Iowa Affiliate WOCN

 

 Health care professionals who provide care and assistance to individuals with wounds, ostomies and incontinence.

 
     
 
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January 20, 2012 Annual Meeting - Snow Date 1/27/12
Click HERE to View AGENDA

 

To become a member, please register through the national WOCN website and designate Iowa as your affiliate organization.  http://wocn.org 

Welcome to the Iowa Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse Affiliate!

Thank you for visiting the Iowa WOCN website. We hope you will consider the WOCN Society and the Iowa WOCN Affiliate as your professional organizations. The Iowa WOCN Affiliate consists of more than 90 active members from Iowa and surrounding states. We are unique to the WOCN Society having been one the first states to have the distinction of individual affiliate vs. a region.

We conduct our business meetings three times a year – winter, spring and in conjunction with our fall conference. Meeting dates, times and locations will be posted on this website. We use our website and email for our primary organizational communication. You will find meeting agendas, minutes, treasury reports, affiliate news, educational offerings, awards, applications, committee updates and links to other organizations. We also offer a GOOGLE chat room that can be used to network on WOC Nurse related subjects. Look for new website features in 2012!

The Iowa WOCN Affiliate sponsors an annual fall conference held in Des Moines. We put great effort into planning and organizing our conference. The festivities begin on Thursday evening with dinner, business meeting and a vendor fair. The Iowa Affiliate is proud of our collaborative working relationship with corporate vendors. On Friday we have a full day of renowned speakers presenting on full scope of wound, ostomy, continence and professional practice issues. We are also proud to sponsor an annual Ostomy Education Day providing support and education for people with ostomies and their caregiver’s state wide. Watch the website for details of both events.

Many of our Iowa Affiliate members are active at the national level of WOCN and WOCNCB serving as officers, committee chairs and committee members. We have several members who have presented at local, state and national conferences and have contributed to the Journal of WOC Nursing.

The Iowa Affiliate offers WOC Nurse Education Scholarships to nurses who have completed a WOC Nurse program. We present a WOCN Nurse of the Year award annually at fall conference. We are proud that fourteen of our members have received recognition in the 100 Great Iowa Nurses program. See the website for application forms.

We have a strong collegial group of WOC Nurses. I encourage you to attend our meetings to meet your new colleagues and become actively involved in our organization. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Barbara Rozenboom RN BSN CWON President Iowa WOCN Affiliate rozenbar@msn.com

 

 

 

 

 
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