ENA’s General Assembly delegates worked overtime Thursday to complete the business of considering 2009 proposed resolutions and bylaw changes.
One of the first issues brought to the assembly floor involved the official designation of regions to facilitate the election process of Nominations Committee members. Six regions were approved and will reflect membership numbers and geographic groupings and will include international members. The Nominations Committee was charged to determine the breakout of the states previously grouped into three regions.
Delegates debated the merits of term limits and defeated two proposed bylaw amendments which would have imposed restrictions on board officers and directors.
Citing fiscal and budgetary realities, delegates supported a bylaws amendment to limit the number of General Assembly delegates to 700. Some members believed it was not in the best interest of the organization to have an uncapped number of delegates.
Bylaws amendment 09-03, Annual Meeting Notice, calling for the posting of a formal notice on the ENA Web site 60-days prior to the meeting, was passed.
Delegates passed a motion to refer Resolution 09-01, Sub-waiting Rooms: A Solution to Emergency Department Over-Crowding and Extended Wait Times, to the Institute of Emergency Nursing Research. The General Assembly passed Resolution 09-02, Establishing Standards and Processes for Healthy and Exemplary Emergency Settings, and Resolution 09-03, Improving Pediatric Procedural Pain Management in the Emergency Department Setting.
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