Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

February 20, 2012 

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI 

1. I.                   Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:05 P 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, Alicia Prater, Kara Siekirk

320 – Brooke Shelton

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

420 – Dawn Hatchew, Meredith Visser

450 – Nicole Husen, Bianca Orduña, Taryn Zyburt

 Those absent:

Excused with notice: Morgan Pendowski, Delegate 266; Avana Johnson, Delegate 320; Erika DeJung, Delegate 420; Natalie Ervin, Delegate 420; Stephanie Moore, Delegate 420; Casie Pedley, Delegate 420; Brittany Switanowski, Delegate 420; Alyssa Tassiello, Delegate 420.

Excused without notice:

1. IV.            Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

1. V.                Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

Second: Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director

1. VI.             Officer Reports
   1. 1.      President

                                                              i.      NSNA Convention. $76 a student. We will be flying out on April 11^th and coming back on April 15^th. If you have any questions please ask Liz.

                                                            ii.      The Buddy Board Meeting will be February 27, at 11a.m. and will be help in CHS 340. Please attend if you are interested in a board position. Contacting the person who currently holds the position you are interested in would be a great idea. Liz will send out an reminder email. Also if you just want to come, come check it out.

                                                          iii.      Talk to Liz if you are interested in becoming the president.

                                                          iv.      Liz asked if Scrapbook committee could meet today after meeting.

                                                            v.      Katie New presented the new bylaws.

1. 1.      Please review the attached bylaw document to see the changes.
2. 2.      Vice President

                                                              i.      Liz announced that the merchandise orders have gone to Image Quest.

1. 3.      Secretary

                                                              i.      I sent out an email this morning informing the delegates who have not finished their STUEY signup. Please read the email and email me back if you have questions or concerns. Please have this done by Friday the 24^th.

1. 4.      Treasurer

                                                              i.      Thank you to Renee, Kassie, and Bryan for all their hard work and help on the new bylaws.

1. 5.      Communications Director
2. 6.      Community Wellness Director

                                                              i.      We are doing a great job volunteering this semester. Keep up the great work!

                                                            ii.      If you know of any event in which you think others would like to participate, please email Erika and she would love to pass it on to everyone.

1. 7.      Curriculum Director
2. 8.      Evaluations Director
3. 9.      Image and BTN Director
4. 10.  Membership Director
5. VII.          Announcements
   1. 1.      Ally Duxter and Lauren Glovak – Reminder to the delegates to bring the money jugs to theory class! Also take them back to room 300. They have been locking them up to keep them safe. Just ask the desk people for them.
6. VIII.       Approval of adjourning the meeting: 12:40 p.m.

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

February 6th, 2012 

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI 

            •           Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:00 P by Erin Nicoson, Vice President.

            •           Roll Call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

            •           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 , 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, Bianca Orduña, Taryn Zyburt

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Elizabeth Mikes, President; Linda Lamberts, Delegate 320; Brittany Switanowski, Delegate 420.

Excused without notice: Morgan Pendowski, Delegate 266;

            •           Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion:  Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director.

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director.

            •           Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director.

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director.

            •           Officer Reports

             President

            Vice President

            •           Sixteen of us went to the Michigan Annual Convention which was hosted in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We learned a lot in the fabulous breakout sessions. We brought home three awards and our resolution passed! Congratulations to Laura Courtright, we won the Community Health Award.

            •           National Convention will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We may be leaving the 10^th or the 11^th and will come back the 15^th of April. We are able to take 12 people. These days are usually excused from clinical. Please inform instructors and professors about this if you are going.  The sign up will be on Angela’s door. If you put your name on the signup sheet it means you can go if you SNA allows. It costs $79 to go and this includes airfare, hotel, registration, and one meal. The order of people who will be going is based on SNA involvement which is outlined in the bylaws. Board members go first, then delegates starting with 450, and then regular members starting with 450.

            •           Merchandise order forms are being released today. They are due back next Wednesday, Feb 15^th. Please give them to Erin or on Angela’s door. Erin will be sending out the electronic version today. The form has been updated. There is not a total box on the front sheet. Fill out the top section; this is important because sometimes we need to ship things to you. The next page is the logo page. The merchandise comes on the next few pages. All the items will have white ink because it costs too much to go back and forth between black and white ink. This way we also offer more colors for the shirts. Items 4 and 9 are not available for some of the products. If you fill out the form wrong, Erin is going to pass your form and your products may come in late.

            •           Doctor VanDorren spoke to us.

            •           All sections of the new and old curriculum are evaluated at the end of the semesters. This helps the program work out the kinks.

            •           Seven new faculty members for KCON. This is a good addition.

            •           One issue that the evaluation committee has been having is the 1 year and 5 year post grad surveys response rate. She wants to know what we can do to increase the response.

            •           Incentives… money, gas gift cards, grocery gift cards, gym membership

            •           Raffle for iPod.

            •           Phone survey. Calling is more personable. Everyone usually keeps their phone numbers where emails change.

            •           Giving some information back to us like pass rate, how KCON is doing.

            •           Course evaluations. We haven’t been getting feedback from them yet.

            •           They do not stay up passed finals. We don’t think about them while we are studying.

            •           Going back to filling them out in class.

            •           Van Doren’s response was that this requires a lot of secretarial time because they have to be typed up.

            •           Some people also think that faculty will recognize hand writing. People at the meeting do not feel this way.

            •           Having the professor letting us out early to go to the computer labs and doing them online together.

            •           Making it required.

            •           Giving Extra Credit.

            •           Maybe sending out smaller surveys during the semester because when there is an exam there is a lot of feedback, but by the end of the semester we forget and we don’t give the feedback.

            •           Comments box

            •           Creating an open forum for each class and you are able to post anonymously.

            •           Sometimes people take advantage of this. They say really negative things. We don’t want to increase this possibility.

            •           Norine would not recommend this. She also wanted to comment on how disappointing it is to spend time with the students and to not receive feedback. She always reads her comments and wants to know what she is doing well and what she can improve on.

            •           Someone asked why the curriculum changed. There are rumors going around.

            •           It is not because of the pass rate.

            •           What was changed was community health. They did this because student got into this at 450 and thought there time was being wasted. They didn’t want to be a public health nurse.

            •           Systems of care and complexities for care are more emphasized that before. Not because it is on the NCLEX but because it is an important emphasis of being a nurse.

            •           Some of the reasons were because curriculums around the country have been changing to different modalities of teaching.

            •           VanDoren asked if there were more ways to give support.

            •           A 266 student talked about their first practicum and about how using people they know in the practicum. So they felt they do not know how well they really did because it is possible they could have just known their person well. She suggested having some standards patients.

            •           Pharmacology for nursing. The NCLEX is focusing more on this and we would like to feel more confident in knowing meds.

            •           Could we have pharmacology made easy come in and talk to us?

            •           An extra course in meds.

              Secretary

            •           Ashley apologized to the delegates who tried to look for SNA on STUEY. Everyone should be able to find SNA now. Once you have taken the quiz that means you are done and I will stop bugging you. If you have not signed up for STUEY yet, please do so and have this done by February 20^th.

            •           Check out the new CHS board. It has a Relay theme. Convention pictures will be posted on the board soon.

            •           All of the pop can boxes were redone and the computer labs on the first floor now have a box as well! Sorry, Ashley could not get a box for the lobby.

             Treasurer

            •           Katie asked the bylaw committee to see her after the meeting.

             Communications Director

            •           Our resolution passed at Michigan’s Convention! This means that it will be going to Pittsburgh with us for Nationals.

            •           Bethany asked if there were still people not receiving the SNA emails. She asked for the people having problems to meet with her after the meeting.

             Community Wellness Director

            •           Erika asked the delegates who is going to make the in-class announcements this week remind students to check out the new website. She also reminded them that the LIC approval form is on the website. There are some bylaws requirements for these events.

            •           Volunteering is going well. If you have an event you want approved, use the form on the website and submit it electronically to Erika.

            •           The LIC point due date has been pushed back to April 16^th at 5 p.m. Early submissions are welcome!

            Curriculum Director

            •           Frank emailed his committee and therefore no longer needed to meet.

            •           The next curriculum meeting is on February 13^th.

            Evaluations Director

            •           Sent out an email to meet in the back.

            Image and BTN Director

            •           Molly asked the BTN committee to meet with her after the general meeting.

            Membership Director

            •           Food drive is ending this Wednesday after 450’s class.

            •           Lauren asked the Elderly Action committee to meet with her after the general meeting.

              Announcements

            •           Renee is now the blood drive coordinator.

            •           Next blood drive is April 3^rd.

            •           Relay Penny Wars. Pennies and bills are positive for your class. Silver coins are negative for the class. Delegates who are to make the in class announcements will have to bring this to their theory classes.

            •           Approval of adjourning the meeting:

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary