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
I agree with you whole heartedly..... It is required in all other oragnizations.
Jose Delp RN BSN VA-BC
I continue to bring my concerns up to the board and it goes nowhere. Let's say the AVA board does not believe in financial disclosure. I guess industry owns the board so why should they not protect themselves.
candidate number two today and no listing of affilitation
You know Kathy Kokotis has always disclosed she works for Bard even when on the BOARD!
Kathy
Kathy,
It seems to me that your comments would be best directed to the association board rather than posting on a listserv.
Janet Pettit DNP, NNP-BC, VA-BC™, CNS
I do think this is a forum for discussion of the topic so that board members can hear from more people on the topic before it is addressed.
Jose Delp RN BSN VA-BC
I totally completely 100% agree with you!
Wendy Erickson RN
Eau Claire WI
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
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