TRENDS:
September27 through 30th, 2016 / SePA of AACN
Education Commitee
August 8, 2016 @ 6pm
Center for Learning
1200 Howard Blvd. Suite 100
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Dial in # 712-775-7031
Mtg ID # 744-694-167
Host Pin # 6274 / Meeting Schedule for 2016:
  • February 9th
  • March 8th
  • April 12th
  • May 10th
  • June 14th
  • July 12th
  • August 9th
  • September 13th
  • October 11th
  • November 8th
  • December 13th

Attendance: See sign in sheet.

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Meeting Minutes/Action Items

Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes / Group / 5 min / To ensure accurate documentation. / Welcome Karen Ruffin who is a returning member and past member of the Education Council. She is the ANC at Memorial’s ICU who was just awarded Beacon.
Deb makes motion to approve.
Leslie 2nd.
December – Will invite members to the Behavorial Health Symposium.
Minutes have been posted to Nursing Network.
NEW Business
SePA Safety Story / Group / 5 min / Share a successful or inspiring story where a SePA Education committee member demonstrated support, educated, promoted, or advanced a nurse in their professional development. / Dot Malloy – Nemours /A.I. – was awarded their Gold Beacon Award. Send pic and will include in SePA notes.
Deb suggested that winner of Beacon awards could be announced at TRENDS as a way to recruit new members and nurse at TRENDS.
Evening Programs / Sam/Group / 10 min / Establish monthly occurrence, how and when to advertise. / Schedule evening programs on Wednesday and Thursday. For advertising we have Facebook and Nursing Network, but can we can also forwarded emails to educators. Create a list of educators so correspondances can be forwarded to them.
Boosting – free but can target specific populations for $20. This can be another option to consider to get advertisements out.
SACOR/Critical Care Course / Tania Hoyer / 10 min / Provide update on future SACOR classes and critical care course. / Tanya reported that Lourdes – Cotober, Doyelstown – November, Temple – January.
Most of agendas created. Advertising has begun. Lourdes and Doylestown will allow outside people for $150. Internal people $75. Doylestown is consider paper and pencil exam. Set up has to be 90 days ahead of time. 30 or more people you don’t have to pay. Proctor is needed and strict room seating. Remove cell phones etc…Less than 30 people, $375 to hold it.
Creating a new critical care course for 2017. Would include review courses, APN, pediatrics. ECCO is oferred but live training is also required. More advanced critical care such as advanced ECG interpretation. New to Practice Track as an option. More institutions are collaborating with medical societies. Perhaps have a track for TRENDS for New to Practice to try it out there. Now for 2018, do we consider having a break out course of New to Practice. Also consider having focused groups.
TRENDS SOP Update / Committee Chairs or chosen representative / 10 min / Committee chairs please be ready to provide update on SOP. / Kathy D emailed her report which included - Still waiting for a cost proposal from Crowne Plaza. I have a preliminary one from VFCC. Dates are different also, Crowne Plaza- 9/25-28, VFCC- 10/22-27.
Registration, Exhibitors will be working on.
Education Dinner / Group / 10 min / Establish goal of dinner, agenda, and how to budget the $2500.00 / We budgeted $2500 for education dinner. How do we want to spend it? Beacon Awards or rolling out new initiatives. Mentoring getting the Beacon Award. Consider poster abstracts. Education initives that you want to share. Healthy work environments, preceptor programs, best practice, initiation of shared governance.
Will need to come up with criteria for abstract proposal.
April or May of 2017 is open. Research is April and NTI is May. Do a round robin and give each participants 3 dots to place on their favorite posters.
SePA Jackets / Sue / 5 min / Ordering for SePA Jackets / List being passed around and orders being taken.
Education Meetings / Group / 5 min / Do we skip next meeting: September 13th, d/t TRENDS? Do we still need to meet monthly since we don’t cover TRENDS? / No education meeting for September. It is a mandatory volunteer meeting. Cindy Barnes is the chair for volunteers. Please send to Cindy your availability.