Agenda
June 11, 2010
Coffeyville 4th Floor Conference Room
Attendance: Darlene Whitlock, Brian Selig, Janie Shumaker, Mitch Jewitt, Susan McDaniel, Jane Ross, Pat Lucke, Carol Kappelman, Lynette Kornelson, Charla Holman, Stella Riney, Alexis Bush (guest), Deb Veatch, Teena Johnston, Jenny McCracken
Welcome/Introductions
- Meeting called to order at 10:31am by President Darlene Whitlock
- Introductions were made
- Thanks to Carol for Magnet Mail – reminders were sent out about upcoming meetings. Please let Carol know if you did not receive one.
Approval of Minutes
- Motion made and seconded to approve the minutes. Motion passed.
President’s Report
YEAH! Primary Seatbelt—will work to increase fine, entire car
- Law passed. Brings in $11M for the state. KDOT will be handling the disbursement of the money
- Going to work toward making the fine larger and getting all occupants brought in under the law
Texting ban
- Bill passed.
- National Kathi Ream sent email from national about this initiative
David very responsive with posting minutes, committee members & Summit on website
ENF emails to meet deadline--$880
- Board polled via email. We met the deadline and submitted $880 to ENF
ENA
Executive Director to State Presidents call--April 29
Election—polls close June 11 5pm
- Today is the last day – if you haven’t voted, please do so by 5pm
Copy of 1st Quarter Assessment checks
ENA State Connection—KS
- Kansas represented in the ENA Connection - congratulations
State President’s Conference Call May 20th
Gen’l Assembly numbers-online registration – membership numbers due June 18
ENF – very successful
Membership –
o trying to improve membership via reminders during expiration months, also trying to get student nurses involved.
IQSIP—handoffs especially from Nursing Home
o Big push is handoff reports from nursing home patients.
myENA Community—State Council Presidents Group
Delegate Online Training Dates
Fund Raiser Booths at Assembly information passed around
Research Priorities for Em Nsg-
- Darlene received request to participate in a panel asking for research priorities for Emergency Nursing
- Ideas included proper application of spinal precautions, evaluation of ABG on patient arrival with intubated patients, early removal of traction devices, job satisfaction of CEN nurses
Marketing People –
- outside consulting firms have been contacting Darlene asking to help promote the ENA
“She Knows Marketing”
Magnet Promotion
“Care for Caregivers”
KSBN newspaper
o suggested publishing our meeting dates for the upcoming year each December
Child/Adolescent Mental Health CE Opportunity
Email to managers
Response from 2 Manhattan & Emporia
ENF Online Auction May 25-June 16 9pm Central
Got letter back from Sept 2007
Julie Unruh published JEN
- Julie published in the most recent edition of JEN
Problem with December meeting again this year—Region VII Dec 10 & 11
- Darlene has a conflict with our scheduled December meeting will be available for only part of the meeting
President Elect Report
Follow up from IO
- Question came up 2 meetings ago about ability to put in an IO
- No ruling by KSBN, but consensus among members is that it is ok as long as the hospital can prove competency validation by staff
Position Statements on Procedural Sedation.
- KSBN still has not come out with a definitive statement regarding a nurses’ ability to push IV meds for deep sedation. Will continue to monitor. ENA has a position statement out supporting a nurse’s ability to push these meds under the direct supervision of a physician.
Email out renewals, mtg
- Brian has been sending out emails to people during the month that their ENA membership expires. Will work with Carol to see how many people actually renew because of this email.
Board Liaison Report
- Mitch reported that David Westman’s (ENA executive director) contract has been extended for another year.
- Voted a deficit budget. Probably likely that we will change the financial year for national from a calendar year to a July 1 – June 30 year. Due to fact that annual meeting is our biggest money maker and that would make it at the beginning of the year rather than toward the end of the fiscal year.
- Held a discussion about how to order credentials that appear after your name. Considering moving toward the ANA model (education, licensure, certifications)
- Spent some time on resolutions and bylaws. Board is going to release comments on some of them in the near future.
Secretary Report
Elaine sent her regrets – Elaine was not able to be here. No report.
Treasurer Report
- Lynette reported on the budget.
- Lynette announced that this will be her last year as KENA treasurer because of a new job.
- Motion made and seconded to approve the budget report. Motion passed.
Board of Directors Report – No report
Committee Reports—Info on Website—Check to see if correct
Darlene asked committee chairs to consider what they think the purpose/benefit is of KENA
Trauma/ENCC/ENPC
Course Reports on web – now available to all members
Doing TNCC at Ft. Riley – Darlene is giving for RN’s being deployed to Iraq
Julie Miller ENPC work group –responded to manager’s email asking for courses
Question Katrina Otto - Re-verification classes cost—Rita replied
Evaluations
SV TNCC class---One marked wrong I think
ENPC 14
Hays 29 evals
- Jenny reported on re-verification classes, and why Wesley has never given a re-verification class. One of our barriers has been lack of instructors. Discussion was held on the benefit/risk to having re-verification classes available.
- All courses are available on the website
Membership
- Currently at 265 members, 9 on this months list of people expiring
- Ideas from other states to improve membership:
o Reimbursement for renewals
o Raffles for memberships
- Discussion was held regarding what items we could implement to help membership
- Motion made, seconded for Carol to research methods for improving membership and for she and Brian to determine a recommendation for the group. Carol will email the findings to the entire membership for discussion and then the BOD will vote via email. Motion approved.
Fund Raising
- Booth is free, Cost is $200 for set up – for national ENA convention. Discussion about selling t-shirts or some other item for fundraising.
- Motion made and seconded to approve Jane and her committee to develop shirts to sell at the summit for the amount $500.
Bylaws
- No report.
Scholarship
- Charla received the final grades for scholarship recipient and it was a 4.0. Her check will be mailed today. Second scholarship winner has yet to submit their grades – Charla will contact.
Nursing Practice
- Emma not available to attend. No report.
- Question raised about nursing practice and HIPAA. Patient with highly infectious disease, asked not to have information shared with sexual partner. Consensus among group was that information could not be released to patient’s partner, but that health department would contact them later because it had to be reported as a communicable disease.
- Question about camera-phones. Has anyone encountered family members who are taking pictures of care?
o Security will take the phone and delete the phone
o Require family to get permission from staff before taking any photos
Communications
- Minutes and committee meetings have been added to the website. Looks very nice. Brochure from summit will be included on there.
Education
- Jenny reported on CEN review. Committee decided on having 2 review sites over 4 days. One site will be Hutchinson, KS. Still need to decide on the other site. First choice of dates is the week of May 2, 2011. Jeff would be available M-Th and will make all of his own arrangements. A discount is available if payment is made to Jeff at the time of the event rather than by billing later.
- Nov 12, 2010 – ENACK is sponsoring a Forensic Providers Class – lunch provided. A SANE nurse will speak about evidence collection. Someone from the ME’s office will be there to discuss post mortem care. PD will be there to discuss missing and exploited children. Will be held at Wesley Medical Center – CEU’s provided.
- Janie provided the name of a police person who did a great workshop on “choking game”
Strategic Planning
- No report.
Government Affairs
- No report from Kelly.
Certification
- Janie reported that there hasn’t been much activity on the certification list serves.
- Janie is on a new committee that is looking at whether or not the questions on the CEN exam are still relevant in today’s practice. Members can expect a survey this summer. Please take the time to fill one out.
Media Relations
- No report.
Student Nurses Relations
- ENA went to the student nurses association. Sent us a list of people from our state who had signed up as a result of that.
Nominations
- Seeking nominations for next year’s officers. Please send names to Charla if you are interested
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Delegates
- Training for delegates is July 28, Aug 14, or Sept 9. Not required but highly recommended for all delegates. You only need to attend one.
Darlene
ACT—Strategic Planning with Nels Sandall
- Motion made and seconded to send $1000 to each trauma region in the state again. Motion passed.
Safe Kids – Darlene will bring the platform to the ENA so that the group knows what is going on
Waiting for Christopher Reeves grant
Board of EMS—interviewing for new Director
EMSC—held workshops around state
Trauma Summit –
o July 30, 2010 at Rolling Hills Zoo
Decision to expand State Trauma presentation to include Level IV criteria and review of
Trauma Triage Decision Scheme
Decision to delete trauma center updates
Jane emails returned will get better email address
Magnet mail to members
Will post brochure to website
Brochure altered to include more time for Mitchell and Groves
LTC Groves “Resilency”
Will offer to pay family to zoo
Approved to Pay $300
Randy Mitchell
Flight from origin
Hotel 2 days
Honorarium $250 plus expenses
Chapter Reports
EKENA-no report. Summer pool party July 11 7-9pm at Julie’s in Topeka
ENACK—summer swim party July 26, site to be determined
Old Business
New Business
Julie Miller ENPC work group