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Polyp Management and Electrosurgery

This program is offered to our SGNA members

Registration Required, maximum of 30 participants.

Location: J. Timothy’s Taverne

143 New Britain Ave, Plainville, CT 06062

Date: Thursday, November 17th, 2022

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Presented By: Chuck Bobala / Greg Fronczek

The 30th Annual Beyond the Scope was held

Saturday, October 15th, 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended!

Our CTSGNA Dinner meeting was at Lucky Lou’s on June 16, 2022. Thank you to Takada and Amy Harvill who presented “Overview of IBD and Burden of Illness”.

This is the 30th Anniversary for CTSGNA’s Beyond The Scope Program! Save the date – October 15th , 2022! We are keeping the same central venue as last year – Doubletree by Hilton, located at 42 Century Drive in Bristol. We expect the flyers to be out by end of August. Attendance fees will be 50 dollars for associates and 75 dollars for nurses who are members of SGNA. Non-member nurses will be 100 dollars. I hope to see all of you at Beyond The Scope this year.

Please nominate a colleague for CTSGNA GI Nurse of The Year.

Applications are due September 30, 2022. The application is online under documents.

Michelle Day, MSN, RN, CGRN was program co-chair for National SGNA event this year. There was good leadership attendance from CT. Barbara Comstock, Kathleen Saunders, Gail Steele, Janet Cordova and myself. New England won Certified regional award and Outstanding Regional Award. Attendance at Nationals was about five hundred attendees 2/3 less than usual. CTSGNA awarded one national scholarship to Gail Steele. CTSGNA awarded three virtual scholarships to Holly Sanzo, BSN, RN, CGRN; Kathleen Radecki, MSN, RN, CGRN; and Jacinta Siegman, MSN, RN, CGRN.

This year the board is revising policies and procedures and the website was revised by our Webmaster Todd with help from Kathleen Saunders and members of the board.

Two volunteers offered their services to the Nominations and Elections Committee for this fall:

Carol Stevens, BSN, CGRN and Lauri Santy, BSN.

Barbara Comstock, BSN, CGRN is running the election committee.

The board is looking for volunteers to run for:

1) President Elect term one year then becomes president

2) Two board members term two years

3) Two nomination and Elections term two years

4) Treasurer term two years

I have attached an application for the leadership positions. The due date for the application is September 30, 2022. Applications go to Barbara Comstock via email: redeemedrn@yahoo.com

This year the board is running the Beyond The Scope Fall Conference. We need members to volunteer for next years Beyond The Scope. We are looking for: vendor chair, education chair, raffle-chair, and maybe an overall Chairperson (we are here to mentor you). You won’t be alone in this adventure with CTSGNA.

The September meeting will be virtual on September 15th, 2022. Our November Dinner Meeting will be on November 17, 2022.

Have a great summer see you in the fall.

Kathy Vinci RNBC, CGRN

2022 President CTSGNA

 Hello CTSGNA members,  

Happy New Year 2022! It seems like more of 2021 to me. Our first two meetings will be virtual. The dates are February 17th and March 17th. Check the CTSGNA website for other future meetings to be posted.  

CTSGNA will be awarding three scholarships for nationals. The applications are available under the documents tab and are due March 1st. Please send completed forms to Barbara Comstock at redeemedrn@yahoo.com  

CTSGNA would like to thank Barbara Comstock for her leadership as president, past president and BTS chair for these past two difficult years.  

We know Covid is taking its toll on all so we are trying to keep a positive forward approach to providing quality education for our CTSGNA members. We look forward to resuming our in person meetings when safely permitted. 

Sincerely,  Kathy Vinci RNC, CGRN CTSGNA 2022 President 

 We are looking to MENTOR NEW members for the following: Beyond the Scope Overall Chair for next year - would like to start mentoring this year. Beyond the Scope Raffle Chair- we need someone to take charge of this for THIS year.