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10/7/2009

Terry Foster Receives ENA's Kelleher Award

Terry M. Foster, RFN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, CCNS, a clinical nurse specialist for the ED and ICU at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Edgewood, Kentucky, is the recipient of the Emergency Nurses Association’s Judith C. Kelleher Award.

The award was presented at the Anita Dorr Memorial Lecture and Luncheon Wednesday at Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. It recognizes a member who has consistently demonstrated excellence in emergency nursing and has made significant contributions to the profession.

Foster’s nomination came from Alaska, Tennessee and Virginia and included the following common threads: He promotes the professionalism of emergency nursing through the education that he conducts nationwide; he serves as a role model to others; he is viewed as an expert in the field of emergency nursing, and he lives the mission of ENA.

Starting at the ground up, Foster began his career as a night secretary, enrolled in nursing school and worked as a secretary. He completed his RN and has been a staff nurse, nursing supervisor, and critical care and emergency nurse educator.

“Terry Foster has been a member of ENA for more than a quarter of a century, and during that time, I’m almost sure that Terry has been a speaker at every single state in the United States. And, if you name the committee, he’s more than likely served on it. One of his goals is to see every emergency nurse become a member and reap the joys of ENA. Even on the worse days, Terry is able to find joy and humor in so many situations,” said 2009 ENA President William T. Briggs, RN, MSN, CEN, FAEN.

G.B.

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Emergency Nurse PPE

Bill & Flora Briggs

ENA President William T. Briggs and his mother Flora Briggs demonstrate the emergency nurse PPE distributed by the Massachusetts State Council to all General Assembly delegates Wednesday morning. The gifts reflected a portion of Briggs’ address to the General Assembly in which he encouraged all emergency nurses to laugh more.

A.C.A.

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10/5/2009

Tuesday's ENA Board Meeting Open to Members

ENA members in Baltimore for the 2009 ENA Annual Conference are welcome to attend the board of directors meeting Tuesday, October 6, at 1 p.m. in Room 339-342 of the Baltimore Convention Center.

The business conducted at the board meeting includes action items, review and approval of motions to further the cause of ENA and the profession, and to promote the mission, vision, values and strategic planning of ENA. The board will review and approve items from information, consent and action agendas.

The action agenda includes the review and approval of several governance policies and updates from the Nominations Committee and the Emergency Department Crowding Committee. A revised position statement on hazardous material exposure, a proposed fund for course dissemination in undeveloped countries and ENA’s approach to international collaboration will be considered by the board.

A general audience open dialogue regarding selected issues will take place if time permits.

Ginger Burns

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Still Time to Get to Baltimore by Car or by Train

If you live close enough to Baltimore to drive or take the train, you still can register for the 2009 ENA Annual Conference onsite for one or more days of STAT—Strengthen, Transform and Transcend. Just bring your walking shoes and take advantage of ENA’s biggest event of the year. Go to www.ena.org for more information.

Get There by Car

Routes to the city: All the major routes approaching Baltimore meet the I-695, called the Baltimore Beltway, which circles the city. The Jones Falls Expressway (the I-83) winds into the central Inner Harbor district, from the north. The I-395 comes in from the southeast, with good access to Downtown Baltimore and the Port. The Baltimore National Pike road (US Route 40) approaches from the west, from Frederick. The I-95 comes from Philadelphia and New York in the northwest and continues southwest towards Washington, DC, running parallel to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The I-97 leads in from the south, linking Baltimore to Annapolis. The I-895, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Thruway, bypasses Downtown.

You can drive to Baltimore for one day or more. Some estimates;

Washington, D.C to Baltimore: Approx. 55 minutes; 38.42 miles

New York City to Baltimore: Approx. 3 hours, 25 minutes; 193.44 miles

Philadelphia, PA, to Baltimore: Approx 1 hour, 58 minutes; 105 miles.

train

Get There By Rail

Penn Station, 1515 North Charles Street (tel: (410) 291 4165/9), is located about 3.2km (2 miles) from the inner harbor. It is served well by MARC and AMTRAK and has restaurants, ATMs, a postal vending machine, waiting room, phones, baggage checking, porter service, full disabled access and car hire. There is no integrated national inquiries hotline, so contact your service provider or relevant station.

Baltimore is situated along the north-eastern Amtrak corridor from Washington, DC to Boston via Philadelphia and New York. Contact your local Amtrak station for travel times to Baltimore from your location.

Get the Education, Networking and Contact Hours

How much time do you have? A couple of hours, a day? It will be worth your while to spend it with your peers at the 2009 ENA Annual Conference in Baltimore. We hope to see you there.

J.L.

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Meet Your General Session Keynote Speakers

Opening Session’s Juliet Funt has worn more than her share of interesting hats, but she made her mark helping companies, groups and associations coast to coast find solutions to the biggest business lifestyle complaint in America “Too much to do: too little time.” Her fast-paced and hilarious presentations have delighted audiences from third-graders to the U.S. Air Force. As the daughter of Allen Funt from the Candid Camera TV show, she has fun in her blood. (Thursday at 1:15 p.m. Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!)

General Session’s Joe Tye is CEO and head coach of Values Coach, which provides consulting, training and coaching on values-based leadership and cultural transformation for hospital, corporate and association clients. Joe earned a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Iowa and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was class co-president. He is the author or coauthor of 10 books, including Never Fear, Never Quit and The Healing Tree. His most recent book is The Florence Prescription, which describes a process for building a culture of ownership in hospitals. Joe has worked with dozens of hospitals across the country to teach values-based life and leadership skills and help promote a more positive and productive organizational culture. (Friday 4:30 p.m. The Florence Prescription)

Closing Session’s Jeff Doucette, RN, MS, CEN, FACHE, NEA-BC, is an extraordinary health care executive, international presenter and author. As a nurse executive, he has served in the capacity of chief nursing oficer, Stafford Hospital Center, associate chief operating officer for Emergency Services at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolin, and executive director and vice president of Patient Care Services for Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Florida. Jeff currently serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Men in Nursing and frequently contributes to a variety of respected nursing publications. As a national speaker, Jeff’s teaching style offers encouragement and motivation. Known for his ability to ignite audience members and empower teams, Jeff credits this to his passion for his profession. His stories are genuinely heartfelt with a rich blend of humor and inspiration. (Saturday 4:15 p.m. Privileged Interruption: a Call to Caring)

J.L.

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