Oncology Nursing Society

New York City Chapter

Board Meeting

Date of Meeting May 24, 2006 / Present: M. Schoen, Kristin Cawley, Geri Boyle, German Rodriguez, Maryellen O’Sullivan, Nancy Houlihan, Sarah Jones, Denise ‘Dea, Elizabeth Bilotti
Place of Meeting: 4th floor conference room
TOPICS / DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS / ACTIONS:
ONS National Information
Mentorship Weekend
ENLEC Oncology Course
2007 ONS Chapter Excellence Award
Travel Grants for ONS / July 21 to 23 I downtown Pittsburgh. A second representative can be paid for by the chapter.
Gerda Friedman and Debbie Semple have submitted applications for the program. The “End of Life Oncology Course” to take place at City of Hope in September.
The chapter will be applying for this. Denise O’Dea and Mary Schoen will be coordinating. The deadline is August 2nd.
We are having difficulty having members apply for the grants. We brainstormed was to try to increase application. / If you are interested please contact Mary.
We will definitely apply
We will discuss this with membership at the January meeting.
Membership Report (Geri) / Membership Total: 177 members, 163 have paid dues. Issues with the mass email accounts continue but are not as many. A separate email with be sent to those accounts we continue to have problem. We would like to reinstate the “ambassador program” and begin to think of ways to be more inclusive. / Members who have not renewed by ONS will be discontinued.

Programs Update (Kristen and Anne)

/ Programs for 2006
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1.  June 14th at Scalettas- Plastic Reconstruction after Cancer Surgery- Speaker- Nasrin Vaziri- Sponsor is Inamed
2.  September- Beverly Kirkhardt on Cancer Survivorship, Roche
3.  RRL Board room Nov 15th- Lois Almadrones the “Art of the
4.  November TBA- Sponsor Roche
Eli Lily has a grant application process for a Nurse Presentation which we will apply for.
A microphone will be purchase / Will update next meeting
Treasurer’s Report / Current Balance: $9908 / Will update next meeting
High School Outreach Program ( Mary Schoen and German) / Mary Pilissoph and German Rodriguez have given 2 programs that were very well received. There several schools programs are coming up. / Will update next meeting
Cervical Cancer project / Mary Schoen went to the Greater Harlem Nursing Home at the Bimonthly Black Nurses Association Meeting. Vivian Gates will be giving a presentation in July. / Will update next meeting
Virtual Community and Newsletter / German expresses frustration with the ONS formatting for the chapter web page. We will contact ONS.

Minutes: Maryellen O’Sullivan

Date: May 24, 2006