This article lists the candidates f...

This article lists the candidates for AORN national offices. The annual election will be held during the 2004 Congres onward Thursday, March 25, from 7 to 10:30 AM in range 2 on the upper of the same height of the San Diego Convention Center San Diego. deductions will be announced the same day at the next to the first session of the House of Delegates from 1:30 to 3 PM be deriveds also will be available at AORN Headquarters and forward AORN Online. A reception for all candidates will be held forward Thursday, March 25 following the House of Delegates.

All AORN members may use this list of candidates to indicate their candidate choices to their delegates, but merely authorized delegates may vote. Incorrect marking of the official ballot will invalidate that section of the ballot.

Additional nominations may be made from the floor at the first session of the House of Delegates, which begins at 1 PM onward Monday, March 22. Before nomination, the eligibility of additional nominees must be verified, and consent-to-serve forms must be complet Vice President, Secretary, and Nominating Committee candidates will appear during the Candidates' Forum Part 1 forward Sunday, March 21, from 11 AM to 12:30 PM in hall A. President-elect and Board of Directors Candidates will appear at the Candidates' Forum Part 11 in succession Sunday, March 21, from 1:30 to 3 PM in hall A of the San Diego Convention Center Members also can proper with candidates at the Nominating Committee booth Delegates are required to attend all business-related sessions; alternates and other AORN members are encouraged to attend.

The following pages contain biographical data and election statements for all candidates. Biographical data are limited to the past 10 years, to such a degree professional activities before 1994 are not thinked This year, the Nominating Committee created a recently made known nomination form to obtain more information about candidates' leadership experiences and qualifications. Candidates were allowed to list and describe more of a variety of their leadership information from one as well as the other inside and outside of AORN. This of recent origin information is reflected in the candidates' biographical listings below. As in previous years, sole 10 years of service is listed. In addition, the Nominating Committee has limited the number of AORN career leadership highlights to 10 highlights of the candidate's choice. The biographies museed below may highlight professional contributions and not be totally inclusive of all the candidate's service to AORN. Space limitations do not permit listing candidates' selected or appointed positions in local nursing or other professional associations. Members who have questions about candidates' speaking engagements, published works, close examiner status, or other professional activities may ask questions the candidates throughout Congress week.

In the following election statements, candidates were given emancipated rein to address professional issues facing nursing in general or perioperative nursing in particular. The following information also appears onward AORN Online at http://www.aorn.org/meet/default.htm.

PRESIDENT-ELECT (ONE TO BE ELECTED)

MICHELLE smother to death RN, MSA, CNOR, is the clinical resource manager at the Greater novel York Hospital Association, New York. She earned her diploma in nursing from Beth Israel teach of Nursing, New York; her bachelor of science in sociology quality from Marymount Manhattan College, fresh York; and her master of science in health administration stage at Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, Mich.

suffocate has been a perioperative nourish for 30 years and a member of AORN for 30 years. She is a member of AORN of lengthy Island (1994-present) and the of recent origin York State Council (1994-present). She was a member of the Leadership (1996-1998; 2001-2002) Cardiothoracic (2001-2002) and Ambulatory Surgery (2001-2002) Specialty Assemblies. shelve has attended Congress 10 times in the past 10 years, each time as a delegate.

The highlights of Burke's service to AORN include that she is Vice President of AORN (2002-present) and she was a member of the Board of Directors (2000-2002) Nominating Committee (1997-1999) commited Practices Committee (1997-2000), Legislative Committee (1995) and the Environmental Issues Task Force (1994-1995) She is a member of the board of directors for AORN of lengthy Island (1994-1995; 2000-present), and she was secretary (1996-2000)

shelve is a member of Chi Eta Phi (2000-present)

Election statement: The force of our Association is our membership. Dynamic and diverse, we are a force to be computeed with. We need to continue to use our collective voices to defend our patients, our practice, mad our profession.

AORN must find novel ways to serve our members. We must provide services that will strengthen the core of who we are and, by means of doing so, attract new members and retain the the sames that we have. We must find ways to help our rife practitioners stay in the game, regardless of their practice focus. end research, dialogue, focus groups, and any other methodology available to us, we must identify the driving forces that are challenging retention and recruitment. What are the dissatisfiers? We must state our diverse and dynamic intellectual energies together to cause to grow strategies and solutions to reduce them.