NEOPANA

NorthEast Ohio PeriAnesthesia Nurses Association -NEOPANA Welcomes members and guests to our site

NEOPANA Officers 2020-2021:

President: Sally Swartzlander

VP Pres Elect: Debbie Wolff

Secretary: Jean Kaminski

Treasurer: Genie Chafe

Im Past Pres: Sarah Sanor

Board Member: 2022 - Pam Beard, Lisa Moyer,

Phyllis Mesko, 2023 -Teri Siroki, Marilyn

Lowe and Kim Bryan

Bylaws: Claudia Williams

Scholarship: Sally Swartzlander

District Rep: Beth Cooper

Nominating: Sarah Sanor

NEOPANA 2021 Meeting Schedule:

Students are welcome. For more information please contact Sally Swartzlander at sls2005rn@gmail.com

October 12, 2021 - Dr. Ayad at the Twisted Olive Restaurant. It is sponsored by a Drug company and will about a new dual anesthesia drug

October 18, 2021 - Reverse Raffle at Guys Party Center. We sell 90 tickets and 2 dinners for $125.00. We also have an open bar. It is a fun night. We will have 3 sidebar betting walls for $5.00. This money is used to give ASPAN conference scholarships to active NEOPANA members.

November 2021 - We will do a service project and it will either be serving lunch at the Canton Homeless Shelter or working at the Akron Canton Food bank.

Mission Statement: The Northeast Ohio PeriAnesthesia Nurses Association’s Mission is to promote the profes-sion of Perianesthesia Nursing and to enhance the quality of life for our members and the patients they serve."

Debbie Wolff received the Kent State University (KSU) Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award. She was nominated by KSU students and faculty for providing effective leadership, demonstrating compassionate role modeling, and sound professional mentoring.

Recipients of this award are a select group who have greatly enhanced and contributed to the quality of care provided by the next generation of professional nurses.

University Hospital Perioperative Services Newsletter Aug 2021

UH Portage • UH Super Star - Beth Cooper RN

Beth demonstrates a passion for education and hopes to be a shining example for others of how to become more involved in the PeriAnesthesia Nursing specialty. She continues to further her own education, mentor, and coach those pursuing CPAN/CAPA certification as a Certification Coach and is a member of 2 National Strategic Work Teams for ASPAN. Not only do we want to shout out to Beth for being such an awesome and passionate member of our nursing team, but we want to help her spread the word about ways to engage in our specialty!