Breakthrough to Nursing Health Projects

Committee Team Leader  (Chair) and team members

Responsibilities*

BTN committee team leader:

1. Establish a Breakthrough to Nursing Committee at your chapter (if one does not currently exist);
2. Schedule BTN Committee meetings;
3. Set the agenda and send out a call to meeting;
4. Chair the meeting;
5. Develop and present written and verbal reports of committee’s deliberations and activities to the chapter executive board and chapter membership.

BTN committee team member:

1. Read NSNA’s Breakthrough to Nursing Guidelines;
2. Evaluate Breakthrough to Nursing and recruitment activities currently underway or that been completed;
3. Develop a theme for Breakthrough to Nursing campaign (or reaffirm old one);
4. Review NSNA’s policies and resolutions that pertain to BTN;
5. Identify two or three goals for Breakthrough to Nursing Committee to accomplish during one academic year;
6. Publicize Breakthrough to Nursing activities by providing news items for school and state chapter newsletters and/or web sites;
7. Communicate activities to state and national Breakthrough to Nursing chairs;
8. Serve as a liaison with faculty recruitment committee and school of nursing recruitment staff;
9. Initiate and facilitate appropriate partnerships with community hospitals; medical centers and others for the purpose of recruiting students into nursing.

*See your chapter bylaws for the BTN role and responsibilities specific to your school or state chapter.

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