Voting now open for the NEGAPNA 2020 - 2021 Board of Director Elections - updated link to ballot!!

Dear NEGAPNA Member,

It is time to cast your vote and select members for the Board of Directors for 2020-2021. Each candidate has made a personal commitment to serve NEGAPNA in a leadership role. Please view the candidates’ statements and biographical information below and follow the link below to then cast your vote.

 

President Elect:

Candidate:

Amy Yentsch MSN, APRN, AGNP-BC 

Amy Yentsch is an AANP board-certified Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (AGNP).  She is finishing a Post-Master’s certificate program at UMass Amherst to become a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.  She has degrees from UMass Boston (MSN, BSN), Quincy College (ASN), and Kalamazoo College (BA). 

She works in long-term care settings doing psychiatric medication management and has her MAT waiver. 

She has been a NE GAPNA member in good standing for five years - serving as a Director-at-Large this past year.  She is also a Regional Representative for the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners (MCNP), a member of the Massachusetts Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses (MAAPPN), Holistic Nurses Association, American Geriatrics Society, and Sigma Theta Tau International – Theta Alpha Chapter.  She lives on the South Shore with her husband and chocolate lab. 

 

Secretary:

Candidate:

 Mary Ellen Januario, APRN-BC (currently serving – seeking second term)

 

Mary Ellen currently works in the LTC setting in care of the older adults as a Clinical Services Manager for Optum. She has a lifelong commitment to ensuring the highest level of care to our frail elderly. She appreciates the opportunity to continue serving on the board to promote geriatric advanced nursing practice in areas of education research and program development and to contribute to promoting our GAPNA society through outreach and strategic planning on a local level.

Directors-at-Large (2-Year Term): (currently serving – seeking second term)

Candidate:

Elizabeth Weinshel MSN, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN 

Elizabeth is a graduate of Yale University School of Nursing, MSN with a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Concentration and Adult Psychiatric- Mental Health Subspecialty.

Elizabeth has years of leadership experience as a Director of Clinical Operations with Optum and as a Complex Care Management Lead for Westmed Medical Group. Most recently she has served as the Director of Nursing Services at the Filosa Convalescent Center responsible for mentoring  and leading a Clinical Team of 85 employees to perform to the highest of their licensure and training, in the delivery of care to long term residents and short-term rehabilitative patients in a private owned 5 Star skilled nursing facility

 

Directors-at-Large (1-Year Term):

Candidate:

Linda York MSN, APRN, AGNP-BC 

 Linda York is an AANP-board certified Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioner who has been a New England GAPNA member since 2016. She has a BSN from Simmons University and an MSN from University of Massachusetts Boston. She currently works at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a Radiology NP and has previously experience in Headache Medicine.

 

To cast your vote: click on or copy and paste the following link into your address bar

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GDD6N6P

Voting is open until July 10th 11:59pm EST