President Barbara Crane, RN
Barbara has been a member of the New York State Nurses Association for more than 34 years. She recently went per diem at the intensive care unit at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island, to serve the National Federation of Nurses full-time.
In her professional life, Barbara is the assistant nursing care coordinator in the intensive care unit at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island and has served as the chair of the NYSNA local bargaining unit at her facility for more than a decade.
“It is with profound humility and gratitude that I pledge to serve registered nurses across this nation in working to build a strong national nurses’ movement,” Barbara says. “The goals of this new federated structure are straightforward and significant: to support, educate and assist our members in achieving their economic, workplace, and practice goals on both state and national levels. The NFN is committed to preserving the autonomy and self-governance of each of its member nurses’ labor organizations.”
Vice-President Julie Shuff, RN
Julie Shuff graduated with an Associate Degree in Nursing from Southwestern Oregon Community College (SOCC) in 1991. Julie served two terms as a member of the Economic and General Welfare Cabinet (E & GW Cabinet) from 2001 to 2003, and was elected as Chair of the E & GW Cabinet in 2007 to present. Prior to her current role as E & GW Cabinet Chair, Julie also served as a member of the ONA Board of Directors in 2006-2007. Julie has been an ANA Board member since 2008.
Julie has been employed as a registered nurse at Bay Area Community Hospital, Coos Bay, Oregon in Intensive Care, since 1991.
“We must advocate for ourselves as vigorously as we advocate for our patients,” Julie said, “and the National Federation of Nurses is a bold new platform for that advocacy. I believe, deeply, that a national union for nurses must be led by nurses, must understand the issues and the concerns of the nursing profession, so that our advocacy can be informed by our experiences and values. The NFN is the ideal vehicle for giving a voice to the voice of nurses across the nation, and I am proud to serve.”
Secretary Kim Armstrong, RN
Kim Armstrong has been a member of the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) for 21 years. During this time, she has served as a member of the Cabinet on Economic and General Welfare for eight years (1997-2005), with four of those years as Chair (2001-2005). Kim also served as WSNA’s president for four years (2005-2009).
In her professional life, Kim is a staff nurse in Labor and Delivery at Tacoma General Hospital (TG) in Tacoma, Washington. She has served her fellow nurses at TG as Grievance Officer, Negotiation Team member and as unit representative. Presently she is the Local Unit’s Secretary and is running in the next election as Local Unit Treasurer.
“We are at the dawn of a new labor movement. Never before have like minded nurses come together, pledging to honor our differences and mutually support our common goals, while promoting the name of staff nurses in their quest to have the voice to protect the profession and the patients. I’m deeply honored to serve the registered nurses across this nation to build a strong national nurses’ labor movement.”
Treasurer Rose Marie Martin, RN
Rose Marie Martin has been a member of the Ohio Nurses Association since 1984. She has served in a number of leadership roles, including director-at-large on the ONA Board of Directors (1999-2007), Co-chair of the Economic and General Welfare Commission (2005-2007). Ms Martin also served as a staff nurse director-at-large on the American Nurses Association Board of Directors from 2002 to 2006.
In her professional life Rose Marie is a staff nurse III on the Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit at The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Medical Center. She has also served as president and on the board of directors of OSUNO the ONA bargaining unit at her facility.
“The NFN is a federated structure founded on core covenants and committed to support, educate and assist member Nursing Labor Organizations. The NLO’s have a unique opportunity to work together to address practice, workplace, economic issues and organizing on a state and national level while maintaining their autonomy and self governance. This makes the NFN a unique organization.”
