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ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING EDUCATORS Annual Members Meeting Thursday June 9, 2011 5:30 P.M. – 6:30P.M. Downtown Crowne Plaza Hotel Chicago, IL Item I. Welcome II. MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR DECEASED ACHNE MEMBERS III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Report & Discussion I. President Susan Swider convened the meeting and welcomed members. II. A moment of silence was observed for recently deceased ACHNE members.

IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF JUNE 11, 2009 ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING V. REPORTS OF OFFICERS, COMITTEE CHAIRS, TASK FORCES

IV. President Susan Swider reported that the minutes from the June 11, 2010 Annual Members meeting were approved by the Executive Council on February 3, 2011.

i. Membership Committee Kristine Warner

i. Membership- Outgoing Chairperson Kristine Warner recognized the incoming Chairperson Joann Smith and thanked the outgoing members who served on the Membership Committee. There are now only three states that do not have ACHNE members: Delaware, New Hampshire, South Dakota. Active membership is 332. New member meeting is tomorrow at 7:30 A.M.

ii. Vice- President/ Program Committee Connie Roush

ii. Vice President/Program Committee- Outgoing Program Committee Chairperson Connie Roush reported that there 189 registrants for this year’s Annual Institute (AI)I, compared to 212 last year (which was with ASTDN). There were a record number of abstracts this year (80) compared to last year (67): 46 presentations, 22 posters, and 8 student posters. Over 40 are registered for the preconference. Thank were expressed to committee members: Louise Miller and Jean Hill, Carolyn Mason, Brenda Young, Penny Weismuller, Angie Bushy, Maxine Nunez, as well as Marilyn O’Rourke who covered local arrangements and photography. There are 65 persons signed up for the social event cruise tomorrow evening.

iii. Secretary Rosemary Chaudry

iii. Secretary- There were 11 sign-ons since November 2010; 31 sign-ons recorded from June 10, 2010 through

III. The agenda was adopted without amendments.

V. REPORTS A. OFFICERS

June 9, 2011 (see attachment). Committee reports received to date, sign-on table, all minutes from 2010-2011

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through April 2010 posted to website. All documents recorded by Secretary (minutes, sign-ons, reports, etc.) will be forwarded to Archives at University of Pennsylvania by July 31, 2011. iv. Treasurer/ Finance Committee Pamela Levin

v. President-elect Angeline Bushy

B. COMMITTEE CHAIRS i. Archives Janna Dieckmann

ii. Awards Mary Ellen MitchellRosen iii. By-lawsCharlotte Armbruster iv. Communication Elizabeth Bicknell, Margaret Beaman

iv. Treasurer/Finance Committee- Treasurer Pamela Levin reported that the organization is in good financial health largely due to the success of the AI and fiscal prudence by the Board of Directors. We have approximately 12.5% more in cash reserves from this time last year Pam recognized and thanked the Finance Committee members Arlene Miller and Pam Scholmann. Work this year focused on an asset allocation study coordinated by Resource Center (RC). Based on the information from the study, Finance Committee recommended and EC approved a change in investment strategy that was to close the money market account and keep money in a short term account and $100,000 in a conservative model as recommended by Morgan, Stanley, Smith Barney. Finance Committee is working with the Membership Committee on procedures for donations to ACHNE. v. President-elect- Angie Bushy reported that her activities this year were participating in Program Committee, Executive Committee, Quad Council, and the Quad Council Strategic Planning meetings- all in preparation for assuming the job of present next year. President Susan Swider noted that all committees are seeking members except for Membership Committee, which is elected Angie Bushy called for committee reports. B. COMMITTEE CHAIRS REPORTS i. Archives Committee- Janna Dieckmann thanked members of the committee who are continuing on the committee. The committee continues to focus on gathering documents to preserve ACHNE’s presence and communicate with current members about ACHNE’s history. The committee will meet at the luncheon on Friday. Janna acknowledged Ruth Knollmueller who has the honor of being the only founding member who has been a continuous member of ACHNE, and she is still interested in ACHNE. Ruth shared with Janna that ACHNE began from a group of PHNs talking about advancing the profession. Ruth has been granted a lifetime membership. ii. Awards Committee- President Susan Swider reported that this is the second year for which there have not been awards. She is asking for members to contact Angie Bushy if they are interested in serving in this committee, especially given that this is the second year in a row that there has not been activity by this committee. iii. Bylaws Committee- Susan Swider recognized Charlotte Armbruster who has been working on the bylaws. A major revision has been done in the last year, and this year the Operations Manual was updated under Charlotte’s leadership. Sue solicited members for this committee. iv. Communications Committee- Liz Bicknell reported for herself and co-chair Margaret Beaman and thanked the members of the committee. The committee continues to work to promote communication among members through the listserv, newsletter (both electronic and hard copy formats, per member request) and website. Margaret Beaman is asking all presenters to provide her with a copy of their presentation for posting to the website. Liz thanked all members who participated in these

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communication venues. She solicited contributions for the newsletter from members, and she noted that the plan is to get the newsletter out in August. This year has been exciting for the Communications Committee with a combined meeting of Membership and Communication Committees, with generation of many ideas. One idea is to have ACHNE members on youtube talking about what ACHNE has done for public health nursing, public health, and why they are AHCNE members. There is a volunteer who will be developing a Facebook page for ACHNE. The Communications Committee is soliciting members. v. Education Barbara Little

vi. Finance Pamela Levin vii. Membership Krsitine Warner viii. Nominating Mary Hoke

ix. ProgramConnie Roush x. ResearchBarbara Polivka

VI. TASK FORCE REPORTS i. ASPHJanna Dieckmann ii. NACNS-

v. Education Committee- Co-Chair Pam Ark reported for the Education Committee, and noted that Barbara Little was not able to attend due to family obligations. This year’s AI presentation will include a roll-out of an innovative teaching strategy by Eileen Sarsfield, and the poster session will have a poster on submitting innovative strategies. Pam recognized committee members. The committee meets using Elluminate platform. The committee will meet tomorrow at lunch. vi. Finance Committee- Chairperson Pamela Levin invited members to join the Finance committee, and she will be available to meet with new members tomorrow. vii. Membership Committee- President Susan Swider reported on new members elected to Membership Committee: Chairperson Joann Smith from Howard university, Carol Gascap from University of Texas, Midwestern Member at Large Janice Edelstein from Marion University in Oshkosh, WI; Northern Member at Large Rosanna DeMarco form Boston University. viii. Nominating Committee- Outgoing Chairperson May Hoke thanked the current committee members and announced the newly elected Board members. New members of the Nominating Committee are: Carol Gaskamp from University of Texas and Geri Schmotzer from New Mexico State University. Motion made by Mary that the 2011 ballots be destroyed, motion seconded by Claudia Smith; motion approved. Mary reported that Cindy Hudson is the incoming chair of the Nominating Committee. Officers to be elected this coming year (2012) are president-elect, treasurer, international member at large, and three members of the Nominating Committee. ix. Program Committee- See above V. REPORTS OF OFFICERS ii. Vice-President/Program Chair. x. Research Committee- Barbara Polivka reported for the committee chair and co-chair, both of women were unable to attend. The preconference today was very successful. Two research grants were funded. Twelve proposals were submitted. Grants were awarded to Rosemary Chaudry, whose research addresses ACHNE research priority of workforce, and Christine Savage, whose work addresses the priority of outcomes among self-management of diabetes among homeless individuals. VI. TASK FORCE REPORTS i. ASPH- Janna Dieckmann reported that she, Derryl Block, and Sheila Leander represented ACHNE on the Association of Schools of Public Health workgroup that is developing recommendations for curricular elements for undergraduate students who are not majoring in public health. Delphi rounds will be done to identify the objectives for the curriculum. Implications

ACHNE Annual Members Meeting Minutes approved 6.10.2011 Naomi Ervin iii. ANA Scope and Standards of PHNPamela Kulbok VII. PRESIDENT’S REPORT Susan Swider

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for ACHNE is interdisciplinary collaboration ii. NACNS- Naomi Ervin reported that she and represented NACNS Task Force on the development of guidelines for CNS. She encouraged members to review these. Because the way the advanced practice RN consensus document reads has implications for PHN CNS, members should review the document and send comments. iii. ANA Scope and Standards of PHN- Pam Kulbok reported for the ANA convened a workgroup that includes membership from ACHNE, ASTDN, APHA (14 members); she is chair with Joy Reed as vice-chair. This work is for the standing 5-year revision of the PHN scope & standards. VII. PRESIDENT’S REPORT

i. Review of ACHNE accomplishments

ii. Recognition of outgoing officers iii. Recognition of management association iv. QUAD COUNCIL updateCompetencies, Strategic Plan

v. Plans for closing session

i. Review of ACHNE accomplishments- President Susan Swider reiterated the work that has been done to keep ACHNE involved in advocacy efforts to represent public health nursing and public health. Susan encouraged members to review the organization’s accomplishments this year, and that member should be aware of ACHNE’s involvement in these areas. ACHNE took the message of the need to look strategically at the practice of public health nursing to the Quad Council, and Angie Bushy is representing ACHNE on this task force. ACHNE is also represented on the Quad Council’s work on the PHN competencies, which are begin developed following the newly issued PH competencies. ACHNE representatives were also recommended for the preventive health advisory task force. She encouraged members to respond to calls for members to represent ACHNE, and if a member submits their name and is not selected they should not be discouraged and continue to nominate themselves. ii. Recognition of outgoing officers- Susan recognized outgoing officers vice President/Program Chair Connie Roush, Membership Chairperson Kristine Warner, Secretary Rosemary Chaudry, Member at Large Joan Kub, Midwestern Member at Large Mary Kay Anderson, Nominating Chair Mary Hoke. iii. Recognition of management association- Susan recognized Resource Center (RC) and particularly Kristi Klinke for the support that RC has provided. ACHNE is doing things now that were not possible without this support. Although there is an expense for RC services, their work does support ACHNE’s ability to do its work and to keep the workload on the members more manageable. iv. QUAD COUNCIL updateCompetencies: Susan reported that work continues on the Quad Council PHN competencies. A draft will be disseminated to members for their review and comment, and Susan encouraged members to send comments especially given the few comments that have been received to date. Strategic Plan: President-elect Angie Bushy represents ACHNE on the Quad Council’s Strategic Planning task force. Work is proceeding, and Angie provides updates to the EC.

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VIII. NEW BUSINESS

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v. Plans for closing session- Susan reported that The closing session will be on the impact of the IOM report as it relates to our specialty and also the MSN essentials that were recently released, further information on the Scope & Standards, and the advisory committee on health promotion that she is serving on, given the release of the national prevention strategy later this month. VIII. NEW BUSINESS- Susan reported that members might consider discussing the need for ACHNE to lead efforts to define publish health nursing as a population-based specialty and roles of public health nurses in population-based nursing. The EC will consider development of a task force to address this issue.

VII. ADJOURNMENT

VI. Motion to adjourn, seconded, approved. The midyear meeting will be at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in October 2011 in Washington DC. The meeting date and item has not yet been set. The next Annual Institute general membership meeting will be June 8, 2012 in Portland Oregon. Hotel venue and theme are to be determined.