HOW TO RUN
FOR NATIONAL
OFFICE
National Student Nurses’ Association
Nominating and Elections Committee
BECOMING INTERESTED
• All members of NSNA Board of Directors
and Nominating and Elections Committee
are student nurses!
• If you are reliable, committed, passionate,
and inspired, NSNA WANTS YOU!
• Be a leader! Impact the Future of the
Evolving Nurse! RUN FOR NATIONAL OFFICE!
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GETTING MORE INFORMATION
• Contact your school’s faculty, dean, student
nurses’ association!
• Contact your state student nurses’
association!
• Check out NSNA’s link for running for
national office at
http://www.nsna.org/ElectedOfficials/Howt
oRunforNationalOffice.aspx
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CONTACTING NSNA
• Email us at nsna@nsna.org expressing your
interest or questions about being a leader!
• Call NSNA at 718-210-0705 and request more
information!
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NOMINATING AND ELECTIONS
COMMITTEE (NEC)
• NEC is the entity within NSNA that is
responsible for recruiting and preparing a list
of qualified leaders for the election at Annual
Convention
• NEC is made up of 4 members representing the
4 regions (North, South, East, West) of NSNA
• After you have contacted NSNA, a member of
the NEC will contact you and guide you
through the process of running for national
office
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ELIGIBLE MEMBERS
• Any current member of NSNA is eligible to
run for a national office, this includes:
– Members who are enrolled in school for
9 months of their elected term, except
President and VP
– Associate members (Pre-nursing
students) are eligible to run for national
office, except President and VP
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AVAILABLE POSITIONS
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President
Vice President
Secretary/Treasurer
Imprint Editor
Breakthrough to
Nursing Director
• Director North
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Director South
Director East
Director West
NEC North
NEC South
NEC East
NEC West
• Check out NSNA’s link for the roles and responsibilities for each position
http://www.nsna.org/ElectedOfficials/HowtoRunforNationalOffice.aspx !
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OBTAINING A CANDIDATE PACKET
• After initial contact by a member of NEC, you
will receive a candidate packet via U.S. Mail,
which will include:
– Application
– Digest of Information
– Getting the Pieces to Fit
– Campaign Regulations
– Other documents to be used at Convention
• You can access some of these documents at
http://www.nsna.org/ElectedOfficials/HowtoR
unforNationalOffice.aspx !
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PRE-SLATING
• Pre-slating means being designated as a
candidate prior to convention
– Advantages of pre-slating, include being:
• Published in Imprint
• Allowed to campaign early
• Less stressed at Convention
• In order to be pre-slated, a potential candidate
must have their completed application and
required signatures submitted by January 25,
2012 to NSNA.
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RUNNING FROM THE FLOOR
• Potential candidates who miss the deadline for preslating are allowed to run from the floor, including:
– Those who submit completed applications after
the deadline
– Those who decide to run at convention
• In order to run from the floor, a potential candidate
must:
– Submit a completed application to be reviewed
and verified by NEC
– Be nominated by a delegate at the HOD
• Potential candidates are NOT allowed to campaign
ANYWHERE, until OFFICIALLY designated a
candidate
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WRITE-IN CANDIDATES
• Write-in candidates are defined as
candidates in an election whose names do
not appear on the ballot, but for whom
voters may vote by writing in the person's
name on the ballot
• These candidates CANNOT campaign at all!
• Official election of these candidates is
pending, meeting the eligibility
requirements as specified by NSNA bylaws.
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CAMPAIGNING
• OFFICIAL candidates are allowed to campaign verbally
or through written materials
• Campaigning is:
– expected to be conducted with an honest and
ethical manner
– not required, but highly suggested
– at the candidate’s expense
• Candidates are allowed to have one campaign manager
and one alternate to aide in handling his/her campaign
• Check out the Campaign Regulations at NSNA’s link
http://www.nsna.org/ElectedOfficials/HowtoRunforNati
onalOffice.aspx for more information!
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NOMINATING AND ELECTIONS
COMMITTEE
• Contact:
NECwest@nsna.org
NECnorth@nsna.org
NECeast@nsna.org
NECsouth@nsna.org
• Left to right: Julie Cunningham (West), Jennifer Duff (North),
Regine Faucher (East), & Meagan Muellenschlader (South)
• Website:
http://www.nsna.org/ElectedOfficials/NominatingElections.aspx
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BE A LEADER!
IMPACT THE FUTURE
OF THE EVOLVING
NURSE!
RUN FOR NATIONAL
OFFICE TODAY!