Delegates agreed to reduce the size of the ANA board from 15 to nine members, including four officers and five directors-at-large, one of whom is a staff nurse and one a recent graduate. They also approved measures to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, comprised of the C/SNA presidents and executive directors, and effective March 2013, the 60-member Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (CNPE). New, shorter-term opportunities will be available for nurses to serve on ad hoc “Professional Issues Panels” that will address specific, and in some cases, urgent issues important to nurses.