ANET-Houston Meeting Minutes, January 23, 2012, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital,

Cooley Bldg., Room C-030.

 

5:30 pm            The meeting was called to order by President Marg Nunez.

                        A Chinese New Year buffet was served.

 

5:40 pm            Informal planning for speakers began for the new year.

                        Membership registration began for 2012.

 

5:50 pm            Certificates of Achievement were given to 2011 ANET Officers.

                        Thank you!

 

6:00 pm            Election of Officers for 2012.

 

                                    President                      Marg Nunez, RN

                                    Vice-President              Jo-Anne D’Souza, RN

                                    Treasurer                      Kathy Del Huarto, RN

                                    Education Chairs          Anita Parker, RN & Elaine Shackman, RN

                                    Secretary                      Dennis Keith, RN

 

6:15 pm            At the next ANET-Houston meeting, the guest speaker will be Lesley

                        Adams, Public Information Officer, Life Gift-Houston.  Ms. Adams will

                        speak about the transplantation laws of Texas, and recent changes of the

                        Laws by the recent Texas legislature.  The meeting will occur on Monday,

                        March 26, 2012, 5:30 pm at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Cooley Bldg.,

                        Room C-030.

 

Dennis Keith, RN, ANET-Houston Secretary, submitted these minutes.

ANET-Houston, Meeting Minutes, November 28, 2012, 5:30 pm, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Room C-030.

 

5:30 pm           Meeting called to order by President Marg Nunez.

                        Thanksgiving buffet served.  A specially decorated cake was presented to

                        our guest speaker.  The attendance was the largest of all 2011 ANET

                        meetings.

 

5:40 pm           Our guest speaker was introduced by Cynthia Beauchamp, RN.

                        Our guest speaker was Margie Steele, RN.  Ms. Steele is a Director of

                        Nursing, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.  She has been working for St.

                        Luke’s, full-time, continuously, for 50 years.  That’s right, 50 years.

                        Ms. Steele is the whole-house administrator of St. Luke’s, for the night

                        shift.

 

                        Ms. Steele told us the story of her nursing career.  She was a nursing

                        student from Mississippi, who trained at the VA hospital, in Houston.

                        She met her husband here in Houston. 

 

                        When Ms. Steele started working at St. Luke’s, the hospital was

                        limited to the six story,  1954 building, which housed about 150

                        patients.  That St. Luke’s lacked departments, which are ubiquitous to

                        most modern hospitals, such as emergency rooms.

 

                        Ms. Steele regaled the ANET members with humorous anecdotes from her

                        long career.  Ms. Steele shared one of her keys to success in nursing:

                        Keep A Low Profile.

 

                        Today Ms. Steele acts as the hospital administrator, for the night shift, at

                        St. Luke’s.

 

6:20 pm           Cake and Congratulations were offered to Ms. Steele in celebration of her

                        long and distinguished career.