TIME - California Emergency Nurses Association



| |TIME |DISCUSSION |ACTION |

|Call to order & establish quorum |5 min |Call to order at 1303 | |

| | |Established Quorum | |

|Introductions |5 min |Welcome and Introductions | |

| | |Timekeeper/Facilitator- Marcus Godfrey |The project is trying to have all hospitals do an online survey to |

| | |Guest speakers : |look at their pediatric readiness |

| | |Dr. Kate Remick, UCLA- California Pediatric Readiness Project |Every hospital that participates will receive a “gap analysis” and |

| | | |feedback on how to be better prepared. They will also receive a |

| | | |“tool kit” book with the latest information on pediatric care & a |

| | | |broslow tape. |

| | | |Roll out will be December 1, 2011 with letters going to the Director |

| | | |of Nursing, CEO & Medical Director to encourage participation. |

| | | |The survey site will remain open about 3 months and website has a |

| | | |copy of the survey to view. |

| | | |Only 1 survey per hospital |

| | | |All responses remain confidential and only your hospital will know |

| | | |your score, there are no plans to publish this confidential data |

| | | |Our state will be the first one to roll out this project & goal is to|

| | | |reach all 50 states. |

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| | |Dr. Peter Sokolove, Cal ACEP President | |

| | |Lecture:” Emergency Care: The Ultimate Team Sport” | |

| | |CAL ACEP: having their 40year anniversary this year | |

| | |Represent 80% of ER Physicians who are board certified | |

| | |Sponsor 2 conferences per year | |

| | |Have educational opportunities throughout the year | |

| | |Have supported many ENA Bills | |

| | |Crowding Crisis: | |

| | |hospitals closed from 1991-2005 | |

| | |ED Censes went up by 30% | |

| | |Older/sicker patients | |

| | |Minor care patients are not the problem | |

|Approval of minutes |5 min |Review/Approved State Council Minutes Aug 12, 2011 with 3 minor corrections | |

|Treasurers Report |20 min |Wells Fargo Account Summary | |

|Kara Davis | |Business Checking Account: $158,138.57 | |

| | |Chapter Accounts : $220.208.10 | |

| | |CalENA Savings: $97,388.15 | |

| | |Net Worth Report $472,734.82 | |

| | |Account reporting instructions and form are on the website (calena.us ) | |

| | |Update on chapter accounts and Bookkeeper- Mary Joseph attended the meeting and remained| |

| | |available to answer any questions. | |

| | |2012 Budget Preparation- a couple of chapters still need to send their reports in |Kara will contact chapters that are still pending report submission |

| | |Grants for ED Nurses’ Week | |

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|Unfinished/Ongoing Old Business: |40 min |Email system : |Anyone who is not getting the Elite Emails, please contact Linda |

|Linda Broyles | |Elite system had some learning curve issues initially, but seems to be working well now.|Rosenberg who will help troubleshoot your issues. |

| | | |Members should log into the ENA National website and update their |

| | | |email information because that is the database that the Elite system |

| | | |uses. |

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| | |Cal ACEP- did not meet | |

| | |CHA EMS/Trauma Committee- did not meet | |

| | |EMREF | |

| | |Ultrasound IV class held yesterday was very well received. There were 16 people who | |

| | |attended for the course. | |

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| | |CFED West | |

| | |The State meeting will be held on the Monday & Tuesday prior to the conference(May | |

| | |21-22) | |

| | |The CFED West Conference dates are May 23-25, 2012 | |

| | |Information is available on their website | |

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| | |Bylaws/SOP | |

| | |Terri has not finished making all of the edits but will have them completed and posted | |

| | |on the CA website. | |

| | |EMSA Task Forces - STEMI and Stroke, Chapter 13 | |

| | |STROKE Committee met for the first time in October. Jan Ogar, our representative did |Linda Broyles will follow up and make sure Susan Smith is added to |

| | |attend and will send out a report. |the member list and e-mailings. |

| | |STEMI Committee also met in October but Susan Smith, our representative was not included| |

| | |in the e-mails. | |

| | |Chapter 13 Committee has been placed on HOLD | |

| | |Chapter and State Leader Award Nominations | |

| | |Cathy McJanet and Heather Venezio were recognized as award winners! Congratulations! | |

| | |Request from New York State Council re: ENAF | |

| | |Clarification was received that this scholarship is open to all members and not just | |

| | |those in New York | |

| | |CA State Council will continue to donate the proceeds from two meetings per year from | |

| | |the “opportunity drawing” to this fund. | |

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| | |Cards for Judy Kelleher: | |

| | |Each chapter selected a month to send Judy Kelleher a card or letter |JAN = Greater LA |

| | | |FEB = San Diego |

| | | |MAR= Mid Valley |

| | | |APR= Kern County |

| | | |MAY = Inland Empire |

| | | |JUN = San Francisco |

| | | |JUL = East Bay |

| | | |AUG = Sacramento |

| | | |SEP = Loma Prieta |

| | | |OCT =Orange Coast |

| | | |NOV = Superior |

| | |GAC Workshop |DEC = Channel Islands |

| | |Kristen Connor will be attending as the 1st representative | |

| | |If a 2nd person is allowed, the board will make the selection. | |

|Director at Large Update |20 min |Meeting locations 2012 | |

|Janet Williams | |January 12, 13 in San Francisco | |

| | |March 14, 15 in Sacramento | |

| | |May 21, 22 in Palm Springs | |

| | |August 9, 10 in Los Angeles | |

| | |November 8, 9 in Chico | |

| | |Lunch Sponsors needed | |

|New Business: |50 min |National Update | |

|Linda Broyles | |No updates | |

| | |2012 Board Installation: Linda Broyles | |

| | |Tobin Miller- Treasurer | |

| | |Marcus Godfrey- President | |

| | |Linda Rosenberg-President Elect | |

| | |Kristen Connor- Treasurer Elect | |

| | |Susan Smith- Director At Large | |

| | |Secretary- Carole Snyder | |

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| | |Board and Committee Chair Recognition | |

| | |Chapter Leader Award Recognition | |

| | |Northern LA Committee : | |

| | |Continue to meet and are on track to become a new chapter around March 2012 | |

| | |State Achievement Award | |

| | |Last year we received the award for work on Overcrowding | |

| | |Linda Broyles has forwarded the application information to Marcus Godfrey for 2012 | |

| | |submission | |

| | |Delegate shirts – Susan Laverty | |

| | |Suggestion to use the “lands end” website to order products or shirts with ENA Logos | |

| | |The BOD will look into the option and report back to membership in January for a vote. | |

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| | |CHAPTER REPORTS | |

|East Bay #223 |5 min |Having trouble getting election votes back but they will have a full board next year | |

|Greater LA #224 |5 min |Full board next year | |

| | |Had an 8 hour conference last week that 85people attended | |

| | |Will send Holiday card to Judy in Dec & another card in January | |

| | |Antelope Valley – Northern LA Committee is meeting monthly with 10-15 people attending | |

| | |their meetings. They have 40 new members recruited so far &are doing great. Will have a | |

| | |bowling competition for hospitals in their region coming up. | |

|Mid Valley #225 |5 min |Struggling to have a full board for next year | |

| | |Had nurse week dinner with 55 nurses attending | |

| | |All hospitals had representation at the dinner | |

| | |Did a silent auction which was successful | |

| | |Gave out scholarships and awards at the dinner | |

|Orange Coast #226 |5 min |Chapter meeting dinner at a restaurant had 25 attending and 10 were first time | |

| | |attendee’s to ENA | |

| | |Recruited new person to their board | |

| | |Drafted their calendar for 2012 for the year | |

| | |ENPC course in November had a small profit | |

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|San Diego #228 |5 min |December Holiday Tea was held on December 2nd, we collected “Toys for tots” which will | |

| | |be donated to Camp Pendleton military families. | |

| | |April will hold another “911 conference” 2012 | |

| | |Injury Prevention Project- Dog Bite Prevention project is in full swing. Kay Thompson | |

| | |has been providing lectures locally and will present at the CFED West Conference. She | |

| | |has also applied to speak at the National Conference in San Diego. | |

| | |Local disaster with electrical failure of the entire county will have “lessons learned” | |

| | |following the debriefing by the SD Healthcare Disaster Council. | |

| | |Gave out two $500 dollar scholarships in October during ER Nurse Week | |

|San Francisco #230 |5 min |Only had a few meetings this past year | |

| | |December Xmas meeting is planned | |

| | |Has a full board for 2012 | |

|Channel Islands #378 |5 min |Have retained their same board for 2012 | |

| | |ER Nurse Day Celebration at a Casino with dinner was fun | |

| | |Having a December holiday meeting with a vendor sponsor | |

| | |Sponsored a CEN review course | |

| | |Now have a face book page | |

|Loma Prieta #232 |5 min |Shoe submission to the contest in Florida won the most outrageous – nice job! | |

| | |Nurse week was celebrated with prizes and food | |

| | |Xmas party Dec 2nd Thursday potluck dinner | |

|Inland Empire #362 |5 min |New board (Terri Reynolds-president for 2012) | |

| | |New grad is taking on secretary role on their board | |

| | |March 30th “timely topics annual conference” | |

| | |Xmas party next week at a Casino | |

| | |Attendance has been down at meetings & discussed looking at other media routes to | |

| | |advertise their meetings | |

| | |33 hospitals in their chapter area-sending out notices to them with the meeting schedule| |

| | |& state council meeting | |

| | |Have shirts for sale through Terri | |

|Sacramento #253 |5 min |This Fall they sponsored several nurses that went to Haiti | |

| | |The Haiti Nurses Presented their experiences at their 2nd annual conference | |

| | |BOD is full for 2012 | |

|Superior # 279 | |Met in October | |

| | |Fundraising planned for new year | |

| | |ENPC course scheduled in November | |

| | |Have increased board members | |

|Kern County #442 |5 min |Meeting next week & had several members at this State Meeting for the first time | |

| | |COMMITTEE REPORTS | |

|Bylaws/SOP’s |5 min |They have been revised and she will send those to Mark to post on the website | |

|Terri Sturgill | | | |

|Education Committee |5 min |Educational event tentatively on June 8th at Fairfield in Northern CA | |

|Janet Williams for Hanna | | | |

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|Government Affairs |5 min |Legislators are done for the year | |

|Debby Rogers | |BRN has “sunset” and the bill was vetoed by the governor due to content added which | |

| | |created investigators who would have changes in their retirement benefits. There was | |

| | |miscommunication & BRN was not notified before legislators left Sacramento. Consequently| |

| | |the BRN is scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2011. | |

| | |There is a letter already written by ANA and suggestion was to write to our membership | |

| | |supporting use of this letter for members to sign & send to their legislators & attach | |

| | |it to the e-mail. | |

| | |AB 1136 Bill regarding “lift teams” who has some language that needs to be better | |

| | |defined. It supports lift equipment. There was some concerning language which would | |

| | |mandate | |

| | |“Nurse will directly observe and direct” lifts. This needs to be clarified since the RN | |

| | |is not in attendance for every lift. | |

|Newsletter/Webmaster |5 min |It is online calena.us | |

|Mark Wandro | |Need to discuss how to let new members know there is a website. Suggested sending out an| |

| | |elite email reminder to everyone | |

| | |Linda B volunteered to help Mark with the website content | |

| | |Discussed updating our Facebook site for CAL ENA | |

| | |Next deadline for submission is November 30th | |

|Leadership in Practice |5 min |Discussion of electronic medical record & issues with auto population | |

|Julie Rossie | |Use of new media & how we communicate with nursing staff | |

| | |Ways to get staff nurses to get involved with shared governance | |

| | |Advanced IV access/IO/UTZ discussion & video | |

|Trauma- |5 min |National ENA workgroup is trying to create an electronic application process | |

|Gail Dodge | |100% customer service satisfaction survey results for CA instructors | |

| | |Have money in the budget that will be returned to the board | |

| | |Did 5 courses for underserved regions | |

| | |Have audited 4 hospitals for TNCC &/or ENPC courses | |

| | |May have a person for the last regional director position | |

| | |Looking into QI issues related to out of states instructors teaching courses and not | |

| | |reporting them to the board or having expired instructor status but still teaching | |

| | |courses | |

| | |New tools were developed to evaluate courses or persons who wish to be instructor | |

| | |evaluators | |

| | |New budget estimate $61,000 next year | |

| | |Plan to have more “drop in” visits to courses next year | |

|Injury Prevention |5 min |Talked about resolutions that were presented at National | |

|Patrice Christensen | |Booster Seat Bill was signed by the Gov. for children ................
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