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Hawaii
State Council of The Emergency Nurses Association
July
21, 2009
Kaiser
Moanaloa Medical Center
The meeting was called to order @
17:00 in the Library Conference Room, Kaiser Moanaloa Medical Center.
Present: Kathy Anzelon (Education Chair/Past President),
Steven Hobbs (President), Carly Peterson (President-elect), Peggy Sale, Brenda
Gartner, and Jennifer Whitton (Treasurer) were present.
Committee
Reports
1.
TNCC/ENPC
A. Carly noted that she has deposited $375 representing a bounced
check for a TNCC class. The individual involved did NOT include a penalty
charge as requested. Carly will give Steve the contact information and Steve
will send a request letter to the individual involved.
B. Carly also noted that many of the Kaiser planned TNCC/ENPC are
being cancelled for low registration. Discussion followed as to why this may be
the case; poor economy and cost/timing competition with AirMed courses. Kathy
noted, and all agreed, that our principle goal is to enhance the quality of
trauma care across the state. Kathy was directed to approach AirMed about
increased coordination and perhaps duel sponsorship of future TNCC/ENPC
classes. It was noted that National is billing the state council for invoices
associated with AirMed courses. These are being returned unpaid to national.
B. Peggy helped teach and Kathy attended some of the June 15-16
UH-JABSOM SimTiki TNCC. This was a quite
large class. Kathy noted the course did
not seem to adhere to the required student-instructor ratio and she would follow
up on this. Peggy noted that the use of SimMan did not seem to enhance the
course for students or faculty. There were many significant issues which would
seem to preclude such use in the near future.
C. CATN. Steve is drafting
a grant request to be submitted for a April 2010 CATN-II to be jointly
sponsored by HSC-ENA, The Queen's Medical Center Trauma Services and Hawaii
State EMS Trauma program. This should be submitted by the end of August for
hosting two 8 student CATNs, with the result that Hawaii would have two or more
in-state CATN Course Directors.
2.
Governmental Affairs.
Deferred as Alicia is not present.
3.
Injury Prevention - Peggy
Sale, State Trauma Program Coordinator
A. Peggy shared that the State Trauma Registry should be functional
by the end of August. QMC will use their own server, but all others will be
web-based.
B. The Hawaii Trauma Advisory Council (HTAC) will hold an initial
meeting on July 30, 2009 at QMC. Steve has appointed Kathy Anzelon, as past
President and current Education Chair, to represent the HSC-ENA.
C. Funding continues, despite state budget revisions, to assist
in state designation of one Level 2 and five Level 3 Trauma Centers
D. Peggy's office is funding and has already sent one individual
to Maryland in relation to development of Critical Care Transport Classes to be
held at KCC.
4.
Finance.
A. Financial report was not available. Jennifer reported on a
national Treasurer tele-conference she participated in earlier today.
B. Steve and Jennifer will meet on July 29th at 11:00 at Bank of
Hawaii (Kaneohe) to complete signature cards, change credit cards amounts and
complete other financial business. It was noted that the current officer card
limit is $500; inadequate for a number of usual charges. The Council previously had directed that this
limit be expanded to $1,500.00. Jennifer asked we explore methods to prevent
cash withdrawals with our cards.
Old
Business
Hawai’i
State Council Website. Steve gave on online demonstration of the
council website as it exists today (shell only) at
http://koahosting.com/~enahi/ The
council liked what the saw, but did note a few minor corrections. Actual
documents to place on website must be received by Steve no later than Aug. 15th
to be sent to developer.
New
Business
A. Scientific Assembly. A reminder of the Scientific Assembly in
October at Baltimore. The state council does NOT provide assistance in
attending this conference.
B. General Assembly.
At present, the HSC-ENA has 205 members, which would equate to six delegates
(president plus one per 50 members). Per our bylaws, delegates are selected via
a point system. An e-mail was sent out
to membership asking anyone interested in being a delegate to contact Steve.
Their was council consensus that the following would be submitted to National
ENA: Delegates are- Steve Hobbs, Carly Peterson, Kathy Anzelon, Brenda Gartner,
Alicia Stewart and Jennifer Whitton. Alternates are Amanda Robles and Greg
Zaryske.
2009
HSC-ENA Meeting Schedule
At previous meetings there was a
consensus to continue every other month meetings.Meeting sites were to
alternate between QMC, Kaiser and Tripler. Tuesday was felt to be a better day
then on the weekends. The following schedule was agreed to:
Sept.
22 QMC
Oct.
7-10 National General &
Scientific Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland
The
meeting was adjourned at 18:05
Respectfully
Submitted:
Steven
D. Hobbs,
President
and Acting Secretary
HSC-ENA
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