Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

January 23, 2012 

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI 

1. I.                   Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m. by Elizabeth Mikes, President.
2. II.                Roll Call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.
3. III.             Those present:

Board Members

President – Elizabeth Mikes, Vice President – Erin Nicoson, Secretary – Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer – Katie New, Communications Director – Bethany Nies, Community Wellness Director – Erika Schilkey, Curriculum Director – Frank Durante, Evaluations Director – Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Lauren Vockler, Staff Advisor – Angela Caruso, Faculty Advisor – Norine Cunningham.

Delegates

266 –  Chelsea Armbrustmacher, Alex Davis, Jenifer Desy, Penelope Fryling, Miranda Kreiser, Bryan Nicholson, Morgan Pendowski, Alicia Prater, Kara Siekirk

320 – Avana Johnson, Brooke Shelton

350 – Sarah  Bemiss, Kassie Castellucci, Renee Dettloff, Ally Duxter, Lauren Glovak, Jessica Ramano, Megen Tanner

420 – Eric DeJong, Natalie Ervin, Dawn Hatchew, Stephanie Moore, Casie Pedley, Alyssa Tassiello, Meredith Visser

450 – Nicole Husen, Taryn Zyburt

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Brittany Switanowski, Delegate 420; Bianca Orduña, Delegate 450.

Excused without notice: Linda Lamberts, Delegate 320;

1. IV.             Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Renee Dettloff, Delegate 350

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

1. V.                Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Katie New, Treasurer

Second: Renee Dettloff, Delegate 350

1. VI.             Officer Reports
   1. 1.      President
      1. a.  Students going to the MNSA Annual Convention, we will be meeting on January 30^th from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in room CHS 440. Please plan on being there if you are going to convention.

b. Delegates were announced with the secretary.

c. Scrapbooking committee. People go to the events and take pictures and the scrapbook the pictures.

d. Delegates signed up for committees.

                                                                                                                                      i.      Scrapbook

1. 1.      Meredith Visser
2. 2.      Renee Dettloff
3. 3.      Alex Davis
4. 4.      Miranda Kreiser
5. 5.      Brooke Shelton
6. 6.      Keely Kowalski
7. 7.      Morgan Pendowski

                                                                                                                                    ii.      Fundraising – Taryn Zyburt co-chair

1. 1.      Stephanie Moore
2. 2.      Chelsea Armbrustmacher
3. 3.      Jennifer Rice
4. 4.      Amanda Onken
5. 5.      Avana Johnson
6. 6.      Brittany Hawthrorne

                                                                                                                                  iii.      CHS

1. 1.      Jessica Romano
2. 2.      Megen Tanner
3. 3.      Avana Johnson

                                                                                                                                  iv.      Bylaws – Renee Dettloff co-chair

1. 1.      Kassie Castellucci
2. 2.      Bryan Nicholson

                                                                                                                                    v.      Resolutions

1. 1.      Megan Downer
2. 2.      Beth Willamson
3. 3.      Penelope Fryling

                                                                                                                                  vi.      Community Wellness – Ally Duxter co-chair

1. 1.      Eric DeJong
2. 2.      Dawn Hatchew
3. 3.      Kara Siekirk

                                                                                                                                vii.      Nursing in the News

1. 1.      Brook Shelton
2. 2.      Penelope Fryling
3. 3.      Kara Siekirk
4. 4.      Megen Tanner
5. 5.      Megan Downer

                                                                                                                              viii.      Community Health Project

1. 1.      Natalie Ervin
2. 2.      Lauren Glovak
3. 3.      Rachel Sasinowski
4. 4.      Lea Jennings

                                                                                                                                  ix.      Breakthrough to Nursing

1. 1.      Jenifer Desy
2. 2.      Morgan Pendowski
3. 3.      Alicia Prater
4. 4.      Morgan Kochajda
5. 5.      Anne Conwell
6. 6.      Sarah Watkins

                                                                                                                                    x.      Elderly Action – Alyssa Tassiello co-chair

1. 1.      Nicole Husen
2. 2.      Bianca Orduña
3. 3.      Brittany Switanowski
4. 4.      Casie Pedley
5. 5.      Sarah Bemiss
6. 2.      Vice President

a. The merchandise order forms will hopefully be out this week. Please check your emails.

b. Looking for people with new ideas. Hope to have a great team to make some new fundraising ideas.

1. 3.      Secretary

a. Secretary announced the delegates with the president,

b. A delegate contact sheet was passed around.

c. If you are a delegate and need to miss a meeting, please email both the secretary and the president 48 hours before the meeting to let them know. You are allowed to miss two meetings.

d. Stuey is a website online for student organiazations. As a delegate you must become a member on Stuey. If you are not already a member, you must request to be a member. You will be accepted and then you will need to go back in and take a quick quiz. Then you will be official on the Stuey website.

1. 4.      Treasurer

a. Katie encouraged people to join her committee by reminding them about free food.

b. The clinical reimbursement request forms can be found on the SNA website. Each semester we give four reimbursements of $50 max. We offer two each rotation. These groups must prove they need financial assistance for example if you would like to buy healthy food to enhance a presentation on a healthy diet.

1. 5.      Communications Director

a. Going to be different this semester for the resolutions committee. Since the resolution is done, they will be helping the CHS committee to make the pop can boxes and the board. They will also be helping with the website. If the resolution does well at convention there may be something to do with the resolution after, time will tell.

b. Regarding the new emails from SNA, please respond to the sender by starting an new email. When you respond to the emails, they go to the communication director’s email and she has to forward them to the correct person. This makes for a delay in the process. When you create a new email it goes to the correct person and you will receive a quicker response.

1. 6.      Community Wellness Director

a. Looking for 4 to 5 people to help with community volunteer opportunities. This a great way to connect with the community to seek out opportunities for our fellow classmates.

1. 7.      Curriculum Director

a. Goes to the curriculum meetings and updates up with what is going on as well as gives input. Looking for someone to take over next semester and he is willing to help someone learn the programming for the newsletter.

b. The committee is going to be covering stories for the newsletter.  Frank has some stories picked out to be covered, but you can also pick something else if you would like.

c. Frank’s committee is going to be working on establishing curriculum definitions and will be looking hard at recommendations for the AND to BSN programs that will enroll concurrently with the traditional BSN programs.

1. 8.      Evaluations Director

a. The Grand Valley Health Clinic is going to be our place of an event this semester. Planning an event on March 28^th, Wednesday, and we would like to do a healthy meal along with some nutrition promotion. Committee members would be required to go to this event.

b. Committee members would brainstorm some more ideas with this connection, and volunteer for some other activities.

1. 9.      Image and BTN Director

a. Local elementary schools for reading and introducing the nursing profession to them as well. Trying to get into the boy scouts for an event with them.

b. If you love the community and education this would be a great committee for you to join with the possibility of running for the board position.

1. 10.  Membership Director

a. Elderly action committee. They go around to different facilities to do spa days for this population. Looking for people who would to help.

b. Mount Mercy is in desperate need of some canned food. We would like to try to collect some food for them, so if you could please bring some canned food to the next general meeting. If you would like to bring in clothes as well. That would be great!

1. VII.          Announcements

a. Angela is an advisor for the program and she helps out with an ambassador program. Attend the events with Angela and present information and communicate the student perspective. Looking for people with smiles and who are comfortable talking. If you are interested seek Angela. She has some forms and she would like them back by Feb. 6^th. If you do this you will earn hours for LIC points.

b. There will be a blood drive tomorrow at CHS. It will be going on from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. in CHS 123.

c. Blood drive coordinator will be available next semester. If you would like to do this next semester please respond to the email that Elizabeth will send out.

d. Professor Lanning – made a card for us as a Thank-you for our fundraising we did last semester for her nephew. They went to Chicago over break because he was unable to fly.

Approval of adjourning the meeting: 12:50 p.m.

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

January 9, 2012

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I.                   Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:01 P by Elizabeth Mikes, President.

 II.                Roll Call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call for the board of directors.

 III.             Those present:

Board Members

President – Elizabeth Mikes, Vice President – Erin Nicoson, Secretary – Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer – Katie New, Communications Director – Bethany Nies, Community Wellness Director – Erika Schilkey, Curriculum Director – Frank Durante, Evaluations Director – Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Lauren Vockler, Staff Advisor – Angela Caruso, Faculty Advisor – Norine Cunningham.

Delegates

266 –

320 –

350 –

420 –

450 –

Those absent:

Excused with notice:

Excused without notice:

 IV.             Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethan Nies, Communications Director

Second: Renee Dettloff, 350 member

 V.                Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Second: Renee Dettloff, 350 member

 VI.             Officer Reports      

1.  President

a.  A roll call explanation was given. In order to do roll call, the secretary will say your name, and you will respond, “Theory Class, Position, present and seated.” Only delegate’s names are called because they are required to attend meetings.

b. Liz Mikes introduced herself and welcomed everyone to SNA’s first meeting of the semester. She showed a powerpoint presentation and talked about what SNA is and what we do as a part of this organization. If you would like a copy of the presentation please request this from Liz via email.

c. Ashley talked about what being a delegate means. See Secretary section.

d. MSNA Annual Convention is coming up fast. It is in Ann Arbor, Michigan and it is Feb 3^rd to the 5^th. We are carpooling and taking about 20 people. Students will pay $29 and for meals, and SNA will pay the rest including one meal.

                       i. A signup sheet was passed around and will remain on Angela Caruso’s door which is CHS 316 until Wednesday, January 18^th, 5 p.m. By signing up, you are saying you can definitely go. If more than 20 people are interested, the ones who go are decided by their involvement in SNA. For example board members go first, then 450 delegates, then 420 delegates, etc.

                      ii. Liz has a tentative agenda for the convention and if you are interested in seeing it, please email her.

e. Liz chairs the scrapbook committee. Her group will go to events and take pictures and then create scrapbook pages. These pages are compiled into scrapbooks which are taken to conventions and are eligible for prizes.

f. Position will be available next semester.

 2.      Vice President

a. Erin chairs the fundraising committee. Her group is the one that handles the merchandise sales. She is looking for creative people with some new ideas for designs and new ways for fundraising.

b. Position will be available next semester.

 3.      Secretary

a. Being a delegate is the next step on the ladder of responsibility in SNA. There are certain responsibilities of being a delegate such as reporting to your theory class what is currently going on with SNA, being a part of a committee and fulfilling the responsibilities for that committee, participating in at least one SNA sponsored event. Some of the benefits of being a delegate is that you can run for a board position and you accrue LIC points at the rate of 1 point for every 1.5 hours of volunteering in LIC approved events. These responsibilities must be fulfilled otherwise the person can lose delegate status and LIC points involved.

                 i. Signup sheet was passed around.

b. Ashley chairs the CHS committee which is the committee that keeps the SNA board up to date. The board is at the end of hall that leads to the conference room on the 4^th floor. We also collect and manage the pop can fundraiser that we have in various rooms at CHS.

c. Position will be available next semester.

 4.      Treasurer

a. Katie chairs the bylaw committee. These are the ideas that hold us together as an organization. If there is something you do not like about SNA, join this committee to see what you can do to change it. This is a great committee to be a part of if you are interested in a board position. Katie will also bring food.

 5.      Communications Director

a. Check out the new website. It was revamped last semester and looks amazing. There is a ton of information on the website and can answer a lot of questions. There is a description of all committees.

b. Bethany runs the resolutions committee. Think of it as a New Year’s resolution. Something you would like to change. Last semester we voted on a new initiative which is promoting the education of health nutritional choices to low income families. The new resolution will be based on this as well as our Community Health Project committee. The resolution will be presented at the convention. Our last resolution passed at the national level!

c. Position will be available next semester.

 6.      Community Wellness Director

a. LIC points are due April 5^th by 5 p.m.

b. Erika chairs the Community Wellness Committee and this committee finds volunteer opportunities for the rest of the student nurses to participate in.

c. Position will be available next semester.

 7.      Curriculum Director

a. Frank chairs the Nursing in the News committee. This committee makes the SNA newsletter that goes out via email. He is looking into some different type of articles for this semester which will involve stepping out into the community and talking with various sorts of people, including potential employers.

b. Position will be available next semester.

 8.      Evaluations Director

a. Laura chairs the Community Health Project. This group normally follows and does events based on the health initiative. Last semester this group worked with The Otherway Ministries providing help as needed for the population served. This is a great group that gets active in the community and volunteers their help.

b. Position will be available next semester.

 9.      Image and BTN Director

a. Molly chairs the Breakthrough to Nursing committee. This committee is the advocate for nursing in SNA. They do events that introduce and explain the role of nursing in the community. In the fall semester a Girl Scout event is held and is a great success. During the winter semesters, they get more involved with the schools. Join this group if you love representing nursing.

b. Position will be available next semester.

 10.  Membership Director

a. Lauren chairs the Elderly Action Committee. Lauren loves the geriatric population and is looking for others who do as well to join her group. They advocate for the health and wellness by completing projects and provide services for the elderly in the local community.

b. Position will be available next semester.

 VII.          Announcements

a. Taryn Zyburt: She is the blood drive coordinator. She works with Michigan Blood to set up the blood drives at CHS. This involves contacting Michigan Blood and working with them as well as advertising and getting the word out about the blood drives. This position will be available next semester and we are looking for someone to work with Taryn this semester to get a feel for the role.

                  i. The next blood drive is January 24^th, 2012 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. here at CHS!

b. Lauren Glovak: She is the captain of our Relay for Life Team. If you have any questions please contact her.

 VIII.       Approval of adjourning the meeting: 12:27 p.m.