Do you have a student nurses association...

[jenrninmi]

in your program, and if you do, are you a member? what kind of benefits does your program have for being a member? the sna is a student run organization which functions to promote the profession of nursing, develop leadership skills in students. we have one, i'm a delegate for my class. i attend the meetings every other monday evening and report to my class the next day about our meeting, volunteer opportunities, the nsna trip etc. we also organize fund-raising activities for the organization and it offers undergraduate students an opportunity to meet the upper level nursing students.

the goal is to nurture the nursing students and watch them grow into self supporting professionals. anyone else have a similar sna?

[Aneroo, LPN]

The school I used to go to did have an awesome SNA. They allowed pre-nursing folks in, which was awesome for me. It was nice to go to conferences and such and see what it was like before I got in. I'm at another school now, and no one seems to give a crap. I tried to get it started there, but had no support behind me. I emailed our district leader several times, haven't been able to get in touch with her, not even sure if our class wants to do it now...We can't seem to get our crap together. -A

[Ruylupez]

We have a SNA at my school and joining is mandatory. A $25 joining fee is collected from each student during first semester as the fee to join. They have never asked for more money from us after that one fee. The SNA puts out a newsletter twice each semester to keep students updated and also arranges some fund raising events. They also arrange some events on campus to promote health for the students such as blood pressure screenings and our recent "Smoke free day" to encourage smokers to quit.

The school will only organize one graduation for everyone who has completed any program at the school. They will allow us to have a seperate pinning ceremony but will not support it financially so the primary goal of the SNA does is to arrange and pay for a pinning ceremony each semester.