LSNA Names Representative to LANPAC
Pelican News June/July/August 2008
Peggy B. Bourgeois, APRN, MN, CNS, CDE has been appointed by the Louisiana State Nurses Association Board of Directors to represent the Association on the Louisiana Nurses Political Action Committee (LANPAC) Board of Directors. She was actively involved in LANPAC since its inception, and has continued to maintain her membership. Her role includes acting as liaison between the two organizations, as well as serving on the LANPAC By-laws Committee.
Ms. Bourgeois is currently serving as Chair of the LSNA Nominations Committee and represents LSNA on the Louisiana Dietetics and Nutrition Board of Examiners. Peggy is a member of the Health Care Centers in School Board of Directors, serves on the Louisiana Diabetes Council and is Secretary, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Board of Directors.
Peggy currently serves as President of the Se’LADE Chapter of AADE and is the state Legislative Liaison to AADE where she also served on the Advocacy Committee. She has been presented with the AADE Distinguished Service Award, LSUHSC Graduate Nursing Entrepreneurial Award, Louisiana State Nurses Nightingale Hall of Fame and the LSUHSC School of Nursing Alumni of the Year Awards. Peggy served two terms on the AADE Board of Directors and a term on the AADE Education and Research Foundation Board of Trustees.
Following transition (retirement?) from the Baton Rouge General Medical Centers Director, Diabetes Center she formed her own company PBB Associates, LLC, where she is a Clinical Consultant for professional and patient diabetes education programs, conducts clinical research studies around the state and lectures/consults on diabetes reimbursement issues across the country.
