INSIDE AVA
INSIDE AVA: NOTES FROM THE EXECUTIVE TEAM Cate Brennan, MBA, CAE, AVA Chief Executive Officer Tonya Hutchison, CAE, AVA Chief Operations Officer
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY The last few months have been busy ones for AVA volunteers and staff. Tonya and I are pleased to announce that Jennifer Finlayson joined the staff as our muchneeded Administrative Assistant in April. Here are a few of the highlights, in case you missed them.
NEW STRATEGIC PLAN The Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan in February. The plan focuses on the member benefits AVA does best: providing the best-quality continuing education to improve clinical practice and workforce entry, featuring the Fundamentals of PIV 3-part course. New in this updated plan is a focus on building awareness of the value of vascular access specialists with employers, public policy makers, and like-minded organizations. AVA has a renewed focus on advocating for VA clinicians and patients. Advocacy takes many forms, including Vascular Access Specialty Day and demonstrating that AVA is the dominant thought leader in vascular access. The Board also put a special emphasis on diversifying AVA’s membership. We want membership to mirror the multi-disciplinary healthcare teams found in your workplace. Please help us recruit more physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, radiologic technologists, and others in order to strengthen AVA’s voice and impact.
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CARES BY AVA Working with the over 50 AVA Networks, a joint membership recruitment and retention campaign was launched: CARES by AVA. CARES stands for Competency • Action • Results • Education • Satisfaction. This marks the first time AVA and its networks have had a coordinated effort to recruit new members to both AVA and its Networks. An important aspect of CARES is that AVA can now collect dues for the Network. Being able to pay both Network and national dues is a huge convenience for our future and current members. A big “thank you” to MOKanVAN and COVAN for being the first to sign up! New members to AVA also receive a special, one-time discount of 20 percent off, which makes first-year dues $99. If your Network hasn’t signed up for CARES yet, contact cbrennan@avainfo.org.
NEW INDUSTRY PARTNERS AVA is pleased to introduce its new Industry Partners: AccuVein – Its corporate statement is, “AccuVein is a global leader in medical imaging solutions. Vein illumination with our breakthrough device, allows health care professionals to see a map of peripheral veins on the skin’s surface with the goal of improving venipuncture, the most commonly performed invasive medical procedure, and other vascular access procedures.”
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MAY 2022 | VOLUME XII | ISSUE 2
