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Greetings, NSNA members and future colleagues! I hope your July is filled with lovely summer air, warm beach days, and most of all, relaxation! One of the most important and effective qualities to being a fantastic leader to me is being able to communicate professionally and with personality. A visible quality in many nursing leaders that I admire is personality. But something that often gets overlooked in professional nursing leaders is also personality! There’s a pendulum between personality and professionalism and the best nursing leaders find that equilibrium. I am here as a future nursing leader to share some light on what I have learned to assist you in being the BEST nursing leader you can be! I’ve had mentors that have been strictly professional, strictly personality, and the best of both worlds. And I’ve found time and time again that the best leaders not only uphold excellent professionalism when called for, but know how to extract the perfect amount of their personality for the delegation, colleagues, and other leaders to see. An excellent example of this is our Executive Director, Dr. Kenya Williams. Not only is she a strong leader in the nursing profession, but everyone who knows Dr. Williams is not only a colleague, but a friend to her. Because of our similar leadership styles, I have learned multitudes of lessons from Dr. Williams. Additionally, while attending all the conferences I have, I’ve witnessed my own key takeaways and would love to share them with you!
Please leave any questions you have for me in the comments below and I will get back to you as soon as possible! If you would like to have a conversation with me on the side, please feel free to email me at president@nsnainc.org. Yours in service and signing off for now, Lauren
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Greetings, NSNA members and future colleagues! Continuing our previous discussion, I attended Hill Day in Washington D.C. with ANA and visited various legislators and staff members to discuss important policies related to nursing. The following day, I was able to sit in on the first Membership Assembly session where ANA discussed business relating to Bylaws, introducing ANA Enterprise’s organizational alliances, and more. That day, I had the pleasure of bringing greetings on behalf of NSNA in front of the entire delegation of the American Nurses Association. What an honor to be able to stand in front of inspirational leaders like ANA President Jennifer Mensik-Kennedy and the vast ANA voting body. I discussed what NSNA has been up to since the new election in April and how our current board is hard at work for organizing the best MidYear and Annual meetings for our students. I concluded my speech with best wishes for a truly wonderful Assembly and was shocked to find a standing crowd applauding the work of NSNA! It is an immense pleasure for me to bring this knowledge to all of you to know the kind of weight that NSNA has with nursing organizations upon graduation. It is never too late or a better time than now to join this incredible organization and be applauding the exceptional work we do for years to come. Afterwards, ANA held their dialogue forums. The three topics discussed were:
That night, the incoming Executive Director, Dr. Kenya Williams (Past NSNA President) and I held the annual NSNA Past Presidents Dinner in which we had a wonderful attendance from Dr. Mary Foley (current ANA Consultant to NSNA, Past ANA President, Past NSNA President), Dr. Pamela Cipriano (Current ICN President, Past ANA President, Past NSNA President), Kyle Loose, RN (Past NSNA President), Dr. Cheryl Schmidt (Current NSNA Consultant to the Resolutions Committee), and Sharon Lamberton (Past NSNA President). It was a wonderful turn out with many other Presidents missed greatly. The following day, two different sessions of the Membership Assembly took place regarding bylaw changes, elections of the American Nurses Association Board of Directors, and more. It was an incredible and very fast three days in which I saw many familiar faces from previous NSNA boards, met so many inspiring nursing leaders, and really got to put my advocating skills to the test. I am so excited to share all these experiences with you and please leave any questions you may have for me in the comment or feel free to shoot me an email! Have a lovely rest of your July and I will speak to you soon! Yours in service and signing off for now, Lauren   Me (striving to be a future ANA President) with the Past ANA Presidents! Greetings, NSNA members and future colleagues! I hope you all are doing well and having a lovely first week of July! This past June, I was delighted to have the opportunity to bring greetings on behalf of NSNA to the American Nurses Association’s 11th Annual Membership Assembly. Prior to the beginning of the Membership Assembly, ANA held their annual Hill Day in Washington D.C., where nurses from all over the United States (and some students, including me) were able to visit federal legislators and present policies and bills that ANA is hoping to pass for the future of nursing. ANA was asking legislators to support the following:
Stay tuned for part two of the ANA Membership Assembly! See the attached links for more information on the bills and policies ANA presented to legislators. Yours in service and signing off for now, Lauren   From left to right: Tara Shajan, Treasurer of the National Association of Indian Nurses of America, Kimberly Velez (Director-at-Large on ANA-NY), Jacob, a staff member of Hakeem Jeffries (NY), me, and Dr. Patricia Lavin from New York University (NYU) Hospital.  From left to right: Dr. Marilyn Dollinger, President of ANA-NY, me, and Dr. Jeanine Santelli, Executive Director of ANA-NY Greetings, NSNA members and future colleagues! I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the first day of July! Since our election in April, the NSNA Board of Directors has had an extensive board orientation and meetings in New York during the month of May to kick start this incredible year. We had two different workshops given by Dr. Rumay Alexander and Dr. Pamela Thompson that were excellent in helping shape our feasible goals and expectations for our tenure. Afterwards, we had two day-long board meetings, discussing various voting matters that our members will be happy to see translated from our resolutions on paper to in-person at our MidYear and Annual meetings. We even had time to squeeze in an excursion and see Moulin Rouge on Broadway as a board! Overall, it was a wonderful trip that I know helped all of our committees and board members feel more comfortable in their roles. Not only that, but it has also increased the working capability of our board as a team. We have exceptional communication, respect each other’s opinions, and all know we are working for the membership and nursing students across the United States in creating a better tomorrow for each other. Comment below if you have any questions for us! Yours in service and signing off for now, Lauren  The 2023-2024 Board of Directors with the incoming Executive Director, Dr. Kenya Williams  The 2023-2024 Board of Directors Greetings, NSNA members and future colleagues! I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the warm summer weather wherever you are in the country. Our NSNA Board of Directors has been hard at work implementing the change that was asked of us both during our campaigning and while seeing the change needed in office. Keeping our goals in mind as well, we have started to formulate plans of action in order to achieve this. One of my plans of action to address not only mental wellbeing, but also open communication is to create a NSNA President Blog. This will allow for the President to have dialogue with students on things that have been happening while in office that normally, students don’t get to see. Education can only advance through transparency with professional organizations like NSNA and I am happy to be able to bring this platform about. The NSNA President role is a tremendous one that often is unknown for specifics of what we do. I am happy to put this confusion to rest by introducing transparency, integrating innovation, and providing an extra layer of humanity back into professionalism. After all, humanity is at the core layer of our scope as nurses and if we are not humane, we are not nurses! I urge you to continue to check into this blog and your emails to better understand the role of NSNA, everything the NSNA Board is accomplishing through our activism and hard work, and futuristic methods that will help make NSNA better for the next generation of student nurses. Yours in service and signing off for now, Lauren |
AuthorMy name is Lauren Lodico and I am the 2023-2024 NSNA President. I attend Molloy University in Rockville Centre, NY as a rising senior in their traditional program. I am expected to graduate in May 2024 with my BSN and a minor in Writing. I aspire to be a future Labor and Delivery nurse with hopes to further my education by going back to school for my Family Nurse Practitioner and PhD, so I can have the pleasure of teaching future nursing students and conducting my own research. I have also published two novels and written several unpublished in genres such as young adult romance, mystery, suspense, and more. Archives
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