It always amazes me that non disclosure of bias or finacial affiliation is continuing in thsee times.
I received my AVA e-mails and was so surprised that there is no section for putting out your finanical bias or disclosures on yoiur statement of why you are best for this position.
I think that all organizations should be requried to post a disclosure on those running for office. Especially since AVA allows direct manufacturer employees to continue to run for the board. If it were me you know that the disclosure would be there as I am biased and work directly for a manufacturer. I do not think non disclosure is approprate.
I am off my soapbox now.
Kathy Kokotis
Bard Access Systems
Good point, Kathy, but it seems to me everyone listed their employer and work activities.
Nancy
Nancy Moureau, BSN, CRNI, CPUI, VA-BC PICC Excellence, Inc [email protected] 888-714-1951
Nancy L. Moureau, PhD, RN, CRNI, CPUI, VA-BC
PICC Excellence, Inc.
[email protected]
www.piccexcellence.com
Everyone did not list their employer and affiliation, but I contacted PJ and it is not required unless one wins. So the board has decided that if you are just running you need to provide no disclosure but if you win than you have to disclose your financial bias. Seems if I were voting I would like to know up front about bias. It must be hard for AVA to keep so much bias in check with all the manufacturer involvement in the board. I cannot even imagine having this job in this day and age of disclosures and transparency rules.
kathy
I have to agree with Kathy. Not knowing the potential for bias can alter the voting process, in my opinion. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861
Kathy, this is a forum for sharing information and getting questions answered regarding vascular access. This is not your private soap box, nor is it the appropriate place to bash AVA or any professional organization for what they are doing, have done in the past or will do in the future. You also forget to mention in your post that you were PART Of the AVA Board for many years! As you and many others are aware, AVA is a multidisciplinary organization that embrasces industry members as well as clinicians of all types who work in vascular access. Many times, it is the clinicians in industry, as you were when you were on the board, that have the luxury of support from their employers to devote the extraordinary amounts of time needed to be a board member. Not every clinician in vascular access has that luxury. If you don't like who is running, you don't have to vote for them. That is the wonders of democracy and the AVA process.
If you have issues with AVA, contact AVA leadership. This is not the place.
Chris Cavanaugh, RN, BSN, CRNI, VA-BC
I believe disclosure gives one credibility
I like to disclose all my finanacial affiliations at every talk I give
It actually makes me feel good and I am proud. It gives me inner peace
Kathy Kokotis RN BS MBA
Bard Access Systems
perhaps it isn't my place to jump in here, but I'll take the risk
The home page on this site says "Welcome to IV-Therapy.net serving iv therapy nurses and others interested in vascular access topics"
Certainly our professional organizations are a vascular access topic. This is a great place to discuss with a large number of infusion and vascular access nurses from both major organizations and other interested parties.
for what it's worth, that's my 2 cents.
How to write a disclosure and what to include in a disclosure:
Employer regardless of the fact it is even a hospital as that is a bias today
Stock ownership
consultant agreements
speaker bureaus
Board of Director affiliations profit and non profit both
Royalties from patents
The above is a good starter list. I recently saw a physician disclosure and he disclosed the company sponoring his talk and yet he has all of the above. Found that of interest. Now I know why the sunshine laws were created to start putting what MD's earn on public websites from companies. I get it. I think we need lessons on full disclosure
I would like to thank Rich Lewis for being the only board member runnig to cite his affiliation with a manufacturer. There are at least (4) running tha did not make a public disclosure and work directly for a company with many others doing outside work in one of the above capacities. Good job Rich
Kathy Kokotis RN BS MBA
Bard Access Systems