Member Committees
Archives, By-laws, & Governance
Purpose: Establish MAPHN organizational foundation
Activities: By-laws review
Goal: Review and make recommendations to amend by-laws
Conference Planning
Purpose: Organize MAPHN’s annual Conference
Activities: Set up location, time, plenary speakers, and other administrative details
Goal: Successful execution of conference, attracting more PHNs to become active in MAPHN
Educational & Professional Practice
Purpose: Maintain on-going educational programs that will enhance evidence-based PHN practice.
Activities: MAPHN guide book distribution and regional trainings, annual conference, collaboration with other state, regional, and national organizations.
Goals: Mentor/preceptor internships with academia, CEU programs, guidebook updates and regional training, scholarship criteria, and establishment of speakers bureau.
Elections & Awards
Purpose: Oversee and conduct process to elect officers and Board of Directors
Activities: Review and update nomination policy, distribute and collect ballots
Goal: Ensure orderly election of MAPHN leaders
Financial Planning
Purpose: Monitor and develop financial health of MAPHN
Activities: Establish fiscal policies - collecting, spending, and auditing of MAPHN account.
Goals: Explore current membership for grant writing experience, CEU program funding, and collaboration with state, regional and national organizations.
Membership & Outreach
Purpose: Recruit and retain members.
Activities: Maintain current membership list and contact information, distribute directory to new members, collaborate with Visibility Committee.
Goals: Establish regional chapters and encourage attendance at meetings, develop a database from directory information and maintain a PHN roster of mentors/preceptors
Survey & Informatics
Purpose: Determine the current informatics competency level and informatics and technology needs of Massachusetts Public Health Nurses. Assist PHN's to identify what they may need to build upon their knowledge, skills, and abilities in the IT area. Offer educational sessions to enhance PHN's IT competency. Resurvey the MA PHN's.
Goal: *Conduct and online survey of MA PHN on information technology. *Once data analyzed offer IT educational sessions. *Draft the MA PHN workforce survey #3. *Automate the next MAPHN workforce survey (determine frequency, how often to conduct survey).
Purpose: Increase the image of the Public Health Nurse and MAPHN
Activities: Fall/Spring MAPHN newsletter, monitor web site, market MAPHN at conferences, seminars and work-shops.
Goals: Investigate marketing resources - camera, display board, table skirt, establish relationship with local, regional, and state media outlets, and web-site improvements.
