A Message from EBC President Karen Hays, RDH, BS
With the start of the Spring Season, let’s take some time to appreciate the people and things in our life we are thankful for. The people around us are what make our lives rich. Our career enables us to support ourselves while helping our patients. Naturally, we want to protect and invest in what is important to us. With our family and friends we invest our time and love. With our career we should invest in ADHA membership. That is the best way to protect and grow our profession.
Remember, when you sign up as a member of ADHA you receive a tripartite membership, meaning you are a member of the national (ADHA), state (CDHA), and local (MDDHS) levels. The membership costs about one day worth of work, but collectively it helps our professional organization do many things from organize continuing education courses, to lobbying for the needs of our patients and our profession on the state and national levels. Membership payment can be in one lump sum or quarterly. We should never expect others to pick up the slack for us. This is true at home (think of if we always left the chores for others to do), at work (what if we never sterilized our own instruments), and professionally. There is strength in numbers, and when we all do our part it makes the load much lighter. Membership in your professional organization is the biggest thing you can do for yourself, patients and fellows as a hygienist.
Let us enter this Season with a joyful and thankful attitude. We are blessed with our family and friends. Let us show them with our actions our appreciation and love for them. We are blessed to have a career, let us also invest in and appreciate what that career has done for us.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Karen Hays, RDH, BS
March /April 2011
East Bay
