CACCN – NS Meeting Minutes for October 14, 2016 from 1400-1450 hours
Present at the meeting:
Amber Eason (president), Ashley Mowat (vice-president), Robin Fraser (treasurer), Kara Evers (secretary)
- Role Clarity and Expectations:
-Ashley brought bank statements, credit cards, renewal for the post office box ($248.00, and the post office box key. Ashley will remain signing officer but will add Amber and Robin. She will contact BMO to arrange this.
-Amber will give each of us the email address and password for the NS chapter email.
-As secretary, Kara will update this website page.
-Amber will get a complete list of CCUs, ICUs, and IMCUs in NS and will contact CACCN to update the contact information on the NS page
- Succession Planning:
-In our 10-year history, not much has been done in the area of succession planning.
-We would like to review what other chapters have done in this area.
-There is currently a commitment time of 2 years which Amber suggested be made 3 years as this would allow for better mentorship with some overlap for training (issues with who holds title and who gets coupons for things like Dynamics TBD)
- Membership (Why join?):
-Only 7% of Critical Care Nurses are part of CACCN
-There are 120 active members in NS and only NS offers premium points for leadership
-Reason 1
- Practice premiums
- We can expedite education sessions for practice premiums
- We can consider using an app such as “Go to Meeting” whereby each chapter could be responsible for hosting one meeting
-Reason 2
- Social aspect
- Meet and greet for new members/ dinner & education sessions
-Reason 3
- Education
- Study groups for CCN licensing
- Montreal is willing to link us in to their study sessions
- Carla MacDonald of DGH would be willing to head up so NS study tutorials
-We would like to put a package/poster together that explains the benefits of joining to new members and start recruiting
- Education:
-We must offer a minimum of one education session per year – we would ideally like to have 2 sessions and talked about hosting the first one in Truro to showcase their unit sometime in January
-We must have our AGM before June 16, 2017
-October 19-November 4 is Critical Care Nurses Week – can we have a recruitment poster ready for presentation at this event?
- Communication:
-Can we use social media to recruit new members?
-We talked about visiting each of the ICUs to reach out/liaise with potential new members to increase membership
-We also spoke about the inclusion of IMCU nurses
-We discussed setting up Google Calendar for the four of us – Kara will look into this
-Ashley brought up using Zoom as a means of meeting – we will try this for our first meeting on November 1
-Paypal was suggested as an option for CACCN membership fees – Amber will follow-up
- Dynamics 2017
-The next Dynamics will be hosted in Toronto – going forward, only Halifax, Toronto and Calgary will be used as rotating sites for this conference
-CACCN is now only funding one nurse per unit
-Amber suggested using a silent auction to help fund nurses for the conference. She has a contact that she will speak with to get more information and to find out whether we could do a silent auction online
-Kara and Amber also brought up the idea of a payroll deduction (ie. $50/pay) as a means of funding nurses for the conference – the logistics of this need to be determined
Meeting adjourned at 1450hrs.