Current Board and Officers |
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| President: | Lisa Radford, RN, BSN, CWOCN |
| President-Elect: | CJ Crane BSN, RN, CWON |
| Secretary: | Kathy Merkh MS,RN CWON |
| Treasurer: | Eva Sauls, BSN, RN, BA, CWOCN |
| Communications: | Karen Houchins, BSN, RN, CWCN |
| Member at Large: | Open position |
| Public Policy: | Open position |
| Outgoing President: | Ferne Elsass, MSN, RN, CPN, CWON |
| Lisa Radford, BSN, RN, CWOCN | Kathy Merkh MS,RN CWON | Eva Sauls, BSN, RN, BA, CWOCN |
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To Contact Us: please use our contact form
Dates / Locations for Meetings
We are a small but active group. We meet the 2nd Tuesday every month except June and October; either a luncheon or a dinner meeting. Locations vary.
Corrine Alvey accepting HR WOCN Nurse of the Year 2019, supported by the HR WOCN November 2019
posted 7/23/20
HR Affiliate at the 50th Annual Conference in Philadelphia in 2018
HR Affiliate at the July Social Meeting in 2019
News Updates
updated 7/23/20
Several of our members re certified for another 5 years:
Bridget Ahern, Ferne Elsass and Rosemary Brown all re certified in wound and ostomy, Virginia Lisenby re certified in wound, ostomy and continence and Sarah Rush became newly certified in ostomy.
Longtime member Penny Crawford, re certified as a Family NP for 5 more years, applied for her independent practice license, and she retired from her other jobs.
Our current HR president and MAR secretary, Ferne Elsass, has been very busy. Besides re certifying, Ferne and co-author Stephanie Furtado, presented one poster at the WOCNext 2020 National Conference, A Novel Approach to Incontinent Associated Dermatitis in Pediatric patients. She is a content expert for two publications on the Wound Care Learning Network platform “Active Leptospermum Honey” and “The Trauma Wound and Wound Management with Active Leptospermum Honey”. Along with Dr. Vita Boyar, she has a publication in Wound Management and Prevention, “Single-use Negative Pressure Therapy and the Pediatric Patient”.
Congratulations on everyone’s accomplishments. What an awesome group of individuals!
updated 4/09/20
Ostomy Clinics for the Hampton Roads area: download the file (PDF).
Hampton Roads supported UOAA on World Ostomy Day by completing a virtual 5K. With the help of family, friends and the HR WOCN, Ferne Elsass raised $360 for the UOAA.
Ferne Elsass
(l to r) Claudia Thomas, Kathy Merkh and her granddaughter, Olivia, and Corrine Alvey
posted 10/23/18