California State Council

ENA State Council Meeting

May 12, 2017

Los Angeles, CA

08:00- 16:30PM

David Samuelson, RN, President

Kathy Van Dusen, RN, President-Elect

Janet Williams, RN, Immediate Past-President

Lou Buell, RN, Treasurer

Lindsay Lawless, RN, Treasurer-Elect

Linda Rosenberg, RN, Secretary

Susan Smith, RN, Director-at-Large

ENA'S VISION STATEMENT

ENA is indispensable to the global emergency nursing community.

ENA'S MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Emergency Nurses Association is to advocate for patient safety and excellence in emergency nursing practice.

State Council Meeting Minutes

May 12, 2017

Members present:See sign in sheets

Guests:ENA National President Elect Jeff Solheim

  1. Call to Order: 08:00
  2. Establish Quorum

Discussion/Summary:Adoption of agenda

Motion: Approval of minutes from March 9, 2017 (Sacramento)

Action: Motion passed unanimously with minor edits

  1. Presidents Report (David Samuelson)

Discussion/Summary: Remaining 2017 State Council Meetings

August 10-11 San Francisco State Council Marines Memorial

November 16-17 San DiegoEducational Event/ State Council Kona Kai Resort

Action: Motion carried; motion passed unanimously.

  1. Scholarships

Discussion/Summary: Deadline is May 31, 2017 to Secretary Linda Rosenberg. Awards will be announced at the August 11, 2017 State Council Meeting in San Francisco.

  1. Achievement Award Application

The Achievement award is due every January, this is a short timeline for the President Elect so an effort is being made to follow our strategic plan to meet many of the new criteria.

  1. Emergency Nurse Week Funds- New applications for the $300 reimbursement to Chapters available again this year, need an expense report & receipts from Chapters interested.
  1. State Officer Nominations – Applications due by 5/12/17
  1. National ENA “Day on the Hill”

Discussion/Summary: 3 people from CA ENA will attend this year. $1,000 will be reimbursed to the following members to attend this event: David Samuelson, Julie Paine, LynnFarizell

  1. Treasurer’s Report

Discussion/Summary:

State Checking $395.086.21

State Market Savings $ 28,583.26

State High Yield Savings $ 69,270.31

Total State $492,939.78

Chapter Checking $130,948.58

Chapter Savings $ 19,658.26

Total Chapter $150,606.84

**Chapter reminder to submit all “Financial Reports” online monthly

  1. Board Liaison Appointments: (Committee & Chapter)

David: Chapters: Superior & San Francisco Committee: Gov. Affairs

Kathy: Chapters: Orange Coast & Kern Committee: Leadership in Practice & Education

Janet: Chapters: Mid-Valley & MontereyCommittee: Pediatrics

Luella: Chapters: East Bay & Loma PrietaCommittee: Trauma

Linda- Chapters: Inland Empire & Channel IslandsCommittee: EMS

Susan: Chapters: San Diego & GLACommittee: Education

Lindsay: Chapters: SacramentoCommittee: IQSIP

Unfinished Business

Discussion: Foundation State Challenge- CA has $7,600.00 so far and is in 2nd place behind NJ

  1. Discussion: ENA 2020 Membership Challenge- Goal of National is 50,000 members by the 50 year anniversary of ENA. The membership goal for CA in 2017 is to reach 4,600.
  2. National Updates: Jeff Solheim, National President Elect
  • Financially ENA is doing well
  • Continues to try for a zero budget annually.
  • National office location- new director (Nancy) is forward thinking and looking to find a new location in Chicago.
  • IT has developed ability to download TNCC & ENPC cards
  • Membership is just under 43,000 now
  • Advantage program for advanced practice nursing had CE education online
  • “Conference live” is also available online
  • Lantern Award – application review ends May 30th then will be announced
  • “Day on the Hill” was very successful. Senators & Congressmen were very supportive of the Military going to hospitals to practice skills
  • State Leaders and Chapters will be in New Orleans in 2018 and the following 4 years are:

St Louis, MO, Pittsburgh, Austin Tx, Las Vegas, NV

  • Voting will be available at National Conference via Kiosks
  1. Committee Reports……………………………………………………………….15 minutes
  1. Bylaws/SOP’s: Bylaws are available online at
  2. Delegate/Gen Assembly (L. Hummel): Application is available online and deadline to submit is June 1, 2017. Delegates have to be registered by Sept. 12th, which is 10 days before the conference. Mandatory online training for all delegates. Handbook will be available online by July 15th. Each delegate will be responsible to review the 9 resolutions and bylaw changes before the General Assembly. The format for GA will be different this year. They will have ½ day Tuesday, full day on Wed to allow for discussions about the resolutions before the conference begins. This will allow registrants to the conference an opportunity to participate in discussions about the resolutions before voting begins.
  3. Education Committee: (Idman-Gervais): Plans continue for educational event at the Kona Kai in San Diego on November 16th. This year we are partnering with the San Diego Medical Society. They will be providing some excellent speakers. More information to follow in regards to registration an associated events. Remember if you are using the California ENA CE form, you must follow the SOP on the State Website.
  1. EMS (J. Scott):STEMI/STROKE have guidelines out for public comment which ends today. LEMSIS will control the “time” factors. EMT regs have passed and will go into effect July 1, 2017. The vial epinephrine issue will be controlled by LEMSIS and the majority of LEMSIS are against having EMT’s draw up from vials so hopefully it will not go into effect. Each LEMSIS is beginning training on auto injectors for public and off duty EMEMT revised regulations will take effect July 2017. While these regulations include drawing up epi from a vial, the local EMS may delete this activity from their scope of practice.
  2. State STEMI and State Stroke regulations are still under-going comments. The last comment period has ended. The present draft does not include and time lines. The time periods are under the local EMS jurisdiction.

No information on Core Measures.

DAG will meet following this State ENA meeting.

Old Business:

We need to follow legislation on Community paramedics.

New Business:

We need to follow membership for the State Trauma Committee.

Submitted by Susan Smith

  1. ENAF (Schertz): Collected $ 620.00 today
  2. Leadership in Practice (J. Rossie):Throughput discussion, surge protocols and all the issues that hospitals are faced with. Who is responsible for the “waiting room” and some hospitals use assessment nurses and color coding for triage in their lobbies. Talked about the deadly candida infection affecting the east coast (article provided). Discussion about stem cells being implanted and helps improve cell production. Discussion about Kaiser partnering with Target for “minute clinics” and easier access to minor care. Article about “block chain” reporting that can make electronic records more accessible to hospitals outside their system. “Medical Technicians” was a new job description that was discussed.
  1. ENPC/Pediatrics: Minutes from March 9, 2017, Approved No President Report No Course Ops update Unfinished Business: ENPC IC Sponsored April 21 was completed by Jan Fredrickson with 10 New IC Round Table Discussion regarding increasing ENPC courses throughout the State. More Courses are full, which is great. More instructor courses are increasing course options in areas struggling to meet demand of students. Next Meeting : No Pediatric Committee due to Chair unable to attend. Will resume Peds meeting in November. Submitted by Trez Gutierrez, RN,MSN,CEN,CPEN
  1. Government Affairs (Duke’s): The meeting was called to order today at 0915 by Al & Leslie Duke. The majority of the meeting focused on legislation working their way through both houses. There was interesting discussion on several bills and what affect each bill will have on patients, the emergency department and emergency nurses. The current watch list tops 23 bills with an additional 2 bills brought forward to the committee. The committee submitted a motion to move from a watch to support on AB 44 (Expedite workers comp in a declared disaster), AB 583 (Emergency Air Medical Transport Funding), and to oppose unless amended SB 746 (Student Health Physicals). The GAC committee referred two bills to the EMS committee for further discussion and recommendation as they pertain to Community Paramedicine. Cal ENA continues to support AB 909 (Emergency Response: Trauma Kits), which is scheduled for Assembly Appropriation Committee on May 17th. SB 20 (Seatbelt on charter bus requirement) has passed the Senate and is in the Assembly. Finally SB 799 (BRN Sunset legislation) set for hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 15th. Submitted by Al & Leslie Duke
  2. EMSA Commissioner (C. Snyder):“California Crisis care guidelines” EMSA is working with CDPH to acquire funding to develop a crisis care/scarce resources guidance document. Disaster Healthcare volunteers have over 22k volunteers’ registered Epi auto injector training; EMSA began accepting applications for training programs to provide training and certification for the admin of epi auto injectors to the general public and off duty EMS personnel. They have approved 8 training programs to date. They continue to review and revise paramedic regs and hope to present the revised regs to the Commissions in December. EMT regs-refer to official website for title 22 language. POLST e-registry guidelines are out, Stroke and Stemi guidelines keep moving forward. As of March, they were not following any legislation-nothing posted on website. Submitted by C. Snyder
  3. Trauma Committee: Talked about the changes, reminder to all course directors to review the website for new changes. TNCC instructor course Santa Barbara in October. Trauma courses listed . STOP the bleed program discussion, encouraged to check with your local LEMSIS to role out ways to collaborate. REBOA buzz, being used in some areas.
  1. IQCSP: CAL OSHA tips for survey; Pediatric Disaster Response by FEMA was 2 day course that is free. Handouts available for different courses available and they will come to your site. In disasters 25% of victims will be children under 12. Gave wonderful insight to improving hospital plans and community partnerships to provide for children in a disaster.
  2. Chapter Reports……………………………………………………………….5 minutes each
  3. Channel Islands #378:Chapter encompasses 3 counties and they are trying to get interest in involvement. There will be meetings in June & September , flyers will be going out to membership. will be taking over as Chapter President.
  4. East Bay #223: May 31st Oakland
  5. Greater LA #224: We had an excellent turnout for our May 17th chapter meeting at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse in Pasadena which was sponsored by Shire and included a presentation on treatment for a rare condition known as acquired hemophilia A. The presentation was interesting and the group seemed engaged by asking lots of intelligent questions. It was exciting to have in attendance an influx of members who are either new to the organization or have not been active for some time. They expressed interest in being delegates to this year's National Conference in St. Louis and curiosity about being part of the Board of Directors at the chapter level. it was a rousing success all the way around. We are working on the details for our homeless outreach event in August. One of our members has made contact with a group that offers an array of resources to this population and offered their services to help create a robust event. Through attendees' suggestions, we have plans for another sponsored meeting that includes a speaker on the topics of hospice, advanced directives, comfort care, and the legalities that surround this important topic. There was interest surrounding the scholarships that are available through the GLA Chapter and the State Council. We continue to move forward in our efforts to collaborate with the Los Angeles National Association of Hispanic Nurses. We are brainstorming about the creation of a joint scholarship and/or the best ways to join our efforts to benefit the members of both organizations. One May 8th, the GLA Chapter was represented at a recruitment event at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. The event centered around Advanced Certification Awareness and benefits. We had an opportunity to talk with a variety of nurses and students and hopefully raise awareness about the important work that the ENA does. During our chapter meeting, we reached out to many different hospitals, represented by attendees, to offer the GLA Chapter members to participate in recruitment events that may arise. It was a successful and delicious event. Submitted by Ruth Keniston
  1. Inland Empire #362:Since our last state meeting we are proud to have had 17 new members join our chapter. We are very pleased with that and are working on ways to increase attendance at meetings. Our plans for the next two months include a interview/resume building workshop for students about to graduate nursing school which will take place in June. We are also currently looking at the option of having a booth at our local market night to teach sidewalk CPR as an outreach to our local community. For future meetings we are working on the possibility of having one of the past presidents of the Mexico Emergency Nurses Organization come to a meeting to talk about emergency nursing in Mexico. We are still finalizing the details but hope it will peak interest in people who do not normally come out to meetings in order to hear about how ED nursing is done in other countries. Our overall goal is to draw people out with interesting topics and opportunities so we have an opportunity to share with them how important and beneficial it is to be a part of their professional organization. Submitted by Megan Duke
  2. Kern County #442: New return member and BOD announced. Putting together education for October. Agnes’s mother passed in Philippines...
  3. Monterey Bay #495:
  4. Loma Prieta #232: Loma Prieta Chapter is continuing to work to our goal of increasing membership at monthly meetings and at our Annual Update. We had a wonderful time at Paint Night in April!! You can see a picture of our masterpieces on our Facebook site. We have reservations for over 30 at our upcoming meeting in May. The topic is Ultrasound Guided IV Placement. Dinner will be hosted and the discussion will be following by an opportunity to practice! Our Annual Update will be held onOctober 12, 2017 from 08:00 AM– 4:00 PM. It will be a Journey through the Lifespan with topics on OB, Pediatrics, Street Drugs and Dementia. We look forward to seeing you there!! Submitted by Jan Andrea (Ogar).
  5. Mid-Valley #225:Planning a paint night and continue to recruit members.
  6. Orange Coast #226:Last meeting at Capital Grille went well. We raised $133.00 at our last meeting for the ENA Foundation. Our next meeting is June 22nd at Seasons 52 in Costa Mesa with a speaker featuring a blood culture collection device to prevent contamination. RSVP at . August 17th annual OCENA educational conference and meeting will be at CHOC- more information coming soon. Scholarship applications due June 10th- Gary Sparger scholarship $500 available to RN's looking to advance their degrees with a BSN or higher. NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Vicki Dippner-Robertson hardship scholarship $1000 available for those who are advancing their emergency nursing practice, used at awardees discretion, examples would be ENPC, TNCC, Conference registration, or student loan payments. Reaching out to chapter hospitals to attend staff meetings to present the benefits of ENA engagement. Summer Social being planned for a "Meet the board" and networking opportunity with OCENA. Submitted by Jillian Lee, RN
  7. Sacramento #253: Last meeting in April had a MD from Roseville presentation on pediatric patients with cardiac disease. Meet next May 17th with another speaker from CHP coming.
  1. San Diego #228: Our annual 911 Educational Event was a great success. Excellent speakers, food and vendors. A special thank you to Mercy Medical/Air Methods for sponsoring the delicious lunch. We appreciate your continued support of the Emergency Nurse's Association. In March, Kycentra sponsored a dinner/Educational event at Fleming's steak house downtown. The presentation was extremely well presented and informative. Recently we have had increased attendance at our meetings by student nurse's. Exciting to have them attend and we have shared the mission, benefits of being involved and being a Member of ENA.We hope to continue to see them in the future and get then engaged. A CEN review course will be presented at Palomar Medical Center May 2o and 21. Information for registration is on the California ENA website.
  1. San Francisco #230: Traumacon on June 12th is sold out (100 people). Planning for an October conference. Donated $500 toward state challenge.
  2. Superior #379- No report
  1. Round Table/ Adjourn: State BOD retreat developed CA ENA Strategic Plan and would like the chapters to send information of how you are meeting some of this criteria to Linda Rosenberg to be applied to our State Achievement Award application in 2018

Meeting Adjourned at 16:00pm

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