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SNA Chapter Bylaws

(Note: Areas of conformity are in BOLD print. These bolded areas must be in
your bylaws in order to be an NSNA chapter.)

ARTICLE I – NAME OF ORGANIZATION

Section 1.

The name of this organization shall be the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB), Student Nurses Association.

ARTICLE II - purpose and function

Section 1. Purpose

A. To assume responsibility for contributing to nursing education in order to provide for the highest quality of health care.

B. To provide programs representative of fundamental interests and concerns to nursing students.

C. To aid in the development of the whole person, including his/her professional role, his/her responsibility for health care of people in all walks of life.

Section 2. Function

A. To have direct input into standards of nursing education and influence the education process.

B. To influence health care, nursing education and practice through legislative activities as appropriate.

C. To promote and encourage participation in community affairs and activities towards health care and the resolution of related social issues.

D. To represent nursing students to the consumer, to institutions, and other organizations.

E. To promote and encourage students' participation in interdisciplinary activities.

F. To promote and encourage recruitment efforts, participation in student activities, and educational opportunities regardless of a person's race, color, creed, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, marital status, lifestyle, disability or economic status.

G. To promote and encourage collaborative relationships with nursing and health related organizations.

ARTICLE III - MEMBERS

Section 1. School Constituent

A. School constituent membership is composed of active or associate members who are members of the NSNA and the state association when one exists.

B. The UAB SNA shall be composed of at least 10 members from UAB or the total school enrollment if less than 10. There shall be only one chapter on this school campus.

C. For yearly recognition as a constituent, an officer of the UAB SNA shall submit annually the Official Application for NSNA Constituency Status which shall include the following areas of conformity: purpose and functions, membership, dues, and representation.

D. A constituent association that fails to comply with the bylaws and policies of NSNA shall have its status as a constituent revoked by a 2/3 vote of the Board of Directors, provided that written notice of the proposed revocation has been given at least two months prior to the vote and the constituent association is given an opportunity to be
heard.

E. UAB SNA is an entity separate and apart from NSNA and its administration of activities, with NSNA and Alabama Association of Nursing Students exercising
no supervision or control over these immediate daily and regular activities. NSNA and Alabama Association of Nursing Students have no liability for any loss, damages, or injuries sustained by third parties as a result of the negligence or acts of UAB SNA or the members thereof. In the event any legal proceedings are brought against NSNA and Alabama Association of Nursing Students, UAB SNA will indemnify and hold harmless the NSNA and Alabama Association of Nursing Students from any liability.

Section 2. Categories of Constituent Membership

Members of the constituent associations shall be:

A. Active members:

1. Students enrolled in state approved programs leading to licensure as a registered nurse.

2. Registered nurses enrolled in programs leading a baccalaureate degree with a major in nursing.

3. Active members shall have all the privileges of membership.

B. Associate members:

1. Prenursing students, including registered nurses, enrolled in college or university programs designed as preparation for entrance into a program leading to an associate degree, diploma or baccalaureate degree in nursing.

2. Associate members shall have all of the privileges of membership except the right to hold office as president or vice president at state and national levels.

C. Individual members:

Individual membership shall be open at the national level to any eligible student when membership in a constituent association is not available. Individual members shall have the privileges of membership as prescribed in NSNA bylaws.

D. Active and associate membership shall be renewable annually.

Section 3.

Active and associate NSNA membership may be extended six months beyond graduation from a student's program in nursing, providing membership was renewed while the student was enrolled in a nursing program.

ARTICLE IV – DUES

Section 1.

A. The Annual NSNA dues for active and associate members shall be $25 per member, plus $10 state and $10 school dues, payable for the appropriate dues year. The dues year for membership shall be a period of twelve consecutive months.

B. The school association board of directors shall have the authority to change membership dues.

C. National and state dues shall be payable directly to NSNA. NSNA shall remit to each state constituent the dues received on behalf of the constituent. NSNA shall not collect nor remit school chapter dues.

D. Any member who fails to pay current dues shall forfeit all privileges of membership. NSNA does not collect school chapter dues; this is the responsibility of the school chapter.

ARTICLE V. - Board of Directors

Section 1. Composition

A. The Board of Directors will consist of: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Projects Chairperson, and any other office the President appoints.

Section 2. Responsibilities

A. The Board of Directors shall be responsible for:

1. Transacting business of the association between membership meetings and shall report such transactions at the next regularly scheduled membership meeting.

2. Filling vacancies in any office by two-thirds majority vote of Board of Directors except the office of President.

3. Reviewing monetary disbursements, acquisitions and fund raising activities and shall be responsible for procuring persons for audit of all accounts on an annual basis.

Section 3. Quorum.

A quorum for the board meetings shall be the president, vice president, two other board members and one faculty advisory (if one is not present a full report of the meeting must be presented to the advisory by the secretary).

Section 4. Duties of the Board of Directors shall consist of:

A. President

1. Shall preside at all meetings of this association, appoint special committee as needed, perform all other duties pertaining to the office and represent this association in all matters to the local state nurses association, the local league for nursing, state nursing student association, National Student Nurses' Association, and other professional and student organizations.

2. Shall serve as chairperson of the Board of Directors

B. Vice President

1. Shall assume responsibility of the office of President in the event of the vacancy occurring in the office until the next regular election.

2. Shall preside at meetings in the absence of the President.

3. Shall assist the President as delegated and act as advisor to the President.

C. Secretary

1. Shall record and distribute the minutes of all meetings of this association as directed by the President.

2. Shall keep on file as a permanent record all reports, papers and documents submitted to the Secretary.

3. Refer to dully appointed committees the necessary records for the completion of business.

4. Forward minutes to the state nursing student association board as well as the names and addresses of all officers and committee chairpersons after their election or appointment.

5. Deliver to the newly elected Secretary all association papers.

D. Treasurer

1. Shall serve as chairperson of the budget/finance committee.

2. Submit financial reports to the membership as directed by President.

3. Prepare financial reports submitted at the monthly Board of Directors Meeting.

4. Keep a permanent record of all dues received from members and any other income and expenses.

5. Remit payment for approved debits according to the following:

a) Disbursement of Funds

1. Requests for disbursement of funds shall be made in writing to the Board of Directors.

2. Upon approval the treasurer will issue checks for those requests approved.

3. No funds will be disbursed without prior approval.

E. Projects Chairperson

1. Serves as chairperson of Projects committee.

2. Attend student activities council meetings.

3. Be accountable to the membership for notification of pending student activities.

Section 5. Absences

A. Members of the Board of Directors who have missed more than two regularly scheduled meetings of any current term year without prior notification to the Board of Directors and who offer no valid reason for such absences may be removed from office by a plurality vote of the current membership present at the next scheduled meeting. The officer in question will be notified in advance of the meeting.

B. An officer may also be removed from office by a plurality vote of the members of the Board of Directors present at a meeting called for that purpose if that officer is deemed negligent in the functions of that office as stated in these bylaws.

C. Prior notification of two weeks shall be given to the individual in question and a special Board of Directors meeting shall be held to review the circumstances.

ARTICLE VI - ELECTIONS

Section 1. Election of Board of Directors

A. Elections shall be held at the annual business meeting.

B. All elections shall be by secret ballot.

C. A plurality vote of the members present and entitled to vote and voting shall constitute an official election.

D. In the event of a tie, a revote shall be held.

E. All nominations shall be made from the floor.

ARTICLE VII - MEETINGS

Section 1. Membership Meetings

A. Meeting dates shall be set by a plurality vote of members present at each previous meeting.

B. Meeting location and time will be voted on a approved by a plurality vote of members present and voting at each previous meeting.

C. The President shall have the authority to convene a special meeting as such time as is deemed necessary and shall notify the general membership of such meeting, location, and time.

ARTICLE VIII - COMMITTEES

Section 1. Appointments

A. Committee chair appointments shall be made by the Board of Directors and shall be deemed standing committees unless otherwise stated at time of appointment.

B. Committee members shall be appointed by the committee chairperson or selected by the Board of Directors from a group of volunteers.

Section 2. Responsibility

A. All committees shall be responsible to the Board of Directors for reporting committee activities on a regular basis and shall, upon direction of the Board of Directors, report same to the general membership.

ARTICLE IX – DELEGATES

Section 1. Purpose and Function

A. To serve as spokesperson for this association at the annual state and national conventions.

B. Present to the state and national organizations all proposed resolutions or amendments to bylaws or policies proposed by this association.

C. Keep informed as to all current and proposed resolutions at the state and national levels and report information to this association's membership at regularly scheduled membership meetings.

D. Make available to members updates, explanations, and copies of current and proposed state and national resolutions.

Section 2. Qualification and Appointment

A. Any member maintaining a grade level of C or above, who is active in (school association) projects and is nominated by current membership at a regularly scheduled meeting is eligible to hold the position of delegate.

B. Appointment shall be for one (1) year and shall be made by nomination of those members eligible and voted on by the current membership eligible to vote and voting. The nominee receiving the majority of votes cast shall be awarded the position.

Section 3. Delegate Representation

A. School constituents:

1. UAB SNA, when recognized as an official NSNA constituent, shall be entitled to one voting delegate and alternate at the NSNA House of Delegates, and in addition, shall be entitled to one voting delegate and alternate for every 50 members.

2. The UAB SNA delegate(s) and alternate shall be a member(s) in good standing in the chapter and shall be selected and/or elected by members of the school chapter at a proper meeting according to chapter bylaws. The school association may designate an alternate delegate for each delegate by one of the following two mechanisms:

a) Selection and/or election by members of the school chapter according to chapter bylaws; or

b) Written authorization to the State Board of Directors
requesting them to appoint a member of the State Board to act as a state-appointed alternate for their school chapter.

1. School chapters shall approve the appointment.

2. The State Board of Directors shall verify that any state appointed alternate is a member in good standing of the NSNA a and the state association.

3. A school chapter must have a selected and/or elected delegate present at the NSNA Convention in order to have a state-appointed alternate seated in the House of Delegates.

4. All alternates, whether school selected or state-appointed, shall have the same privileges as an elected delegate when seated in the House.

3. The school association shall be entitled to delegates according to the number of members in good standing in NSNA. Delegates shall be computed on the basis of the number of members in each constituent as evidenced by the annual dues received by NSNA on a date eight weeks prior to the annual meeting.

ARTICLE X - AMENDMENTS

Amendments to the Bylaws may be made with a 2/3 vote of those present and voting at a membership
meeting provided that notice of proposed amendments has been sent to members at least four weeks prior to the meeting. Only proper amendments submitted in writing and carrying the proponent's signature will be considered.

ARTICLE XI - PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY

All meetings of this association shall be conducted according to the parliamentary law as set forth in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised where the rules apply and are not in conflict with these bylaws.

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February 2012

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Nursing
Student Nurses’ Association
Meeting Agenda
February 29, 2012

  • Call Meeting to Order
  • Treasury Report (Fran Newsom)
  • Report from Mrs. Kim Davey
    • Website Information
    • What can be done to make the website more student friendly
    • What do the students want/need from the website
    • UABSON now on LinkdIn
  • Report from President (Brittony Inverso) and Vice President (Staci Kaiser)
    • Welcome Sarah Gable, Ben Odom, and Eric Brown (AMNP Cohort and 1st semester Class Reps) to the SNA Board!
    • March is a busy month for SNA!
      • SNA Mock Interviews
        • Monday, March 26th from 1:00-4:00 in LRC 102
          • For AMNP, 4th, and 5th semesters
        • We have asked SON Faculty to act as Nurse Managers and conduct interviews
        • Students will sign up for a 30-minute time slots
        • Students are asked to wear what they would for real interview and to bring their resume
        • There are 50 slots… so space is limited!
        • "Sign-up sheet will be posted on Friday, March 9th at 0800 on SNA closet door!!
        • Students will meet outside of LRC 102 5-10 minutes before their interview slot and either Staci or myself will guide students to their interview location
      • American Red Cross Disaster Relief Training
        • Tuesday, March 27th in NB 1028 (Nursing Auditorium)
          • Two times to choose from: 8:00-11:00 OR 2:00-5:00
          • Students do not need to sign up to attend
          • It is free for those who wish to attend
          • Many instructors are offering extra credit for students, so check with your instructors to see if this applies to you!
      • “Day in the Life of a Nursing Student”
        • Wednesday, March 28th from 6:00-7:00 in HUC Alumni Hall Auditorium
        • All Pre-Nursing Students are invited to attend to learn more about nursing school
        • We will need 5-6 volunteers!
        • Zach- please make an announcement in your Anatomy class about this event J (I’ll email you some information that you can say)
      • SON Blood Drive
        • Thursday, March 29th from 7:00-5:00
        • Two locations: LRC 102 and mobile unit outside
        • We will need volunteers to work this event
        • Look out for a Doodle Poll to sign up for slots to volunteer
        • Each Board Member is asked to work a one-hour shift!
    • Fundraising Chair (Emily Gatto) and Associate Fundraising Chair (Rachel Jackson)
      • Thank you to those that helped out with the basketball concessions and selling flowers and the lamp or learning ceremony!
      • We over purchased flower bundles, but we broke even
        • Will order less next time
    • T-shirt Chair (Julie Baker) and Associate T-shirt Chair (Mandy Linford)
      • We sold 157 shirts!
        • Shirts should be ready for pick-up in two weeks
        • I will send out an email once the shirts are ready to pick up
        • Class Reps: we will give you your c
  • We will make a doodle poll for all the volunteer opportunities!!
    • Class reps make announcements!
      • Next shirt design:
        • Voted- yes

T-Shirt BackT-Shirt Front
6. Elections for new board members
            -check bylaws
            -send out information on each of the positions to the class reps
-Recommendation form from faculty and paragraph of interests needed for nomination
            -Email info to class reps
7. Beginning of April for General meeting
-Adam must find out a list of SNA members before the next general meeting
           

 

November 2011

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Nursing
Student Nurses’ Association
Meeting Agenda
November 29th, 2011

  • Call Meeting to Order
    • 4:02 meeting called to order
  • Treasury Report (Fran Newsom)
    • Read by Staci
    • Fran is at work
    • A lot of numbers
    • Talked to SGA about reimbursement about State and meeting refreshments
  • Report from President
    • Welcome Zachary Whiting
    • Hi Zach!!!! Welcome!
    • Pass around sheet for “What not to wear” etc for first semester coming up.....
    • *SNA Board Point System Tracker*
      • Starting next semester, SNA will use a point system to keep track of involvement of Board Members
        • It has been challenging and difficult to get SNA Board Members to participate in fundraisers, Board Meetings, Blood Drives, etc.
      • All activities will be given a designated amount of points
        • Amount of points is open to discussion
        • Activities that are important for attendance
          • Categories
            • Mandatory
            • Projects
              • Homecoming
              • Fundraising
              • Etc
      • Each Board Member must complete the amount of points provided
        • In order to be recognized as an SNA Board Member at the Senior Ceremony and in order to receive a Letter of Recommendation from Dr. Langston, you must complete the amount of points
        • Prizes will be awarded to the member with the most amount of points at the end of the semester
      • Needs to be done
      • So much easier on everyone to split the workload evenly
    • Communication
      • Over the past few weeks, there has been some miscommunication between classmates and SNA Board Members
      • Please be sure to make announcements to your peers about upcoming events, shirt sales, fundraising opportunities, etc.
        • If your semester has a Facebook Group, please post announcements on there
        • Even if you are not the Class Representative, feel free to make an announcement to your classmates (it’s not important who makes the announcement, just that it has been made and students are informed)
      • If you have an Associate Chair, please include them in any emails that you send regarding your position
        • Please utilize your Associate Chair
      • When you send an email relating to SNA, please cc Brittony, Staci, and Dr. Langston in the email
    • “A Day in the Life of a Nursing Student”
      • THANK YOU to those that were available to attend
      • We had a great turnout of Pre-Nursing students
        • Maybe like 40 pre-nursing
        • 3 or 4 AMNP students
          • He scared them
        • Zach’s feelings
          • It needs to be more organized
          • It was a little chaotic
      • Will be doing one next semester as well: Date TBA
        • Points possibly!
    • Holding people’s checks
      • We got to get better about that
      • We have to make a commitment to getting the money to the designated person and making a deposit every week
      • Make a list for who needs to receive what
        • Membership
          • Adam
        • Money
          • Fran
        • Etc.
    • NCLEX-athon Idea
      • Each semester will come up with a team (AMNP, 4th, 3rd, 1st, and Faculty)
      • Will discuss more during Board Meeting
        • Reserve a room
        • Prize, get people to participate
        • Jeopardy questions etc
          • Game templates for jeopardy
      • Go to different teachers and ask for extra points etc incentive for people to go and win!
        • Langston shot this down….
      • Trophy….
        • Display case
      • BTW everyone loved this…….
    • January BSN Orientation on January 6th
      • SNA Fashion Show @ 10:30-10:50
        • Will be the same as last time: we need people to dress appropriately and inappropriately for clinical, lab simulation, and class
      • Q&A Panel @ 11:10-11:40
      • Sign-up sheet will be passed around during Board Meeting
        • If unable to attend meeting and would like to participate, please email me (binverso@uab.edu) by December 15th.
  • Report from Chair Positions
    • Fundraising Chair (Emily Gatto) and Associate Fundraising (Rachel Hendon)
      • Basketball Concession Stand Dates
        • Reminder: Everyone is required to work one basketball game
        • Look out for emails from Emily to sign up for concessions
          • January 11th @ 7:00
          • February 1st @ 8:00
          • February 8th @ 7:00
          • February 18th @ 7:00
      • Brochure of possible fundraisers (will be passed around during meeting)
        • Papa John’s Discount Cards
          • This is what Emily liked…
        • 10% profit from various restaurants
        • Fund raising guide
      • Lamp of Learning Ceremony for Spring Semester
        • Date: TBA closer to time
        • We will be selling flower bundles, syringe pens, and badge reels
        • Yes we will be doing this
          • Yes we will be doing the flower bundles
          • We need more flower bundles
            • 15-20 maybe
      • Raffle tickets
        • Buy a NCLEX book and stethoscope for a prize etc
        • Pull the winner at the meetings
        • OR sell at Lamp of Learning, and must be present at ceremony to win
    • Projects Chair (Meg Pace) and Associate Projects (Kendall Allen)
      • Updated and revised Mentor Program Objectives
        • Please see attachment
        • Major kink
          • Mentors to sign up
            • PowerPoint presentation did not go over well
            • Keep it simple as possible
            • One party, introduce concept to mentors at the orientation as well as implement the three evaluations
            • Everything will take place during the one social!
              • Monday that school starts possibly
                • Ok we are going to have to look at the calendar b/c schedules are getting mixed up.
                • Tuesday is time-limited
              • Ideally Meg would like to have it before classes start however we have missed the deadline for inviting them
            • Most people that Kendal has talked to are more susceptible to having a meeting before the classes start.
            • Flyer to hand out this Friday
              • Black and white on a colored piece of paper
              • Get it to Mrs. Langston by Thursday
              • Email with interest is their RSVP
      • 3 Evaluation Tools for the Mentors and Mentees to complete
        • Please see attachment
        • What did you like, what did you not like, etc
    • T-shirt Chair (Julie Baker) and Associate T-shirt (Mandy Linford)
      • Final sale of Blaze design
      • Next T-shirt design
        • We want to repeat the Maya Angelo shirt and the other one that was sold on our first semester
        • “You save one person you are a hero, You save hundred people you are a nurse”
  • Any Additional Information J
Ended at 4:57!!!!!!     

 

September 2011

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Nursing
Student Nurses’ Association
Meeting Agenda
September 28, 2011

  • Call Meeting to Order @ 3:59
  • Report from Mrs. Stephanie Hamberger
    • Lamp of Learning Ceremony
      • Brittony did a great job!
      • Flower sales did great
    • Homecoming Activities
      • See attachment for Homecoming Week Activities
      • Request to join the SON’s Facebook Page: “SON Homecoming 2011”
        • Ms. Hamberger opened the Facebook group up for anyone to join from Sept. 22-26; and made Meg Pace and Brittony Inverso group administrators to add people to the group.
      • Banner painting will be Thursday, September 29 @ 4:00 and Friday, September 30 @ 2:00 at the park next to the SON Building
      • T-shirt & order form handed out to distribute to the rest of
        • One person / order form
        • Turn into Hamberger
        • Deadline is Oct. 5 Wed. by 12 noon
        • This should be worn on bldg decoration judgement day
  • Treasury Report (Fran Newsom-absent)
    • Current Balance (see attached)
  • Report from President (Brittony Inverso)
    • Blood Drive - last week
      • We collected 48 units of blood, 8 units shy of our goal due to bad weather
      • THANK YOU to everyone that donated and/or volunteered
      • Next Blood Drive will not be until next semester - March 27
    • Lamp of Learning Ceremony
      • Flower Fundraiser
        • Sold yellow and white “daisy-bundles” for $2 to the families and friends of the nursing students
          • Collected $152 to be deposited
        • THANK YOU to those that helped sell, purchase, and make the bundles
        • We plan to do this for the Spring Lamp of Learning Ceremony as well
    • Kaplan NCLEX Review
      • Was it helpful?
        • “Presentor was a little uncomfortable”
      • Mr. Chapman (Kaplan Rep) wants to have an NCLEX class here in December: would you all be interested?
        • ATI live review is already paid for & provided
        • If students request it, we want Kaplan or Hurst
        • Hurst is cheaper so we prefer them
    • “Day in the Life of a Nursing Student”
      • November 9th @ 5:00 in the Alumni Hall at the HUC
      • Will be held for all pre-nursing students that are interested to hear about Nursing School
        • What to expect, how to prepare, etc.
      • Would be great to have students from each semester
      • Would like 8-10 people to go
    • Fundraising Opportunity
      • Worldwide Book Drive
        • Promotes global literacy by donating gently used books to charitable organizations that focus on education and literacy
        • Worldwide Book Drive sends us marketing material and collection boxes that we place throughout NB
        • WBD will pay us $1 per usable text printed within the last 5 years
        • Possible they send packaging materials? Brittony will check on that & get back to us
  • Report from Vice President (Staci Kaiser)
    • General Board Meeting
      • October 26th @ 12:00-1:00 in LRC 102
      • Spread the word!
        • Flyers will be placed throughout NB
      • 4 Guest Speakers include: Representatives from DNP, MSN, CRNA, and PhD programs
        • Representatives will give information about the programs here at UAB, how to apply, what to expect, etc.
      • How does pizza sound to serve during meeting?
        • Sounds good
      • Brittony inquired about giving raffle prizes at the next meeting or possible shadowing experience. Langston isn’t sure
  • Chair Reports
    • T-shirt Chair (Julie Baker)
      • Blaze t-shirt design
        • Going on sale now
        • Order forms have bottom tear-off portion that will be the receipt
        • Deadline for Orders is Oct. 18
        • Summer will print out proofs & t-shirt order forms for the class reps
      • Final proof (see attachment)
      • Sweatshirt option for next t-shirt sale
      • Class t-shirt discussed
        • Hamberger clarified there is a separate committee for this
    • Associate T-shirt Chair (Mandy Linford)
      • Possible next t-shirt idea
        • “Save one life, you’re a hero. Save 100 lives, you’re a nurse.”
    • Fundraising Chair (Emily Gatto)
      • Concession stand dates
        • Still unknown b/c contact person is still on sick leave
        • Emily to e-mail later him later this week
      • Board Members are required to work one concession stand date
      • Sold all the flowers at Lamp of Learning
      • Clipboard order form in orientation packet for new BSN
    • Breakthrough the Nursing (Camellia Crear)
      • UAB Day
        • Activities Fair for high school students that will be enrolling at UAB the following fall
        • Great recruitment for SNA and Nursing Profession
      • Saturday, September 24th
      • Next date: Saturday, October 29th in Bartow Arena
        • Brittony will be on that.
    • Projects Chair (Meg Pace)
      • Dressing up for halloween for General Meeting on the Oct. 26th
        • Dean Harper 1/2 way approved, just need guidelines to get approved by her. Send to Langston by the end of next week.
      • Pink Day at UAB SON was Monday, September 26th
  • Any Additional Information J
    • For those that haven’t turned in position statements need to do so by Oct. 6th to Staci Kaiser.
  • Previously Mentioned Information
    • State Conference: October 21-22 in Auburn, AL
  • Meeting ajourned at 4:40

 

August 2011

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Nursing
Student Nurses’ Association
Meeting Agenda
August 31, 2001

 

  • Meeting called  to Order 4:06
  • Report from President/Overview of Meeting
    • Welcome Colleen Denver and Rachel Kummer
      • Newly elected First Semester Class Representatives
    • Kaplan NCLEX Review
      • Clint Chapman- Kaplan Representative
        • Met with Brittony 8/31/11 to find out where we would be for the NCLEX review and he said the meeting will be strictly NCLEX review, no sales pitch about Kaplan
      • Wednesday, September 14th at 12:00 in NB 1028 Auditorium
      • All 3rd semester, 4th semester, and AMNP students are welcome
      • Pizza will be provided, bring your own drinks
    • OrgSync presents Leadership Conference
      • State of Emergency Leading through a Crisis
      • Mayor Maddox of Tuscaloosa is keynote speaker
      • Saturday 9/17 @ 8:45-1:30, Free for UAB Students, applications due by 9/2
    • Community Service Project Opportunity
      • Boyd Brothers Communication Trucking company, - Driver appreciation week activities
      • Table from SON to provide health teaching, blood pressures
      • Date TBA, sometime in the Fall
      • Board declined because too much stuff going on in September (blood drive, race for a cure, and lamp of learning)
  • Reading of Minutes
  • Treasury Report (Fran Newsom)-
    • Current Balance
      • Please see attachment
    • Suggested Budget for State Conference

Suggested Budget Plan for Fall Convention 2011 (Auburn)
Accommodating 6 people

  • 1 night at Days Inn & Suites
    • 2 rooms with double beds = $361.36
    • Serve complimentary breakfast
    • About ½ mile away from conference
  • Registration Fee = $50.00
    • SNA pays for half at $25.00 = $150.00
  • Red Cross Fee = $5.00
    • SNA pays full $5.00 = $30.00

Maximum Total: $541.36

Notes:

  • The student would have to pay $25.00 for registration fee plus gas and meals.
  • This is just a suggestion and can be changed if felt necessary.
      • Vote on Proposed Suggested Budget
      • Biggest expense comes from going to conventions, we need to budget appropriately, so charging  $25 to the students is acceptable- Dr. Langston
  • Chair Reports
    • Vice President (Staci Kaiser)
      • General Board Meeting
        • Tuesday, October 25th
        • Guest Speakers include: Dr. Mary Pate (DNP Program), Dr. Erica Pryor (PhD Program), and Dr. Lygia Holcomb (MSN Program)
          • We are going to contact the CRNA director as well to see if she could come
          • Look into 10/26 at 12:15 bc that would be better for everyone
    • Projects Chair (Meg Pace)
      • Mentor Program 23 mentees, 28 mentors
        • Still accepting mentees
        • Still updating the program, bc AMNP program is starting a mentor program as well
        • Next semester (Spring 2012), the 5th semester students will not be mentors for the mentor program. Only the Spring 2012 4th semester students will be mentors because they will have gone through the same curriculum that the 1st semester students will be entering into.
      • Student Involvement in Pink October Activities
        • 3rd Annual Pink October Breast Cancer Awareness
        • Monday 9/26/11 8:00-12; people will be signing up and donating for the Race for the Cure
          • Need 2 volunteers to sign up to help
        • The actual race is 10/15 @ Linn Park
          • Deadline to join a group is 9/30, individual costs are $30 to run or you can “sleep in”
        • Next week we will receive posters and flyers to post and see if our class want to run, donate, or sign up to help
        • Ideas for SNA to participate
          • Baked goods, that are pink
          • Pink T-shirt
        • Link to Team information: http://ncalabama.info-komen.org/site/PageNavigator/BHM_Teams.html
      • Lamp of Learning
        • 9/20 Tuesday
        • Fundraiser Idea- Sell flowers (daisies) to family to give to their 1st semester student
        • Everyone liked this idea.  Dr. Langston and Ms. Hamburger said yes!
        • Dr. Langston also suggested selling T-shirts at the LoL ceremony
        • First we need to know roughly how many flowers we expect to sell. Then, someone will need to contact a few different florist shops in Birmingham and find out how much they would charge us (UAB SNA non-profit student organization) per bundle of daisies and would they be able to at wholesale + shipping, and what that amount would be. Compare those, then look at Sam’s Choice online bulk flowers and compare that to the lowest price. Sam’s delivers directly and may be cheaper. Anyone interested in taking this on, please contact Brittony or Staci.
      • Histology Classes have a bone marrow registry
        • Meg passed out Take the first Step pamphlets for an option of something we might like to participate in
        • Cheek swab, classes in Atlanta- to learn how
        • Does SNA want to participate
        • General consensus was – No
      • “Fall” Events
        • People want to wear costumes to campus for “Fall”
        • Wednesday before Halloween 10/26
        • Same as proposed day for general meeting so we could potentially make the theme “Fall”
        • Dr. Langston says it must be approved by student affairs first
        • Hold on this for now, Dr. Langston and Ms. Hamburger are going to look into it
    • T-shirt Chair (Julie Baker)
      • New t-shirt design
        • T-shirt is approved
        • Need a better system for giving shirts to students because students are saying they bought shirts when they did not.
        • Suggestion: Class reps make a personal list of who ordered shirts
        • Discussed what people did and did not like about the new shirt
        • Shirt will be adjusted and emailed out for voting
      • Susan G Komen Race for the Cure
        • October 15th
        • Shirt ideas please email to Julie
    • Fundraising Chair (Emily Gatto)
      • Concession Stand Dates
        • Don’t know dates yet, but will know soon and Emily will email sign-up sheet
      • Board Members are required to work ONE concession stand date
    • Breakthrough to Nursing (Camellia Crear)
      • Student Involvement Information
        • HUC has great event resources
          • Rm 136 is where you find event planning information
          • 2 weeks in advance to reserve Banner room
          • Catering service is available
          • Event security available
  • Previously Mentioned Information
    • State Conference: October 21-22 in Auburn, AL
      • Those attending: Erin Broderick, Meg Pace, Julie Baker, LoriJean Maney, Staci Kaiser, and Brittony Inverso
      • Projects and awards are going to be worked on by Brittony and Erin
      • Pre-registration ends September 20th to attend State Conference and Pre-slate packets due September 22nd to run for position
    • Fall Blood Drive
      • September 20th in NUR 1027 and outside mobile unit from 8:00-3:00
      • Blood Drive set up starts at 6:30
      • Sign-up sheet will be emailed, we need lots of volunteers
      • 6 inside per shift, 2 in mobile unit per shift
      • Flyers for date and how to make appointments, and emails will be ready next week
    • NSNA Imprint! Article
      • Submitted for magazine
      • See below for article written by Erin Broderick
    • SNA Display Board
      • Let’s try to have it updated by September 15th J
  • Closing Statements
    • Staci Kaiser
      • If you are on the board, and want to be more active in your position, please take the time to initiate, invent, and lend a hand for an activity. As you can see, we have several different projects, fundraisers, and service opportunities that we need people to step up, take initiative, and assume some responsibility. I'm sure some of you took this position because a friend asked you, or because you knew it would look good on your resume, and that's great and it will, but there is something that separates you from the rest of your class. Initiative. Follow through with your position and help us to make this SNA a student organization worth joining, participating, and fun to be a part of. If you come to these meetings every month and leave each time thinking, "man, this is such a waste of my time" then it's time to realize that by having a position on this board it is your obligation to bring to this meeting ideas that YOU think are more relevant and bring to the table what is worth YOUR time. That is why you are really here. As much as we all love our friends, and need that extra line on our resume, every single one of us in this room is here because we are willing to go the extra mile to do what it takes to make us better students and thus better nurses. This year we would like to expand our SNA Bylaws under the Board Members Section. Most of the positions are not well defined. this means we need you to create and define your position. Meaning, what do you think you need to be doing for your position, how would you define it, and what could be added to make it better? Now that we all know our schedules it is time for you guys to start communicating with us what you have coming up and be more accountable for your position. So when your future employer reads your resume and asks oh I see you were on the SNA board, what did you accomplish during that time? You will able to give a worthwhile answer. You are only going to get out of this what you put into it. Please feel free at any time to contact Brittony or myself if you have an idea or would like to help out. I promise we can come up with something that you can and would enjoy doing. Please send us an email by 9/15 about your plans for the board and your position, the sooner the better. 
      • Emails should be sent to Brittony (binverso@uab.edu)  and Staci (skaiser@uab.edu) by 9/15
        • Define, create,  and add to your position
        • Your plans for SNA this semester/year
  • Homecoming- Mrs. Hamburger
    • Meetings are about to start
    • 1st one is in NUR 1025 @ 4 on Wednesday 9/7/11
    • If you want a say in what SON does for homecoming, you need to be at the first few meetings for sure!
    • SNA need to be in attendance.
  • Meeting adjourned at 5:04

 

 

March 30, 2011

UAB SNA General Meeting
March 30, 2011

  • 12:00 Meeting called to order by President Billy Alexander and introduction of St. Vincent’s Nursing Recruiter Katie Fogg

  • 12:02 Katie Fogg speaks to SNA members about the Student Nurse Internship program at St. Vincent’s, which is for currently enrolled students, excluding those about to graduate. Also spoke to upcoming graduates about job openings at all St. Vincent’s locations.
    For more information, contact Katie Fogg at katie.fogg@stvhs.com or 205-939-7296

  • 12:27 Thanked Katie for speaking at the meeting and announced for members to get refreshments

  • 12:35 Began handing out ballots for election of the new SNA board

  • 12:40 President and Vice President-elect speeches given for those present

  • 12:45 Votes casted on paper ballot

  • 12:47 Announcements made regarding SON Spring Fling on April 4 at 4:30 pm at Dowdy Field, The upcoming ending of the Haiti project, and the need for 2 SGA Representatives

  • 12:50 Meeting adjourned

**If you would like to run for any of the open positions on the SNA board for the 2011-2012 school year, please contact Billy Alexander at bla35950@uab.edu

 

February 23, 2011

Meeting Called to order at 4:34PM

Treasury report

Minutes Motioned to be accepted from last meeting - Minutes accepted

Chair Reports/Old Business

Daniel - applying for Haiti award, sent resolution award, spirit of nursing award, and website award

Brittany - website is up and running! Check it out! Contact Brittany if you have any input. I will talk to Matthew about using our pictures from our picture id instead of our scrubs.

Jane - thanks to everyone who volunteered for the basketball concessions. We are about done for fundraising, except for our cord sales. A summary will be compiled for goals for fundraising in the future.

Amanda - please e-mail me any SNA pictures you have and all board members please send a picture of yourself to go into the scrapbook.

Sarah - we just finished our t-shirt sale and they should arrive next week or the week after once they are sorted. 144 shirts were ordered. Shirts were a little more expensive than before since we did not order as many. The total cost was 1815.10 with profit of about 730. New t-shirt ideas are nursing care plan, master card type, top ten nursing diagnoses, and/or a really long nursing diagnosis. The shirts will say class of 2011. Sarah will narrow down the t-shirt idea and e-mail pictures so we can vote. Jody sent a new nurse intern program at St. Vincent’s (Katie fog - nurse recruiter) they want people who are graduating in august or after. She would like to talk about the intern program and applying for jobs at one of our general meetings. It seems to be similar to a shadowing program and allows you gain experience in different areas of the hospital.

Billy - next general meeting will be in March and in April. March 23rd 12-1pm for the next general meeting. Pizza will be provided. We are now sponsored by USGA and they will begin to sponsor the next board and provide lunch for the meetings.

Stacy Keiser is appointed as publications associate chair
Emily Gado is appointed as associate disaster relief char

Chelsea - organized a blood drive on March 23rd (combination between us and the Red Cross)

Emily Walker - table and activities chair on March 18th - needs volunteers

New Business

Billy - we will need to request an increase for our budget due to conference travel fees and expenses for awards

Krista - motions to increase budget by 250 and the new budget is set at 3250 for the national conference - Motion approved and accepted

Jane - proposes for SNA to help out with Relay for Life this year; if you are interested in working a table please contact her!

Billy or Daniel will be visiting the different semester classes in the near future to provide more information about SNA.

Meeting adjourned at 5:03PM

 

 

January 18, 2011

SNA meeting January 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm room 501

Meeting called to order at 4:35pm by President Billy Alexander.

Chair Reports

Treasury: Oct-Nov Balance brought forward $2862.94. Nov-Jan balance brought forward $2306.86. Sarah motioned to accept, Jane seconded. Passed.

Fundraising: We sold 88 clipboards and they will be passed out this week. There is a graduation cord for the NSNA that is blue and white. These have to be ordered in bulk. They will sell those at Senior day and they will sale for $15/each. Concessions for the Memphis Game are going on Saturday on Jan. 22. Jane will email those working by Thursday. Class reps will announce to the classes to see if we can get more volunteers to work the concession stand.

Breakthrough to Nursing: Emily Walker is planning something at Hueytown HS for recruitment in March. Breakthrough to Nursing is a recruitment effort geared at minority HS students.

Billy ordered pamphlets, brochures, and posters from Johnson & Johnson for free to help advertise nursing as a career.

Projects Chair: Trent thanked everyone who worked at blood pressure screenings. We are still working on the international project with Honduras. Trent is thinking about doing another project for this spring semester. He is thinking about possibly doing a blood drive. Chelsea Coleman suggested. We could get a bus to come and the Nursing students could gather medical history but there would be other trained persons performing the phlebotomy.

Billy introduced our new Disaster Relief Chair Ms. Chelsea Coleman. He described the duties of her position. Chelsea would like to work with the American Red Cross to get them to provide a Disaster Relief course. She has also spoken with Habitat for Humanity to work on a project. She is receptive to new ideas. There will be an email to be sent to all nursing students about the American Red Cross Club.

Tshirt: Sarah will start off this semester selling the "Nurses Care" shirts. These shirts will go on sale on January 19 and will end February 2. The shirt has approval already. Sarah will email the class reps with her and Billy's information so class reps can get in touch with her. We would like to offer a new shirt. We will be doing a Senior Shirt. We are taking design ideas for both a senior shirt and another general shirt idea as well. We will take in ideas for shirts so we can begin the approval process ASAP. Anyone is welcome to submit ideas.

Membership: EANS students have contacted Amy concerning membership for SNA. We have elected first semester class reps and they will be present for the February meeting. Ms. Stephanie Hamburger will highlight students on the new SON website. She would like for us to submit student activities. Please send pictures and an article. She will provide photo release forms if we go to schools.

Publications: Brittany Johnson still needs everyone's bio. Please send in a bio and a picture by Thursday. We need to decide if we want individual pictures from our ID badges or take a group picture. Everyone's picture must be similar to one another. Everyone needs to resend her a headshot.

Daniel has been working on awards for conference. Four awards look promising, and he and Billy are working on another one. There are also two group awards. There is a new Global Outreach award that they will apply for what we did in Haiti. We are also submitting another award related to Diabetes. For the legislation award, you have to select an issue that you feel strongly about and that more nurses should be aware of. There will also be a scrapbook award that will apply for. Please submit all fun nursing school pictures to Amanda Medved.

Conference: We have $3,500. We have to keep $500 in our account at all times. We have $3000 to spend on conference. Last year's board overspent and we are trying to avoid that this year. Billy's goal is to leave the SNA board with more money that what we were left when we took over in June 2010. Daniel has been looking up hotels and air tickets. We can get four people on our budget. Airline tickets need to be bought today. We will have a post conference to discuss conference issues. We will set a budget at $3000 for conference.

Sarah motioned and Jane seconded to set the conference budget at $3000. Motion carried, with stipulation if there is an increase, it will be brought forward to the board at the next meeting. Billy and Daniel will be attending the conference. Brittany Borso is the third person going. A vote for the fourth member was taken and Jane said that she would be content with paying her own fare. If more money becomes available in the budget, Jane possibly could be supplemented. Anyone else that wants to go will have to fund the trip themselves. Registration is $120. SNA will pay $100 and the other $20 is optional due to it being the fee for the NCLEX review. Dr. Langston budgeted the trip at $2700. Ms. Hamberger will try to help supplement the trip from Student affairs. Last year, Student affairs helped with airfare. We provide student affairs with a budget and they will work with us on how they will help supplement the trip. One person that travels to the conference must have authorization to spend the money. Sarah motion that Billy be authorized to spend budget money while at conference. Jane seconded. Motion Carried.

Billy discussed the transition of new officers. Everyone will become interim by April to help transition the old officers out and the new officers in.

Meeting adjourned at 5:40

 

 

October 27, 2010

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Nursing
Student Nurses’ Association Meeting
Minutes
October 27, 2010

Call Meeting to Order at 5:04pm by Billy Alexander, President

Minutes from September meeting were approved by majority vote

Chair Reports

Treasury Report: Balance brought forward was $5510.14 Treasury report approved by majority report.

VP: won award from State SNA. Founders Day for Sigma Theta Tau on November 8 from 3-4:30

Historian: no report

Publications: still emailing webmaster waiting for response. Everyone should send Brittany and Amanda a picture and bio of themselves for the newsletter by Wednesday, November 3

Fundraising: Basketball Concessions will let us know by the end of next week about us working a game to raise money. Training will be in Nov. Those dates will be emailed at a later date. We will start selling clipboards

T-Shirt: (For class Reps) Please set up a time with the T-shirt chair to meet with her to turn in the applications. Homecoming T-shirts are in.

Projects: Honduras needs wigs and breast prosthetics. Trent will email the list of items needed. The project will end by April 1, 2011. Trent also needs volunteers to operate the Blazer Village and conduct BP screenings from 11-3. Volunteers will need to bring their own BP cuff and stethoscope. We will aim to supply 5-10 people. We also need two females for the softball team.

Memberships: Amy has been emailing all of the new members and we have a record of 115 members. She’s trying to think of new ways to recruit members.

Class Reps: no report

Advisors: Sarah has worked hard on the T-shirts and KUDOS to her!!! People were carrying a lot of money around with t-shirt orders and also be sure to record which semester they are in.

New Business:

  1. Homecoming Ideas- Everyone wear the HOMECOMING TSHIRT ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2010 at 11:30. That is also the day the Nursing building will be judged. We need people to help decorate the float and please see Stephanie to see what needs be done, Etc.
    1. Building Decoration- Fashion design, use big front to advantage, have corral set up branding with stamp, cheering and shaking streamers, buffalo burgers, etc.
    2. Float- Trailer and truck, Friday want the float delivered sat to legion field for game.
    3. Trent- donating his truck for SNA to ride on in the HC Parade on Fri, Nov 5. Decoration for it. We need people to ride in the float and bring candy. We will decorate at 0900 before the parade. The parade starts at 1030. There will be a pizza party following the parade.
    4. Door decorations please help decorate the door this Friday Oct. 29 at 9am! It’s the door near the student lounge.
    5. Saturday Blazervillage 11-1 on November 6, 2010 (bp check, candy, need sna, etc)
    6. Gurney Derby Race on Wednesday at 12. The SNA would like to have a team and nursing Brandon Young, Drew Hornsby, Kaci Weaver, Sarah Carlson, Billy Alexander, Sara Riggs. Blazing to win is from 3pm-5pm for the FYE students.
    7. Nov 4, Thursday there will be a Chilli cookoff and SNA are requested to be judges. SNA will sponsor a cake.
    8. There will be a Softball game Nov 5 featuring the SON
    9. There will also be a fashion show to accompany the door decorations featuring some of the SON faculty.
  2. Associate Chair person/assistance for come of the chairs
  3. BJ-Put together email about all SNA HC events, shirts, joining, facebook, etc to recruit volunteers.
  4. Website update.
  5. Next General meeting will be November 17. We will try to have a speaker, possibly a psych nurse and a CRNA. Daniel and  BJ will work on Email and flyer. Amy will try to get some NCLEX review books, bags, and a cook-book as door prizes. Sarah suggested having nursing recruiters come in at the General meeting to speak about interviewing, resume, and other issues pertinent for seeking employment. A T-shirt slogan brought forth was “What Happens in the Hospital Stays in the Hospital. HIPPA.” Next Tshirt sale will take place in January/February when the next cohort begins their first semester.
  6. Awards- For nationals Daniel and Amanda will work on something that they will present. It should be something very endearing to the majority. Everyone should submit stuff for the conventions in binders, and sheet protectors to increase our odds at winning.
  7. Disaster relief chair will be added per state. Some chairs requested assistants so that we can train some of the younger students. Most of the board will be graduating very soon and people need to be trained for these positions. We will recruit from the Fall 2010 and the Spring 2011 classes to fill these assistant positions. Sarah motioned to add assistant chairs for fundraising, t-shirts, and projects. Daniel Seconded. Motion Carried. Brittany (First Semester) was appointed as Asst. Project Chair and received majority vote. Motion Carried. Amy and Brittany will nominate people in the first semester to fill in class. This will help the transition of officers when the next election occur.
  8. UAH makes their own lab bags. The SNA will try to help in making the lab bags for a percentage of the proceeds. Daniel will aid in that. We will also have a big brother/sister program where we pair up a senior student with a new admit. The board will pair up with students first. We also have leadership awards from the last graduating class. Daniel will frame and mail them.
  • Announcements Emily Worthy’s birthday is October 31 and Sarah’s is November 1.
  • Meeting Adjourned at 6:03pm

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    July 27, 2010

    Minutes from SNA Meeting on July 27, 2010

    4:59 President calls meeting to order. Roll call follows. Emily Hogan, Laura Cooper, Ashton Boland, Brittany Johnson, Amanda Medved, Sarah Carlson, Billy Alexander, Krista Hebert, Jane Snowden, and Daniel Gibson-Ruck are present. Not present are Trent Friday, Emily Walker, and Emily Worthy.

    5:03 Billy gives treasury report for 6/29/2010-7/27/2010. Starting balance is $1,138.24. There were no deposits. $128 was withdrawn for national memberships. Final balance is $1,010.24. Motion to accept report was brought forth by Billy and seconded by Amanda. Motion passed.

    5:04 chair reports began.
    Jane gave the fundraiser report. She reported that she had contacted the concessions person and was waiting to hear back. She is also waiting on dates we can work concessions. Emailed Pete Tofani about raffle. He said no and referred her on to Stephanie Hamberger.

    Amanda gave the Historian report. We are to take pictures at the next meeting for the board. Publications chair, Brittany, is to work with Amanda on websites.

    Brittany gave the Publications report. It was decided that Brittany is to email Billy, Daniel, and Summer with any changes to the UAB Website. Brittany has contacted person in charge of website and needs to give him a list of edits to the website. She is trying to get the rights to the website handed over to SNA so we can edit. She will update facebook regularly.

    Sarah gave the T-shirt report. She checked with other companies and no one else was able to match J Raggs pricing. Two designs were brought before the board to be voted on under new business.

    Billy gave the Projects report in lieu of Trent. Trent contacted Dr. Ross about possibly doing a project with Honduras and their new women's shelter. Trent has looked into health assessment forms for possible health fair in October in HUC. He has a meeting with Dr. Wright next week about ideas for next semester project. He used the Wal-Mart gift card to buy underwear for the project wrapping up on July 31. Trent will remove the badges from the scrubs in the closet.

    5:15 Summer reported that she has 3 SNA applications from the AMNP students. She states that the AMNP students are very interested and wants SNA to talk to them in the fall. We need to elect reps from their class.

    5:16 Old business:
    The motion to increase dues from $38 to $45 for new members passed via email nine to one. Billy is going to to order 300 membership forms. Amanda looked at awards for scrapbooking and webpage and she will get more information.

    5:20 New business:
    Krista is new treasurer and is now in charge of book-keeping. Billy is to meet with her and add her to the account. Daniel to keep action items because we need deadlines to be set. We need better communication in our group. Everyone should respond to emails within 24 hours. T shirts were brought before the board. Some changes are needed to the designs. The redesigns will be emailed out by Sarah on or before Friday for final vote. Daniel presented the by laws. Emily made the motion to accept the by laws, Sarah seconded. Motion passed. Billy announced the need for volunteers for Senior Recognition Day on August 6 at 5:30. Volunteers are also need for the Lamp of Learning Ceremony on September 21. A fundraising idea was brought forth by Sarah—Party with a Purpose. Summer and Jody are not sure how the nursing school will feel about this. Billy, Sarah, and Summer will look into school rules and regulations to see what needs to be done to get something like this approved. There is no date for August meeting yet.

    6:10 Meeting was dismissed.

     

     

    June 29, 2010

    University of Alabama at Birmingham Student Nursing Association
    Tuesday, June 29, 2010
    Nursing Building, room 501

    AGENDA
    1. Call to Order at 0410 by president, Welcome Statement, Introductions

    2. Roll Call, Reading of Minutes of last meeting Motion Jane Snowden Seconded Amanda Medved Motion Carried

    3. Report from President

    4. Officer/Chair Reports in order of rank (Job Descriptions)

    VP: Working on getting people to come to classes to talk during Fall semester. By-laws are done. Has an EXCEL spreadsheet

    Treasure: Balance $1263.69 Motioned Jane Seconded Emily Hogan Motion Carried

    Fundraising: Concessions: Jane talked with Stephanie and Lindsay and we can sign up for 4 games and need 8 people to work. Those workers would have to be trained on food and safety rules and 2 would need to go to Health dept to get trained. Have tip jars at concession. Raffles: Jane emailed Pete Tofani to see what type of raffle we could have LEGALLY. New Tshirts: would like to offer a new T-shirt design and possibly get input on the design. And T-shirt for seniors. Also do a newsletter to keep people informed of our presence so people will be willing to support our fundraising events. Bake sale in HUC are profitable around August or September. Amanda Medved suggested having a cook-out and pre-sale tickets. Have a Miss Nursing School “pageant” or bucket to raise money. Billy suggested selling nursing clipboards and possibly sell it with the labkit for incoming nursing student. The clipboards are $14.50 and we could sell them cheaper than what Snoozy’s has them. Also sell the cookie tins during Nurses Week.

    Historian: Amanda has began creating the new SNA board in the Nursing Lobby. We will possible take pictures at the next meeting. We are also trying to apply for awards such as Board design, Tshirts, and website. Billy stated that we have a UAB SNA website but it hasn’t been updated since 2006. SNA has a FB page and billy encourages us to join the page and invite UABSON students to join as well.

    Tshirts: Sarah Carlson would like to have nursing school orders by Labor day so they can have their shirts earlier. Also adjust the price of the shirt. Homecoming is Nov 6 so we will try to order tshirts by Oct 15. A new SNA member non offico would like to help design shirts and we would follow proper protocol in using the shirt. Pediatric clinicals are encouraged to wear shirts instead of scrub tops, so we could offer a shirt for that clinical. The AMNP students are interested in Tshirts. Dr. Langston had a Tshirt idea with an inspirational quote. She also suggested following trends in designing trends, which might encourage students to want to buy tshirts. Emily Hogan suggested having a Tshirt to go with each different event that we do, such as for our local and international project. Or Market the tshirts as a philanthropic event (such as tshirt proceds fund Haiti relief). Sarah will check on other places to get tshirts made. Amanda Medved knows a vendor that could possibly give us a “deal.” But not to burn bridges, we will still use J-Rags for the “nurses care” shirt.

    Publications: Brittany Johnson would like to have a monthly email newsletter and advertisements. She will update the website as soon as she gets in touch with the webmaster. She will also work on keeping Facebook updated.

    Parliamentarian: Emily Hogan will now be advisor to the president and will also assist the class reps. She will also maintain order during the meetings. She will also keep the flow of the meetings decent and in order. She will be the person responsible for keeping Roberts Rule of Order during the meeting. Ms. Hogan is also responsible for keeping up with the by-laws and keeping things arbitrary. She will also head the homecoming committee.

    Projects chair: Trent Friday suggested having a health fair during October (BP, BMI) He’s looking at projects for February and April and the next Disaster Relief. Haiti’s project will be finalized July 31st. Billy reminded us that regardless of a tough course load, we still have to carry out our duties as SNA members. We have a $50 donation to buy underwear for Haiti. Emily Hogan mentioned about doing a project with WHO and doing more projects locally. Also during a project with the Nurses trip to Honduras. Also the UAB Liver foundation has projects we could assist with. Ashton Boland is an RA on campus and could assist Trent in getting the word spread to UAB residents. Amanda Medved suggested having a 5K-run for the Hannah Home. UAB sponsors into the Streets and we could assist in that as well or partner with the McWayne Center in doing some projects. A lot of students could assist with professors doing their outreach projects. Dean Harper also presents different opportunities for us as well.

    Membership: Amy Johnson-Walker thinks we should make flyers or brochures to better advertise the SNA. Sarah suggested placing SNA applications in the pre-nursing advisors’ offices. Billy stated that AMNP students are eligible for membership and Dr. Lankston will be informing them of this opportunity. Emily Worthy asked if there could be a link to pay local UAB SNA dues on the website. Trent asked if there could be a paypal link. These aren’t possible because we have to keep our dues and we pay with the UABSNA credit card. It would be too troublesome to get something like that set up.

    5. Unfinished Business (Job responsibilities for Publications Chair, T-shirt chair and Parliamentarian)
    It will cost $238/person for the National Convention April 6-10 in Salt lake City, Utah. Up to four people may be able to go.Jane Snowden will contact UAB SGA to see if they will fund our budget. Billy would love for UABSON to win Homecoming awards.

    6. New Business (By-laws, AMNP membership, Class reps, T-shirt sales, Homecoming, concessions, conferences)

    Daniel created the bylaws. Motion Sarah Seconded Sarah Motion carried for Daniel to email the new bylaws and we vote on that during the July meeting. We welcomed our new class reps.
    Daniel assigned action items.

    7. Announcements
    Be ready to take pictures July 27th!!!!
    Next meeting July 27th 501

    8. Adjournment 0535 motioned Trent seconded Sarah motion carried