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.