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Our Board Members

Our Board of Directors takes on a number of critical responsibilities. These include:

  • Setting agendas
  • Organizing priorities for all committees
  • Developing new and ad hoc committees, and task forces as needed
  • Communicating to all our members
  • Providing budgetary oversight
  • Administering our organization in accordance with our bylaws

Board of Directors

The Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources Board of Directors shall be composed of:

  • Nine Organization members’ representatives
  • Five members elected by the membership
  • Four Committee Chairpersons (elected by the committees)
  • Webmaster

The nine organizations with a seat on the Board are:

  • Illinois Association of Colleges of Nursing
  • Illinois Council of Associate Degree Programs Deans and Directors
  • Illinois Council of Practical Nurse (program) Directors
  • Illinois Health Care Association/ Long Term Care Nurses
  • Illinois Hospital Association
  • Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders
  • Illinois Public Health Association/ Nursing Section
  • Licensed Practical Nurses Association of Illinois
  • Nurse Educators of Illinois

2008
Board of Directors

 

Name and Title

Board Status

Contact Information

Bonnie Beardsley
Chairwoman
Director of Nursing

President

Olivet Nazarene University
One University Avenue
Bourbonnais, IL
815/928-5406
bbeardsl@olivet.edu

Deb Belt
Vice President

Organization Representative for Long Term Care Nurses Association/ Illinois Health Care Association

Illinois Health Care Association
1029 S. Fourth St.
Springfield, IL 62703
217.528.6455
217.528.0452 (fax)
dbelt@ihca.com

JoEllen Brannan
Director & Professor of Nursing

Organization Representative for Illinois Association of Colleges of Nursing
Treasurer

MacMurray College
447 East College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL   62650
217/479-7083
fax:  217/479-7078
joellen.brannan@mac.edu

Darcie Brazel
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Nurse Executive

Organization Representative for Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders

Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 W. 95th Street
Oak Lawn, IL  60453
708/684-5003
Fax: 708/684-5012
Darcie.brazel@advocatehealth.com

Joanne Condi
Chief Nurse Executive/Chief Operating Officer

Elected November, 2007

Passavant Area Hospital
1600 West Walnut Street
Jacksonville, Illinois  62650
217/478-5529
Fax:  217/243-2206
Joanne.condi@passavanthospital.com

Ellen L. Davel, Coordinator, ADN Program, College of DuPage

Organization Representative for Illinois Council of Associate Degree Programs Deans and Directors
Co-Secretary

College of DuPage 
425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
630/942-2652
Fax: 630/858-5409
davele@cdnet.cod.edu
Home: 1449 Cranbrook Ave.
St. Charles, IL60174
630/584-0959

Bonnie Elliott-Zahorik
President/CEO

Perpetuity Committee Co-Chair

Elliott Enterprises and Consulting
421 Hull Court
Waukegan, IL  60079
847/244-0020
Fax:  217/244-0020
Bonbona1@comcast.net

Cathy Grossi
Assistant VP, Health Policy and Regulation

Organization representative for Illinois Hospital Association

Policy & Advocacy Committee Co-Chair

Illinois Hospital Association
1151 East Warrenville Road
Naperville, IL 60566
630.276.5706
630.276.5467 (fax)
cgrossi@ihastaff.org

Vickie Gukenberger
Founding Director and Professor of Nursing

Elected November, 2007
Co-Secretary

Roosevelt University
1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd., Room 360H
Schaumburg, IL  60173
847/619-8754
Fax: 847/619-8750
vgukenberger@roosevelt.edu

Margie Harris, RN,MPH,CHES
Assistant Administrator/Director of Nursing

Organization Representative for Illinois Public Health Association/ Nursing Section

Logan County Health Department
109 Third Street, P.O. Box 508
Lincoln, IL  62656-0508
217/735-2317
Fax:  217/732-6943
mharris@logancountyhealth.org

Karen Kelly
Associate Professor and Coordinator, Continuing Education
(SIU-E)

Immediate Past President

305 Schwarz Meadow Ct.
O’Fallon, IL 62269-6707
618.650.3908
Cell: 618.910.8223
618.624.2116 (fax)
kkellys@aol.com

Alma J. Labunski
Executive Director, Nurse Educators of Illinois

Organization Representative for Nurse Educators of Illinois

Educational Challenges within a Global Culture
7653 West Suffield Street
Morton Grove, IL60053-1875
847/967-5576
Fax: 847.972.1268
ajlabu@aol.com

Juanita Macklin
President and CEO, Director, Nursing
Professor J. Renee Career Facilitation, Inc.

Organization Representative, IL Council of Directors of Practical Nursing Programs

J’Renee Career Facilitation, Inc.
7105 N. Virginia Rd. Suite 1
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
815/444-7751
Fax:  815/444-7753
JMacklin@JRenee.org

Linda Olson
Director, School of Nursing
North Park University

Perpetuity  Committee Co-Chair

 

3848 North Richmond Street
Chicago, IL  60618
773/279-1474 (home)
lolson@northpark.edu

Donna Pelkie
Regional Editor
Advance for Nurses

Appointed to fill the vacant elected position of Roslyn Lennon. (elected Feb. 2007)

3402 Waterford Drive
Joliet, IL  60431
815/207-1882
dpelkie@merion.com

Jane Pond, LPN

Organization Representative,
Licensed Practical Nurses Association of Illinois

2288 E. Glenarm Road
Pawnee, IL  62558
217/625-7034
jbpond@hotmail.com

Donna Redding
Director, Nursing Systems Development

President-Elect for 2008
Strategic Alliances Committee Chair
Elected February, 2007

1218 Jersey Avenue
Normal, Illinois  61761
309.451-4853
redding.donna@mhsil.com

Cindy St. Aubin
Director of Nurse Recruitment

 

 

Policy and Advocacy Committee Co-Chair

University of Chicago Hospitals
5841 S. Maryland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
773.792.1448
Fax: 773.702.0265
Cynthia.staubin@uchospitals.edu

Georgianna Thomas
Professor & Coordinator Evening/Weekend Undergraduate Program
West Suburban College of Nursing

Image Committee Chair

5327 N. Lockwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60603
773/545-5322
georgianna.thomas@wscn.edu

Laura Walczak
Director of Nursing

Elected November, 2007

Centegra Memorial Medical Center
P.O. Box 1990
Woodstock, IL  60098
815/334-3184
815/355-3551 (cell)
Fax:  815/334-3948
lwalczak@centegra.com

Executive Director: Nancy Krier, RN, MSN
Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources
3N437 Norris Avenue West Chicago, IL 60185
630.231.0474 Fax: 630.231.7101
www.ic4nr.org
nkrier@ameritech.net

 

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