Walking the Magnificent Mile: Achieving Innovative Education Options for the Southeast ANIA Chapters

Webinars are fundamental tools of ANIA chapters that encourage recruitment, provide valuable learning opportunities, and facilitate chapter engagement. However, producing high-quality webinars is a daunting and time-consuming task for chapter boards who are often small and have
limited resources.

The collaboration efforts across the Southeast Region strengthened us as ANIA chapter leaders to bring forth a solid educational team where we share the load and the benefits of delivering high-quality webinars. In this panel presentation, we will share our challenges, learning opportunities, and most importantly the keys to success that we have learned along the way to help other chapters in their journeys toward this end.

Annual ANIA conferences as well as local chapter events provided the backdrop to motivate members to achieve our goals and objectives. The leadership within the committee provided expert direction and connections that increased our success as well as improved our membership participation!

This presentation will discuss the innovative and creative efforts of SE chapter members and leaders to bring together the talents and skills of several chapters to meet the educational needs of their members. The panel will present the birth of this idea and the development of bringing the willing members together to formulate this dynamic and highly impactful team. We will discuss the challenges of achieving consistency with meetings, how to best reach the membership given the challenges faced by nursing informaticists in the face of competing priorities, and how persistent this idea has produced a powerhouse Southeast chapter educational committee.
The Southeast educational committee meets virtually on the 1st Tuesday of the month to review the previous month’s activities, the status of previous NCPD offerings, and dates for the educational webinars. The educational collaboration efforts across the chapters of the Southeast Region have strengthened us as ANIA chapter leaders to bring together as a solid educational team.

Learning objectives
• Understand the need for creating the educational committee
• Learn the benefits of forming a regional education committee
• Identify the programming and talent acquisition for educational topics
• Understand how to brand and advertise your marketing materials
• Understand the application process for the continuing education units including the course evaluation and certificates
• Identify the technical aspects of the presentation and storing of the presentations

Mark Bassett discloses that he is an employee of Meditech.