00:01:39 Welcome. My name is Nancyruth Leibold. I am Laurie Jo Johansen, and we are on the Board of Directors for the new Southwest Minnesota Nursing Honor Society. In this video, we will provide information about membership in the Southwest Minnesota Nursing Honor society. This new and exciting group of nurses in Southwest Minnesota provides networking, continuing education opportunities, scholarship awards, community service, collaboration and much more! Join a society that acknowledges and recognizes your accomplishments. We are working to develop our society to apply for Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) chapter status. To ensure that out STTI application has the best chance of success, we are establishing our nursing society in accordance with STTI bylaws and academic standards. We want you to join our Society and our quest toward nursing excellence! We have Webinar meetings, in person meetings, an annual conference day, annual meetings, and inductions for our members. We hope you will join our society. Contact Laurie.Johansen@smsu.edu about membership and the application process! Thanks for viewing out video and we hope to hear from you soon.

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