Strategic Plan
The Greater Portland Chapter of AACN
An annual operating plan is important to develop so that the chapter board and members know what the annual goals for the chapter are, and it provides a mechanism to regularly review the status of those goals. Chapters that develop and actively review their annual operating plan are much more successful than those chapters that do not have a plan.
Objective #1 / Educational GoalsActivity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Members Only Dinner / Kate Thompson
Karen Christianson / October 9/2013 / Location Bridgeport Brew Pub
Speaker Christine Schulman, topic; Creating Clinical Expertise. A presentation on professional development and leadership.
Max attendance 50.
2. / 40th Annual GPC-AACN Critical Care Symposium / Kimberly Kelly Co-Chair
Laura Vanderwerff
OSCCM Co-Chair / Nov 11 & 12, 2013 / 550-650 attendees, 50 vendors, 20 presentations, 25 poster presentations, Beacon Awards recognition with gift baskets for the award winning units during the year of 2013. Acknowledgment of the Nurse of the Year, the Lifetime Member award, and any Circle of Excellence award winners past.
3. / GPC-AACN Critical Care Consortium / Karen Godbole, Convener / Three sessions per year. Oct 21st-Nov 19th.
February 10-March 11 & July 21-Aug19 2014 / Six Day, CC educational program for novice critical care nurses cross-training into the critical care work environment. Approximate CEUS:
Committee meets the first Thursday of the month at the Kern at 1500.
4. / CCRN/PCCN Prep and Review Course / Kate Thompson / Jan 2014
June 2014 / Location, Speaker, Dates, CNEs, Advertisement
5. / Cardiovascular Prep and Review Course for Cardiac Medicine Certification / Kate/Tracey / TBD / TBD. This is new for us. We had a members request for a prep class. None are currently planned in the area. We will explore the time of year that would be beneficial for our members, and survey to see if there is a need for a recurrent course.
6. / Advanced Preceptor Conference / Mark Roady / Oct 2014,
Every other year offered conference / Committee meeting on the first Thursday of the month. Early stages of planning
7. / Educational needs assessment / Nov 2013 / Include questions regarding needs assessment within the Survey Monkey for the Symposium
OBJECTIVE #2: / Transition Planning
Activity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Recruitment activities to be included with each of our programs / Tracey Loudon , Makayla, everybody / Continuous, never completed! / Include recruitment information in the new letter at all or our educational session.
2. / Consortium Activities / Karen Godbole / Address at Consortium meetings / Continue to keep transition planning as an agenda item on our meetings.
3. / GPC Board / Tracey Loudon / Continuous / Maintain as a topic on each board meeting. Review current board position descriptions and update as appropriate. Last updated 2010. Will have on the January 2014 board meeting agenda
4. / Symposium / Symposium Chair, Kim Kelly / Continuous / Symposium chair for 2014 identified; Melissa Greig. Planning for 2014 begins in January 2014.
5. / Mentorship / Tracey Loudon / On-gong / Include in all board meetings updates. Each board member to address their current activities, include content on transition planning. Ensure that they are included in the processes to support a smooth transition at hand off each June/July.
OBJECTIVE #3: / Succession Planning
Activity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Review Board positions and Job descriptions / Tracey Loudon / Jan 2014 / Jan board meeting to include focus on recruitment for board members for 2014.
2. / Update Job descriptions / Tracey Loudon / Feb 2014 / Finalize updates
3. / Natural progression through board positions / Tracey Loudon / JAN 2014 / We need to check in with elect positions to see if they are interested in the next natural progression toward board position (e.g. treasure elect to treasurer, to president elect to president).
4. / Recruitment / All board members / On-going / Include recruitment actives in our entire educational program. Symposium syllabus messaging to include recruitment content
5. / Election for board positions / Karen Godbole / April 2014 / Begin working on Ballot in February/March
OBJECTIVE #4: / Professional Development and Leadership Development
Activity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Investigate the interest from members for a nursing school fair / Tracey Loudon / TBD This program will take some time to develop and coordinate a time that schools could participate. / Is there enough interest to invite Schools of nursing to a back to school night or program of some kind? We think wine and cheese might be a nice enticement to facilitate participation
Feasibility for on-line programs to participate. Local schools, etc.
ADN to BSN, BSN to MN/MS. DNP. Advanced Practice degrees; CNS, CRNA, NP.
2. / Symposium / Chair and All Board / Critical Care education, current trends and topic to support critical care nurses to provide evidence based practices and to be aware of changes in current practices and evidence to support those changes
3. / Certification; Currently, we support certification through our courses that we offer biannually / All / See Education objective #1 / Professional development
Empowering
4. / Certification recognition / Board / April (during nurses week) / Starbucks gift cards, thank you email message to all certified GPC members as a part of Meaningful recognitions for certified nurses
5. / Mentorship / Symposium Poster and podium presentation reviewer
Chris Schulman / Sept 2013 / Mentorship available for all nurses that submit a poster presentation to the Fall Symposium. All poster submissions are accepted. Mentors contact the lead author if some guidance might be useful for the author to make their result more clear, or if some data might support their conclusions etc. Budget neutral
6. / Leadership development / Tracey Loudon / Ongoing / Encourage three or more board members to attend the Leadership development workshop at NTI. President, President Elect, treasurer and treasure elect whenever possible.
7. / Merit Scholarships / Jennifer Eddy / Ongoing Quarterly report / GPC supports professional and Leadership development throughout the year with Merit scholarships to AACN and other educational conferences and programs.
OBJECTIVE #5: / Community Service
Activity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Sunshine Division food drive / Kim Kelly / Nov 12, 2013 / Yearly canned food drive
2. / Explore additional community service outlets for our board and membership / Tracey Loudon,
Jenny Cloud / February 2014 / We have participated in a variety of actives in the past. We need to identify two or more for this year 2013.
OBJECTIVE #6: / Website update and electronic registration for programs
Activity # / Activity / Lead Person / Date of Completion / Comments or Budget
1. / Jan 2014 readdress website design for updates / Makayla Cordoza / June 2014 / We need to discuss our goals for our website at the Jan board meeting. We understand our site is dated and does not have the functionality that we desire.
2. / Logo redesign / Makayla and Tracey / June 2014 / Dated with mixed fonts, time for an update
3. / On line registration / Makayla and Tracey / June 2014 / Review our requirement; seek new bids from three vendors.
Created and approved by the Chapter Board on November 2013
Chapter President: Tracey Loudon
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