Summit Year:
2014 
A panel of representatives from minority nursing organizations will describe the mission and vision of their respective organizations. The session will emphasize opportunities for student engagement and participation.
Session Objective:
1. Panel participants will describe the unique missions of their organizations and their goals in representing specific populations of professional nurses.
2. Panel participants will discuss opportunities for student engagement during their academic enrollment and after graduation. They will offer guidance to faculty regarding how student participation can be encouraged.
SESSION RECORDINGS ARE INCLUDED BELOW
Program Planning Committee Moderator:
Lisa Rosenberg, PhD, RN
Associate Dean of Student, Associate Professor, Community, Systems, and Mental Health Nursing
Rush University
Lisa Rosenberg has been employed in academic administration for 25 years at Rush. She has led program and curriculum initiatives and written several successful grants. Among her current responsibilities is the admission and recruitment of students for Rush University College of Nursing, which has an enrollment of 1,000 students. The goal is to recruit the most qualified and diverse student body in the College of Nursing’s three degree programs
Session Speakers:
Listed in the order photographed.
Alma Jaromahum, PhD, RN
Philippine Nurses Association of Illinois
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Alma Jaromahum is the current President of the Philippine Nurses Association of Illinois (PNAI). She started her active involvement with her association as a life member and when she was nominated as the recipient of their Nursing Excellence Award program. She has been very active in her association for the past five years as member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of its Education Committee that led her to coordinate and provide various continuing nursing education programs that benefit a lot of Filipinos, Asians and non-Filipino nurses in the Chicago area. She represents her association and join in various cultural events such as health screening, picnics, cultural awareness, fundraisings, etc. In 2013, she received the prestigious National Excellence Award in Nursing Education given by the Philippine Nurses Association of America in their national convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Beach, DNP, RN
National Assembly of Men in Nursing
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Michael Beach has worked in search and rescue and disaster management for over 30 years within the Tri-State area and is a member of Pennsylvania 1 Disaster Medical Team (PA-1 DMAT). Besides experience with pre-hospital emergency medical treatment, he has a particular interest and expertise in tracking, team management, diving and technical rescue. In early September, following the Katrina Disaster along the Gulf Coast, he responded with his search and rescue team and part of the Red Cross to provide relief efforts to victims in Waveland and Pearlington Mich.. As a member of PA-1 DMAT, he has responded to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.
Sandra Webb-Booker, PhD, RN
National Black Nurses Association
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Sandra Webb-Booker is admired by many, according to her nominator, for having expertise in nephrology, nursing education and the Illinois Nurse Practice Act. She consistently extends herself to assist others, not only those in the military but also people pondering military careers. She also assists those she works with in a civilian capacity, and nursing colleagues who serve alongside her on various committees. The first nurse approved by a military board to serve in a command position, Webb-Booker has served for seven years as a member of the Board of Nursing for the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations. As the chief nurse at a facility that represents a conglomeration of military hospitals, she supports staff development. When two colleagues were asked to provide a class to a large group of soldiers who had just returned from an exhausting field exercise, Webb-Booker convinced them both that they possessed the skills, experience and resources needed to provide the body of content. The class turned out to be a success, thanks to her guidance.
Carolina Huerta, EdD, RN, FAAN
National Hispanic Nurses Association
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Carolina González-Huerta, a graduate of Texas A&M University, is currently chair and professor of the Nursing Department at The University of Texas Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. She is the 2008 recipient of the American Nurses Association Mary Mahoney Award. González-Huerta has received HRSA scholarship awards for educational and economically disadvantaged students. She has served as a grants reviewer for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Nursing Innovative Grants Project; AACN Master’s Conference Abstract Reviewer; AACN Johnson & Johnson Minority Scholarship Reviewer 2007, AACN Board of Directors 2007-2008; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Anderson Rural Health Project 1998.