Executive Council Statement
Honoring Ann Converso
… was the beginning of a career as a champion for nurses and patients. Converso cared for thousands of patients from 1973 to 2008. At the same time, she became deeply involved in building the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). To Converso, … After former UAN President Cheryl Johnson died in 2007, Converso succeeded her and was elected president in her own right the following year. In December 2009, the UAN joined with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing … during the long debate on health care reform. Converso understood just how urgent it was. "Our nurses see every day in our work the results of a health care system that allows far too many people to fall through the cracks at too great a cost," she …