What is your Board Doing For You?
NORTH CAROLINA: FIRST IN NURSING LEADERSHIP
- 1903 - NC Nurses established the first professional nursing organization in the country, North Carolina Nurses Association.
- 2003 - NC is the first state nursing board to create a 501(c)(3) foundation, the Foundation of Nursing Excellence, to enhance the practice of nursing in the state through support of research, demonstration projects and leadership development.
- 2008 - NCANS founded a foundation for NCANS
Do you have a ”first” to add this list? Email me accomplishments of North Carolina nursing at hypoderm@ncans.org. I will be happy to add your submittal to the list!
News from the President
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The Goals of NCANS are:
- To promote interest in professional nursing organizations
- To prepare nursing students for participation and membership in the professional nursing organizations
- To establish a better graduate-student relationship
- To promote unity and fellowship and encourage student government in schools of nursing
- To prepare nursing students and graduates for problems affecting nursing and community affairs
- To become familiar with parliamentary procedures and preside at meetings
- To stimulate leadership
- To cooperate with professional organizations in the recruitment of nursing students
- To afford opportunities to discuss student problems
- Board approved presenting Advocacy and Awareness for the Mental Health of Soldiers as the 2008-2009 Community Health Project.
Break Through to Nursing Projects
- Board approved proposing the continuation of the current BTN project “I can Be A Nurseâ€, specifically to develop a curriculum and implementation plan throughout North Carolina.
Becoming an Elected Board Member (link to becoming a board member page project page)
