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October
2009—Issue 3
Editor House of Delegates Officers: Thomas Lamphere, RRT,
RPFT Dawn Rost, BS, RRT Secretary Debra Skees, BS, RRT, CPFT Frank Salvatore, Jr., BS,
RRT, FAARC |
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Respiratory Therapist: Professional & Volunteer? Frustrations: Cheap Entertainment or Character-building Moments? Comments from Results of the
Summit Award-Chartered Affiliates it is Working! |
Camden J. McLaughlin Bill Lamb, BS, RRT, CPFT
Debra Skees, BS, RRT, CPFT
Frank R. Salvatore Jr., RRT, MBA, FAARC
Bill Lamb, BS, RRT, CPFT, RCP
Karen Schell |
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Speaker’s Report Camden J. McLaughlin As I am sure most you have noticed over the past few years, since I have the responsibility of contributing an article to The Record three times each year, that “I am not much of a writer”! Yea, understatement I know! Certainly my desire to provide you with HOD information is combined with the thoughts of sharing something inspirational, be it of a business, leadership, or faith-based sense. I have been privileged to share several inspirational moments in the House throughout my tenure, but the most heartfelt have involved the presentation of our American flag, and most recently at our meeting at Marco Island. It is an honor to present the House with their own American Flag, creating some history and a legacy for the 2009 HOD sessions. A friend forward the following regarding the symbolic significance of the folding of the American flag. This was news to me and thought you might enjoy! (Additionally, this is an unofficial script for flag folding and doesn’t appear in the Flag Code and has religious references. It is very popular among many patriots.)
*After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington and the sailors and marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for us the rights, privileges, and freedoms we enjoy today. Upon leaving Marco Island you received “The Big List to Take Home” along with “HOD TO DO List” from our Best Practices Committee Co-Chair Teri Miller (GA). I will ask you now and remind you again soon that “each affiliate” will be asked to report, prior to the December meeting, on polysomnography; “THE THREE QUESTIONS” AND your affiliate's relationship with your state medical board. I will share with you again how honored and blessed that I am serving as your speaker of our House of Delegates. Watch the new HOD list serve for plans and the agenda. I look forward to the meeting in San Antonio and will leave you with the following thoughts. Travel safe and God Bless! John Maxwell, in his Road Map for Success, shares that everyone carries the seed for success. When you understand the basic concepts about people, it opens the door to “your ability” to develop others; remember:
The more you understand people, the greater your chance of success in mentoring. ... [Top] |
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Respiratory Therapist: Professional & Volunteer? Bill LambBS, RRT, CPFT According to Webster, a “Professional” is “A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur;” a professional worker. A “Volunteer” is “One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will. 2. One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers…” We as volunteer leaders of the Respiratory Care Profession, through our participation as members and elected leaders of the American Association for Respiratory Care and its affiliates, must be dedicated to being both good professionals and productive volunteers. One of the greatest challenges that we face as Respiratory Therapist in present day is recruiting, mentoring and retaining outstanding Respiratory Care Professionals and exciting involvement in our great profession. The AARC provides outstanding resources to its membership to support and inspire professionalism, knowledge, expertise and professional involvement. It is a distressing reality that we have not recruited and retained more of our colleagues to be AARC members and more volunteers to be active at the District/Chapter, State and National Levels of our Professional Society. Being a professional requires inspiration: as respiratory therapist, we must inspire. Being a professional requires dedication: as respiratory therapist, we must be good examples of dedicated therapists. Being a professional requires being a member of your professional organization: we must be AARC members and recruit others to join us. Being a professional requires having mentors and role models: as respiratory therapist, we must be good role models and mentors. Most importantly, being a respiratory therapy professional requires taking exceptional care of the community and patients we serve. Serving as a professional and volunteer and staying active and involved in leadership at the local, state and or national level is evermore challenging. Healthcare is being managed like big business and corporate support and resources to attend meetings, conferences and leadership activities is diminishing. Over the past several years, I’ve witnessed quite a few colleagues and have personally experienced an employer (Hospital, Home Care and Industry) who initially encouraged and supported professional involvement in the AARC and other organizations, but subsequently discouraged or stopped supporting professional volunteerism all together. You have to respect and understand the economic pressures that the health care industry is facing, but are health care organizations and companies missing the boat by withdrawing support for their employees’ professional involvement; I think yes. So what are we to do? Recently, many of us have changed jobs, lost jobs or changed positions in part, to maintain our professional involvement and commitments; some are now unable to participate in state or national leadership roles at all, but continue to make great contributions as positive role models, mentors and caregivers in their communities. Many now use vacation or holiday time to attend meetings and conferences. Many struggle to get permission to take time off to participate. What can we do to reverse the trends that make being a professional and a volunteer so difficult? As members of the Volunteer Professional Leadership of AARC, we discuss debate, brainstorm and strategize how we might do better. We can’t change current trends and culture overnight, and some argue that recruiting new professional volunteers is a cultural challenge. Schools, work environments and society clearly mold our new professionals and may help resolve or contribute to our challenge. We can personally be better Professional Volunteers by just being the best respiratory therapist that we can be and by mentoring and inspiring others to join us. Maybe we should start an AARC Volunteer Institute to provide ongoing programs and resources to encourage and develop mentors and new therapist as dedicated volunteers to carry our profession into the future. To be professionals and volunteers, we must continue to be good role models and bring new professional volunteers along with us. We must be good soldiers or we may have a bunch of amateurs taking care of us in the future! ... [Top] |
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House Guests Aside from being the locale for the AARC Summer Forum and HOD meeting, the Sunshine State played host to our “House Guest” this time around. Kim Owens, a student at ATI Health Education Centers in Miami, was our guest in attendance at the Delegates’ meeting, yet one more student gaining perspective on AARC business. Kim’s trip to beautiful Marco Island was prompted by her program director, James Casanova, BA, RRT. Upon her arrival, she was taken “under the wing” of Mikki Thompson, Florida’s delegate to the House. Kim spent two full days trying to sort out the diverse concerns and issues that dominated the House agenda. Among other things, Kim ended up being privy to an interesting discussion regarding possible abuses in RT education. She’s already formed her own well-thought out opinions on RT education She feels RT students need more than two years in order to grasp the complicated concepts involved in mechanical ventilation. She also believes more clinical time would result in a better prepared graduate. Kim’s been a student member of the AARC since she started in the program and enjoys reading the AARC publications. She’ll graduate this November and is really looking forward to settling into her new role as a practicing respiratory therapist. She has her eye on working at Miami Children’s Hospital. But regardless of where she eventually ends up, Kim plans on staying in touch with Ms Thompson and hopes to actively participate in the FSRC. We’re all confident in Kim’s future success and anticipate she’ll put her enthusiasm and energy to work behind the scenes. Those who know her believe she’s got the potential to become a leader within the profession. All of us wish her the best in her future endeavors. There are fifty states represented among us. It’s safe to say that every one of our chartered affiliates is struggling with finding capable and dedicated volunteers. It’s everyone’s responsibility to nurture our young. With our eyes to the future, let us groom new leaders who’ll take over the reins of our respective organizations. Let’s welcome that new generation of go-getters who will ultimately fill the void left by the departing boomers. Students RTs are typically very enthusiastic about our professional organization. Research tells us that mentoring and involvement are time-tested ways to stimulate interest in leadership and governance. By supporting and encouraging students to learn more about our professional organization and the leadership opportunities it offers, the future pay off will surely be a much stronger AARC. ... [Top] |
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Frustrations: Cheap Entertainment or Character-building Moments? Debra Skees, RRT “If I am not part of the problem, then there
is no solution” It is said that on average every human will encounter about 30 frustrations each and every day. Think about that stat for a moment. Hmmmm… Makes even the most put-together person want to crawl back into bed, pull the covers over their head and “take a pass” for the day. Lately it seems like I have been over-achieving in the frustration category and since breaking my humerus (not so humorous), I have been experiencing more than my fair share, with my frustration-to-arm ratio more than doubled! It is also said that those species that don’t or won’t change with external factors are the ones destined for extinction. So in an effort not to lose ground with my one temporarily malfunctioning arm and the additional frustrations, I have adopted all sorts of tricks and short cuts that will keep me right in the chase of the daily grind. My mantra is “necessity is the mother of invention” which in action has given many of my comrades, colleagues and family moments of humor (ouch, there is that word again) as they watch me with my improvised ways to tie my shoes, put my hair in a pony tail, buckle my seat belt, or deal with the daily activities of the office. In the book How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stressby Anna Maravelas, techniques and strategies are described that keep the focus on the problem and avoid the inefficiencies of blaming others or self. Reading it was timely as I could apply these tricks not only at the workplace but as I dealt with the issues of having “one wing in a sling”. Frustrations now give me an extra moment or two to pause and appreciate my problem solving skills. Literally, I AM THE PROBLEM in many of my new frustrations. Truly there is no one to blame but myself and since I am not into self-flagellation, I get right on to problem solving and spare myself the unnecessary time loss and energy expended berating myself or looking for someone or something else to blame. The time from “frustration identified” to “solution achieved” is expedited. Hoorah! And even though I have as a by-product made someone chuckle at some of my solutions, I have tackled the frustration, with or without finesse, and we both have enjoyed the victory. Not to mention I can cross off one more of those 30 daily frustrations and shorten the list. One of the experiential learnings that has become more evident during my healing process is that blame, whether directed at myself or others is energy that could be used for creativity and expediting to a solution. I am ready to accept that the vast majority of people have good intentions, a different perspective, and information that we from our own angle could benefit from. Dealing with frustrations with a mind-set of curiosity and possibility helps to move to resolution faster, is less painful and without the gut-wrenching, ulcer producing analysis that comes when trying to figure out the ulterior motive. Believe me, I am game. The pace of life these days is too frenetic to take the long way to a solution. Arm in a sling or not, I am willing, ready and able to arm wrestle my frustrations. Who is your money on? AARC Financial Update
HOD Charitable Giving At the December session, the HOD will invite contributions with the focus on the International Fellowship. If you have not yet done so, please request your affiliate boards to consider a donation to help fund these international colleagues so that they can experience and share the important contributions of respiratory therapists around the world. If every affiliate was able to contribute at least $100, the HOD would be successful in providing this awesome opportunity to an additional fellow. Donations will be accepted during the agenda. As always, feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions about what would be beneficial to report on. Debra.Skees@Allina.com Best regards and Keep on keepin’ on. ... [Top] Later Guys! Ken Thigpen, BS, RRT, FAARC I can remember fondly that rainy day back in July, 1990 where I was first formally introduced to the AARC House of Delegates in Naples, Florida as the Alternate Delegate from Louisiana. It was the first of many wonderful opportunities to hang out with the best and the brightest this profession had to offer… I have been involved with the House either as a Delegate, House Officer, or AARC Board Member for all but two years since. I moved in 1992 and sat out 1993 and 1994 before returning to the House as the Alternate Delegate for Mississippi in 1995. These have been some of the most rewarding years of my life. I’ve met so many wonderful people and made more friends than I can count! (I am from Mississippi so I run out of fingers and toes pretty quickly!) I’ve had the privilege to travel to some awesome cities, although I’ve gotta admit that the meeting rooms look pretty much alike whether you’re in Vail or Vegas and it seems like that was all we got to see sometimes! The House Meeting in San Antonio will be my last one for the foreseeable future unless something unexpected happens. I want to take this opportunity to thank each one of you who have come alongside me and given me the privilege of enjoying the ride with you. You folks are the heart and soul of our profession! Many of you are there in the trenches, consistently giving it your best, keeping what’s best for our patients first and foremost. You guys are rock stars! I firmly believe that our best days as a profession remain in front of us—regardless of what type of healthcare reform bill might pass. We are about the right things and I believe our Maker will always honor what we do and how we do it if we do it in such a way that we honor His people. So how can we better at what we do? Make that commitment to always stand up for your patients. Make that commitment to lifelong learning. Make that commitment to always try to provide exceptional encounters for those you come into contact with whether patient, coworker, physician or anyone else… Thanks for letting me tag along with you guys—you’re AWESOME! Remember this folks—life isn’t about how to survive the storm; it’s about learning how to dance in the rain! Love you guys! Hope to see you in the future! Ken ... [Top] |
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Comments from Summer 2009 HOD Effectiveness Survey Great job—hoping and praying our state will be motivated to be a presented state (Best practices) next meeting. I like the idea of Brainstorm sessions for the purpose of formulating resolution. Well-run meeting—good job! Great job—speaker Cam McLaughlin, Best Practice presentations were all great. All of the House officers did a great job. Thanks for a good meeting. Thank you! Excellent presentations. Good material/ideas to bring back to improve state society and RC practice. Good meeting! Streamlined summer meeting was great but wished we would have planned early departure prior to meeting so my personal planning would have been different. Pluses: Minuses: Please pass to responsible AARC party that organizes HOD/Summer Forum to locate closer to airline hub cities to reduce travel costs for state affiliates. Using outlying (non-hub airports) cities can significantly increase travel costs and increase hotel nights due to late release of meetings. This has been a great HOD meeting, but there is some information, very valuable, that is not included in the book—especially the reports from the AARC president. Thanks. We usually had a stack of copies of the current AARC bylaws on the back table. I was looking forward to having it there. Best Practices is extremely important! Hotel service is not optimal—restaurants slow and non-responsive, staff not friendly nor courteous. This is my first meeting as a delegate. It has been a great experience and I look forward to many great meetings over the next 4–5 years. I agree with Jerry Bridgers that AARC should not offer CRCE—it is killing our state conventions—work with us! Committee meeting could be a little better organized, space provided and new delegate monitors toward particular interests. Designate areas, identify charges and tell new delegates. Some open mic times are not helpful and many go to the mic just to hear themselves speak. We should stick to the (2) open mic times per delegate. Having said this, I do feel that a lot of good can and does come from open mic time. I enjoy this new Head Table Group!!! J Open mic is often just a chance for those who enjoy the sound of their own voices to pleasure themselves. But I am not sure how to limit the rambling without infringing on the rights of those who have valid comments. Sharing “Best Practices” is my favorite part of the HOD. Please consider having meeting in different states (MS, NC, SC, GA, etc and at less expensive sites. Resorts are beautiful but costly. I appreciate the ability to move around scheduled topics to better fit the time frames. Excellent Best Practices Presentations. Consider venue that is less expensive outside of room rates. Don’t do as many Best Practices—just 3 and 15 minutes each. Great meeting! Thank you! Speaker-elect need to abide by the same rules for open mic as everyone else. Speak to discussion twice, take a place in list of people waiting to respond. See if the AARC can pick an easier link on the website for the HOD. We could get on by AARC number. Very well-run meeting! The membership report was much better this year. Good info without pointing fingers and laying blame. Thank you for listening to comments from last year. Best one so far! Perfect balance of professionalism and reality. I felt the most engaged. Limit open mic time to 2 minutes/speaker and stick to 2 times per topic per person. Limit Best Practices to 15 minutes or less. This hotel is waaay too expensive. $10 to park a rental car! Agree with discussion regarding HOD committee appointment by AARC President under the following terms: 1) leaving HOD office at completion of term. 2) Not elected to HOD/BOD position despite nomination. The persons in the HOD not recognized by their affiliate peers as leaders within the profession, we, the AARC, are advocating for recruitment and retention, yet some of our most valued members may not have an opportunity to actively contribute to the AARC’s missions. The AARC president should be provided with a list of outgoing HOD members to contact for committee appointment…relevant to area of interest. Why invest in mentoring our leaders if we simply allow those people who wish to remain involved to disappear? Retain and motivate should be our focus for continued success. Our future deserves the efforts. Best practices give us ideas to take back to the state levels. Great Meeting. Felt like there was a bit of disconnect/lack of communication/direction prior to the meeting. It appears that Pat has been doing most of our work for us and we really didn’t know how much she was doing. Would encourage comments from Head Table to follow etiquette and be recognized by Speaker. Fair is fair. Good Best Practices presentations, but a little long-winded. Resolution Committee obstructs the ability to submit resolutions that may cause ExOfficer and/or BOD to change their ways. Find meeting sites that aren’t so remote and expensive. I thought continental breakfast included fruit. Ran out of bagels before 8am. Better time management: we could have left Tuesday evening if we had known we would adjourn early. ... [Top] |
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Results of the Summer 2009 HOD Effectiveness Survey 81 surveys were returned. SA= Strongly agree A= Agree D= Disagree SD= Strongly disagree N= No opinion
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HOD Past Speaker Report Frank R. Salvatore Jr., RRT, MBA, FAARC Let me dispense with the formalities for the last time before I get into my article for this month: Past Speaker Goals and Objectives for 2009:
Last AARC Record Article as a Member of
the HOD I have heard of the trials and tribulations of the HOD from years past (sit down with my best friend Jerry Bridgers from Mississippi and you’ll understand the statement). But I have to tell you that my experience in the House has taught me a lot about our profession and the myriad of people who make up the professionals known as Respiratory Therapists. During my time in the House as a delegate, treasurer and finally as speaker, I have learned that the House of Delegates is a body that has the ability to direct our profession. I think sometimes we may forget that. We may approve the AARC budget and fight about what we see or don’t see in it, but in the long run our role is to participate in the governance and the setting of goals and objectives of the Association. We don’t create Association policy nor do we take on the burden of having a fiduciary responsibility to the Association. We really have a unique relationship to help guide our Association and ultimately the Profession. How do we do that? We offer resolutions to the AARC Executive Board and Board of Directors in order to make them aware of what our constituents (the grass-roots member) feels is important to our professions well being. This is not a comment on those groups being out of touch with our profession, but in contrast, it helps them to make sense of everything they hear. No one person knows all and that is why I believe the founding professionals who started our national association created the House of Delegates. I encourage those of you who will remain in this great House to continue to hone in on the quality of the resolutions and the resolution process. I know we have had our moments of stress and tension when dealing with the resolutions over the past few years, but I can truly say the process has evolved to a higher form and it could only happen with your hard work. Forgive me for repeating this, but it is an honor to not only have been a peer, but also haven been chosen to lead this great institution. I will always treasure the time I have spent in this body and the long-lasting friendships it has brought me. In closing, I am feeling like a great period of service in my life is ending. Before you know it, we will be in San Antonio for the fall meeting. My service to the HOD will be in its waning months when you finally read this. I ended my July article with this thought, but it is an important one for me. If can leave one legacy of my time serving our profession in the HOD, I would like there to be a comment that there was a renewed vigor toward advocating for our profession and the patients we serve. Thank you again for the opportunity to serve. If you need to get hold of me, please feel free to contact me at anytime. You can reach me at fsalvatore@ormc.org or you can call me at (845) 551-8945. I look forward to seeing all the delegates in San Antonio this December. ... [Top] |
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I Am a Respiratory Therapist—A Long Summer Bill Lamb, Being a RT carried me through the summer. While in college majoring in basketball (on athletic scholarship which is the only reason I went) and working in Housekeeping at the local hospital, I became interested in Respiratory Therapy. The Human Resources Assistant Director befriended me to discuss allied health care options such as pharmacy, radiology, physical therapy and respiratory therapy. I perceived that respiratory therapist must be really important as I often witnessed them leave a full tray of food to run to a code blue, plus they had some really nice people working in their department. I cleaned the pharmacy routinely but cleaned respiratory therapy on the weekends. I often talked with the respiratory therapist about their jobs and how they liked them & became very interested in respiratory therapy. Midsummer that year, the HR Assistant Director pulled me aside and told me about a respiratory therapy technician position that had been posted. He explained that it was every other weekend and one evening a week cleaning equipment and doing oxygen rounds and some therapy and that I would make as much money as I did working in housekeeping ten six hour evenings per pay period. I went for it! I was interviewed and hired and my love affair with respiratory therapy began. I forfeited a year of athletic scholarship and transferred to a college offering respiratory therapy the next year. I played basketball there too but that college was not able to give athletic scholarships. During my first year of respiratory therapy school, I took a full time night shift position and got married. Before my first year was complete, I was made the night shift supervisor. Thank God I chose to be a respiratory therapist. I graduated respiratory therapy school and became the clinical coordinator at that hospital. Five years later I transferred to the children’s hospital in that network as assistant director and became Manager, Director and administratative director over several departments. I am so glad I became a respiratory therapist! I left the hospital in the mid 90’s and started working as a clinical specialist for industry; worked my way into sales and then changed jobs in 2002 as a clinical specialist, then manager and director for a medical specialty distributer and its sister home health company. It started to be another routine Monday in June when I went to my weekly meeting with my vice president; I noticed a more serious look than usual when I sat down for the meeting. I was then informed that the company was restructuring and that my position was eliminated. I was in shock and very worried, especially with this economy; but as I drove home I remembered that I am a Respiratory Therapist and that there would be an opportunity for me somewhere. Indeed there was: I was offered a position as a regional manager with a major manufacturer. This would be a great job. They were also very supportive of me being a respiratory therapist and a professional (AARC Involvement, a Delegate and etc.). Unfortunately, the Friday before I was to start in late June, I was contacted and the offer was withdrawn. This time I was in shock and numb, but my wife & support group reminded me that I was a respiratory therapist and that I would be fine. My support group was right! I was offered opportunities as a staff therapist in hospitals, a respiratory therapy supervisor position, an educator position and a clinical implementation specialist position with a ventilator company. I choose the clinical implementation specialist position as they are a great company and support and encourage my involvement in my state society and the AARC. Thank God I am a Respiratory Therapist. As Respiratory Therapist, we have so many wonderful opportunities: hospital, home care, management, administration, research, clinical specialist in industry, sales and on and on. My good friend Jerry Bridgers, who just retired on Wednesday 29 June, told me a story of his mentor-advisor, a physician, who told him early in his career that being a respiratory therapist would put food on his table and, if he dedicated himself to it, RT would not let him down. This was very good & true advice. I love my profession and it didn’t let me down. I am proud to say that I AM A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST! ... [Top] |
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Summit Award-Chartered Affiliates Achieving Excellence Gary Wickman,
BA, RRT The Summit Award is the award given to recognize Chartered Affiliates that have demonstrated excellence in supporting their membership and our patients. The Affiliates do this through promoting public awareness of Respiratory Care, supporting advocacy for our patients and the profession, providing education to the membership and the community and promoting membership in the profession. The Chartered Affiliates Committee asks for applications for this award in January of each year and all Chartered Affiliates have the opportunity to submit an application. We take applications until the end of March. The committee then evaluates the submissions and identifies the Chartered Affiliate who, in their estimation, has done the best work for the last year to pick the Summit Award winner. The Committee is working to improve the application process to make it easier for the Affiliates to submit their applications and to better identify the criteria they will be evaluated on. We are also working to make the evaluation process more objective to make the committee’s work easier as well. This year we had 12 Chartered Affiliates submit applications. They all did great work and we wanted to identify some of the great things that each Affiliate did last year. The list is in alphabetical order not in order of achievement. Arkansas Georgia Hawaii Illinois Indiana Kansas Missouri Nebraska North Carolina Pennsylvania South Carolina Virginia As you can see the 12 applicants for this year were very engaged in activities that supported their membership, promoted public awareness and advocacy and supported the community. I know that all Affiliates do this work and would like to see more applicants for the Summit Award next year. We all learn from each other and we can use some of the great things that each Affiliate has done to promote the profession. This year’s award will be given at the Annual AARC Business Meeting in San Antonio. Be sure to attend the meeting to find out which of these Affiliates have won the award this year. ... [Top] |
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Thanks to You, it is Working!
Karen Schell Thanks to you, affiliate best practices are being shared! Affiliate Best Practice Committee continues to share successes that your affiliates are doing. A great example has been the success of sharing affiliate policy and procedures. A best practice presentation of sharing policies has generated many affiliates to inquire and proceed with developing their own polices and procedures. I have six states that have sent me polices and over 19 states requesting them. As you develop and approve your policy manuals, please forward them to me at ksschell@newmanrh.org and I will continue to compile them for all to share. As we discussed at the winter meeting last December, Sherry Milligan informed us that their would be a software purchase that we can place this information on to share sometime this fall or winter by the AARC. The committee has several presentations ready for presenting at the winter meeting and is looking forward to sharing them with all of you. We continue to receive great ideas for future presentations and even have some lined up for the summer meeting. Remember, many of you are doing great things in your state and we want to share. If you have any recommendations, presentations, or practices that you would be willing to share, please let me know. Don’t forget to use our “Big List” of important items to take home from the summer meeting and our “To Do List” in assisting you in keeping your state informed of activities at the national level. We will see you in December with more ideas to take back home! Thanks to the committee and to those who will be presenting at the winter meeting and to those who have presented their affiliate best practices in the past. You can access past presentations at http://www.aarc.org/state_society_aarc_hod/. … [Top]
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House Officer Nominee Profiles Each candidate for an Officer position in the House of Delegates is asked to complete a profile form. They are included in this issue of the Record so Delegates may review them. Officer candidates for 2010, to be elected at the December, 2009 meeting, in reverse alphabetical order (because the people at the end of the alphabet rarely get to be listed first or sit at the front of the class in school), are: Speaker Elect Karen Schell Secretary Sheri Tooley-Peters Treasurer Gary Wickman .... [Top] |
