PUBLIC POLICY COUNCIL

Role: Monitors and evaluates public policies for their impact on health care. Promotes nurses' participation in the public policy process.

Membership: Six to ten members. Six members elected at large with remainder (if necessary) appointed by the Nominating Committee. Members will include one member serving on the Board of Directors and at least one staff nurse, one APN, one nurse educator, one nurse administrator. A consumer will be invited to participate on the Public Policy Council as a non-voting participant. (Article VII WNA Bylaws)

Specific Responsibilities: Identifies a public policy agenda for the Association
Reports on progress related to goals and other activities at each meeting of the WNA Board of Directors.
Educates nurses about the public policy process.
Prepares an annual report for submission to the membership at the Annual Meeting.
Collaborates with the Association's lobbyist.
Carries out the activities of the Association as identified and assigned by the Board of Directors.  

Members of the Wisconsin Nurses Association Public Policy Council
Kathleen Poi, Chair - Member Madison District Nurses Association #3
Kathie Bartylla- Member Heart of Wisconsin District Nurses Association #5
Patricia Finder-Stone - Member Northeast Wisconsin District Nurses Association #9
Mary Jahangir - WNA Board of Directors Representative Member LaCrosse District Nurses Association #7
Connie Jicha - Member Madison District Nurses Association #3
Betty Koeposel - Member Waukesha District Nurses Assocation #16
Karen Maddox - Member Eau Claire District Nurses Association #10
Mary Beck Metzger -  APN Forum Representative - Member Waukesha District Nurses Assocation #16
Marilyn Haynes-Brokopp - Member Madison District Nurses Association #3