Nominations are OPEN for our 2022 Steering Committee Officers and Committee Chairs!

It's finally FALL in Texas (for now)!  As we get ready to celebrate National Nurse Practitioners Week November 7-13, 2021, we look forward to our annual Elections in November and the exciting opportunity to welcome new leadership for Hill Country Nurse Practitioner Association in 2022!

We invite you to run for office on our Steering Committee or one of our Committee Chair Positions - AND we're excited to hear some of your are already talking about it.

Remember, leadership in your professional organization can really enhance your resume, so it's a win-win for all of us!    

Full members who are or will be licensed APRNs by January 2022 can run for any of our Steering Committee positions, including Vice President, Treasurer, Social Media Strategist or Recording Secretary.  Full members can also run for Committee Chair of our Social, Education, Membership or Legislative Committees.  

All HCNPA members are eligible to join our committees, including our Nominations Committee, chaired by your Vice President and our Elections Committee chaired by our Immediate Past President. 

If you are interested please, contact Vice President Laura Greek at ljgreek@gmail.com or use the ENP messaging system (just click "Members & Follows" on the LEFT side of this page).  Plan to also submit a short bio for our ballot explaining why you'd like to serve in a leadership role and help our members get to know you! 

Details from the Bylaws

Candidates for our Steering Committee and Committee Chairs must be full members in good standing and APRNs as defined by the Texas Board of Nursing.

STEERING COMMITTEE OFFICERS

Vice President

• Plans, schedules and facilitates educational events, including recruitment of appropriate sponsors for dinner programs

• Assumes the role of president in both the temporary and the permanent absence of the president

• Serves as president-elect, to assume the role of president after completing term as vice-president

• Assists the president in delegated duties

• Chairs nomination committee 

Treasurer

• Manages the organization’s fiscal activities, including record keeping and reporting based on good practice guidelines outlined in Treasurer’s position statement and approved by the steering committee

• Researches and proposes to the steering committee a place for deposit of the funds of the organization

• Collects member dues

• Prepares and presents an operational budget

• Provides regular financial updates

• Disperses funds as allocated by the organization's membership

Recording Secretary

• Records, distributes, and maintains minutes of each meeting

• Arranges for alternate recording secretary as needed

• Assists social media strategist as needed

• Assists with election process

• Assists the president as needed 

Social Media Strategist

• Updates website and notifies members as needed

• Engages membership via various social media networks to promote the organization

• Disseminates written correspondence as needed

• Serves as alternate for recording secretary

• Assists recording secretary as needed

• Assists the president as needed

Committees

Social Committee

• Committee chair will be a Full Member elected to serve by a majority vote. Committee members may consist of Full, Associate and Student Members.
• The committee will be responsible for planning and organizing social events for organization members outside of routine business or steering committee meetings.

Legislative Committee

• Committee chair will be a Full Member elected to serve by a majority vote.
• Committee members may consist of Full members and Student APRN members.
• The committee will be responsible for providing regular state and national legislative updates related to APRN practice to the membership, assisting in organizing any lobby efforts as needed, and acting as liaison to government representatives at all levels

Membership Committee

• Committee chair will be a Full Member elected to serve by a majority vote.
• Committee members may consist of Full, Associate and student members. 
• The committee will be responsible for maintaining and promoting organizational membership consisting of new member recruitment, maintenance of a current directory of paid members and dispersing organization business cards, current membership cards, and additional promotional literature/activities as needed.
• The committee will serve as liaison to steering committee to ensure the needs of the membership are met by the organization.
• Responsible for financial audit annually in February

 Nomination Committee

• Vice President will serve as committee chair. Committee members may consist of Full, Associate and student members. 
• The committee will be responsible for recruitment of full members to run for elected office positions

 Election Committee

• Immediate Past President will serve as committee chair. Committee members may consist of Full, Associate and student members.
• The committee will be responsible for election process oversight in accordance with Robert’s Rule of Order as well as the induction of newly elected or appointed officers