AORN also welcomed newly elected officers and board members after its annual business meeting April 6.
The new officers are:
- Nathalie Walker, RN, who became president-elect. She is a member of the Louisiana Nursing Supply and Demand Commission, a sub-committee of the Health Works Commission of Louisiana.
- Missi Merlino, RN, who became vice president. She is a staff nurse II at Baylor Scott & White Health Surgery Center at the Pavilion in Temple, Texas.
- Holly Ervine, MSN, RN, who became secretary. Ms. Ervine is a perioperative clinical educator at WellStar Cobb Hospital in Austell, Ga.
The new board members are:
- Elizabeth Pincus, MSN, RN, a clinical nurse specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in New York and a per diem nurse at New York-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Carrie Simpson, BSN, RN, a clinical educator for the operating room at University Medical Center New Orleans.
- Dawn Myers Yost, MSN, RN, the business manager at West Virginia University Medicine in Morgantown.