Austin Emergency Nurses Association

Membership Committee

Chair – Vacant

Purpose:

1.    To develop and implement strategies for recruiting and retaining members and generation of interest in the Emergency Nurses Association.

2.    Monitor and promote activities or benefits applicable to the member at the local and state level.

3.    Conduct an annual membership campaign in conjunction with the national association.

4.     Develop a method of surveying members as to their needs

Governmental Affairs Committee

Chair – Curtis Townsend

Purpose:

1.    Identify and monitor pending legislation affecting emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS at the local level.

2.    Analyze pending legislation affecting emergency nursing, emergency health care, and emergency medical services, make recommendations to the Board for positions on such legislation, and draft letters for the President's signature.

3.    Actively lobby legislators, government agencies and other organization relative to TENA's and AENA’s position on legislation affecting emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS.

4.    Maintain active liaison with the Texas Nurses Association relative to government affairs for the purposes of bill tracking and common legislative positions where appropriate.

5.    Develop, and implement as necessary, a telephone tree of Austin ENA members for the dissemination of information.

Meeting/Planning Committee

Chair – Debra Rodriguez

Purpose:

1.            To develop annual budget for AENA bimonthly meetings

2.            Designate meeting sites for AENA bimonthly meetings

3.            Develop and implement strategies to reduce cost of AENA bimonthly meetings

4.            Update and maintain meeting planning guide

5.            Oversee and approve, with the input from the Board, any contracts for meeting arrangements

6.            Communicate with the Board agendas, room requirements and meeting requirements

7.            9. Serve as resource for local site coordinators for meeting planning

Professional Education Committee

Chair – Debra Rodriguez

Purpose:

1.    To develop and coordinate AENAs professional education activities.

2.    To provide at least one educational offering every two years.

3.    To coordinate with other state council committees and outside organizations the planning and implementation of education, prevention programs for health care professionals and the lay public.

Injury Prevention Committee

Chair – Jackie Gondeck

Purpose:

1.    To reduce the number of injuries, deaths and crashes due to drinking and driving.

2.    Increase the proportion of adolescents who abstain from using alcohol.

3.    Initiate early alcohol and drug awareness education and prevention skills.

4.    Provide education to senior citizens about the interaction of alcohol and their medications as well as highway safety skills.

5.    Provide occupant protection education to the general population.

6.    Support helmet laws and encourage helmet use.

7.    Promote collaboration in local communities to prevent injuries.

8.    Provide injury prevention education to the public in all areas including, but not limited to: bicycle and helmet safety, gun safety, domestic violence prevention, fall prevention, home safety and child passenger safety

 

Trauma/Pediatric Committee

Chair - Vacant

Purpose:

1.            To assist with the organization, implementation, and evaluation of the ENA Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) on a local level.

2.            To train TNCC instructors.

3.            To develop the appropriate number of instructors to support local and state.