Starting and running an AVA network is hard work, and most networks get no guidance at all — they run on volunteers who are already busy caring for patients. If you lead a network, or you are starting one, tell April what you need help with and she will help if she can. It might be a policy, a poster, help running a meeting or a Zoom call, how sponsorship works, or how to set up registration — whatever your network needs, ask.
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For network leaders
Registration: ask role first
A symposium registration form must ask who someone is first — vendor, student, member, or clinician — because a license status is not a role. At one NELAVAN symposium, unlicensed vendor representatives were sorted into the free student category and ended up taking free tables. Students are free; vendors are not. Asking role first keeps the categories — and the tables — where they belong.
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