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This article lists the candidates for AORN national offices. The annual election will be held during the 2002 Congress on Thursday, April 25, from 7 to 10:30 AM in Rooms AR1 and AR2 of the Anaheim Convention Center. Results will be announced that same day at the second session of the House of Delegates, which will be held from 1:30 to 3 PM in the ballrooms of the convention center. Results also will be available at AORN Headquarters and posted on the AORN web site.

All AORN members may use this list of candidates to indicate their candidate preferences to their delegates, but only authorized delegates may vote. Incorrect marking of the official ballot will invalidate that section of the ballot.

Additional nominations may be made from the floor at the first session of the House of Delegates, which begins at 1 PM on Monday, April 22, in the ballrooms of the convention center. Before nomination, the eligibility of additional nominees must be verified, and consent-to-serve forms must be completed. All candidates will appear at the Meet the Candidates session, which will be held Sunday, April 21, from 11 AM to 12:15 PM in the ballrooms. Members also can meet with candidates at the Nominating Committee booth. Delegates are required to attend all business-related sessions; alternates and other AORN members are encouraged to attend.

The following pages contain biographical data and election statements for all candidates. Biographical data are limited to the past 10 years, so professional activities before 1992 are not reflected. Space limitations do not permit listing candidates' elected or appointed positions in local nursing or other professional associations. Members who have questions about candidates' speaking engagements, published works, student status, or other professional activities can direct them to those candidates at the Candidates' Town Hall Meeting, Sunday, April 21 from 1:30 to 3 PM, following the Meet the Candidates session.

In the election statements that follow, candidates were given free reign to address professional issues facing nursing in general or perioperative nursing in particular.

PRESIDENT-ELECT (one to be elected)

JOY DON BAKER, RN, MS, MBA, MA, PhD, CNOR, CNA, is an assistant clinical professor and director of distance education at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her bachelor of science in nursing degree from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee; her master of science in nursing degree from Oklahoma University, Norman; her master of business administration degree from Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla; and her master of arts in organizational development degree and her doctorate in human and organizational systems from The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Dr Baker has been a perioperative nurse for 26 years and a member of AORN for 25 years. She chairs the One-Member/One-Vote Task Force (2001-present) and is a member of the Governance Task Force (2000-present). She has served as Vice President (1992-1994) and as a Board of Directors member (1992). She chaired the Credentials (1992-1994) and the Policy (1992) Committees. She also was a member of the Finance and Audit (1992-1994), Executive (1992-1994), Planning (1992-1994), Data Elements Coordinating (1995-1997), and Special Committee on Ethics (1994-1995) Committees. She chaired the Project 2000 Organizational Structure Team (1992-1994) and was a member (1992).

Dr Baker is a member of the Leadership (1995-present); Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist (2000-present), Perioperative Nursing Informatics (1998-present); and Nurses in Business, Industry & Consulting (1995-present) Specialty Assemblies. She also was a member of the Rural/Small Hospital Specialty Assembly (1995-2000).

She served on the examination development task force (2001) for the Certification Board Perioperative Nursing, and she also was a member of the consultant panel for development of alternative options to the examination (2000).

Currently, Dr Baker is a member of eChapter. She was a member of AORN of Central Oklahoma, AORN of Shellcoast of Florida, AORN of North Central West Virginia, AORN of Atlanta, and AORN of Amarillo Texas, and she has been a member-at-large. She served as a board of directors member for AORN of Amarillo Texas (1995), and for AORN of Atlanta (1993-1994), where she also was a member of the bylaws (1992) and membership (1992-1993) committees.

Dr Baker is a member of Sigma Theta Tau (1992-present), and she was a member of her state nurses association (1992-1995), the American Organization of Nurse Executives (1992-1995), and the American Society of Postanesthesia Nurses (1992-1995). She has attended Congress 10 times in the past 10 years, nine times as a delegate.

Election statement. Our very soul was shaken with the experience on Sept 11, 2001, yet Americans and citizens of the free world linked hands and hearts, uniting in an outpouring of support. We, the nursing profession, are the heart and soul of our work environments. We find ways to remove barriers and welcome intense dialogue to make quality informed decisions. Our practice arenas are extremely responsive, capable in crises, and led by effective planners. Prevention becomes our best strategy for our future.

In support of that strategy, our organization wrestles with several key issues, including nursing shortages; organizational structure; responsibilities of leaders; the work of the Board of Directors, House of Delegates, and the best use of volunteer time; avenues for increasing information flow; and potential expansion of voting opportunity to all members. Technological advancements permit us to explore options and consider diverse opinions. Our future requires an organization with rapid and flexible decision making that accurately reflects members' views.

Ultimately, individual members make the difference. You are the one who invited the young nurse to the meeting. You are the one who risked communicating a divergent opinion in online dialogue. You are the one who held the hand of the young teenager in the OR who may never see her twenties.

Each of us is responsible for marketing and fostering our profession by supporting and expanding student involvement in every activity and reaching out to young people, spotlighting not only the need for more nurses entering the profession, but also exploring what value the profession offers each as individuals. I am proud of and energized by the young nurses with whom I work. They are decisive, articulate people, willing to explore, comfortable with technology, and certain that there is a vibrant future in perioperative nursing.

My commitment and passion for AORN has grown and deepened through continual service offered by our Association my entire career. I pursue the opportunity to serve you as President, and I seek and welcome your advice and support. My core beliefs include honoring our past, engaging in and understanding the present, and staying focused on our future, for our future rests with our actions of today and tomorrow's nurses.

America is a blend. Nursing is a blend. Our Association is a blend. When I look at the AORN icon of a hand passing scissors to hand, I know our role is affirmed and our future is real.

BETTY J. SHULTZ, RN, CNOR, is president/educator at Surgical Services Specialists, Westlake, Ohio, and a staff nurse and RN first assistant at University Health Systems of Cleveland. She earned her diploma in nursing from Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing, Cincinnati.

Shultz has been a perioperative nurse for 35 years and a member of AORN for 29 years. She is Vice President (2000-present). She was Secretary (1998-1999) and a member of the Board of Directors (1995-1997). Shultz chairs the Corporate AccountaBility Committee (2000-present) and is on the One-Member/One-Vote Task Force (2001-present). She also is a member of the Finance and Audit (1999-present) and Strategic Planning (1995-present) Committees, and she chaired the Bylaws (1997-1998), Policy (1996-1997), and Audiovisual (1994-1995) Committees. She also was a member of the Planning (1995-1998), Bylaws (1996), Policy (1995), and Audiovisual (1992-1994) Committees. She served on the Mentoring Resolution Task Force (2001), the Task Force for Resolution for the RN in the Scrub Role (2000), Reuse of Single-use Devices Task Force (1999), Name Update Task Force (1998), Membership Task Force (1996-1998), and Think Tank (1996).

Shultz is the Board liaison to the Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Specialty Assembly (1995-present). She is a member of the Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist (1993-present), RN First Assistant (1992-present), and Ambulatory Surgery (2000-present) Specialty Assemblies.