Your Professional Commitment is Needed
2008 NTSHRM Meetings
What gives you the most satisfaction in your professional life? Perhaps you enjoy helping others through teaching, facilitating and watching as a novice learns the ropes and soon has the confidence needed to be happy in their role. How about developing Risk Management and Patient Safety initiatives to improve our patient outcomes and reduce your organization’s risk exposure? If you truly get satisfaction from these things, I want to add one more thing to your professional development list: I ask that you make a commitment to attend your local professional organization’s meetings - - those of North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
Attending the NTSHRM bi-monthly meetings illustrates your commitment to your chosen life’s work. It is a demonstration of your efforts to be the best you can be. Whether on the proactive side of Risk Management (Patient Safety) or the reactive side when something goes wrong, people depend on you to provide them the most up to date, accurate information available to making our patients safer and helping healthcare workers successfully survive the complex world of heath care. Working with others within your own professional interest builds strong networking opportunities that you can call on when sampling community standards or when needing input to help you navigate the unchartered Risk Management turbulent waters. You can come across as the “all knowing” within your own organization by leaning on your NTSHRM colleagues who will help you through those once in a life time challenging events. Being involved locally gives you the opportunity to get to know attorneys, insurers, and other Risk Managers in the North Texas area (you never know when you might want a new job).
We are committed to providing you the best services that you can expect from a professional association. Membership is one of the best investments you have made this year. The tangible benefits will be to provide you tool kits, provide insight into completing good investigations (April 20th), and to provide thoughts on how to reduce your exposure with current trends being identified (June 26th). There will be additional opportunities to receive credits for your specific discipline and CPHRM through our monthly meetings in 2008 and the annual education seminar to be held in September, "Hitting a Home Run for Patient Safety".
Please think about inviting colleagues within your own “circle of influence” to come and become a part of this extensive network of professionals. Tap into those that you want to mentor to become Risk Managers and Patient Safety Officers. Our goal this year is to grow our membership by 20% and to become a leading chapter within ASHRM.
Consider this your invitation to help move NTSHRM forward into the future. With the challenge and commitment comes a sense of fulfillment in knowing that through the efforts of yourself and others, NTSHRM will be a leading Risk and Patient Safety organization within the D/FW health care market and you indeed will be the best you can be.
Sincerely,
Marcie Williams
President, NTSHRM
