NJ State Council of the Emergency Nurses Association

NJ State Council of the Emergency Nurses Association State Council Meeting JFK Memorial Hospital Edison, NJ 4:00 PM President: Anne Stefanoski, President Elect: Pat Nierstedt Immediate Past President: Gwyn Parris-Atwell Agenda Secretary: Anthony Angelow Treasurer: Kathy Findlay CALL TO ORDER Establish Quorum Anne Stefanoski Pat Nierstedt Approval of Agenda & Minutes Introductions Introduction of NJ ENA Executive Board Introductions of National ENA Executive Board Presidents Report President Elect Report Treasurer s Report Committee Reports Education/ECC Committee Finance Committee Injury Prevention Pediatric Committee Anne Stefanoski Anne Stefanoski Anne Stefanoksi Anne Stefanoski Pat Nierdtedt Kathy Findlay Action items only Gayle Walker-Cillo James Hoelz Casey O Connell Linda Curtis 1

Trauma Committee Government Affairs Comm. Research & Practice Comm. Informatics Committee Professional Development and Awards Chapter Reports Jersey Shore Chapter Northern Chapter Southern Chapter West Central Chapter Ad Hoc/Task Force Reports EMS Council EMSC Council ACEP NJSNA NJHA Membership Media Relations Dawn Specht Debbie Cioffi Elizabeth Whetzel Ray Bennett Gwyn Parris-Atwell Action items only NaDean Wristbridge David Greenberg Dawn Specht Bill Miller Action items only Tim Murphy Linda Curtis Anna Mannino Mary Kamienski Brenda Braun Jessica Trivett Cheryl Newmark National Committees JEN ENA RN Core Competencies Academy of Emergency Nursing Peggy McMahon Gayle Walker-Cillo Mary Kamieski 2

Education Committee Anthony Angelow National Awards Gwyn Parris Atwell National ENA Administrative Faculty ENA Foundation Standards of Practice Ray Bennett Jackie Wynkoop Don Everly OLD BUSINESS 1. NJENA Partnership with Drexel 2. Nominating/Election Process SOP Revision 3. Community Service Projects NEW BUSINESS 1. Website hosting and support proposal 2. ENA National Tampa Anne Stefanoski David Greenberg Bill Miller David Greenberg Anne Stefanoski OPEN FORUM 2011 Meetings: January 19, March16(ECC), May 18 th, August 17, & November 16, (see www.njena.org) 3

May, 2011 Approvals Attendance 1. Agenda 2. Minutes Executive Reports President Anne Stefanoski NJ State Council ENA Committee Minutes Present: A. Stefanoski, P. Nierstedt, G. Parris-Atwell, K. Findlay, J. Trivett, L. Curtis, L Wetzel, J. Hoelz, S. Guilliams, P. McMahon, D. Greenberg, A. DeCandia, F. Spinda, K. Donges, B. Miller, T. Murphy, S. Sunyak, M. Ingram, G. Kurz, D. McDonald, A. Mannino, K. Aquino, L. Kelty, J. Chacko, B. Sweigart, H. Gerke, D. Cioffi, C. Martinez, J. Wynkoop, G. Cillo-Walker, M. Sapaski, S. Norton, E. Collins Sign-in sheet on file TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION The meeting was called to order at 16:15 Agenda and minutes presented. Introductions Treasurer Kathy Findlay Committee Reports Highlights of report; Reminder to vote for National Election (Exec Bd. & Nomination Committee) Bios and candidate info on ena.org website Review of delegate approval process Scholarship opportunities for NJENA members Reminder to Committee Chairs to utilize the flash drives distributed in January for reports and activities of individual committees. Report reviewed at meeting. Report on file Action Items Only Quorum present. Accepted with one change: Names of award winners will be listed on March minutes. Report accepted Education/ECC Jim Hoelz Overview of 2012 ECC presented 1. Discussed scheduling, fast track sessions, 4

TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION timeframes w/exhibitors, speaker planning 2. Committee Chairs a. Exhibit: Liz Whetzel b. Logistics: Ray Bennett c. Registration: Kathy Findlay d. Program:Tim Murphy Finance Report on file Consider expenses and budget appropriately Jim Holes Injury Prevention No report Motion: Allocate $3000 to investigate needs of organization this will be done Casey O Connell by NJ ENA President Approved 12 Opposed 3 Motion Passes Pediatric Linda Curtis ENA phone conference w/course directors Report on file Anne will speak with Pam Fisher regarding needs. Trauma Dawn Specht Government Affairs Deb Cioffi Research & Practice Liz Whetzel Informatics Ray Bennett Professional Development /Awards Gwyn Parris-Atwell Chapter Reports Jersey Shore NaDean Wristbridge Northern David Greenberg Southern Dawn Specht No report Report on file No report No report ENA scholarships Scientific Assembly scholarships Action Items Only On file On file On file Scholarship monies will be available for members Motion: 10 additional scholarships for $370 ($3700) to assist membership to go to Scientific Assembly. Amended Motion: Set aside 10 scholarship to members at large chosen by a lottery for attendance at scientific assembly. NJ ENA members will be sent to all via e-mail. Motion passes unanimously. 5

TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION West Central On file Bill Miller Ad Hoc/Task Force Reports EMS Council Tim Murphy 1. EMS will give award to an ED nurse at their annual conference. Further info on EMS website. 2. Committee to establish EMS hand-off from field to ED staff (ESBAR). Proposing key criteria (5 questions) to go on form. D. Cioffi is the administrative member of this committee. Further info can be found on their website EMS-C Linda Curtis ACEP Annie Mannino Newsletter Mary Kamienski NJSNA Mary Kamienski NJHA P Nierstedt Nominations Gwyn Parris-Atwell Media relations Cheryl Newmark Membership Jessica Trivett 3. P. McMahon suggested an award for a lay person. Guidelines & Criteria for Pediatric ED (Level 1 & 11) Helpful website for parents NJparentlink.nj.gov (excellent educational tool) No report Newsletter going out No report Program on ED violence will occur in Oct/Nov. More info to follow after confirmation for NJ Hospital Assoc. Information and call out for State office on website President Elect & Treasurer No report 1740 members as of this date Three additional members have volunteered to serve on the panel with Pat. Please sent Letter of Interest to Gwyn National Committees JEN M. McMahon ENA Core Competencies G. Walker Cillo Any reflections on 9/11 or emergency preparedness send to JEN as this is theme for Sept edition Committee is work in progress; clarification of committee charges needs to be done. 6

TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION Education No report Anthony Angelow Lantern Committee Gwyn Parris-Atwell Several applicants, Winning hospitals will be announced in July. ENA Foundation Jackie Wynkoop NJ is doing excellent in the Foundation State Challenge Apply for Foundation scholarship (info on ena.org) Foundation is planning a jewelry auction at National Standards of Practice No report Don Everly International Delegate Review David McDonald Old Business NJENA Partnership w/drexel Anne Stefanoski NJENA Community Service Partnership Bill Miller Review & revision of NJ ENA SOP - Nominations SOP David Greenberg New Business Application developed by committee & sent to international delegates The chosen group of international delegates will be represented at the General Assembly in Sept. 2011. Awaiting paperwork from ENA. Follow up Aug The group has presented the Nominations SOP (attached) David G. and his committee will continue to work on the NJ SOP s. Motion: Accept SOP with changes made Motion passes David will place on website David advised future SOPS will be on website prior to final review at meeting therefore it is requested that one reviews in a timely manner in order to move the process along. Website Hosting & Support Proposal David Greenberg David presented & discussed proposal (attached). He advised to continue site success we need to continue with a Drupal IT expert. Motion made to purchase another 10 hr. block of website consultation time @ $85 totaling $850.00. Motion passes Motion made to include the website maintenance as a budget line item Motion passes 7

TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION Waiting final numbers from National (SEE ABOVE) Delegates for Tampa Anne Stefanoski Resolution Liz Wetzel distributed & discussed her Emergency and Forensic Nursing resolution which she will present at National. Stroke Education Resolution from NY distributed and discussed Please send comments to Anne S. New Business State has already budgeted $ 900/person Chapters can decide individually how much to meet Motion: State to increase reimbursement 900 to up to $1300 per delegate Motion: Passes Motion made to sign on to Emergency Nursing and Forensic nursing Motion: Passes Motion: Passes NJ will support this resolution ECC 2011 Follow -up Leadership development Meetings 2012 Gayle Cillo-Walker gave the 2011 ECC report o 75 more people attended than previous yr o Good attendee review o Positive comments o AACN using the application used for best practices Discussion ensued regarding team building amongst members and the need to improve. D. Cioffi will look for room availability at JFK although other sites may be used Two suggestions were made to improve meeting flow: o New businesses precede old business. o Place action items on website prior to meeting. Revision of SOP s will work towards this. Suggested dates for 2012 (not confirmed) Jan 18 th May 16 Aug 15 Nov 14 th Recommendation to trial will be discussed with State Secretary. Motion made to adjourn. Motion passes. The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 pm Respectfully Submitted, Patricia Nierstedt RN 8

NJENA TREASURER S REPORT May 2011 Reports submitted electronically for viewing Current balance sheet Transaction report 3/1/2011 thru 4/30/2011 Still wrapping up the loose ends from ECC, a few checks have not yet been cashed, and there are a few reimbursements not yet received/paid. Tropicana bill was received and paid in two installments, but checks have not cleared, as of this report. The accountant has again filed an extension for the filing of the Form 990; it will be the longer version this year, so there may be some questions sent to various people to help with getting the information for that. The Exec Board has a copy of the form. I would be happy to mentor anyone interested in running for Treasurer for 2012 2013. If anyone is interested but has concerns, feel free to ask me about it. Respectfully submitted, Kathleen Findlay, RN, CEN 2010 2011 NJENA Treasurer 9

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Transactions 3/1/2011 through 4/30/2011 Date Description Memo Category Amount BALANCE 03/31/2011 20,201.81 3/1/2011 Deposit $2024; Gwyn reimb NJ $185 Ecc Reg Income 2,209.00 3/2/2011 Deborah Cioffi Per diem 4 days Government Affairs Committee -300.00 3/2/2011 Barbara Sweigart Per diem 4 days Government Affairs Committee -300.00 3/4/2011 AACN AACN ECC CECH Fees -50.00 3/7/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT Ecc Reg Income 2,218.00 3/10/2011 W/D Cash w/d-change ECC-Reg ECC Registration Committee -400.00 3/10/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT Ecc Reg Income 1,161.00 3/11/2011 Patricia Nierstedt Patricia Nierstedt PE-Leadership Conf -585.00 3/14/2011 Debit Cash w/d-change ECC- Raffles Ecc Exhibits:raffle -150.00 3/14/2011 Levittown Printing Presession course books Ecc Program:Handouts -4,289.26 3/14/2011 Staples Ink - Kathy ECC Registration Committee -31.99 3/14/2011 Deposit 71,721.35 Reg;10,313.85 Ex RegOnline 83,613.20 3/15/2011 Pmsi PMSI ECC Bags Expense -4,186.83 3/18/2011 Tropicana Casino Bus Ctr Additional copies Ecc Program:Handouts -75.76 3/18/2011 Jeff Goldstein - DJ ECC DJ ECC Party Entertainment -500.00 3/22/2011 Anne Stefanoski Gift cards for Honor Guard Gifts -154.75 3/23/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT ECC Raffle Income 2,328.00 3/23/2011 Deposit Return of change Reg/Raffles Other Inc 550.00 3/23/2011 H. William Miller H. William Miller Prof Dev Comm:Grants -700.00 3/23/2011 Anne Stefanoski Software for new computers Computer Replacements -363.98 3/23/2011 Deposit Kathy Ecc Reg Income 2,958.00 3/23/2011 Deposit Kathy Ecc Vendor Income 3,700.00 3/24/2011 Ray Bennett Miscellaneous AV supplies ECC Administration -317.46 3/28/2011 Belfint, Lyons & Shubert 1099 preparation/mailing Accountant -587.00 3/28/2011 William Gluckman William Gluckman --Split-- -525.00 3/28/2011 Michaels Jewelers ENAF jewelry auction ENA Foundation -438.84 3/28/2011 Don Everly Don Everly --Split-- -255.00 3/28/2011 Don Everly Don Everly Prof Dev Comm:Grants -700.00 3/28/2011 Charles Margarites Charles Margarites --Split-- -1,883.00 3/28/2011 Lisa Wolf Lisa Wolf --Split-- -680.00 11

3/29/2011 Charles Kunkle Charles Kunkle --Split-- -443.00 3/29/2011 Dominick Eboli Dominick Eboli --Split-- -298.00 3/29/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT ECC Reg $800; error correct 14.00 814.00 3/29/2011 Gwyn Parris-atwell Gwyn Parris-Atwell --Split-- -1,078.70 3/29/2011 Jeff Solheim Jeff Solheim --Split-- -2,261.79 3/29/2011 Skvare CEU Program Dev ECC CECH Fees -1,100.00 3/30/2011 Nadean Wristbridge Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -67.00 3/30/2011 Marylou Forster Resch Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -72.70 3/30/2011 Linda Curtis Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -78.40 3/30/2011 H. William Miller H. William Miller Ecc Program:speaker Honorarium -200.00 3/30/2011 Darel Depompeo Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -95.50 3/30/2011 ENA Foundation Blue Jay Raffle ENA Foundation -401.00 3/31/2011 Leslie DeHerde Leadership Prof Dev Comm:Grants -700.00 4/4/2011 Deposit Liz Ecc Vendor Income 1,000.00 4/4/2011 Mary Ann House- Fancher Mary Ann House-Fancher --Split-- -1,026.65 4/4/2011 Shelley Cohen Shelley Cohen --Split-- -987.90 4/4/2011 Patricia Cupka Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -95.00 4/4/2011 Maria Valades ECC Prof Dev Comm:Grants -191.36 4/4/2011 Marilyn Potenza ECC Prof Dev Comm:Grants -453.71 4/6/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT Ecc Vendor Income 675.00 4/8/2011 Vista Convention Services Vista Convention Services Ecc Exhibits:Vista -5,278.00 4/8/2011 Debra Potts Debra Potts --Split-- -1,628.50 4/8/2011 Jean Proehl Jean Proehl --Split-- -793.69 4/22/2011 Anne Decandia Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -143.25 4/8/2011 Dana Stitt Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -143.25 4/8/2011 Darel Depompeo Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -95.50 4/8/2011 Susan Guilliams Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -67.00 4/11/2011 Deposit ECC Reg Ecc Reg Income 295.00 4/12/2011 Jackie Wynkoop To ECC Travel -84.00 4/12/2011 Terry Foster Terry Foster --Split-- -1,653.57 4/13/2011 Jennifer Lawlor ECC Reg Prof Dev Comm:Grants -289.11 4/14/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT RegOnline 56,136.32 4/15/2011 Margaret McMahon Poster award Ecc Exhibits -100.00 12

4/15/2011 Anne Stefanoski Food for organizational mtg ECC 2012-45.00 4/15/2011 Transfer To Mmkt Transfer to MMKT -90,000.00 4/15/2011 Mary Kamienski Mary Kamienski --Split-- -340.00 4/15/2011 Skvare Web hosting Mar-Apr-May Informatics Committee -240.00 4/15/2011 George Baluski Hosp paid after attendee ECC Refund -200.00 4/18/2011 Joyce Foresman- Capuzzi Joyce Foresman-Capuzzi --Split-- -470.00 4/19/2011 Elizabeth Whetzel Supplies Ecc Exhibits -1,107.84 4/19/2011 Pmsi Awards Professional Recognition -627.31 4/21/2011 Jean Proehl Jean Proehl Ecc Program:speaker travel -13.09 4/22/2011 Dominic Parone Hotel Ecc Program:speaker travel -100.00 4/22/2011 David Greenberg Hotel Ecc Program:Room Monitors -231.78 4/25/2011 Deposit DEPOSIT Ecc Reg Income 1,850.00 4/27/2011 Barbara Sweigart Gov't affairs supplies Government Affairs Committee -370.29 4/29/2011 Ginny Kurz Hotel for 5 rm monitors Ecc Program:Room Monitors -525.25 4/29/2011 Rhonda Holmstrom Poster Award at ECC Prof Dev Comm:Grants -100.00 BALANCE 4/30/2011 48,038.32 TOTAL INFLOWS 159,507.52 TOTAL OUTFLOWS - 131,671.01 NET TOTAL 27,836.51 13

Southern New Jersey Chapter Report Date May 18, 2011 Summary of Activities: Met March 17 th, 2011 at ECC Met April 20, 2011 at Cooper University Hospital Educational Offering on CV Pharmacology One new member from kennedy Health System attended. Decision for educational day confimed.title: Best practices for your worst day Topics Disaster Management, ROSC and hypothermia, CISM Future Activities/Discussion: Request for email list build to State IT committee, Has this list been built? Action items: Education day on October 19 th from 9am-2p and will be offering 4 CNE s at South jersey Regional Hospital in Vineland. The cost of the education day will only be $25.00, and will include great education, free food, and a chance to connect and network with other members of the Southern Chapter, as well as your elected officers. Request to have more State meetings in the South or provide teleconferencing of meetings. Attachments: Respectfully Submitted By: Dawn M. Specht 14

Trauma Committee/State Chapter Report Date 5/18/2011 Summary of Activities: TNCC instructor monitoring continues. New versions of TNCC exams that scramble the test questions have been made available. Conference Call: TNCC invoices: ENA is working towards an online system where course directors will be able to view all of their course related invoices, in addition to other functionality. There is a focus group of course directors working with the development team to provide input and perspective. We expect the first phase to be available in the 4 th quarter of 2011. Dawn Herman confirmed that ENPC and/or TNCC related documents that were not produced by ENA should not be handed out during an ENPC or TNCC course as the students may confuse the documents with ENA developed materials. ENA is doing some market research into the idea of providing a study guide for the courses, but this is at the preliminary research stage. Future Activities/Discussion: Request to read summary below into the meeting minutes for 5/18/2011. Information previously submitted but not discussed in March. Clarification of TNCC retesting policy. The participant no longer must attain a certain score to retest. Retesting should be allowed. The student should be encouraged to study before retesting if they decline you should make sure to document that they were aware they could retest within the two week period but declined. If there is an Instructor Candidate to be monitored at a course, it needs to be clarified that State Faculty (someone from the Committee) or their designee does the monitoring. A designee must be a current instructor in the course they will monitor, and it is preferred that they are a course director, or qualified to be one. Changes to the Admin Procedures, effective 3/1/11 are: 1. All new Course Directors must be mentored by an experienced Course Director. There is a new form to be signed by both the mentoring and the new Course Director. 2. Pre testing of instructor course attendees must be done within 14 calendar days of the scheduled instructor course, and must be done by the Course Director of the instructor course, or their designee. 3. For an RN designated as Instructor Potential, who has taken the provider course within 90 calendar days of the instructor course he/she is to attend, and scored at the IP level of 90+ on the written test, and 85%+ on the skill station, at that provider course he/she does not need 15

to be pre tested at the beginning of the instructor course. Effective 3/1/2011 there will be some changes to the Admin Procedures. All current Course Directors will receive CD ROM s with new forms, procedures, etc. for both TNCC & ENPC. The indirect fee increase that was effective for courses held 1/1/2011 and beyond, will be reflected in the updated forms as well. Action items: The newest TNCC instructor is Don Trauger please join me in congratulating him! Attachments: Respectfully Submitted By: Dawn M. Specht New Jersey Emergency Nurses Association EMS Advisory Liason Report, May 18, 2011 Outstanding Hospital Emergency Department Nurse Honors a registered nurse who demonstrates excellence in the provision of high quality clinical care for patients transitioning from the pre-hospital environment into the emergency department and supports the enhancement of EMS care through mentorship. Nominee Demographics: Name Address Email Phone Agency Affiliation (if applicable) Additional Crew Members (if applicable) Description: 16

To highlight the six points of the Star of Life, please fill in information for each of the six categories regarding the person or agency for which you are nominating for the award. (If you feel that a particular category is not applicable, please indicate this by typing N/A in the box.) 1. Action/Event: Please describe the incident you are nominating. Please be sure to list as much information as possible; including (if applicable) date, location, municipality, other individuals involved with their contact information. 2. Leadership: the nominee demonstrates excellence in the areas of integrity, leadership, team building, commitment to EMS, professional excellence, etc 3. Service: the nominee demonstrates excellence in operational performance, customer service, innovation in operations, etc. 4. Clinical Quality: the nominee demonstrates a commitment to the highest clinical quality standards, innovations in clinical care, programs of quality management and quality improvement, use of evidenced based medical literature to guide best practice, involved in clinical research to advance the field of EMS, etc 5. Caring (inter-personal, not clinical): the nominee demonstrates a commitment to a culture of caring within the organization. This applies to both the EMS staff as well as the patients, general public, other public health and safety agencies. It can include programs of recognition, etc. 5. Resource Stewardship: The nominee demonstrates excellence in the area of financial responsibility to the agency, the patient, and the system. Nominator Demographics: Name Address Email Phone Agency Affiliation (if applicable) Respectfully submitted, Tim Murphy 17

NJ ENA Pediatric Chairperson Report May, 2011 On May 4 th I participated in a phone conference with Maureen Howard and other pediatric and trauma state chairpersons. The ENPC revision work team is working on the feedback they received from Leadership. There will be some limited testing of the test over the summer, and then additional testing at Annual Conference in Tampa. The rollout to instructors is still anticipated to begin in the 4 th quarter of 2011, but there is no update at this time as to how that will occur.. CATN The new ACEEN work team has been formed to work on updating the previous CATN II course. They will be meeting this summer. National has started to send out quarterly statements to course directors. There are more outstanding credits than there are those with balances. It was also mentioned that ENA is working towards an online system where course directors will be able to view all of their course related invoices, in addition to other functionality. An email was recently sent to all course directors directing them to the course directors only page of the web where they can find additional test versions for both ENPC and TNCC. State Chairs are asked to remind the course directors to access those before Friday May 13 th. Due to test security reasons, the tests will not be permanently kept on the web. I am reminding course directors to advise me and ENA if there has been a potential security breach of one or more test versions so that appropriate action can be taken. In December 2010, the first automatic emails were sent to State Chairs listing the courses in their state which were over 30 days old and no post course materials had yet been received by ENA. At that time, there were 183 courses with outstanding course materials. The most recent emails were sent April 16 th and there were 119 courses with outstanding materials, so we have made quite a bit of progress. Recently course directors received their first automatic emails listing their outstanding courses. Both State Chairs and course directors will receive those monthly emails on the 16 th of each month. Thank you for all of your assistance and I am glad to say we only had two in the past 6 months. Both of these courses were cancelled. Again, don t forget to notify ENA if your course is cancelled. The next State Trauma / Pediatric Conference call will be August 10, 2011 Respectfully submitted, Linda Curtis RN, CEN, CPEN 18

Membership Committee May 14, 2011 Total Membership (as of 5/14/11) 1736 Total Members (12/31/10) 1671 New Members (3/14/11 5/14/11) 64 New Members (1/1/11 5/14/11) 151 Expiring members We had a 100% renewal rate for members expiring in April. Forty nine (49) members were due to expire on April 30, and all are listed as current members on the most recent membership report from National. ED Managers/Educators List I am attempting to complete a current list of all the ED Nursing Directors/Managers/Educators for the state. If any member can forward the current information for their facility it would be appreciated. Key Contact List I am still attempting to recruit Key Contacts for each facility. Thank you to all who have volunteered. I am still working out the details, but if anyone is interested please contact me at Membership@NJENA.org. Respectfully Submitted, Jessica A. Trivett Jessica A. Trivett, RN, BSN, CEN, PCCN, EMT-B 19