MISSOURI EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION

MEETING MINUTESDate: May 14th, 2016

Time: 10:30 am – 2:15 pm Location: Lake Regional Hospital 3rd Floor Conference Rooms

AGENDA TOPIC & DISCUSSION ACTIONS/FOLLOW-UP1. Call To Order:

The meeting was called to order at 10:36, Sharon Trumbly, MOENA President presiding

Chapter Delegate Roll Call taken and delegates confirmed

Chandra Hazen, Ozark Chapter present by phone Roll call taken, quorum verified by Joan with 15 voting

members present. Delegate voting cards distributed.2. Approval of Minutes:

The February 6th, 2015 Meeting Minutes were reviewed by MOENA members

Motion made by Jeanne to approve minutes, 2nd by Chris. Minutes approved.

Informational

3. Treasurer’s Report: Jo presented the Treasurer’s report on behalf of Helen. Deposits in April from Membership Dues and Course

Ops Discussion on the distribution of treasurer’s report – not

having enough copies available at the MOENA meeting for all voting delegates

Motion made by Gail: Treasurer’s Report should be handed out to all those in attendance at the MOENA State Council Meeting for review prior to voting.

o Discussion regarding distribution, recommendation made to have information available by power point

o Recommendation to amend motion by Judy Marlow:

The first line of distribution for the treasurer’s report should be power point for all those in attendance to view, when technology is available. Otherwise, hard copies will be provided for all those in attendance to review and return.

A copy of the treasurer’s report is to be given to each Chapter President.

Sharon/Joan: Talk with National ENA to determine guidelines on distribution/availability of Treasurer’s Report

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Amended motion accepted Original motion amended by Gail: The Treasurer’s

report will be presented by power point when the technology is available. If not by power point, then hard copies will be handed out to all those in attendance and returned after voting. A copy of the Treasurer’s report will be given to each Chapter President. Motion 2nd by David. Motion approved.

Motion by Joan to approve the Treasurer’s Report, 2nd by Jeanne. Motion approved.

CHAPTER REPORTS ACTIONS/FOLLOW-UPCentral Chapter: Report presented by Linda Cockrell.

Continue to have monthly meetings. Next meeting May 19th in Columbia

Education:o CEN review was in April at Boone Hospital in

Columbia, MO with 24 participantso Emergency Nursing Update on October 10 at

Boone Hospital. Topics include: Triage, Pediatrics, Psych, and Stroke Care

o Emergency Nurses Day Celebration on October 20th with presentation by Eliquis

o Triage Course planned for Spring of 2017 Membership drive – 11 new and 8 renewals

Informational

Crescent Chapter: Chris Hoag-Apel. Met in March Planning a calendar by month for injury prevention.

Partnering with Lafayette House Women’s Shelter Planning for Health Fairs – working with poison control

for free items to hand out.

Informational

Kansas City Chapter: Kelli Carr Last meeting was April 13 Participated in the Midwest Trauma Society Conference:

o sponsored a social mixero kicked off a membership drive

CEN review course scheduled for October 27 and 28 at Center Pointe Medical Center

TCRN Review Course planned for early Spring 2017 Medical sponsor for the Tour of KC Bicycle ride on June

4/5 - staffing medical station Focusing/planning a rural TNCC course

Informational

Ozark Chapter: David Gueldner Hosted the 7th Annual Spring into Emergency Care

Conference

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o 40 attendeeso Received good reviewso Speaker Mike Paulus will also be speaking at

state event in August 8 vendors scheduled for state conference in August Membership drives – 19 renewals and new members

with last drive Continue to have monthly offerings for both ENPC and

TNCC at Cox Health and Mercy Planning upcoming events: picnic in the park and a fall

fundraiser

St. Louis Chapter: Joan Eberhardt Meets monthly 4 members attended the State and Chapter Leaders

Conference in Las Vegas in February Education:

o ENPC Instructor Course was held at St. Louis Children’s Hospital

o TNCC scheduled for June 11 & 12o Successful Medical Coding Class held in March

at SLUo TCRN Review Course will be May 21 & 22

Docu-drama’s held in April and May at Soldan High School and Cardinal Ritter College Preparatory School

Planning a banquet for October 12th with a speaker and contact credits.

The chapter nominated individuals for and also helped sponsor the East Central Region Lifesaving Awards Banquet held on Friday May 13. The MC was Monica Adams from Channel 2 News. Very successful recognition of the work done by our EMS Providers in the field.

The chapter was invited to participate in a Brain Injury Association event, however, was unable to participate on the scheduled date. Instead, it was decided to sponsor one scholarship to the BIA-MO Donald Danforth Jr. Wilderness Camp on May 29-June 3 held at Sunnyhill Adventure Camp, an accredited Special Needs Camp

May 5th local broadcasting company in STL shared a story on texting and driving; MO is only 1 of 4 states that has not banned texting and driving. Senator Shupp is preparing a bill this year and plans on bringing it up in 2017. STL Chapter would like to support bill for no texting and driving and is asking for the support from MOENA. See attachments for additional info. Full

Informational

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story available at http://www.kmov.com/story/31883583/news-4-investigates-why-missouri-doesnt-have-a-ban-on-texting-and-driving

o Motion by Gail – MOENA Government affairs to support the no texting or distracted driving bill being brought forth by MO Senator Jill Shupp, 2nd by Joan, motion approved.

SEMO Chapter: Lori Merritt Last meeting held on April 14th.

o Speaker on Special Needs Tracking and Awareness Response System (STARS) – proposing to implement in Cape in conjunction with local EMS

TNCC and ENPC classes scheduled for Fall Next meeting will be held in June

Informational

COMMITTEE REPORTS ACTIONS/FOLLOW-UPArchives & Records:

No Report

Awards & Recognition: David on behalf of Lana Awards banquet on

o Thursday evening on Aug 11th

o Theme: Hero in Scrubso Awaiting nominations

Nomination forms to be sent out to each chapter

Communications Report: Everyone that requested conference call speakers (V-

Tech wireless) has received one except Crescent Chapter.

o Each call speaker has a 2 year warranty Website:

o Limited protection on the website None of the policies were protected – All

have been reformatted and are now password protected.

Minutes will be done the same. o Discussion/concerns regarding archived records

on the website. Length of time for archived records to

remain on website before going to Archives.

Calendar postings – not clear, need to be clear on when, where and who to contact, attach it to chapter.

Need more photos for photo gallery to show activity of members and chapters

Jeanne will mail out the warranty info to each Chapter President

All documents sent for website needs to be in Word format in order to be protected

Jeanne to send out information/guidelines on website postings

Chapters encouraged to submit/post/upload photos for the photo gallery

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Forms – many are old and now outdated, including nomination award forms and state council forms.

Need to have standard format (way to label forms)

Information sharing – long and outdatedo Recommendation made for Compliance

Committee to review record retention policy and look at the timeline to change retention on the website to 2 running calendar years.

o Committee will continue to reformat and standardize forms

LCD projector – need to identify location and who has ito Possible list of items on Treasurer’s computero Motion made by Joan to purchase new LCD

projector for MOENA State Council if the current one is not located, 2nd by David. Unanimous approval

Motion made by Sharon that Communication chair is to be the keeper of all electronic equipment except for the chapter delegated equipment, 2nd by Chris, approved.

Newsletter: No Report Social Media: No Report

Jo or Helen to check Treasurer’s computer for list of MOENA purchased items and contact Jeanne if LCD projector is located

Compliance & By-Laws: Joan Met on Saturday, April 9th

Reviewed/revised 23 policies, standardized format and posted on-line

Bylaw revisions were presented and reviewed o Motion made by Joan to approve the revised

addition of the bylaws, including both 2015 and 2016 revisions, 2nd by Gail, unanimous approval

Office Nominations are open:o Secretary

Lori Merritt nominated by Lori Freeman, 2nd by Jan

o President Sharon nominated for second term by

Joan, 2nd by Chriso Treasurer

Helen nominated, 2nd by Joano Nominations open for 30 days and will close

June 13th, 2016

Bylaws will be posted on the website for member review.

Additional nominations have to be submitted to the Compliance Committee by June 13th

Course Ops: Chris on behalf of Helen Research continues and practice evolves regarding the

use of the long back board for the Translation into Practice (TIP): Long backboard use for spinal motion

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restriction. The TIP is attached. Answer keys to the TNCC provider course practice tests

have been added to the pre-course modules area of the ENA website, and can be accessed by clicking on the tools icon in the training bar menu.

Newly designed provider course certificates, with contact hours pre-populated, are being shipped in your course materials packets. The instructor course certificates are also newly designed, but do not yet have pre-populated contact hours. Once the new TNCC-I is launched, contact hours will be pre-populated.

o Please remember that in accordance with the ANCC, contact hours for TNCC courses can’t be pro-rated, please contact CNE@ena.org.

o Sharon reports: TNCC-I and ENPC-I revisions completed and submitted to National for formatting and administrative procedures have been updated and were supposed to come out in Spring

The Instructor Course micro teaches slides have been separated into individual power-point presentations for easier assignment by faculty. Look for these on the Course Directors only section of the website.

MOENA has 145 TNCC Provide/Instructor courses scheduled for 2016. Thanks to all Course Directors and Instructors for continuing to make this such a strong program throughout Missouri

Joan reports as an ATCN Instructor – in the administrative procedures: only hospitals and institutions will be approved to conduct courses, partially due to the requirement of partnering with an ATLS course (capabilities for outlying hospitals without ATLS to conduct course). However, there are several individual courses being conducted by individuals as businesses.

o Discussion regarding MOENA administrative procedures include that ENA will only approve courses for hospitals and institutions

Faculty Status update by Kansas City:o Met with Midwest Trauma Society and in the

process of changing over TNCC operations.o Multiple courses planned in addition to the rural

course already planned for fall.o Noreen has fulfilled requirements for TNCC state

facultyo Angie still working on faculty requirementso Next step is to get instructor courses up and

Noreen and Angie need to contact Course Ops and let them know that the transition is complete in order to be officially appointed as state faculty.

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going State Faculty requirements being reviewed:

o A list of faculty is available and Noreen and Angie will be added once the transition is completed. Lori and Cheryl will be removed from State Faculty

o Several faculty are due to expire and need to teach an instructor course to maintain state faculty status

Report attached

Once data compiled, Sharon will send state faculty data to Chris and Helen to be distributed out to state faculty

Education: David on behalf of Chandra Budget presented, slightly over budget at this time,

although several speakers are speaking in-kind.o Increase in vendor participation will help balance

budget and result in profitable conference Discussion regarding conference cost – see minutes from

May 13 meeting for proposed conference fees details:o Day 1 Only - $95 (ENA Member), $115 (non-

member)o Full Conference - $115 (ENA), $145 (non-

member)o Registration after August 1st - $20 increaseo Registrations cancelled before July 27th will

receive refund of registration less $15 cancellation fee.

o All registrations cancelled after July 27th will received no refund

o Fees will cover: food snacks, breaks, CEs, awards banquet and state council meeting

Save the date flyer available and will be sent out Motion made by Joan to approve the cost of the

educational meeting, 2nd by Gail and unanimous approval Poster presentations by staff for clinical ladders, Joan

recommends using national guidelines Discussion regarding committee members fee for

conference attendanceo Recommendation made for the Committee to

review and make determination

Jan Kaminski will send out the save the date flyers with the link to the state website, Do Attend link will be on website along with other information

David will get Do Attend set up and available

Lana will send out nominations forms and Jeanne will post to website

Emergency Preparedness: No report

Finance: Jo Website – reports sent to state must be sent in by May

15th, everything has been received and is ready to be sent.

Treasurer’s Manual (3 ring Notebooks) provided for

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each Chapter Treasurer with required paperwork and forms that must be completed and submitted

Governmental Affairs: No report, members attended Day on the Hill

IQSIP: Chris Recommendations to MODOT for blue print for

Southwest MO with high mortality rate include:o Night time drivingo Work zoneo Highway/Rail crossing

Arrive alive presented by Lori:o Battle of The Belts is now known as “It Only

Takes One”o Will measure in November and March to see if

education made a difference. Only 3 schools in STL area involved

MOENA website updated with Injury prevention link Brain injury – Donald Danforth Camp in Dittmer, respite

direction camp held every year during Memorial WeekMarketing/PR: Gail

Point report will be sent out on May 31st. Delegate shirts and jackets for LA discussed, request

made to have sizes added to the delegate point form Request for ideas for items for “meet me in STL”

promotion at 2016 conference.o Recommendation made that marketing

committee make decision on giveaways, but remain within budget

Jeanne to update delegate point form and include size and male/female for both jacket and shirt

STL Chapter to confirm attendance of STL Chamber of Commerce at LA

Membership: Jo Jo no longer has access to individual chapters to see

member movement, only has access to state and own chapter

MOENA membership decreased by 4 members Continue to have multiple members with no chapter

assigned, now have 30 members not assigned to a chapter

o Make sure Chapter numbers are included on forms

Only 6 new members with 31 members expiring

Membership chairs to review on-line membership lists

Jeanne to update “map” on website

National Conference: Joan on behalf of Jami 2016 National Conference (LA)

o Speakers have been identifiedo Several classes available prior to conference

including MCI 2017 STL Conference

Joan to determine expectation from National ENA for MOENA participation at 2017 Conference

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o No update Delegate point system form must be submitted by July

1st, 2016 for the 2016 Conference Delegates must attend entire General Assembly and

Board Meeting ($1500 allocated for delegates to attend conference)

Delegates will be announced at August meetingNursing/Advanced Practice: Jan

Letter received from Jason (EMS) thanking us for support

MO Nurses Association is looking at pursuing mandatory continue education.

Parliamentarian Committee: Joan Continue utilizing the most current edition of Robert’s

RulesON-GOING/UNFINISHED BUSINESS ACTIONS/FOLLOW-UP

National News & Updates: ENA Foundation has new bylaws available online for

review Board liaison and chapter guidelines have been

developed New National strategic plan – but not available yet, still

working on how to operationalize it Available on the web:

o Clinical practice guidelines for capnography and procedural sedation and analgesia

o Topic group on pediatric paino Topic brief on avoiding the log roll maneuvero New tool kit for naloxone education

NEW BUSINESS ACTIONS/FOLLOW-UPAnnouncements—Recognition—Kudos:

Positiveso Valerie Grossman is donating books to each

Chapter to use for fundraisingo Plaque presented to ENA for recognition of work

done for life saving event Motion made by Gail for MOENA to sponsor 5

registrations to the MEMSA conference and challenge MEMSA to match for the MOENA Conference in August, 2nd by David, approved

Adjournment and Next Meeting: Next meeting is Friday, August 12th, 2016 during

MOENA Educational Conference Adjournment at 2:15 pm.

N/A

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Respectfully Submitted,

Lori Merritt, RN, MSN, CFRN

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Attendance at MOENA State Council Meeting—May 14th, 2016

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