Vol 13, No. 05 July 17, 2008
The July meeting was held at Café Pacific in Johnson City, TN. Hank Ringley with Pfizer sponsored the meeting, and our speaker was Juan Francisco, MD, Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist at the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, VAMC. He presented “Assessment and Treatment of Dementia.”
Presentation Highlights
Click Here to view the PowerPoint presentation.
Business Meeting
The regular meeting of the Northeast Tennessee Nurse Practitioners Association was called to order at 7:30 PM on July 19, 2008, at Café Pacific, in Johnson City by President Vickie Lewis.
Approval of Minutes
- The minutes of the previous meeting were unanimously approved as distributed
Treasurer’s Report
- $12,804.34 as of June 19, 2008
New Business
Old Business
- Nominating Committee has not received any nominations or volunteers for either the VP position or Treasurer.
- After some discussion, Connie Robinette offered to co-chair a position with someone.
- Linda Quillen volunteered to take the Treasurer position. A motion was made and seconded to accept her for the position.
- Members and Non-members need to EMAIL the nominating committee with nominations or volunteers ASAP. We need to vote on a VP position at the August meeting:
- Kathy Sharp mulekat@charter.net
- Tracy Luther lutert@charter.net
- Kay Bone kayandpatbone@aol.com
Legislative News
- Medicare Reimbursement bill vetoed by President Bush, Congress overrode; continue to monitor progress
Education
- Please consider participating in the National Memory Screening Day November 18, 2008 sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA). Contact 866-AFA-8484 or info@alzfdn.org for more information.
Job availability:
- Washington County Health Department in Johnson City
- Cardiology Associates in Bristol looking for NP
Next Meeting:
- The next NETNPA meeting will be held 8/21/08 at 6:30 PM at Gourmet and Company in Johnson City. Dr. Finley, psychiatrist, will speak on Seroquel.
- Please RSVP BY TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 to kayandpatbone@aol.com.
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