Sarla Ferrer-Duller,
RN, MN, CCRN, APRN (BC)

Bringing On The Best

We must be guided by the power to love and not overcome by love of power. Then and only then can we say ' "we are bringing on the best!"

New Year, new opportunites, new hopes and dreams! PNASC is turning a new leaf. New administration and new leadership style, with Brenda Cohen taking on the helm. As we embrace 2007, our batteries are recharged with the induction of the 2007 – 2008 PNASC officers.

Through the years, PNASC has numerous significant contributions locally, nationally and internationally, with each administration building up on stronger and stronger foundation each time bringing PNASC to a higher level. Each administration has been relentlessly bringing on the best by being diligent, dependable and disciplined to uphold PNASC’s visibility, vitality and viability.

Through all the years, PNASC prevails because collectively we opt to turn our energies positively. When PNASC was in turmoil, we were all there to assist leadership regain balance! In the process we gained not only each other’s respect and friendship, we also became a tower of strength for each other, and most importantly we enjoyed higher levels of teamwork and respect by bringing on our best!

One of my favorite stories on bringing on one’s best was about Professor Chandrasekhar, PhD. who was scheduled to teach an advanced astrophysics seminar in the dead of winter. Most of his colleagues thought he would cancel the class because only two students enrolled. To their surprise he went ahead and taught the class commuting 100 miles round trip between his home in Wisconsin and University of Chicago through back country roads during the harsh winter months. What a rare and remarkable virtue of tenacity and commitment! Ten years later, those two same students, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, both won the 1957 Nobel Prize for physics. He himself won the same prize in 1983.

As we embrace the New Year with renewed hopes one fact remains: All of us members share a common responsibility of upholding the ideals of PNASC. We must be guided by the power to love and not overcome by love of power. Then and only then we can say we are bringing on the best! Our very best!