2025 Annual Meeting: President's Call to Action

NEAOHN Annual Meeting April 2025

Welcome to our Annual Meeting: NEAOHN has strived to continue to stay true to our commitment to:

• Support Our Members
• Collaborate and leverage our collective knowledge, experience and skills
• Promote Professional Development and Leadership through education, mentoring, networking

Our 2023 Long Range Goals included

• Increasing Membership
• Providing educational opportunities at your desk
• Engaging new members to our Boards to carry us to the future

Membership:

• Recovering from the isolation and challenges of COVID, since 2023, we have offered unburdened membership to empower current, former and new members to come together and participate in NEAOHN.
• When chapters faced dissolution – we reached out and empowered them to maintain NEOAHN membership.
• As of today, we support: 10 states and over 1300 nurses
  • Each making a difference every day - with support of NEAOHN and state chapters only an email away.

Medique Awards:

Each year NEOAHN has spearheaded the states submissions to recognize the often “silent” work of our members and through the generosity of Medique, provide them with funds to support educational pursuits.

Webinars:

Since 2023, as of today, we have offered 23 Webinars attended by 1,555 members through the support of our member speakers, collaborating professional organization and colleagues.

Engage New Members:

Nurses have been empowered to join as New State / Regional Board members : ME, NH, VT, MA, NJ, DE

Special NEAOHN Thank You’s

Everett Sparks – long time active Delaware member, forever advocate of NEAOHN, Master of webinar Surveys

Kim Olszewski – former President of NEAOHN, Webinar Speaker – finally after 2 years… your award in person!

Chapter Leaders of all NEAOHN boards past or present, please stand quietly!

The best way to honor your service is to use the words of our nursing founders

Florence Nightengale: “Progress is born from shared purpose, learning, and service—a nurse never works alone.”

Clara Barton:”I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

Betty Moulder: "The health of the worker is the foundation of the health of the community."

Ado Mayo Steward: "Nursing in industry is not a new field but one which is constantly developing to meet the needs of both workers and industry." VT

Lillian Wald: "Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed."

We Need You to Help Our Organization Thrive!

Your voice and leadership matter.

Consider volunteering to speak, joining a committee or board, or mentoring others.

Your involvement helps shape our future and keeps our community strong.

Let’s grow together — reach out to us to become more involved- your reward will be great!

THANK YOU