Grand Canyon State Chapter of ARNA

Grand Canyon State Chapter of ARNA BOD Attendees: Carolyn Bennett, Debbi Kirkpatrick, Deb McGinty, Pauline Lentowski, Bonita Jones, Theresa Murray, Vicki Chisholm August 5, 2006 plus conference attendees. 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM BGSMC Sandstone room

GCSC of ARNA business Meeting Carolyn Discussion: Carolyn started out meeting by introducing the new GCSC Board of Directors, and thanking everyone for their hard work. She gave a brief history on the chapter and how it has changed and grown over the last three years. New Board Members: Deb Kirkpatrick, President Theresa Murray, President-Elect Vicki Chisholm, Board Member Continuing: Carolyn Bennett, Past-President Kathy Hay, Board Member Deb McGinty, Treasurer Pauline Lentowski, Secretary Bonita Jones, Board Member Carolyn presented the new president, Deb Kirkpatrick with a gavel to welcome her as new incoming president. She also thanked Deb for her dedication since coming on board. Carolyn also mentioned how Bonita’s quilt did at the conference in Vegas. It had drawn in the highest and most bids. Congratulations Bo!!!, it was a beautiful quilt. Carolyn also mentioned that dues are due for the new year, and to encourage new membership, and any suggestions on how to entice or keep members are welcomed.

Conclusions: Suggestions needed for new on on-going membership. Person responsible: All of Board responsible. Dues are only $15.

Scholarship Debbi Kirkpatrick Discussion: Debbi presented Carolyn Bennett with a certificate (plaque to follow) for an annual scholarship for the CARN exam in Carolyn’s name. She spoke of Carolyn’s hard work to start the chapter and her continued dedication, congratulations Carolyn!!. Conclusions: The scholarship will officially start October of 2007 Action items: At the August board meeting, criteria will be discussed. Person responsible: To be discussed at the August 12 board meeting

Overview of ARNA conference in Las Vegas. Bonita Jones Discussion: Bonita presented a power point of the ARNA convention in Las Vegas. There were 600 participants at the 25th Anniversary of ARNA this year in Las Vegas. Arizona had the highest number of attendees, 23. High points of the conference, the CRN review and the workshops. Everyone is encouraged to attend next year in Seattle, where ARNA will re-join SIR again.

October Meeting Regulatory Sedation Guidelines Theresa Discussion: Theresa will be holding the October education meeting in Yuma, it will be on regulatory sedation guidelines. The meeting will be Saturday, October 28 from 12noon till 2pm. Directions to follow. Car pool information will be posted.

Treasurers Report Debra Discussion: Per Deb, there are now 64 current local GCSC members, and a few have been obtained from our WEB site. Welcome Pam ONeil and Alan Wright, new members from BGSMC, who signed up at today’s education meeting. Our Current balance is $1053.53. The account was changed from Wells Fargo to Washington Mutual. The Arizona Corp. papers have been the largest expense so far, that the chapter has. Need to find a way to remind those who have joined on the WEB, to pay their dues.

Open forum ALL Discussion: Debbi gave an update on the Web site, the bulletin board is still a work in progress. There is still trouble for members to get on the local and national web sites. Per Carolyn, there are changes occurring in the corporation that runs ARNA, and the new IT guy, John, will hopefully get set up new links and web site hosts. The board meeting is August 12, and scheduled for 4 hours, 9am to 1pm, at BGSMC in Bonita’s office. Topics: map our next year, bylaws, CEUs’ on the Web site. It was also discussed and will be addressed at the meeting about increasing the education meeting by 1 hour. This will bring up the education hours from 3 to 6. It was also suggested to continue to keep the education meetings free for members, but maybe charge a minimum fee of $5 for non members. At this education meeting we also had 5 US/Vascular technicians, who attended and enjoyed it. At this education meeting there were a total of 24 attendees. 18 are members. Our topic was Guidelines for PVC, the speaker was Dr. Harvey Wiener. The educational meeting was a success, the evaluations were all high.

Submitted by: Pauline Lentowski, Secretary