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 officers

President

Dan Nadworny
DNP, RN, FAEN

Immediate Past-President

Maureen Franklin
BSN, RN, CEN, CPEN

Treasurer

Kathy Shubitowski
MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CEN

Secretary

Christine Robinson
BSN, RN


Bee O’Neil

RN

Director


Ky McNamara

BSN, RN

Director


David Denneno

APRN-BC, MSN, MEd, CEN

Director


Joanne Hallorhan

BSN, RN

Director


Cheryl Dunnington

MS, RN

Director


Sheila Silva

DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN

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.

Click here to visit the ENA Position Statement page.

In Case of Emergency

What is emergency nursingNearly 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.