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September 21, 2006 (including annual reports)
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SDONE Annual Business Meeting September 21, 2006
4:15 P.M.—5:00P.M. Fontanelle Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel
Copies of the minutes were circulated Motion to approve Diana B. second by Carla B, motion carried
5.1 Financial Report
See attached: Carol reviewed the current balances and the information regarding the increase in SDAHO fees. She explained that SDONE did not increase the fees, as there is money in reserves that is being used as needed for convention expenses. Rita reviewed the commitment from SDONE to pay AONE membership dues to any board members wishing to join. Motion to accept Carla, second Darcy, motion carried
5.2 Variance Report: Reviewed, see attached.
5.3 Proposed Budget: Carol reviewed the attached report. Changes reviewed such as decreased amounts for mailings as most communications are electronic now. Increased amount to be used for attending the Regional AONE meeting. Carol reviewed the investments. Motion to approve the budget for next year by Deb, second, Carla, motion carried.
5.4 Membership Status:
We currently have 105 members the same number as last year. New members welcomed. Districts encouraged to recognize their new members. Carol also reminded everyone that it is renewal time.
6.1 Bylaws/Standing Rules: Jan Burnette: Bylaws remain the same. There was a format change for elections from paper to electronic ballots.
6.2 Public Relations: Carla Borchardt: newsletter is sent out electronically quarterly. It is important to update your emails with SDONE as they change. Carla asked for anyone interested to submit articles. Carla was recognized by Rita for her excellent work on the newsletter.
6.3 Program Co-Chairs: Nancy Nelson, Vicki Tigner
Program for fall SDAHO convention:
Vickie thanked everyone for their attendance. A SDONE needs assessment was handed out for each person to complete to help with meeting everyone’s needs for next year. Vickie thanked Sioux Valley and Avera for helping to pay for Jo Manion, which helped, offset the cost of her fees. They sent employees to hear her as an educational event.
6.4 Aging Services: Jacque Eberhart:
Jacque shared that she normally provides current best practice reimbursement and regulatory updates on aging and long term care to the board for the district chairs to take to their district meetings.
6.5 Council on Acute Care: Rita Haxton:
Topics discussed were:
a. hospital pricing
b. hospital quality initiatives
c. the EMS providers initiative regarding bracelets indicating an advance directive and what this means to health care providers
6.6 Public Policy: Open position has been filled by Deb Fischer-Clemens
6.6.1 AONE 2006 Legislative Agenda was reviewed by Rita
6.6.2 Deb reviewed her membership on the Health Care Commission. Universal access to health care needs to be addressed and a plan put in place to address the uninsured. The title for this subcommittee is now health care access for all.
6.7 Center for Nursing Workforce: Carla Borchardt:
Update was given at the meeting this am by
6.8 District Reports:
6.8.1. District I: Barb Hespen: An educational update on pandemic flu was given by Dr. Keegan. Networking luncheons are a favorite.
6.8.2 District II: Dawn Hinckley; The most valuable part of their meetings is networking. They have had 5 educational meetings.
6.8.3 District III: Connie Teut: See attached.
6.8.4 District IV: Barbara Larson: See attached
7.1 Finalization of goals
See attached handout which was reviewed. Motion to approve the goals by Carol D. second by Carla B. motion carried
8.1 Recognition of the scholarship winner: Angela Mills, RCRH; Lynn Simons, Sturgis Regional
8.2 Recognition of the leadership winner: Rita Haxton, VP Patient Care, RCRH
8.3 Recognition of outgoing officers, re-elected and newly elected officers
Rita recognized Shirley Knodel, outgoing secretary, Carla Borchardt, outgoing public relations, Nancy Nelson outgoing west river program co chair, Diana Vanderwoude, outgoing public policy, Jan Burnette outgoing bylaws. Carla B. recognized Rita and thanked her for her hard work as president.
Rita recognized the newly elected officers: Lois Ames, Secretary; Carol Stewart, By-laws; Darcy Sherman Justice, Public Relations; Laurie Pospisil, West River Program Co-chair.
8.4 Other
9. Adjournment
South Dakota Organization of Nurse Executives - 2006 Annual Report
Officers: President: Rita Haxton
President-Elect: Carla Borchardt
Secretary: Shirley Knodel
Treasurer: Carol DeSchepper
Convention Planning Contact: Nancy Nelson/Vicki Tigner
Key Issues:
Goals Achieved:
Recommendations for the future
Respectfully submitted,
SDONE District II Annual Report
District II membership-15 for 2006, 1 member less than last year. Agenda and past meeting minutes e-mailed to all SDAHO facilities in February. All members have been encouraged to personally invite a new member to the next meeting in November at Avera St. Luke’s to improve district meeting attendance.
Educational programs offered
1. Employee Ergonomics by Scott Kram, Physical Therapist
The collaboration, networking and sharing of ideas before each educational program is the most valuable part of our District II meetings. Knowing you are not alone as a nursing leader in your profession can provide comfort and solutions to every day work challenges. Information is gained through knowledge of legislative issues and aging services. In the future, we are focusing on quality, safety and culture change.
Respectfully submitted, Dawn Hinckley District II Chairperson
Sdone district iii annual report - September 2006
District III met twice since the September 2005 convention in Rapid City.
A meeting was held December 2, 2005 at Sioux Valley Hospital with 20 members in attendance. Members gave an update about their facility. The group then enjoyed a cookie and white elephant gift exchange.
The second meeting was held June 9, 2006 at Avera McKennan Hospital with 14 members present. Jill Franken, Clinic Manager of Fall Community Health Center, explained the type of service offered by the Center and the types of care providers available to service the community.
Three new members joined District III this year.
Connie Teut District III Chairperson
SDONE Annual Business Meeting - September 22, 2005
5.1 Financial report: Review by Rita. See attached. Proposed budget reviewed. See attached.
5.2 Variance Report: Discussion regarding the proposed increase for fees paid from SDONE to SDAHO for convention attendees. Explained that a change will be to pay AONE memberships for SDONE board members. Money was also budgeted for attendance at the Region 6 & 8 AONE meeting. Diana B. moved to accept the treasurer’s report; Carla B second; motion carried.
5.3 Proposed Budget: Carla S. made a motion to approve the proposed budget. Diana seconded; motion carried.
5.4 Membership Status: Membership report was given. New members were recognized and refreshments served.
6 Committee/Council Reports:
6.2 Bylaws/Standing Rules: Jan highlighted the changes, which are in red. It was suggested that in Section 4, “e-mailed” should replace post marked. Motion to approve the proposed by-law changes with the above correction was made by Lois and seconded by Diana. Motion carried.
6.3 Public Relations: Keep your e-mail updated, submit anything you would like in the newsletter to Carla.
6.4 Program Co-Chairs: The group thanked Nancy and Vicki for getting C-Net Credits and for a good job on the conference. Thank you to Wendy Hoe from the SDAHO for helping with the C-Net process.
6.5 Aging Services: No report. Jacque Eberhardt is our Aging Services Chair. The Resident’s choice plan was briefly discussed and will be a SDONE fall 2006 topic.
6.6 Council on Acute Care: Nancy attended the only meeting of the year. See April 29 SDONE board meeting minutes.
6.7 Public Policy: Rita discussed some of Diana V. work over the year. She shared the discussion regarding the Grassly bill on Specialty Hospitals and AONE’s response to it. SDONE took a non-position on the Grassly bill. Diana readdressed the 4 bills that could come up this year in SD legislature as presented by Gloria Damgaard. See Gloria’s handout.
6.8 Center for Nursing Workforce: Diana B referenced the presentation by Gloria Damgaard earlier today. Diana suggested if members are interested they could obtain a report from the Center for Nursing Workforce. Diana seeks feedback, particularly on:
· Workforce needs
· Environmental needs
· Staffing issues
· Safety issues
The value of externships was discussed. Does the value added outweigh the expense to facilities who provide them?
Rita shared the changes in RCRH’s externship program, change in hours, 40 to 24-7; change from paid to unpaid with a $1,000 stipend upon completion.
6.8.1 District 1 – Barb: Met in January, presentation on Generational Issues, met in May with a progressive lunch with networking. The next meeting will be to review goals.
6.8.2 District 2 – Dawn: Four meetings were held: Education and Legislature, Research Days at PC, 5 meal plan, new trends in Geriatric diets.
6.8.3 District 3 – Connie: December ANA convention report. New degree for clinical nurse leader. Discussion regarding ability to hire. Linda Young presentation on workforce entry level.
6.8.4 District 4 – Carol: See attached report.
7 Old business: None
8 New Business:
8.1 Scholarship winner – Tammy Hillestad, Director of Patient Services, Madison Community Hospital
8.3 Recognition of the SDONE Outstanding Leadership Award winner- Carie Kappes, Director of Patient Services, Eureka Community Health Services Avera
8.4 Recognition of outgoing officers – Carol Stewart. Carol DeSchepper re-elected, Dawn Hinkley re-elected. Carla Borchardt as President elect.
8.5 Review and vote on proposed Bylaws changes: See above
8.6 Other: Rita reviewed the handout from Healthcare Alliance and the 2005-2006 SDONE goals and objectives (dated 9/2005). See attached.
Rita asked for feedback on educational programs, workforce issue feedback. Encouraged districts to discuss and give feedback.
Future Considerations - Post Hurricane Katrina: Every facility should consider setting up a disaster plan with a sister facility at least 60 miles away.
9. Adjournment: Diana made a motion with Barb seconding to adjourn the meeting. Carried.
SDONE General Business Meeting - Sheraton Hotel &
Convention Center,
Mtg. Fontanel Room - Sioux Falls, SD - September
23, 2004
1. Call to Order
Call to order
by Diana Berkland.
Diana recognized the members of SDONE with 15 years or more of membership, as well as SDONE’s 25th Anniversary.
2. Roll Call: Shirley Knodel noted there was a quorum and asked members to sign in and to update their biographical data.
Those in attendance were Carol Stewart of District IV – St. Michael’s Hospital; Diana Berkland, District III - Sioux Valley; Carol DeSchepper, Avera Health; Carla Borchardt, Avera McKennan Hospital & University; Deb Winter, Dorsett Health Care Facility, Spearfish; Shirley Knodel, Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City;and Diana VanderWoude, Sioux Valley Hospital USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls; Vicki Tegner, Sioux Valley; Dawn Hinckley, Gettysburg Medical Center; Darcy Sherman Justice, Avera McKennan; Denise Muntefering, Avera St. Benedict Health Center (Parkston); Tracy Harrington, Platte Care Center; Jan Clites, Brookings; Connie Woehlhaff, Avera Eureka Health Care Center; Deb Winter, Avera Eureka Health Care Center; Kim Beck, Marshall County Healthcare; Beth Jensen, Mobridge Regional; Jan Stahnke, Platte Health Center; Dianne Larson, Wagner Community Hospital; Mark Manson, Freeman Regional; Barbara Larson, Avera Sacred Heart Health Services; Gail Bacon, Bethesda; Amy Thiesse, Sioux Valley –Vermillion; Linda Bunkers, Sioux Valley; Kay Santema, Sioux Valley – USD; Jan Weber, Pioneer Memorial; Jan Haugen- Rogers, Sioux Valley Hospital USD; Karein Fjeldos-Sperbeck, Deuel Co. Mem. Hospital & Clinic; Connie Teut, Avera McKennan; Jeffrey Neuberger, Bennett Co. Health Care; Nancy Nelson, Rapid City Regional; Stacey Erickson, Avera Health.
3. Approval of Minutes – Minutes were approved with a motion by Carla with a second by Kay.
4. Correspondence:
5. Treasurer’s Report: Carol DeSchepper recognized new members.
5.1 Financial Report – See attached.
5.2 Variance Report – See attached.
2004 Variance Report reviewed. Nancy motioned to approve and Diana VanderWoude seconded the motion. The motion carried.
5.3 Membership Status
Discussed new membership brochures and membership renewal. We have exceeded our membership goal of 100 members
5.4 2005 Budget – See attached
2005 Proposed Budget presented. A motion to approve the budget was made by Kaye and seconded by Linda. The motion carried.
5.5 Investment Objectives
A statement on Investment Objectives was reviewed by Carol.
6. Committee/Council Reports:
6.1 Bylaws/Standing Rules: Deb Colson
The proposed bylaws changes were reviewed by Diana. These are the changes that were sent to members in the August newsletter.
See attached proposed changes.
Each proposed change was reviewed.
Denise moved to accept all changes as presented and Carla seconded the motion. The motion was carried.
The changes will be posed on the internet – SDONE website.
6.2 Public Relations: Carla Borchardt
Quarterly newsletter sent electronically.
Please turn in e-mail changes.
Members invited to submit information.
Report accepted.
6.3 Program: Diana Berkland
Region 6 and 8 meeting update presented by Nancy Nelson. SDONE members encouraged to attend.
Members encouraged to attend.
Report accepted.
6.4 Aging Services: Deb Winter
See enclosed report.
Report accepted.
6.5 Council on Acute Care: Rita Haxton (Shirley Knodel presented in Rita’s absence.)
Rita’s report from Council on Acute Care (See April Board Meeting.)
Denise echoed the desire to have members share with their CEO’s the need for nursing representation on the council on acute care.
Report accepted.
6.6 Council on Public Policy: Diana VanderWoude
Diana discussed the need to have regular communication with district chairs and board during times of legislative activity.
Diana will put instructions in the November SDONE Newsletter as to how to use the South Dakota Legislative website.
Report accepted.
6.7 Center for Nursing Workforce: Diana Berkland
6.7.1 Education articulation plan for nursing schools. Biggest challenge has been the transition from LPN to RN program.
6.7.2 Workforce statistics – Ex. Age of workforce, where we are working.
Report accepted.
6.8 District Reports
6.8.1 District I:
Nancy Nelson reported Donna Schnider’s resignation and the need for a new chair.
6.8.2 District II: Kim Beck – See Attached.
Kim Beck reported five meetings, educational opportunities offered.
6.8.3 District III: Connie Teut – See Attached.
Connie Teut welcomed as new chair by Kay Santema.
6.8.4 District IV: Carol Stewart – See Attached
Reports accepted.
7. Old Business:
8. New Business:
8.1 SDONE Outstanding Leadership Award winner: Recognition given by Diana Berkland to Kim Beck as the SDONE Outstanding Leadership Award winner. Recognition given to nominees Carla Borchardt and Stacey Erickson.
8.2 SDONE Scholarship Award: Recognition given by Diana Berkland to the three Scholarship Award Winners Chris Lippert, Carol Stewart and Cheryl Greenwood.
8.3 Recognition of new officers to the Board, re-elections to the Board and appointments to the Board:
8.3.1 Rita Haxton recognized as President.
8.3.2 ConnieTeut recognized as Chair District III.
8.3.3 Vicki Tigner and Nancy Nelson recognized as Program Co-chairs.
8.3.4 Jan Burnette recognized as Bylaws officer.
8.3.5 Diana VanderWoude recognized as Public Policy officer.
8.3.6 Shirley Knodel recognized as being re-elected as Secretary officer.
8.3.7 Carla Borchardt recognized as being re-elected as Public Relations officer.
8.4 Recognition of Service: Outgoing Officers
8.4.1 Deb Colson
8.4.2 Deb Soholt
8.4.3 Donna Schnider
8.4.4 Kay Santema
8.5 Other:
Academy of Medical Surgical Nursing Award was recently given to Carla Borchardt. Congratulations!
9. Adjournment: Diana Berkland
Motion to adjourn was made by Kay and seconded by Darcy. Motion Carried.
Adjourned at 3:40 p.m. -
Respectfully Submitted, Shirley Knodel, RN, MS Secretary