January 20,
2012 Annual Meeting - Snow Date 1/27/12
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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
