Mu Psi-at-Large

LOCAL CHAPTER OF SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL

Welcome to our chapter website!

Members of Mu Psi-at-Large come from Queens University of Charlotte, Gardner-Webb University, and alumni from Wingate College. Members are invited and encouraged to participate in the chapter events and opportunities. This can be an active and exciting place for scholarship and fellowship with everyone's participation.

Informative and Thought-Provoking Program Presented
 at the February Chapter Meeting
Our spring membership meeting was held Tuesday, February 19th. In addition to the election of new candidates for induction into the chapter, Beth Martin, MSN, RN, CCNS, ACNP, ACHPN presented an excellent program on Palliative Care for the Critically Chronically Ill that ended in a very interesting group discussion of several of the important issues addressed in the presentation.  Members also had an opportunity to network before the program over a delicious dinner catered by Nikko's restaurant.

Plan to Attend!!
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Region 13 Conference April 18th & 19th, 2008 at the
 Harris Conference Center in Charlotte
Mu Psi-at-Large and Gamma Iota Chapters are hosting an exciting  two-day regional conference featuring May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA as the Keynote Speaker. Beginning at 6PM Friday, April 18th, with a regional meeting and reception, the meeting will continue on Saturday, April 19th and will include more speakers, poster presentations, and vendor displays.
Conference Brochure 
Thank you to our corporate Gold Sponsors!!
Presbyterian Health Care
Carolinas Healthcare System

 Annual MCONO Banquet - A Time to Celebrate Nursing!
This year's 22nd annual celebrate nursing banquet will be held Tuesday, May 6 at the Charlotte Renaissance Suite. Guest speaker will be Polly Johnson, Executive Director of the NC Board of Nursing. Details regarding the exhibit and dinner times will be released soon.

Are you interested in ways to better manage your nursing career, expand your nursing knowledge, or know someone considering nursing as a career? Let Sigma Theta Tau International help guide the way!

 CareerMap is a free service to assist you with all of these areas.

Check out CareerMap at http://www.nursingsociety.org/Career/CareerMap/Pages/cmap.aspx

The 2007-2009 election results for the Honor Society of Nursing,
Sigma Theta Tau International can be found on their website at http://www.nursingsociety.org/Chapters/Pages/delegates_ballot.aspx

The approved changes for the 2007-2009 Bylaws based on November 7, 2007 House of Delegates Meeting can be found on the Sigma Theta Tau International website at http://www.nursingsociety.org/Chapters/Documents/Delegates/Approved%20Amendments.pdf

If you scroll down, you will notice that there is now a date stamp to the bottom of the home page. This should eliminate you having to figure out how old the information is on the website or if it's changed since your last visit.

If you have more suggestions for ways to improve chapter communication, please email any of the board members.

Note from the President

Greetings! I hope you are all doing well. Welcome to the inaugural electronic version of our newsletter! In the interest of saving money on postage, we will email the newsletter to anyone who has provided us with an email address. We will continue to mail the newsletter to those individuals who have not provided us with an email address. Please let us know how you like this new format.

We held elections this spring for the 2007-2008 officers and committee members. Below is the list of those individuals who are serving our chapter: