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Create a personal MedActionPlan for every patient

MedActionPlan.com provides the healthcare industry with a family of powerful, web-based applications that allow healthcare providers to create personalized schedules for their patients. MedActionPlan includes images of pills, special instructions, health records, insulin charts and checklists, and are designed to empower the patient toward self-managed care. The program is available in both English and Spanish.

ITNS held its first electronic election in 2007. The process went very smoothly with a larger than usual number of members voting and with election results known within minutes of the ballot deadline.  Please join me in congratulating your new BOD and thanking the other well qualified candidates who participated in the election.

President-elect:
Clare Whittaker. BSc [Hons]
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist
Royal London Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Did you know that the ITNS bylaws can be found on the ITNS web site?

Did you know that about every two years the BOD painstakingly review the bylaws? They look for everything from previously missed typos to suggesting updates that reflect changes in terminology and advances in technology. The goal is not to make the bylaws longer or shorter, but to better reflect the goals, mission and governance of the organization. This is also a good time for both the Board and the Membership to think about the complexity of the organization and what it takes to keep ITNS moving forward.

Sabina De Geest, PhD, and Ann Cashion, PhD were each nominated for this prestigious honor by two current Academy Fellows and selected by a fifteen-member Fellow Selection Committee for their outstanding achievements in the nursing profession. Drs. De Geest and Cashion were formally inducted as Fellows with fifty-three other nurse leaders during the Academy’s Annual Awards Ceremony and Induction Banquet in Miami, FL in November of 2006.

The Academy is constituted to anticipate national and international trends in health care, and address resulting issues of health care knowledge and policy. Not only is the invitation to Fellowship recognition of one’s accomplishments within the nursing profession, but also it affords an opportunity to work with other leaders in health care in addressing the issues of the day. The Academy’s mission is to serve the public and nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge.