional practice and a desire for life-long learning.
• Develop additional P/VN certifications that promote excellence and evidence-based practice.

Bylaws create, organize and set the general guidelines by which this association operates. For example, the bylaws provide for a Board of Directors, Officers, the maintenance of a national headquarters, levels of membership, and much more.

In addition to the our bylaws, NAPNES (like most organizations with a similar structure) also uses Roberts Rules of Order New Revised Edition. This book gives additional instructions on the running of our association in the event our bylaws are silent on a certain subject.

It is important for all members to know the bylaws of the association. Bylaws govern how you participate in the organization, how you can become part of the leadership and your rights, responsibilities and privilidges as a member.

Depending on your relationship with NAPNES, you will be granted certain access to our bylaws. The current bylaws were revised at the 2009 National Convention:

NAPNES Bylaws can be read on-line or downloaded for local printing or offline viewing.

If you are not a member and/or would just like to view the bylaws online, click the link to the right.	View Bylaws Online Anyone
If you want to print out a copy on your printer, or would just like to read them off-line, you may save or download a PDF File of the bylaws by clicking the link to the right.	Print Bylaws Offline Anyone
NAPNES no longer prints the bylaws in a booklet form. Ordering a printed copy is no longer supported.	Bylaws Booklet Anyone

At the National Convention in 2007, the National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service, Inc.'s Council of Practical Nurse Educators finalized a nearly 18 month long process to create a new document titled "Standards of Practice and Educational Competencies of Graduates of Practical/Vocational Nursing Programs". Below are links to get the a copy of the standards.

This history of the standards and their development is significant and worthy of notation. The process began in late 2005 with a call for nationalized standards from member states of the National Council State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). At the subsequent NAPNES Board of Directors Meeting, the board chose to accept the challenge and appointed Ruth Davidhizar, FAAN, DNSc., FNP, BC, RN to research and develop the first draft of these standards.

The first draft was presented to NAPNES Board of Directors in the spring of 2006. The Board of Directors recommended some changes to the draft that included some basic philosophies of the organization. A second draft was created and prepared for the 2006 Summer PN Educator Workshop.

More than 75 PN Educators from around the U.S. participated in the PN Educator workshop in June 2006. Prior to working on the standards, Nancy Spector, DNSc, RN from the NCSNB presented their research on evidenced based nursing education. It was the first time the research had been shared outside the NCSBN. Armed with the very latest research and the draft standards, the educators went to work creating the third draft.

Following the workshop, all 50 boards of nursing, PN Educator groups, and other key stakeholders were presented with an opportunity to review and comment on the third draft. Again, input was widely received from around the country.

A fourth draft was prepared based on these comments and made ready for the NAPNES 2007 National Convention and the Council of Practical Nurses Educators (COPNE) meeting. Again, Dr. Spector presented some landmark research on transitioning from student to licensed nurse and then the educators began the process to create the final version of the standards. At the end of the meeting, the standards were approved by COPNE. The final draft was presented to NAPNES Board of Directors and was unanimously approved.

In the end, the standards were reviewed by hundreds of PN Educators, regulators, employers and other key stakeholders. While not without controversy, the standards express a much needed expansion of the role of the licensed practical nurse for healthcare in the twenty-first century.

If you are not a member and/or would just like to view the Standards of Practice online, click the link to the right.	View Standards Online Anyone
If you want to print out a copy on your printer, or would just like to read them off-line, you may save or download a PDF File of the Standards of Practice by clicking the link to the right.	Print Standards Offline Anyone
NAPNES no longer prints the Standards of Practice in a booklet form. Ordering a printed copy is no longer supported.	Standards Booklet Anyone

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