Friday, February 26, 2010

SNA Feb 22nd Meeting Minutes


SNA Meeting – February 22, 2010 Minutes


I. Meeting called to order at 1300 with all officers, Ana Hernandez (Advisor) and approximately 87 members present.


II. Phil Berghuis (President) welcomes everyone to the SNA Meeting, introduces officers and advisor.


III. Rebecca Yumoto moved to approve the minutes from February 1, 2010 SNA Meeting. Jody Sytten seconded the motion and the minutes are accepted via member vote without opposition.


IV. Old Business


A. Phil Berghuis reported on the ICC meeting.


a. Need volunteers to go to represent the club 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month and attend Club night. No one volunteered.


b. Need volunteers to represent the Club Rush this Friday in the Quad 9am- 11am.


V. New Business / Upcoming Events


A. Phil Berghuis announce there is a SNA sweatshirt sign up list going around. Sign up if interested in purchasing any SNA gear.


B. Jody Sytten and Susan Galyon announce the first community health committee project in collecting winter items (baby wipes, diapers, toilet paper, hand sanitizer) for the local Stockton Homeless Shelter from February 22 – March 22. Items can be dropped off in the nursing office.


C. Clair Giedt announced the first upcoming SNA fundraiser will be March 20th at Eddie’s Billiards 11am- 2pm. $30 person, kids 12 and under $5.


D. Motion moved by Phil Berghuis to nominate Monica Richardson for the ASBG scholarship. Jody Sytten accepted the motion to nominate Monica Richardson for scholarship. Anna Gonzales seconded the motion and via member vote without opposition.


VI. Speakers


A. Angela Aistrup, RN previous SJDC graduate student spoke about how important it is to be a SNA member and being involved with what is going on with the changes of nursing. She encouraged students to step up and take part in the fundraiser and community activates i.e. Toy Drive for Family Ties, the upcoming Winter Collection for the Stockton homeless shelter. She also spoke about attending the 2010 CNSA Annual Convention, October 15 – 17 in Ontario, California or to take part of one of your CNSA Committees. AJ ran strongly for COCR North at the last CNSA Convention in 2009. Anna Gonzales is currently involved with the CNSA Community Health Committee.


B. Katie Hagen, Deputy Director for Workforce Planning Development for California Corrections, spoke about in California they have about 33 institutions global. They have 170,000 prison inmates (continue rising daily), 65,000 employee’s, and 10,000 medical professionals. The prison will be built here in Stockton despite all the rumors. Right know they are going through some red tape with SJ County but it is being worked out. They are planning on building 3 faculties. One of the faculties will be for juvenile justice which will occupy about 1700 inmates. The second facility will be for 500 inmates who are going through the rehabilitation paroling process. The third facility will be for mental health which will hold about 11,000 inmates. They are looking for about 17,000 health care employees to staff just the Stockton prison facility. They need: 122 LVN’s, 440 RN’s and 446 Physic techs. The goal in breaking ground and build the building is in the late 2012, but they are looking at more like 2013-2014. It is going to take them about 12 months just to facility staff and orientation them before they can open the doors. Currently there are only 200 licensed Physic techs in the whole entire SJ County. So she is involved in talks with the SJDC nursing program into expanding their physic tech program. F.Y.I. Physic techs make $1,000 more than a LVN. She also mentioned that they are also in talks about possibly opening a clinical rotation in the prison facility that nursing students / physic techs can do their rotation in.


C. Fernando Reyes, RN Recruiter from Northern Workforce Planning Section Workforce Development, spoke about 5 reasons you belong on our team and how you can make a difference in a high risk population. He spoke about the dress code (no blue allowed), minimum job requirements, benefits and salary ranges (varies on institution). Physic techs ~ $4,700 - 4,814; LVN ~ $4,072 - $4,777; RN ~ $ 7,285 - $9,296. * Additional bonuses $ 1,000 - $ 1,500 are offered once you meet and complete the requirement. Fernando also encourages those not to give up and become proactive in their application process. He says that it can take up to several months before being hired. Once hired will undergo 4-6 weeks general orientation. Contact info: 1 (877) -793 - 4473 or 1 (209) 445-1016. E-mail: medcareers@cdcr.ca.gov or FernandoReyes@cdcr.ca.gov, Website: http://www.changingprisionhealthcare.org/.

VII. Meeting adjourned at 1440.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Change in location for the upcoming SNA meeting Monday!!

Hello Everyone,

Due to the overwhelming response we have had to the upcoming SNA meeting with Deputy Director for Workforce Development for California Corrections, Katie Hagen. We have changed the location venue to the Upper Danner Hall at 1pm -2:30pm.

So if you have not joined the SNA yet please do so. You apply on-line for instant membership into the National Student Nurses’ Association - NSNA at http://www.nsna.org. Take advantage of the many program rewards, services, benefits, scholarship, and letters of recommendation, product discounts, and most importantly leadership opportunities into being an NSNA member. So I encourage you all to join, plus it looks really good on your resume when applying for jobs. Once you have joined please print out membership ID number and e-mail a copy to our sectary Anna Gonzales at agonzales33@comcast.net and please include your delta student Id number also. We will see you all there!

Monday, February 15, 2010

SNA meeting is on Feb 22, 2010

Hello everyone,

I want to encourage you all to come out to our next Student Nursing Association (SNA) meeting, Monday February 22nd at 1:00pm to 2:30pm in Lock- 118 (skills lab). We're excited to have the Deputy Director for Workforce Development for California Corrections, Katie Hagen be our guest speaker. She will be discussing about the different job opportunities in correctional health care. Katie Hagen is the one who is in charge of recruiting for all health care positions in California Corrections. With all the talk about building the New State Correctional Health Hospital Facility here in Stockton off of Arch Rd. this would be a great opportunity to come by and say hello and ask about any burning questions that you might have about jobs in correctional health. Our Dean Hazel Hill, Delta College's Dean for Workforce and Economic Development will also be present at the upcoming meeting too.

So I would highly encourage you all who might be interested in hearing about future nursing opportunities in the Stockton area to come on by. Remember that lunch is served on us so please stop in and say hello. We will also be raffle off some prizes in the chance to win a free SNA gear. So stick around to the end to see who win’s. See you all there! If you have any question please free to e-mail me at agonzales33@comcast.net.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

SNA February Meeting Minutes


SNA Meeting – February 1, 2010 Minutes

I. Meeting called to order at 1300 with all officers, and approximately 34 members present. Ana Hernandez (Advisor) had to attend a curriculum meeting at the same time.

II. Phil Berghuis (President) welcomes everyone to the SNA Meeting, introduces officers and advisor.

III. Old Business

A. Phil Berghuis reported on the ICC meeting.
a. Need volunteers to go to represent the club 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Brooke Robertson said she will attend for second semester students. No one else volunteered.
B. Monica Richardson reported the Tea Party was successful – with approximately $545 raised, sold about 83 patches and 3 Sweatshirts.
C. Phil Berghuis talked about the pinning ceremony and how the SNA rewarded three leadership scholarships to Debbie O’Sullivan, Angela Aistrup and Sherri Schmidt.

IV. New Business

A. Phil Berghuis announce that Susan Galyon and Jody Sytten are the new Community Health Community Chair.
B. Motion moved by Jody Sytten to order more nursing patches (373). Rebecca Yumoto seconded the motion and via member vote without opposition.
C. Motion moved by Rebecca Yumoto to order more nursing sweatshirt jackets (20). Clair Giedt seconded the motion and via member vote without opposition.
D. Clair Giedt reported that she will contact CPK to see what kind of fundraiser they will offer. Clair also mentioned she would like to explore other options into place where we can do different fundraiser. Clair will give us an outcome report at next meeting in March.
E. Monica Richardson gave a treasury report on status of SNA funds. Funds in the account at this time is approximately $ 5,237.

F. Upcoming events:

a. Susan Galyon announce of some upcoming community health activates to participate in like: possible collect items for the homeless shelters, UOP Pacific Health Fair, volunteer at a local retirement and become a senior buddy, do a possible Spring cleaning of items to donate to a charity, volunteer in the Asparagus Festival under the First Aid tent and collect books for children shelter.

V. Speakers

A. Richard Meza, spoke on PDA products (Palm, HP-111, Ipod- touch) and what nursing software (Skyscape, Nursing Central, Unbond, Pepid) available. He also provides the students the web address to Skyscape where SJDC nursing students can get a 25% discount. Mr. Meza also mentioned that SJGH no longer allows nursing students to use and kind of Smartphone with a camera at their facility.
B. Ginger Manss R.N., MSN, APCN from St. Joseph’s Hospital had to cancel. We will reschedule her at a later time.
C. Dasiha Hicks, from Kaplan spoke about the different service and products that their company offers. She also mentioned that sessions will begin in March and it will contain all the new information regarding the upcoming NCLEX changes.

VI. Two Raffle Winners received SNA sweatshirt jackets.

VII. Meeting adjourned at 1440.