Dear
AALNC Members,
As
promised in my last blog post, I want to share with you the goals of the AALNC
Board of Directors for the year ahead. We
will be working on the following in accordance with AALNC’s strategic plan:
- Increase
the number of annual Journal issues
- Conduct
a focus group to identify the educational needs of seasoned LNCs
- Roll
out the first phase of the new online course
- Develop
the second phase of the new online course
- Exhibit
at the NTI (critical care nurses) conference this month in Denver
- Continue
the free educational webinars about legal nurse consulting
- Explore
ways to partner with other nursing organizations
- Evaluate
the AALNC website to identify ways to make it more user-friendly and make the
information more readily accessible
- Exhibit
at AHLA (American Health Lawyers Association) in June in New York
- Pursue
strategic placements of our LNC Locator ad
- Present
to National Association of Legal Assistants
- Continue
position on ABA’s Health Law Section’s Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Taskforce
- Continue
position on DRI’s Nursing Home / Assisted Living Facility Litigation Seminar
Steering Committee
- Continue
position on DRI’s Medical Liability and
Health Care Law Seminar Steering Committee
- And much more!
To
accomplish these objectives, we are fortunate to have many talented volunteers
who generously give of their time and expertise. Leading these volunteers and driving our initiatives
are the chairpersons and other association leaders listed below. I would like to thank each of these
individuals for their efforts and contributions to AALNC, and I look forward to
working with them during the coming year.
- ALNCCB: Anne Meyer
- Director
of Programs: Pat Davis
- Finance
Committee: Mary Sussex
- Forum
Committee: Carol Walsh
- JLNC
Editorial Board: Wendie Howland
- LNC
Online Course Taskforce: Karen Huff; Sharon
McQuown; Mary Sussex; Elizabeth Zorn; and myself
- LNCC
Review Course Task Force: Karen Huff
- Nominating
Committee: Varsha Desai
- Products
& Services Committee: Erin Gollogly
- Research
Committee: Dana Jolly
- Scope
& Standards of Practice Taskforce: Elizabeth
Zorn
- Webinar
Committee: Marjorie Pugatch
Lastly,
and in line with AALNC’s focus on providing quality education, I am pleased to share
with you that AALNC’s Provider Accreditation by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation has been extended by an
additional two years.
Warmly,
Julie
Dickinson
President,
AALNC
860-208-6670
