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Voting Member Responsibilities Print E-mail

As an appointed voting representative for your agency, your role is to represent the nurse officers in your agency, present any needs and concerns that have been brought to your attention, and ensure any vital information be relayed back to the officers you represent. Topics such as professional development, public health issues, research ideas such as improving public health nursing care, and increasing leadership among PHS nurses are all are relevant. You should expect to keep fellow agency officers informed of N-PAC activities by providing them with (or directing them to) the minutes and summary of N-PAC meetings, and inviting them to attend (in person or telephonically) N-PAC meetings. Your fellow officers depend upon you to communicate NPAC information to them. Be innovative in reaching out to them and facilitating their involvement in N-PAC activities! (By-Laws Article VIII, Sec. 13)

Selecting your N-PAC member alternate
In accordance with the N-PAC Charter, each voting N-PAC member is to appoint, and inform the Chairperson of, a single individual who can serve as his/her alternate in their absence. Such alternates shall have voting privileges when serving in the place of the primary member. It is the responsibility of the primary N-PAC member to keep the alternate fully informed and knowledgeable of the N-PAC.s activities. Any Agency clearance or approval requirements for travel/per diem will have to be handled within the Agency by the primary N-PAC member. Serving as an alternate will not count against an individual.s 6-year limit of serving in a formal voting member capacity on the N-PAC. (By-Laws Article III, Sec. 9)