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Minutes 2-20-2012

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

February 20, 2012

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:05 P by Elizabeth Mikes, President.
II. Roll Call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.
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:

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

Second: Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director

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

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

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.

4. Treasurer

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

5. Communications Director
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.

7. Curriculum Director
8. Evaluations Director
9. Image and BTN Director
10. Membership Director
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.
VIII. Approval of adjourning the meeting: 12:40 p.m.

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Minutes 2-6-2012

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

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

Minutes 1-24-2012

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

January 23, 2012

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

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

Board Members

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;

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Renee Dettloff, Delegate 350

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Katie New, Treasurer

Second: Renee Dettloff, Delegate 350

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

ii. Fundraising – Taryn Zyburt co-chair

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

iii. CHS

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

iv. Bylaws – Renee Dettloff co-chair

1. Kassie Castellucci
2. Bryan Nicholson

v. Resolutions

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

vi. Community Wellness – Ally Duxter co-chair

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

vii. Nursing in the News

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

viii. Community Health Project

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

ix. Breakthrough to Nursing

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

x. Elderly Action – Alyssa Tassiello co-chair

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Minutes 1-9-2012

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

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.

Minutes 11-21-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

November 21, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:02P by Erin Nicoson, Vice President

II. Roll call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

III. Those present:

Board Members

Fall 2011 President —Julia Vanderhoef, Vice President—Erin Nicoson, Secretary—Ashley Gaebel, Winter 2012 Treasurer —Katie New, Communication Director—Bethany Nies, Fall 2011 Community Wellness Director —Kaitlyn Winter, Winter 2012 Community Wellness Director —Erika Schilkey, Fall 2011 Curriculum Director—Joshua Fik, Winter 2012 Curriculum Director—Frank Durante, Evaluations Director— Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Fall 2011 Membership Director – Kristyn Wheaton, Winter 2012 Membership Director – Lauren Vockler, Staff Advisor—Angela Caruso, Faculty Advisor – Norine Cunningham,

Delegates

315— Jasmine Gillette, Avana Johnson,Jaime Steger,

320— Ally Duxter, Lauren Glovak, Renee Dettloff, Jessica Romano, Megen Tanner,

350— Natalie Ervin, Stephanie Moore, Casie Pedley, Lauren Rosasco, Meredith Visser.

420— Nicole Husen, Cheryl Riordan, Taryn Zyburt

450—Laura Ambers, Jennifer Senita,

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Rebecca Mast, 315 Delegate; Linda Lamberts, 315 Delegate; Brooke Shelton, 315 Delegate; Aleigha VanderBerg, 315 Delegate; Eric DeJong, 350 Delegate; Dawn Hatchew, 350 Delegate; Bianca Orduna, 420 Delegate; Nadine Mushimbele, 450 Delegate; Brook Telep, 450 Delegate.

Excused without notice: Lindsey Krueger, 315 Delegate; Kristen Slatinsky, 315 Delegate; Jessica Trierweiler. 320 Delegate; Lauren Gilfillan, 350 Delegate; Alyssa Tassiello, 350 Delegate;

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communication Director.

Second: Erika Schilkey, Community Wellness Director

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director.

VI. Officer reports

1. President
1. a. Dr. Van Doren will be speaking about the new curriculum.
  1. i. Dr. Van Doren really appreciates what SNA does and she gave us a lot of credit that we all deserve!
  2. ii. New Uniforms will implement with the new curriculum. The only rotations that have not been determined are the community health and psychiatric.
  3. iii. Students in the program will continue with the blue polo uniform.
  4. iv. Why is the curriculum changing? Many people die from medical errors and we are trying to improve the outcomes. We are ranked 36^th in Health care systems in the world.
  5. v. An interview is now added to the admission criteria and they raised the gpa 3.0 requirement. They suspect it will stay highly competitive. Begins during second semester of second year in college.
  6. vi. 80 students will be admitted for Fall and Winter. There will not be summer classes anymore. Accelerated second degree will be increased to 40 people. It will also be 4 semesters starting in Spring/Summer 2012.
  7. vii. New course names and Obstetrics and Pediatrics will be together in one semester.
  8. viii. LEI will be reduced to three semesters.
2. b. Mid-Year Convention Presentations – just a little of useful information.
  1. i. Julia – emailed a document about resume tips.
  2. ii. Kristyn – attended two sessions on social media networking. This is going to be increasing as time goes on. Trying to come up with some new guidelines when dealing with social networking ie; facebook – posting pictures and statues.
  3. iii. Frank and Laura – Sharps presentation. Nurses get most of needle pokes, students are next! Be careful with needles. J If you want more information about this please ask Frank or Laura if you can have their powerpoint.
3. c. Ice Cream Social!!

2. Vice President
1. a. Fundraiser at Peppino’s on December 6^th!
2. b. Merchandise orders have been submitted. It takes about 2 weeks to come in. Then there will be a huge amount of merchandise to be sorted through and will be ready before the semester ends. Fingers crossed!

3. Secretary
1. a. Encourage your class mates to become delegates!
2. b. Thanks delegates for doing a great job this semester!

4. Treasurer

4. Communication Director
1. a. The test email did not work, so hopefully we can get that fixed for next semester.
2. b. The first draft of the resolution is complete!

6. Community Wellness Director

a. LIC points are due tomorrow!! Email them soon if you have not already!
b. You should get a confirmation email, and if you do not just send Kaitlyn a messaging asking if she has received it!
c. Please do not send it over and over again.

7. Curriculum Director

a. Waiting to hear about the new uniforms.

b. Still waiting to hear back from NYE.

8. Evaluations Director

9. Image and BTN Director

a. Thank you so much for all the people who volunteered at the Girl Scout event. It was a great event and they all loved it so much.

10. Membership Director

11. Announcements

-Ally Duxter – Professor Lanning has a nephew who is dying, and his last dying wish is to go on a Disney Cruise with his family. Two cards are going to be left in CHS 300 for us to sign. We are going to be doing a silent coin drive that will go until Dec 2^nd. SNA may potentially match the money that is raised, so please donate if you can! Thanks!

-A few cards are going around for Kyle Nota’s family. Please sign them.

12. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:55 p.m.

Minutes 11-7-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

November 7, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:11P by Julia Vanderhoef, President.

II. Roll call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

III. Those present:

Board Members

President—Julia Vanderhoef, Vice President—Erin Nicoson, Secretary—Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer—Elizabeth Mikes, Communication Director—Bethany Nies, Community Wellness Director—Kaitlyn Winter, Curriculum Director—Joshua Fik, Evaluations Director— Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Kristyn Wheaton, Staff Advisor—Angela Caruso, Faculty Advisor – Norine Cunningham,

Delegates

315— Jasmine Gillette, Avana Johnson Rebecca Mast, Brooke Shelton, Kristen Slatinsky, Aleigha VandenBerg.

320— Ally Duxter, Lauren Glovak, Renee Dettloff, Katie New, Jessica Romano, Megen Tanner, Jessica Trierweiler

350—Eric DeJong, Natalie Ervin, Lauren Gilfillan, Dawn Hatchew, Stephanie Moore, Casie Pedley, Lauren Rosasco, Alyssa Tassiello, Meredith Visser.

420— Frank Durante, Nicole Husen, Bianca Orduna, Erika Schilkey, Lauren Vockler, Taryn Zyburt

450—Laura Ambers, Nadine Mushimbele, Jennifer Senita, *Brooke Telep.

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Vice President—Erin Nicoson; Jaime Steger, 315 Delegate; Cheryl Riordan, 420 Delegate; Brook Telep, 450 Delegate.

Excused without notice: Lindsey Krueger, Delegate 315; Linda Lamberts, Delegate 315;

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director

Second: Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Elizabeth Mikes, Treasurer

VI. Officer reports

1. President
1. a. Slating and Elections today! Open positions are President, Treasurer, Community Wellness Director, Curriculum Director, and Membership Director.
  1. i. The final slate is as follows (followed by class number):
  2. ii. President: Elizabeth Mikes (420).
  3. iii. Treasurer: Katie New (320).
  4. iv. Community Wellness Director: Erika Schilkey (420). Renee Dettloff (320),
  5. v. Curriculum Director: Frank Durante (420)
  6. vi. : Membership Director: Lauren Vockler (420),
2. b. Candidates gave their speeches and answered questions from the membership.
3. c. Voting was explained and clickers were handed out. All Board Members and Delegates present were able to vote via clickers and voting took place.
4. d. Congratulations to the following new board members: President – Elizabeth Mikes; Treausurer – Katie New; Community Wellness Director – Erika Schilkey; Curriculum Director – Frank Durante; Membership Direcor – Lauren Vockler.
5. e. Voting of the by-laws took place.
  1. i. Results: By-laws passed
6. f. The Mid-year convention presentations will be at the last general meeting on November, 21^st. This will be pertinent information.
7. g. There will be an ice cream social (BYOB – Bring your own bowl) and advice from the grads that will be given at the last general meeting as well. This meeting will be run by the new board. BYOB – Bring your own bowl.

2. Vice President
1. a. The Merchandise order forms are going to be due on Thursday, November 10^th at 5 p.m. So if you forgot them today, you are in luck to still get them in for this semester!

3. Secretary
1. a. Congrats to the 4 people who read the minutes that are not part of the board: Erika Schilkey, Nicole Husen, Katie New, and Frank Durante. They will be getting a prize for reading the minutes.
2. b. Please read the minutes. I am not perfect, I spell names wrongs and I miss things. The minutes will not get corrected without your help.

4. Treasurer
1. a. A brief rundown of the changes. Thank you for the suggestions and we are thankful that you all are getting involved in our bylaws. We are keeping it at 2 weeks prior to an event to get the order form in to the board of directors. We added that the community wellness will be making decisions, that way the general membership does have some say in the events approval. The nine categories have also been added to the bylaws, but does that not necessarily mean it will automatically approved.

5. Communication Director

5. Community Wellness Director
1. a. LIC point’s deadline is November 22^nd. You should receive an email from Kaitlyn. If you do not receive an email, please email her again.

7. Curriculum Director

8. Evaluations

a. Meet at the Pew Library, to walk over to the other way tomorrow. Going to The Otherway ministries to assess the population that is at this facility. Committee please email Laura with some ideas.
b. This is open to all members if you would like to go.

9. Image and BTN Director

a. Email sent out from Molly. Committee members have a a deadline which has been extended to next Monday. Molly will be sending out an email to all volunteers with information needed. More information to come.

b. Molly would like to get together with her committee members at 12 p.m. next Monday.

c. If you have any questions please email Molly

10. Membership Director

10. Announcements

Angela – Pre-nursing has appoarched SNA to help connect pre-nursing students with some nursing students. This is not a mentorship, but more of a contact. Someone that the pre-nursing students can email, facebook, etc.

There will be an event on November 28^th, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m at Kirkhoff. It will be a connection event and there will be matchups done by the pre-nursing association. Yes, there will be a curriculum change soon, but we can still be there for each other with the competitiveness and the pre-req classes.

Bonnie W. She will be speaking at 7 p.m. tonight at the Ebhart Center, and Angela would love for you to go see her. She is very informative and inspiring.

11. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:50 p.m.

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Approved:

Minutes 10-24-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

October 24, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:04 P by Julia Vanderhoef, President.

II. Roll call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

III. Those present:

Board Members

President—Julia Vanderhoef, Vice President—Erin Nicoson, Secretary—Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer—Elizabeth Mikes, Communications Director—Bethany Nies, Evaluations Director— Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Kristyn Wheaton, Staff Advisor—Angela Caruso ,

Delegates

315— Jasmine Gillette, Avana Johnson, Linda Lamberts, Brooke Shelton, Kristen Slatinsky, Jaime Steger, Aleigha VandenBerg.

320— Ally Duxter, Lauren Glovak, Renee Dettloff, Katie New, Jessica Romano, Megen Tanner, Jessica Trierweiler

350—Eric DeJong, Natalie Ervin, Dawn Hatchew, Casie Pedley, Meredith Visser.

420— Frank Durante, Nicole Husen, Cheryl Riordan, Lauren Vockler, Taryn Zyburt

450—Laura Ambers, Nadine Mushimbele, Jennifer Senita, Brooke Telep.

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Community Wellness Director—Kaitlyn Winter, Curriculum Director—Joshua Fik, Rebecca Mast, Delegate 315; Lauren Gilfillan, Delegate 350; Stephanie Moore, Delegate 350; Lauran Rosasco, Delegate 350; Alyssa Tassiello, Delegate 350; Bianca Orduña, Delegate 420; aculty Advisor – Norine Cunningham

Excused without notice: Lindsey Kreuger, Delegate 315; Erika Schilkey, Delegate 420;

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

VI. Officer reports

1. President

a. Board Buddy Meeting will be Oct. 31st in CHS 440 at 11 a.m. President, Treasurer, Curriculum Director, Community Wellness Director, and Membership Director are all open. Even if you are only slightly interested, come check it out. It is very casual.

b. Slating and Elections will take place Nov. 7th. Prepare a little speech, limit it to 2 minutes. Questions will take place right after. Each person gets 5 minutes. Voting takes place right after.

c. Bonnie Wesorick Session on Nov. 7th at 10:30a. She is an RN coming to speak to us. She will be in CHS 123. Talks about experiences and nursing in general. Come with questions for her. Delegates please make an in class announcement as well.

d. Dr. Van Doren will be speaking at the Nov. 21st meeting about the new curriculum. Was supposed to be here today. Sorry about that . She will talk about the new curriculum and the new admission process. She wants feedback.

e. If anyone is interested in MNSA scholarships, please contact Julia at president.gvsusna@gmail.com. They give out awards and scholarships, so if at all interested please email.

f. Bylaws Presentation

2. Vice President

a. Merchandise orders were passed out. New logos for parents and grandparents. Orders will hopefully be in around thanksgiving. Ladies long sleeve shirts and yoga pants were also added. Will be posted on Facebook as well as the sna website. Delegates please also let your classmates know about this! Due date is due Nov. 7^th.

b. Other events. Bagel and coffee day as well as a Peppinos trivia night. Dates will be determined soon.

3. Secretary

a. Wasn’t going to say anything, but please delegates take your responsibilities seriously. It looks bad on yourselves when you don’t. Please do your duties. I know that roll call is not fun, but please do it correctly.

b. If you are reading this line Congrats! I am so proud of you for reading the minutes! Please email the secretary with “Surprise” in the subject line and what you like best about SNA in the body of the email. Depending on how many respond will determine the prize, but there will be a prize!

4. Treasurer

a. Bylaw changes -

-Throughout the whole document ¾ was changed for voting instead of 2/3.

-Nurse’ was changed so the apostrophe is in the right place.

-Board of Directors is now all capitalized.

-Board responsibilities president line d – assists all members of committees.

-Changed for all BOD members – serve as a chair person of a committee chosen by the board of members.

-Membership director – updated duties.

-Line a for elections – uniform for the order of BOD.

-Nomination and election line c – changed from plurality to 51% to win.

-line d – alphabetizing BOD.

-new line – rule stating how long people have to talk because we ran out of time last semester. So each person has five minutes, and questions follow directly after the persons speech.

-clarification – paper ballots as well.

- Right now you get 3 pts for being a delegate and 1 for being on a committee. It is now changed to just being 4 points total.

-Delegates duties – time change to 48 hours for absence. Also clarification for reasons to miss.

-line 3 – added send email to secretary as well. So you can get credit for your duties

-Must go to an event outside of committee event as well.

-Advisors added college.

-Conventions line a – changed to one state convention and one national. That way if something is both in state or both out of state things can still be paid for.

-President if they have already gone to two conventions, then it will be at the discretion of the BOD whether SNA will pay for the president to go if funding is available or if the president should be there.

-Award and scholarship – uncaptialization.

-Grad pin – graduating students was changed to members, so that way it is still part of SNA.

-LIC points – calculating line d changed to one additional committee is an extra point. Showing the combined 4 points for delegate.

-If going to miss an LIC even must give 48 hours notice and may need to find a replacement which is at the discretion of the BOD member in charge.

-Clarified emergency situation.

-Added in all non-SNA events must be reapproved every semester.

-9 categories were added to the bylaws.

-line d cannot turn in a form for an event that has already happened. Forms need to be turned in 2 weeks before the events occur.

Questions: Emergencies for LIC points, maybe use the same wording for the delegate missing meetings.

-Clarification about the reimbursement. It is used for the clinical group to use for a promotion of whatever they would like for their rotation.

-What about situations that come up with very short notice? Yes, the LIC points are awesome, but it should be about volunteering in general. Not because you are getting extra credit. Having it approved before helps to keep things uniform and gives us a chance to vote on it. We don’t want people taking advantage of the LIC points. We want people to be involved in SNA because it is already approved and it is supporting SNA. Can we make some type of amendment that if the event happens that it can be approved after the event has happened if it is a certain time frame. Email these changes to Liz so the board can look at these. We will talk about it at the next board meeting. We do want to keep it fair.

5. Communication Director

6. Community Wellness Director

- New LIC forms are out and there is a new due date Nov. 22^nd.

7. Curriculum Director

– Newsletter will be out this week.

8. Evaluations

a. Apologized for not getting back to her committee members. She will get to you very soon.

b. Foot care at LaGrave went very well and there will be another one in Nov.

9. Image and BTN Director

a. Email will be coming out soon from Mary about the High school event. Please brush up on your skills so that way you are prepared for the event. Any questions in the meantime email Molly.

b. Email will be sent out soon by Molly for this event. She will delegate people to do some work for her. She will also be having a meeting next week with her committee members, but volunteers will be welcome to attend as well.

10. Membership Director

11. Announcements

12. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:48 pm

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Approved:

___________________________ ___________________________

Minutes 10-10-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

October 10, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:02 P by Julia Vanderhoef, President.

II. Roll call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

III. Those present:

Board Members

President—Julia Vanderhoef, Vice President—Erin Nicoson, Secretary—Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer—Elizabeth Mikes, Communications Director—Bethany Nies, Community Wellness Director—Kaitlyn Winter, Curriculum Director—Joshua Fik, Evaluations Director— Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Kristyn Wheaton, Staff Advisor—Angela Caruso

Delegates

315— Jasmine Gillette, Avana Johnson, Rebecca Mast, Brooke Shelton, Kristen Slatinsky, Jaime Steger, Aleigha VandenBerg.

320— Ally Duxter Lauren Glovak, Renee Dettloff, Katie New, Jessica Romano, Megen Tanner,

350—Eric DeJong, Natalie Ervin, Lauren Gilfillan, Dawn Hatchew, Stephanie Moore, Casie Pedley, Lauren Rosasco, Alyssa Tassiello, Meredith Visser.

420— Frank Durante, Bianca Orduna.

450—Laura Ambers, Nadine Mushimbele, Jennifer Senita, Brooke Telep.

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Erin Nicoson, Vice President; Elizabeth Mikes, Treasurer; Bethany Nies, Communication Director; Molly Steensma, BTN Director, Norine Cunningham, Faculty Advisor; Linda Lamberts, 315 Delegate; Nicole Husen, 420 Delegate; Erika Shilkey, 420 Delegate; Cheryl Riordan, 420 Delegate; Lauren Vockler, 420 Delegate; Taryn Zyburt, 420 Delegate;

Excused without notice: Lindsey Krueger. 315 Delegate; Jessica Trierweiler, 320 Delegate.

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Joshua Fik, Curriculum Director.

Second: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director.

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director.

Second: Kaitlyn Winter, Community Wellness Director.

VI. Officer reports

1. President
1. a. Recruiter Panel today.

-Kathy Ball – Spectrum Health. Hire new grads every day. Postings are not specified for new grads. Every specialty hires new grads. (**there is a question that addresses which specialties require experience)

-Saint Mary’s – Only hire during specific times of year. Posting on website, nurse intern wait list. Do hire for all different departments. 12 week long intern. Starting pay is the same.

Questions:

-Spectrum: Are you able to start apply and working before taking NCLEX? Recommend applying a month before graduation and then start dates are not until after the NCLEX is taken and passed.

-Saint Mary’s: Describe the waitlist more: Apply online and the process is an intense interview process. Once you are in

-Any tips? Work now. People who are CNA’s and/or similar position tend to have better chance of getting a position. Go where you are known. Remember that every clinical rotation you do is an interview. They are watching you and if you do not have a good experience, the manager will inform the recruits.

-Can you start the conversation with the unit manager of interest? Yes! -Start talking with the manager. They will inform HR that they are impressed and to look for their resumes.

-Minors? Spanish is good, but they don’t make you stand out. Psych minors are decent. The managers will take a look at that.

-Details: Typos are the biggest turn off. Attention to details. If you cannot fix a detail on your cover letter, then will you correct them on the floor?

-Moving around: The entities use the same application system, so you may apply for one job and have multiple interviews.

-Hard Copies of resumes?: NO! It will get lost. Email instead of call.

-Does it look bad that we apply to many different positions? No, but find a passion area and apply for that position until you hear, “no.” You may have to consider another area until you can get to the passion area. Do not tell them you are looking for anything. A good med surg is a good starting spot.

-Should we expect night shift? Yes, there are not many day shifts open and they go to internal people first.

-Saints Versus Spectrum:

Saint Mary’s is smaller and faith based. The environment is different from Spectrum. The pay is more, but it balances out in the end. Do your homework.

Spectrum: Bigger and has a few different specialties that are not offered other places. Go where you feel right.

-If your Dream job is on a different floor and it is not possible to get that job right now, so you get a job close to that specialty. What are the chances to get that position later? At Spectrum you can transfer in 6 months, but most managers will request a 2 year commitment. It is best to get two years of experience before going to where you really want to be because you need the experience of the nursing world.

-How highly do you look at grades versus experience: It matters, but it is not more important than experience. Both are looked at and considered. Poor gpa’s may be a deal breaker.

-Union: organizations are not unionized. Muskegon is.

-Length of orientation: 12 weeks for both.

-Loan reimbursement? No. There is tuition reimbursement, but no loan repayment,

-Are some floors easier to get into than others? Med surg is always easier because there are more positions available.

-Can you go from Tech to RN if you are internal in Spectrum already? Yes, you can see additional positions that everyone else can’t.

-Are there things that you see frequently that you do not like? -Recruiters like bubbly and happy. Don’t chew gum. Don’t come with tissues on your face from shaving. Don’t talk too much (going on and on), just answer the question.

-How close does Saint Mary’s work with Pine Rest? Hire a lot of psych med nurse for PMU. Saint Mary’s and Holland are the only hospitals in the area with PMU.

-Is Mary Free bed a different HR than Saints? Yes.

**-Are there any specialties that will not hire new grads. Spectrum can only think of Radiology. Some will only take a few new grads like critical care.

-Some postings have experience listed can we still apply? If it does not say required, you can still apply.

-How long does it take for a response when applying: It depends on the timing of when you apply. If you are the first person to apply you may hear sooner. If you apply too soon before graduating it will take time to hear back.

-Resources Nursing: Requires 2 years’ experience.

-Letters of Rec: They are not required and they do not ask for them until you actually come in for a meeting. Spectrum, you give names for reference.

-Magnet: Spectrum is, but Saints is not.

-Double Majors: Not a lot of emphasis. Look at BSN and interview you as a person. Angela wants you to pull this information into a cover letter and it will benefit you if you present it well.

-Do you call all references on reference sheet? Yes. Spectrum asks for 5!

-Are BSN nurses always chosen before AD? Yes.

-Are you limiting over-time? No.

Thank you to the nursing panel for coming in to answer questions!

b. NSNA Mid-Year attendees have been finalized. They will bring back information for general membership.
c. Dr. Van Doren is planning on coming to the October 24^th, 2011 general meeting to discuss the new curriculum with the general membership. Curious to see what we think about it.
d. The Board Buddy Meeting will be October 31, 20011 in CHS 440 at 11 a.m. Please attend if you plan on running for a board position.
e. U of M Career Fair, conflicting information. October 14^th, U of M Nursing School hosting a career fair. Must register and must dress professional business. Michigan Health Care is doing a career fair not associated with nursing school which will be March next year.

2. Vice President

3. Secretary

a. Delegates, please email the president and I before Monday morning if you are going to miss the meeting. Otherwise it will be considered unexcused due to the fact that we will be unable to check our email until after the general meeting.

b. The open board positions for next semester are president, treasurer, community wellness director, curriculum director, and membership director. If current delegates are planning on running for these positions, please email the current director to meet up and learn what the position entails. This will make the transition into the new role smoother.

c. Treasurer Updates were announced by Ashley.

-The Bylaws Committee will be presenting the possible changes for the Bylaws next general meeting which is October 24^th. Delegates please plan on attending because at the general meeting after that we will be voting on the bylaw changes and your vote counts.

d. BTN Director Updates were announced by Ashley.

-The November 1st High School event is coming along really well! Those of you who have contacted Molly with interest in participating will be receiving an email from her (if they haven’t already) with their confirmed spot as well as the duty that she has assigned you for that day. In addition, a woman named Mary will be contacting all of you directly regarding an official “orientation” day in which there will be an informal walk-through of the day of the event (kind of like a “dry-run”) coming up in the next few weeks. Keep your eyes peeled for emails to follow shortly and email Molly with any additional questions prior to that.

- Those of you who contacted Molly re: the Girls Scout Event, the volunteers have been chosen and what an incredible turnout it should be from the KCON end! I unfortunately had to turn a few people away on my list due to high demand, but plan to put them on an “alternate” list just in case someone drops out due to personal circumstances that have been OK’d by Molly. Keep your eyes peeled for an email from Molly re: assigned duties for the day to be coming soon!

- Finally, will the members of the BTN committee please email Molly and let her know whether you can participate in the HS event day and/or the GS event day ASAP? She doesn’t have everyone on her committee accounted for and would appreciate an update ASAP. Again, she is just looking for an email with a “yay” or “nay” as to which day (hopefully both) you can participate in to get your committee hours completed and get your LIC points.

e. The blood drive coordinator, Taryn Zyburt, reports last blood drive was a success. We had 54 people register to donate, 37 pints of blood donates, and 24 first time donors! Great Job!

4. Treasurer

-Announced by Secretary

5. Communications Director

6. Community Wellness Director

-New LIC form will be sent out via email soon and it will be on the website soon.

7. Curriculum Director

8. Evalutation

a.Otherway is looking for Spanish translators for parent teacher conferences. LIC approved.

b. Mentor opportunity, but it does require a time commitment of 6 months. Also LIC approved. Please do not sign up if you are not going to be able to do 6 months to a year.

c. Volunteer opportunity at LaGrave Church. Blood pressure and foot care on Wed., Oct. 19^th, noon to 3 p.m.

9. Image and BTN Director

-Announced by Secretary.

10. Membership Director

-October 12^th there will be a mock interview and resume workshop. Spread out when you come so you will not be waiting forever.

11. Announcements

Blood Drive Coordinator announcements announced by Secretary.

12. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:53 p.m.

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Approved:

___________________________ ___________________________

Julia Vanderhoef, President Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

SNA Minutes 9-26-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

September 26, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:02P by Julia Vanderhoef, President.

II. Roll call: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary, took the roll call.

III. Those present:

Board Members

Delegates

315— Jasmine Gillette, Avana Johnson, Lindsey Krueger, Linda Lamberts, Rebecca Mast, Brooke Shelton, Kristen Slatinsky, Jaime Steger, Aleigha VanderBerg.

320— Ally Duxter Lauren Glovak, Renee Dettloff, Katie New, Jessica Trierweiler

350— Lauren Gilfillan, Stephanie Moore, Lauren Rosasco, Alyssa Tassiello, Meredith Visser.

420— Frank Durante, Nicole Husen, Bianca Orduña, Erika Schilkey, Cheryl Riordan, Lauren Vockler, Taryn Zyburt

450—Laura Ambers, Nadine Mushimbele, Jennifer Senita, Brooke Telep.

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Jessica Romano, 320 Delegate; Megen Tanner, 320 Delegate; Eric DeJong, 350 Delegate; Dawn Hatchew, 350 Delegate; Natalie Ervin, 35o Delegate; +Laura Ambers, 450 Delegate.

Excused without notice: Casie Pedley, 350 Delegate.

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Elizabeth Mikes, Treasurer

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Elizabeth Mikes, Treasurer

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

VI. Officer reports

1. President
1. Community Service Learning Center guest speaker was introduced. Kristyn Wheaton was thanked for all her hard work since she organizes and contacts the guest speaker. Round of applause was given.
2. General membership approval of new uniforms completed by Josh Fik. These uniforms are not for us, but for the new curriculum. The top is going to be royal blue with nursing student on it as well as the Grand Valley logo. There will be two different options for pants for both females and males. There will be two options for females for the top and only one option for males. Layering will be an option as long as dress code is followed which will most likely be wearing a tight fitting black long sleeve shirt underneath the uniform. Shoes will be closed toe and closed heel (no crocs). Solid color in nature and must be resistant to body fluid.
3. An announcement about the NSNA Convention sign-up will be available until Wednesday, September 28th, 5 p.m.
4. The scrapbook committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

2. Vice President

- Fudraising committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

3. Secretary

A reminder was given to the membership to remember to go back and take the quiz for STUEY so you can become an official member.
A reminder for the delegates that they must email both the president and the secretary if they are going to miss a meeting. Delegates are only allowed to miss two meetings.
A reminder for the delegates that they need to forward their reminder emails to the secretary. It is my job to keep track of your participation and if I do not know what is going on you may miss out on your delegate LIC points.
The CHS committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

4. Treasurer

– Bylaws committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

5. Communications Director

-The new website is up and running, but it is not completely finished. Please check that out!

6. Community Wellness Director

The LIC form for the semester will be sent out via email within the next two weeks, sorry for the delay! Just to clarify, those hoping to earn LIC points for their volunteer hours are responsible for keeping tracking of their own hours throughout the semester, then submitting the completed LIC form by November 17th.
If anyone will be participating in the BTN Girl Scout event on November 19th can count those hours towards this semester or next semester.
Also, please be sure to submit all of your hours, even if you know you have exceeded the 10 LIC point maximum; Those who earn over 30 hours during their time in the nursing program are eligible for a Leadership award at graduation/pinning. Thanks for everyone’s volunteer work!

7. Curriculum Director

-Josh presented the new uniform options.

8. Evaluations Director

-Health Project Committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

9. Image and BTN Director

PIPES was explained and a sign-up sheet was passed around for those interested. It is a interdisciplinary meeting (all the health professions in the CHS building) that is a hour long once a month. It is a great learning experience. We are not sure when the next meeting will be, so if you are interested please email Molly.
The BTN committee was asked to meet after the meeting for five minutes.

10. Membership Director

The Alzheimer’s walk went very well. Kristyn thanked everyone who participated and thanked everyone for doing a great job fundraising. The goal was $1,000 and they almost doubled it by almost reaching $2,000.
An announcement about QPR certification was made. A suicide prevention seminar. It will be on Wednesday, October 5th at 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Only one room is available right now, so only thirty people can be taken. As soon as another room is available, thirty additional people will be able to attend.
Nurse recruiter panel will be next general meeting. There will be a representative from Metro, Spectrum, and Saint Mary’s. It will be a great time for you to ask questions and to learn about the process for new graduates.

11. Announcements

-Taryn Zyburt made an announcement about the blood drive that will be here at CHS on September 26th. Email Taryn with questions or if you would like to sign up for an appointment.

12. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:55 p.m.

13. Approval of adjourning the meeting:

Motion: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

Second: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

SNA Minutes: 9-12-2011

Student Nurses’ Association Meeting Minutes

September 12, 2011

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI

I. Call to order at: The SNA meeting was called to order at 12:01 p.m. by Julia Vanderhoef, President.

II. Roll call: Formal roll call for the board was announced by each board member themselves and formal roll call for members was not taken, but a practice round was done and not recorded.

III. Those present:

Board Members

President—Julia Vanderhoef, Vice President—Erin Nicoson, Secretary—Ashley Gaebel, Treasurer—Elizabeth Mikes, Communications Director—Bethany Nies, Community Wellness Director—Kaitlyn Winter, Curriculum Director—Joshua Fik, Evaluations Director – Laura Courtright, Image and BTN Director – Molly Steensma, Membership Director – Kristyn Wheaton, Staff Advisor—Angela Caruso

Those absent:

Excused with notice: Norine Cunningham, Faculty Advisor

Excused without notice:

IV. Approval of previous meeting minutes:

Motion: Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Erin Nicoson, Vice President

V. Approval of flexible agenda:

Motion: Erin Nicoson, Vice President and Bethany Nies, Communications Director

Second: Elizabeth Mikes, Treasurer

VI. Officer reports

1. President

a. Announcement of Delegates – folders were handed out.

b. STUEY overview – explanation. Officer and Delegates are required to be a part of STUEY, but please members do this as well. It is helpful for all of us. Please complete by September 16^th, 5 p.m. If you have questions email Julia.

c. Discussion and voting on our new initiative.

-Education for Low income families and healthy eating

-Disease Prevention

-A vote from the general membership was taken on which of these initiatives. 43 total for the education of low income families. 24 total for the disease prevention.

-New Initiative is the education for the low income families and healthy eating.

d. Signing up and discussion of the NSNA Mid-Year Career Building Convention in Memphis, TN. October 27^th to 30^th. Thursday through Saturday. SNA will be taking twelve students. It is a twelve hour drive in a Grand Valley van. The students that go may be asked to drive, so please feel comfortable with that. Leaving at midnight, the drive will be through the night and the students will arrive at lunch time. There will be a few hours of down time. This conference is a career building conference which is geared towards furthering education. People who attend will take information learned from this conference and then presenting it to their class.

-Sign-up sheet will be posted until September 28^th 5 p.m on CHS 316’s door which is Angela’s door.

-The selection process goes to board first and then 450 delegates on down because they may not have any other chances to go.

-This does count as an excused absence, but please ask for permission from your professor. They may assign you a different assignment. Please do not be discouraged!

-Each student will pay $29 dollars to go. This is 10% of the total cost of each student.

-SNA will only pay for two conventions, keep that in mind.

2. Vice President

-Erin explained the fundraising committee.

3. Secretary

-Announcement of Delegates.

4. Treasurer

-Liz explained what clinical reimbursement is to the membership. Clinical reimbursement is when SNA will help students pay for something they want to use towards their clinical up to $50 dollars. Four clinical groups are able to receive this reimbursement, two each half of the semester.

-Must be submitted 2 weeks in advance of your event.

-Email Liz the form.

5. Communications Director

a. Bethany introduced the two possible Health Initiatives.

b. Bethany recorded the people who signed up for committees.

6. Community Wellness Director

a. There are still a few slots open for the blood pressure screenings at the Allendale Farmers Market on Wednesdays and the YMCA Farmers Market on Thursdays. Email with a date in mind if you are interested.

b. Please only sign up for an event when you know you are not scheduled to work or have any other obligations. There are limited spots available for volunteers, so it is unfair to others to take a spot and then cancel. If you sign up for an event and fail to show up or fail to find a replacement for yourself you will not be eligible for LIC points this semester (this is stated in the SNA bylaws).

c. If you want to know if an event can be LIC approved, email Katie and she will present it to the board for approval.

d. Katie explained the Community Wellness Committee.

7. Curriculum Director

a. Everyone should have received a test email from the new email system. If you did not receive that email, please email Josh.

b. Josh explained the Nursing in the News Committee and he plans on releasing three newsletters this semester.

8. Evaluations Director

-Laura explained the Community Health Project Committee and how she is working with the Otherway Ministries. The Health Project will be based on the new initiative.

9. Image and BTN Director

a. Girl Scout Event date has been confirmed! Saturday, November 19th, 2011 from 1-4pm. If you are interested in participating, join the BTN Committee or email Molly.

b. Molly explained the Breakthrough to Nursing Committee will be working with the Girl Scout Event and will be working on some other events.

10. Membership Director

a. The Alzheimer’s Walk is this Saturday, September 17^th at 9:00 a.m. at Millennium Park.

b. Kristyn thanked everyone who has been helping to fundraise for the walk. They have reached their goal of $1,000! Please keep fundraising and bring checks and cash to the walk this weekend.

c. Kristyn explained that her committee deals with the elderly and if you like to volunteer to please join her committee.

11. Announcements

-Student Ambassador is not a committee anymore. There is not a guarantee of work, so it will be worth LIC points/hours instead.

12. Meeting Adjourned at: 12:53 p.m.

13. Approval of adjourning the meeting:

Motion: Ashley Gaebel, Secretary and Molly Steensma, Image and BTN Director

Second: Kristyn Wheaton, Membership Director

Minutes taken by Ashley Gaebel, Secretary

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