NYSPANA

Welcome to NYSPANA website: home to about 800 members, making us one of the largest components nationally under the umbrella of ASPAN. We were a 2002 Gold Leaf winner and have been competing the past two years to win again!

We are a component of many national ASPAN leaders: former national presidents: Sandra Barnes and Maureen Iacono. Maureen and Joni Brady are members of the national Governmental Affairs Committee. Joni is also the Breathline editor. Wanda Rodriequez is on the national research committee. Maryanne Carollo is a former ASPAN region IV director.

MISSION: The New York State PeriAnesthesia Nurses Association advances nursing practice through education, research and standards.

We are proud to celebrate our 27th year as a component of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)

Message from the 2009-2010 President Judy Sargalis Sears

HELLO and a Warm Welcome to summer!

As I enter the last few months of my term as president, I feel honored to have served as the NYSPANA president. It has been a wonderful journey filled with networking, promoting education, research and membership. Our membership continues to grow and Districts are continuing to strive to provide education for member and non-member perianesthesia nurses.

I am concerned about the future of NYSPANA districts. As I look around, I see the same nurses serving as officers. The majority of the district and NYSPANA officers are of the baby boomer age. Most of these nurses will be retired in the near future. So, please think about becoming involved. We need the torch to be passed on to perianesthesia nurses of younger generations in order to secure the future of NYSPANA. Please place serious thought to this. We will give you the support that you need to succeed.

I started my year as president at the NYSPANA State Conference in Albany. Congratulations to the Albany District for hosting an excellent, well attended conference. My year will culminate at the first NYC State Conference on October 23, 2010. I am so excited that we were able to pull this together and have great rooster of topics and speakers. Details will be coming soon. I hope that many of you will join us in this milestone occasion.

The National Conference in New Orleans was a great opportunity for me to meet NYSPANA nurses from various areas of the state. It was an opportunity to network about the same and different issues each of us face in our daily practice. We also won the Component Newsletter Contest Award for the UP TO PAR in the 9-14 page category. The award is in recognition of outstanding presentation of information to the NYSPANA Component. I felt such joy and pride as I accepted the award for us.

We continue to have our challenges with the WEB site. We have made definite progress and are looking at options, which will bring further improvement to the site.

This is such an exciting time in perianesthesia nursing. The changes, advancements and technology are progressing daily. We are fortunate to be a part of this era of perianesthesia nursing. I hope that each of you will seize each moment to grow and challenge yourself. The best gift you can give yourself is involvement in the future. Believe me the rewards you will reap will by far outweigh the effort.

In closing I thank you again for allowing me to serve NYSPANA.
A quote from Margaret Thatcher for food for thought;
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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Highlights of 2008-2009 term

The Buffalo conference in October of 2008 (joint effort of BOD and Dianne Lysarz) was at the start of my term. Dianne and her team have worked diligently to restore District 15. This district is now considered a strong part of our component with two seminars a year.

Maureen Iacono and Tim Clark are working hard to restructure District 13 (Syracuse).

We sent delegates to Salt Lake City for component development and an ambassador to NYC for the NYSSA/PGA.

We applied for the Gold Leaf award and did not win again this year. I plan on helping Judy with this so we can be a winner in 2010!!

District 10 (Albany) gave a wonderful state conference in October 2009 thanks to Barb Occhampaugh and her team.

District 6 (NYC) is now up and running with Anne Federico as president. She is now planning the 2010 state conference.