GVSU: Student Nurses' Association

Minutes 2-20-2012

Communications Director — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:03:25 +0000

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

Buddy Meeting 2/27/12

Communications Director — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:04 +0000

If you are interested in running for a board position this semester come to our buddy meeting and see what it is all about. The meeting is on Monday 2/27/12 at 11am in room 340. Hope to see you all there.

General Meeting Tomorrow!

Beth.Williamson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:31:12 +0000

There is a general meeting on Monday February 20 (tomorrow) at noon in CHS 469. The bylaws will be presented! Hope to see you there.

Minutes 2-6-2012

Communications Director — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:11:09 +0000

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

Merchandise Order Form Winter 2012

Communications Director — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:57:16 +0000

Here is the merchandise order form for Winter 2012. Please have checks or money orders to CHS 316 by 5pm on February15th. If you have any questions please direct your questions to Erin at vicepresident.gvsusna@gmail.com

Order Form

LIC Date Change

Communications Director — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:42:37 +0000

The LIC point due date has been changed from April 5 at 5pm to April 16 at 5pm.

General Meeting Tomorrow

Communications Director — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:28:36 +0000

Just to let you know there is a general meeting on Monday February 6 (tomorrow) at noon in CHS 469. Dr. VanDoren is going to be coming in and speaking with us. We will also be talking about the convention that was attended this past weekend where our resolution was passed. :)

Don’t forget to bring your canned goods for the Mount Mercy Canned Food Drive. Put in the box in the front of the room.

Minutes 1-24-2012

Communications Director — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:04:33 +0000

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.

General Meeting 1/23/12

Communications Director — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:09:46 +0000

Just to let everyone know there is a general meeting in CHS 469 at noon tomorrow. We will be signing up for committees. Don’t miss out!

CPR

Communications Director — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:59 +0000

Here are the dates for CPR for this semester if you need to get recertified.

CPR Flyer