Editor’s Report
Yvonne Little
Nurse Practitioner
Welcome to the Spring Edition
of LOGIC. Hopefully everyone
has survived the winter ills and
chills which appears to have
been the worst we have had for
a while.
True to life, not everything goes
to plan and due to unforeseen
circumstances we have had to
make some adjustments to our
planned articles for this edition,
despite this I hope you enjoy
what we have put together.
On the 19 th August the
NZCPHCN
held
their
symposium: “Future Direction,
Your Roadmap” in Auckland and
whilst attendance numbers
were down on last years, it was
still a resounding success with
some very talented and
experienced speakers. A more
intimate number allowed for
more networking also.
This year the Executive
Committee decided that we
would concentrate on two
awards, rather than multiple
ones and we had some brilliant
entries. We were able to give
September 2017 L.O.G.I.C
awards to two very deserving
recipients: Tall Poppy Award
(sponsored by Jane Ayling) went
to Kim Carter – Tasker and the
inaugural Nursing Excellence
Award (sponsored by NZCPHCN
Committee) went to Tim Ryan –
please be sure to read their
nominators comments in this
edition and think about who you
would like to nominate for
2018.
Along with the learning,
networking and fun at the
Symposium, we had to say fond
farewells to many of our
standing committee members
who have completed their
terms of office or are having to
leave for personal reasons, they
are:
Kim Cameron (Chair); Dhyanne
Hohepa (Vice Chair); Karen
Smith (Treasurer); Kim Carter-
Tasker (Executive) ; Bronwen
Warren(Professional Practice),
Trish Wilkinson (Professional
Practice),
Karry
Durning
(Professional Practice); Marilyn
Rosewarne (LOGIC). We wish
them well in their future
directions and I am sure we will
still hear from them in this
journal from time to time as we
tap into their wealth of
experience in their respective
fields of nursing.
You will see that we have new
committee members, and some
of us are staying on in both our
previous role but also taking on
new ones, so please take the
time t o read the biographies, if
we are from your area then
make yourself known to us as
we are your voice and want to
know what you think and want
from the college.
Welcome aboard:
EXECUTIVE
Celeste Gillmer (Publisher of
LOGIC) and new Chair
Emma
Hickson
(LOGIC
committee ) and new Deputy
Chair
Cathy Nichols (Professional
Practice) and new to Executive
team
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