Our Mission

To promote the National
Standards of the health care laboratory sciences within the state.
To provide opportunity for increasing technical knowledge of our members
and to support both National and State organizational goals.
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President's Message
Greetings
to all NVSSAMT members from cold, snowy northern Nevada! I hope that
2008 has been a good year for all of you. I know the economy has finally
been declared to be in recession and I’m sure that affects many of you.
So far, our hospital has only eliminated overtime for all employees. And
of course we have additional work to fit into our shifts.
We had a
good meeting last September 18 here in Reno at the American Red Cross
and at Career College of Northern Nevada with great instructors. We had
a CPR class at the Red Cross, and two classes at CCNN; one on EKGs and
one on coding. It was a good learning day. Afterward, we had a business
meeting and a short board meeting. Your NVSSAMT Board Members will be
meeting again in April, so be sure to contact any one of us before then
if you have any concerns or issues you would like brought to our
attention. Also, if there are any topics you would like to see at our
next scientific meeting, be sure to let us know before April as well,
since we will be planning for it then. My phone number and email are on
this newsletter and on our website as well. This scientific meeting will
be held next fall in Las Vegas. Be watching for the date in our next
newsletter in the summer.
And the
dates to keep on your calendar for the AMT National Meeting next year
are June 22-26, 2009. It will be held in Minneapolis. Be sure to watch
for more information either on AMT’s website or in one of AMT’s national
publications. 2008’s National Meeting was in Providence, RI, and was a
very good meeting. The classes were great as usual, as were the special
speakers. Thursday night’s award banquet was an evening at the
beach--complete with the occasional seagull landing on unsuspecting
guests! It was nice to see deserving recipients receive their awards.
We, your officers, are working hard to be an “Honor Roll” State Society.
Please do contact us with ideas!
Thank you
for allowing me to serve you this year!
Sincerely,
Juanita
Stocke, MT (AMT)
NVSSAMT
President
District Councilor's Message
Greetings Fellow Western
District AMT Members,
It certainly did seem
early to “spring forward” last weekend; but that just means there is a
reason my daffodils are in bloom. I hope this finds you each eagerly
anticipating your spring state meeting where you will plan for your trip
to the 71st Annual Convocation and Educational Meeting in
Minneapolis, June 22 – 27 where we will celebrate AMT’s 70th
birthday! If you have not already starting looking for flights, it is
time to do so. The sooner you book them, the more cost effective it will
be. Also, this year you can register for the meeting on the new AMT
website at
www.AMT1.com. Check out your AMT Events for
full information. The meeting promises to be very informative and
exciting with our keynote speaker being Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot of US
Airways flight 1549 that crashed into the Hudson River in New York on
January 15, 2009. Educational speakers will include among others,
providers from Mayo clinic. The Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport
Hotel will be furnishing free transportation on a regular basis to and
from the Mall of the Americas not only for shopping but to facilitate
dining even though there will be ample sandwich shops and restaurants at
the facility. There is free transportation to and from the airport via a
hotel shuttle. Adjacent to the hotel and within walking distance is the
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. All of this and continuing
education and fellowship with your AMT family to boot! Come join us!
I have just returned from
the AMT Board of Directors and Council meeting held in Charleston, SC;
and would like to share a couple of updates we received while there:
1. If you have not visited the new AMT website, you really need to do so
as it is really much easier to navigate and full of information for you
the member. Soon to be posted on the website in the new member’s only
section will be all the manuals and forms needed by a state society to
conduct business. Also all the forms members need for renewal,
continuing education, reinstatement, etc. will be posted along with
vital hotkeys to sites to keep you current regarding legislative issues
or just cruising through state publications. It is a very professional
looking site and one AMT can be proud of.
2.
Watch your Advance magazine for an article from AMT Executive
Director Christopher Damon.
3. AMT
is pleased to welcome our new Database Manager Karen Havlick, who has
been working with us on a part-time basis.
4.
There has been a change in the qualifications for joint state societies
in that at least one state society must have a membership >250.
5.
Presidents you will be receiving a new “quarterly report” form adding
the AMT News Form and bank statement requirements to the checklist of
reminders to help you make Honor Roll.
6.
Everyone should be converting to the new AMT logo in your newsletters,
journals and other communications. Please be sure and do not alter the
logo. If you need the logo in template form, you can contact AMT
Marketing Director Kathy Cilia. Also, all AMT brochures have been redone
and are ready for use.
7. AMT
Executive Director Christopher Damon announced we are now >43,000 strong
and growing!
8.
Congratulations to all award winners. I will not list them here because
you may not have received your notification letters yet.
9. The
2010 meeting will be at the JW Marriott Resort in Las Vegas, NV, which
is a 15 minute shuttle trip from the strip furnished by the hotel. The
facility is beautiful!
10.
Did you remember to celebrate National Medical Dental Week March 1 – 7?
Don’t forget National Medical Laboratory Week April 19 – 25, 2009!
11.
Many of you will soon be receiving your newsletters and journals
electronically saving the state society’s postage and allowing you, the
member, the ease of reading it when you want and storing it
electronically without having stacks of paper product to worry about.
Keep tuned for updates from your state society’s editor.
Hope to see you in
Minneapolis,
Barbara Ware, MT (AMT)
Western District
Councillor
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