Maryland Association of Nursing StudentsBoard of Directors 2019-2020
President
Amanda Sampson, RN
Community College Baltimore County Essex / Frostburg University
Amanda Sampson is a recent graduate from the ADN program at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Campus. She will be continuing her education by pursuing her BSN at Frostburg State University. Since graduating in May she has earned her license and will begin a Residency Program at Saint Agnes Hospital. As President, she hopes to be able to assist in increasing membership of the NSNA as well as extending awareness of resources available to Maryland Nursing Students through the NSNA as well as MANS.
Vice President
Vacant
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Secretary
Ashley Smith
Community College of Baltimore County / Towson University
Newsletter Director
Morghan Austin
Community College of Baltimore County, Essex
mansnewslettereditor@gmail.com
Morghan Austin is a student currently enrolled at the Community College of Baltimore County Essex Campus and is going into her second semester. With the hopes of becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife, she plan to pursue her DNP with a focus on Midwifery and Women’s Health after attending a BSN program. She currently works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Extern. While serving as the Newsletter Chairperson, she hopes to bring to the forefront the importance issues faced by nursing students as well as the nursing community.
Public Relations Director
Vacant
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Community Health Director
Nicole Pohida
University of Maryland
manscommunity@gmail.com
Nicole Pohida is a fourth semester bachelors of nursing science student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Nicole works as a patient care technician at Suburban hospital in Bethesda. She additionally is the vice president of the Nurses for Global Health organization and the "No One Dies Alone Club" at the school of nursing in shady grove. Following graduation, Nicole hopes to work on a critical care unit and to further her education in an acute care doctorate of nursing practice program. As the community health director, Nicole hopes to build a team of nursing students that ventures out to vulnerable populations that lack access and the ability to afford health care. Nicole wants the organization of students to provide health promotion education to this population in order to reduce their risk for disease and need for acute medical care.
Breakthrough to Nursing Director
Elizabeth
Huber
Towson University
mansbreakthroughtonursing@gmail.com
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Membership and Nominations Director
Brittany Karmasek
Community College of Baltimore County, Essex
Brittany Karmasek is a nursing student in her third semester at the Community College of Baltimore County - Essex Campus. Additionally, she is working towards her BSN at Towson University as a member of the Associate to Bachelor’s program. Brittany hopes to become an emergency nurse when she graduates, however she is open to all other specialties. She is currently pursuing a position in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus Emergency Department. As the Membership and Nominations Director, she hopes to expand nursing students' access to different resources and help them meet and engage with others who understand the depth of nursing.
Legislative Director
Vacant
manslegislativechair@gmail.com
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Resolutions Director
Vacant
Image of Nursing Director
Vacant
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MANS Student Consultant
This position is currently vacant.
MNA Student Liaison
This position is currently vacant.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Marianne Eichenberger
Dr. Marianne Eichenberger is a Professor of Nursing at the Community College of Baltimore County. Her area of specialization is psychiatric mental health nursing. She began her journey in nursing as an inpatient nurse unit working with adults struggling with all types of mental illness and she has had the opportunity to care for psychiatric patients in acute and community settings. She began teaching at the Community College of Baltimore County in 2001 and continues to enjoy teaching the Mental Health Nursing Concepts course and working with students as a faculty advisor to the Nursing Student Association. She is looking forward to working with the Maryland Association of Nursing Students as their faculty advisor.
Maryland Nurses Association, RN Consultant
Erin Rodriguez, RN
Erin Rodriguez, RN, is a critical care nurse at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and the Maryland Nurses Association. She previously sat on the MANS Board of Directors as the Secretary and then the President. She is the former President of the Student Nurses Association of Harford Community College. She is a nationally certified EMT-B. She is currently working on her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree from Towson University.