The Spring 2007 newsletter has been posted to the website on the Newsletter page. We will no longer be mailing the newsletter to your home.

Are you interested in attending the National ENA conference as a delegate? If so, please fill out a delegate application form. It can be downloaded from the Forms/documents page. Please note that if you downloaded it prior to today, May 23, you need to download it again to get the correct address to mail them to.

Click on the link below to see how the Michiana Chapter ENA had a lot of fun teaching seatbelt safety at the Children's Museum in April.


Michiana ENA Nurses teach seatbelt safety

Just a note to wish all of you Happy Nurses Day 2007 and give a few
accolades to two very special Emergency Nurses.

The Indy Star Salute to Nurses chose Kim White RN, MS Manger of
Emergency Services as the nurse of the year. Kim received honorable
mention last year during the salute to nurses and was nominated for her
excellent customer service in the hospital. This year she was nominated
for her excellent service to the community. She was nominated by
Victoria Baker of the Cummins Child Development center for the volunteer
work she does in reviewing and recording immunization records for
children, offering training for 50 employee and also parent training on
how to keep children well, the importance of immunizations for children
and safety for children.
Kim says she was very surprised when she found that she won this year.
She says she was meant to be a nurse and highly encourages nursing as a
great specialty for everyone. Congratulations Kim from ENA!

Sue Dunham RN, Clinical Manager Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center,
Methodist Hospital Indianapolis was given the Lifetime of compassion
award from the Indy Star "Salute to Nurses". she was nominated by
fellow co-worker Deb Fabert RN who spoke of Sue as a mentor, who taught
me skills, helped me develop my sixth sense and taught me how to connect
to my patients by truly caring about them. Sue was a founding member of
the Indy Roadrunners Chapter of ENA and has been a TNCC instructor for
many years. Sue currently is an appointed member of the EMS commission
for the state of Indiana as a nurse liaison. She as traveled with the
CART racing team for 19 years. Sue is passionate about Emergency
Nursing and has worked from the bottom upward in her many years at
Methodist Hospital. Sue has worked in many different roles in the
Emergency Dept and is a testament to hard work and perseverance will get
you where you want to be. Congratulations Sue from ENA.

Congratulations to Andrew Bowman RN, MSN, TNS, CTRN, CCRN-CMC, BC,
CVN-I, CEN, FACCN, NREMT-P Who just Graduated from Southern Indiana
University with a Masters in Nursing.
We should all wish to have the string of letters after our names. It
just goes to show that the more you study the more you think you need to
know.

Thanks to all the Hardworking Emergency Nurses this Nurses Week 2007!

Terrie Will, Indiana ENA President 2007