| News from the Education Committee |
Aloha Team Hawai’i Pacific.
First and foremost, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, your family and your patients. Thank you for making 2016 a successful year via your rock-solid participation of our numerous events and exceptional education opportunities. What a year!
From our partnership with Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) or the American College of Nursing Executives, our chapter elevated our community engagement through strong partnership and proven leadership. 2017 will be no different. There are numerous networking and continuing education opportunities are in the works.
Here some updates:
First, it was an honor to serve as Education Committee Chair for the Chapter. Learned a lot through the process and made some great friends; thank you all. With that said, I would like to introduce your new Education Committee Chair: Mr. Josh Carpenter. Josh is a great leader and key partner to our chapter and healthcare industry. We wish him the best.
Our 9-10 November ACHE/AONE Leadership in Action Conference was a huge success. We exceeded our internal attendance goal by more than 12% with numerous people interested in joining our Chapter. There were 4.0 Face-to-Face (F2F) Education Credits and 7.25 Qualified Education Credits (QECs) available. F2F credits will be posted to your ACHE profiles within 2-3 weeks. You can update your QECs directly at ache.org by logging into your profile and selecting “ACHE Qualified Education Credit” to reach the submission page. Once completed, your QECs will immediately appear.
As a reminder, for recertification, Fellows are required to have 12 Face-to-Face and 36 Qualified Education Credits every three years OR retake the BOG Exam, participate in two (2) healthcare activities and participate two (2) community/civic activities. For full details, please visit here: https://www.ache.org/apps/recertification.cfm
Flashback from Last Quarter: we have secured three ACHE Board of Governors Exam (BOG) Study Sets available for checkout (a $240 value). There are staged at three locations: two on Oahu and one on Kauai. To sign-out for usage, you simply have to be a current member of ACHE, an active member in our Hawai'i-Pacific Chapter, and be eligible (or near eligible) to test for the BOG Exam. If qualified, please send an email to achehawaiieducation@gmail.com.
If interested in organizing or being a part of a BOG exam study group here on island, please let us know.
Next, below are some direct ACHE links to make your advancement to fellow a whole lot easier:
As always, the Education Committee seeks energetic, detail-oriented individuals to help create, coordinate and/or volunteer at events. If interested in joining our team, contact us at any time. Thank you again for the great year, see you in 2017!
Major Angel L. Vargas, MBA, MHA, FACHE
Email: achehawaiieducation@gmail.com
Cell: (219) 808-7355
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