Secretary
Mary Newman - DNP, RN, CPON®, NE-BC
2023-2026
Current Position
Director of Nursing, Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer & Blood Disorders
Nemours Children’s Health Wilmington, DE
APHON Membership
APHON Member Since 2005
Local Chapter Membership
Education
- DNP, 2023, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
- MSN, 2018, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
- BSN, 2013, Gwynedd Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, PA
Contributions
APHON National
- Professional Development Committee: Vice-Chair 2022-23, Member, 2019 – present
- APHON Transitions Committee Member, 2023
- Poster Abstract Reviewer, 2023
- Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Provider Program Committee: Member, 2020 – present
- Local Chapter Committee: Member, 2019 – present
- APHON Pediatric Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Provider Program: Instructor, 2009 – present
- Nominating Committee: Chair 2016-17, Member 2015 – 2017
- Primary Author Educational Program: Resource for Ancillary Staff, 2021
- Annual Conference
- Leadership Workshop “Leadership Development: Application to Practice and Skill Development”, 2022. Co-facilitated Leadership Workshop 46th Annual Conference & Exhibit
- Co-Presenter, Podium Presentation, “The Future of Nursing: 2020-2030 What We All Need to Know”, 2022. Podium presentation 46th Annual Conference & Exhibit
- APHON Town Hall Facilitator/Co-Moderator, 2020, 2021
- Co-Presenter, Podium Presentation, “It’s Time to Expect More: Developing Leadership at All Levels,” APHON Annual Conference, 2019
- Co-Moderator, Panel Discussion on PHD/DNP, 2017
- Town Hall Co-Moderator, Discussion on Nurse Managers, 2016
- Poster Judge, 2015
- Co-author, Poster Presentation: “Chemotherapy Safety: Interdisciplinary Improvement and Innovation,” 2014
- Primary author, Poster Presentation, “Implementation of Weekly Town Hall Meetings on a Pediatric Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit: A Patient and Family-Centered Care Initiative,” 2012
- Town Hall Co-Moderator, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, 2012
- Town Hall Co-Moderator, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, 2011
- Primary author, Poster Presentation, “Building Team Performance in the Outpatient Hematology/Oncology Setting,” 2011
- Co-author, Paper presentation, “From Nurses’ Station to Bedside: Changing the Setting of Patient Handoff,” 2010
- Publications
- Primary Author, APHON Counts, “Local Chapters: Resiliency and Response,” 2021
- Primary Author, APHON Counts, “Self-Care and Resilience: Giving to Ourselves What We Give to Others,” 2020
- Primary Author, APHON Counts, “Balancing Safety and Staffing: Evidence-Based Staffing Measures,” 2017
Local Chapter
- First State Chapter
- Treasurer, 2017 – 2020
- Director of Membership Activities, 2014 – 2017
- Regional Conference Planning Committee, 2011 – 2019
- President, 2007 – 2013
Other Nursing Leadership
- Professional Organizations
- American Organization of Nursing Leadership (AONL)
- American Nurses Association (ANA)
- Delaware Nurses Association (DNA)
- Presentations
- Podium presentation, 2023. “The Future of Nursing: 2020-2030 What We All Need to Know” NY Metro, Long Island, New Jersey APHON Regional Conference
- Oral Presentation, 2023. “The Future of Nursing”. Sigma Kappa Gamma Chapter – Stony Brook, NY
- Poster presentation, Co-Author,: “Moving Standardized Handoff to the Bedside,” Nursing of Children Network (NCN) Regional Conference, 2021
- Co-author, poster presentation: “Chemotherapy Safety: Interdisciplinary Improvement and Innovation,” 4th Annual Regional Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Conference, 2015
- Recognition
- Leadership Recognition: University of Delaware, Nursing Alumni Network 2020 STARS Award, 2020
- Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children, Transformational Leadership Nurses Week Award, 2014
- Nursing Spectrum Excellence Awards, National Nurse of the Year Winner Clinical Care, 2007
- Delaware Excellence in Nursing Practice Award, State Winner Acute Care, Delaware Nurses Association, 2007