The Massachusetts Emergency Nurses Association (MENA) is an extension of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and is responsible for representing the interests of Massachusetts’s Emergency Nurses at the State and National level through education and advocacy. Massachusetts ENA is recognized as the authority and premier community for emergency nursing as evidenced by the development and adoption of practice, research, and educational resources.
2024 Restructuring
As we look to 2024 we will operate the state in a two-tier structure. This means that the state will operate as a single group and without active local chapters. This decision was made with the goal to have an active and robust state organization.
Making a change like this will have impacts and to help support the local experience, next year we will rotate the location of the state meetings by regions: Metro-South; Metro-North; Central Mass; Western Mass through the year.
Our 2026 officers
President
Joanne Hallahan
BSN, RN
Immediate Past-President
Dan Nadworny
DNP, RN, FAEN
Secretary
Christine Robinson
BSN, RN
Treasurer
Kyle Kendall
BSN, RN
David Denneno
APRN-BC (ret), RN, MSN, MEd, CEN
Director
Kathy Shubitowski
MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CEN
Director
Karina Cammarano
RN, BSN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN
Director
Jennifer Gold
MSN, BSW, RN, TCRN
Director
Ky McNamara
RN, CEN
Director
ENA’s Position Statement
A Position Statement is an assertion of the beliefs held, encouraged and supported by ENA, and adopted in accordance with ENA’s bylaws, policies, and procedures. The position statements cover a variety of emergency nursing topics.
ENA Position Statements – Recommendations for a course of action or statement of beliefs that reflects ENA’s stance regarding an issue of importance to safe practice, safe care, and optimal patient outcomes.
ENA Joint Statements – An assertion of the beliefs held, encouraged, and supported, but written in collaboration with other external organizations with mutual interest.
ENA Supported Statements – Statements written by an external organization with content expertise identifying a course of action or statement of belief. These statements are officially supported by ENA.
In Case of Emergency
What is emergency nursing? Nearly half of all medical care in the U.S. is delivered in E.D.s and nurses are on the frontlines of that care, addressing our physical and emotional needs and sending us back out into the world. “In Case of Emergency” is a documentary that follows emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S, from urban to rural, shedding light on some of the biggest health care crises facing Americans today, and the opportunity that emergency nurses have to help break a sometimes-vicious cycle for patients under their care.
