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MNA Leader Fellows Program Overview
To accomplish its goals, the Program will include
the following five components:
A. Program Overview
- Overview of MNA/ANA
- Current issues facing nurses and nursing
B. Leadership
- Leadership Overview
- Leadership Skills Assessment
C. Communication Skills Workshop designed to
- introduce participants to a marketing/communication
process essential to leaders who will position the Association
with respect to issues of concern.
- provide an opportunity to apply communication
skills.
D. Presentation Skills Workshop designed to
- introduce participants to presentation skills.
- provide an opportunity to practice presentation
skills.
MNA Leader Fellows will present an overview of their experiences
related to program involvement at the 2001 MNA Convention.
E. Individualized Fellow/Staff Application
Experience
This opportunity will be individually contracted based on each Leader
Fellow's unique abilities and professional goals. Each Fellow will
be required to design, implement and evaluate a project that will
apply the leadership skills each has developed in collaboration
with a Department Staff (MNA, District or Unit) Mentor.
A Selection Committee comprised of representatives of the Board of
Directors, Districts and MNA Staff will select the MNA Leader Fellows
for 2001. At-large and Bargaining Unit members of these Districts
may apply. To be eligible, interested members must:
- be currently licensed as a Registered Nurse
in Massachusetts.
- currently be an at-large or bargaining unit
member of an MNA District and have been one for a minimum of one
(1) year.
- be able to commit ten (10) days within the next
calendar year to involvement in the Program.
- submit a completed application, current resume
and one (1) letter of recommendation prior to the deadline of
September 15, 2000.
For further information or an application, please
contact the:
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Career Center
340 Turnpike Street
Canton, MA 02021-2700
781.821.4625 x739
Click here for the Leader Fellows Application
Form.
 Note:
This application form is available as an Adobe Acrobat downloadable
file. In order to view it, you must first have the Adobe Acrobat
Reader software installed on your computer. This software is available
for free from Adobe. To
download the Reader software, click here. After you have downloaded
the Reader and installed it, you may then download the Leader
Fellows Application Form to view and print from your PC.
If you are having trouble accessing the Application Form, please send
us an email stating the problem and we will be happy to fax or
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