North Dakota Action Coalition

North Dakota Action Coalition

Leadership group

Health Policy

Tuesday September 17, 2013

2:00 – 3:00 PM CDT

1.  Present-Introductions

Marianne Young Eagle, Alicia Hauff, Jo Ann Lindemann, Kallie Christianson, Chris Harsell

New members:

2.  Volunteer to take notes and send to Patricia for posting.

Jo Ann will take notes and turn into Patricia.

3.  Review of minutes—Alicia.

·  No updates or questions on the minutes.

4.  Status on recruitment of new members. Participants of the Leadership summit will also be asked if they would like to join.

·  Alicia spoke with Patricia and there is no specific number for the group. We can recruit more at the summit. Everyone is busy but they show interest.

·  Alicia contacted Commissioner Julie Fedorchak and left a message, still has not heard back from her.

·  Jan said Wanda Rose is considering group membership and role with us. She has other commitments also, will wait for her decision.

·  Jo Ann contacting Shirley Meyer, no response from Shirley. Jo Ann will see after her advisory meeting if there is anyone who would work for this position or someone new.

·  Alicia will contact Gwen Witzel, AANP Board member, for her expertise and possible membership.

5.  Review outcome of September 3rd full group meeting and the addition of this group’s ideas to a developmental framework (attached). It was decided to put together an online program that would be free, but participants could take an exam or submit a final project and a small fee to receive contact hours. Each group would develop a module/component of this online program. Plan to launch full program Fall, 2014.

·  Chris – sounds great

·  Alicia – excited to get to this point, now we can look at what we have and put it together. Our Focus group/participants are all nurses. They will have access to the website where they can start the program and complete it for a certificate. We need to teach nurses how to make contact with legislative members, how relationships are developed, and the importance of the nursing voice.

·  Chris – We need to give an introduction to why policy is important; we can identify the bigger or key issues, and list key points that we want them to be aware of. Use a PowerPoint presentation format. Alicia has information on what to use as a model from Carma Hansen. She has 2 PowerPoint’s that can be up loaded to the website. We need to ask Rodney about lobby days or visits and what we can do with this portion of the model.

·  How do we handle legislative visits? Chris – After they have completed the introduction they should meet with a legislative member or group to tie all the information together.

·  Marianne – I agree that we should do a module. We could make content teams and develop a PowerPoint; each team can add/develop the information that needs to be presented.

·  Jo Ann – we need to make sure and add advocacy to the process. If they do not know how to be an advocate it will make some of this process hard to tie all together.

·  We will discuss more after we get the results from our questions from the Summit

6.  Develop draft survey questions for participants of summit and for online survey tool regarding what online content they would be most interested in for this topic. Flesh out what components might be included in on online program. Data will be collected October 4th during the summit and an electronic survey link will be included in the October 15th enewsletter. Data will be available by the end of October.

·  Chris offered to make questions based on what we discussed.

·  Multiple choice questions, different aspects of what we have.

·  What skills or knowledge do you need most?

·  Alicia and Jo Ann will present initial ideas at the Summit.

·  Alicia how many questions do we need? 2-3 is what the group decided and what Patricia suggested, since all the other groups will also have questions.

These are the questions submitted for the survey

1.  How closely do you follow health-care related policy proposals?

2.  If asked by a colleague or friend for information about a healthcare-related policy initiative that is being considered by Congress or the state legislature, how confident are you that you could direct that person to where to find the information?

3.  How likely are you to contact an elected official to voice your concerns or your support of a health-care related policy?

4.  What information/education do you need to feel more confident with discussing healthcare-related policy?

5.  What information/education do you need to feel more confident with contacting elected officials?

7.  Plan next meeting, pick another monthly meeting time?

·  Jo Ann has conflict with the time due to clinicals on Tuesday for the rest of this year. Next year her clinical day will be Thursday so she is requesting a time change. We can keep Tuesdays but can we have a later time like 3:30 CST?

·  Marianne - Later afternoon is good

·  We will keep our meetings on the second Tuesday of every month and change the time to 3:30 pm CST.

·  Alicia – remember to sign up for the summit

Next meeting is October 8th, 2013 3:30-4:30 pm CST

Submitted by Jo Ann Lindemann