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Texas Emergency Nurses Association Leadership Orientation 2017

Committees

Lynn Kelley, MS, RN 2017 Texas ENA Immediate Past President

Let’s Get Started

Objectives

• Review committee structure
• Describe roles and responsibilities of

committee members and committee chair

• Identify Standing Committees
• Recognize ENA committees at the local level

What is a Committee?

• A person or persons to whom a charge or

trust is committed

• A body of persons delegated to consider,

investigate, take action on, or report on some matter

Texas ENA Standard Operating Procedures

• The state council shall have committees in

sufficient numbers necessary to address its

• bjectives, professional practice, special

interests and programs

• Funding shall be provided as determined by

the Board of Directors and the State Council

Texas Emergency Nurses Association

• What can you do?
• Get Involved!
• Be an active committee member
• Just ask how

Texas ENA Committees

• Committee Members:

– Chair: 3 Year Commitment

• 1 year Chair-Elect; 2 years Chair
• Exception: Government Affairs - 4 year commitment

– Local chapter delegates – Board liaison

• Duties / Responsibilities:

– The committee will annually establish goals and

• bjectives to be approved by the Board of Directors

– Report to the TxENA State Council

Committee Chair

• ENA member
• Previous member of the committee
• Responsible for committee budget and goals
• Quarterly meeting:

– Agenda – Meeting minutes and Committee report

• Communications with members
• Annual Newsletter article

Role of Committee Chair

• Plans committee meetings, agenda, submits budget
• Conducts meeting or obtains substitute as needed
• Accepts / supports committee’s charge and ensures meeting

timeline is met (Located in SOPs)

• Assists members to move toward participation and decision

making

• Evaluates the committee’s efforts / communicates

accomplishments to the committee /Board liaison

• Prepares / provides State Council secretary with minutes

and reports

• Submits TxENA NEWSRUNNER article to media chair

Role of Committee Members

• Assists with development of goals and budget
• Conducts committee business during quarterly

meetings

• Completes assignments

Standing Committees

Bylaws and Standard Operating Procedures

• Purpose: Review current Bylaws and Standard

Operating Procedures (SOPs) on regular basis for compliance with national ENA requirements and TxENA current practice

– Review and revise Bylaws and SOPs to define the practices of the Texas ENA Board of Directors, State Council, committees and chapters – President-Elect and Parliamentarian are active members of the Bylaws and SOPs Committee

Standing Committee

Elections Process

• Purpose: Prepare and review a slate of qualified

candidates for annual Council elections

– Review candidate information prior to formulation of a slate of officers for elections. – Presents a slate of qualified candidates at the last business meeting of the calendar year – Provides the Media Chair with the slate of officers and biographical information for publication in the 3rd quarter Newsletter – Conducts the election process

Elections Process cont.

• Chairperson is Immediate Past President of State

Council

– Members may not be a candidate for office while serving as a member of the committee

Delegate Selection

• Purpose: Define the most equitable procedure for

selecting state delegates to the national “General Assembly”

• Procedure:

– A point system will be used to determine state delegate positions, in addition to the criteria set by the national bylaws – Prepare delegate selection packets – Review delegate packets – Notifies members and State Council

Emergency Preparedness

• Purpose: Develop and maintain a Texas ENA “all hazard”

emergency plan – Influence personal and professional disaster preparedness for Texas ENA membership – Facilitate training of emergency nurses through ENA chapters for response in emergency situations – Encourage volunteerism and response of emergency nurses related to disaster preparedness – Collaborate with the experts in the field of disaster management

Injury Prevention

• Purpose: Reduce the number of injuries, deaths

and crashes due to drinking and driving

– Increase the proportion of adolescents who abstain from using alcohol – Initiate early alcohol and drug awareness education and prevention skills – Provide education to senior citizens regarding the interaction of alcohol and their medications and highway safety skills

Injury Prevention cont.

– Provide occupant protection education to the general population – Support helmet laws and encourage helmet use – Promote collaboration in local communities to prevent injuries – Provide injury prevention education to the public in all areas including, but not limited to: bicycle and helmet safety, gun safety, domestic violence prevention, fall prevention, home safety and child passenger safety

Government Affairs

• Purpose: Identify and monitor pending legislation affecting

emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS at the state and national levels – Analyze pending legislation affecting emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS, make recommendations to the board for positions on such legislation, and draft letters for the president's signature – Actively lobby legislators, government agencies and other

• rganizations relative to Texas ENA's position on

legislation affecting emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS

Government Affairs cont.

– Maintain active liaison with the Texas Nurses Association relative to government affairs for the purposes of bill tracking and common legislative positions where appropriate – Develop and implement, as necessary, a telephone tree of Texas ENA members for the dissemination of information – Keep the national ENA informed of significant legislative issues in Texas regarding emergency nursing, emergency health care, and EMS

Membership

• Purpose: Develop and implement strategies for

recruiting and retaining members and generation of interest in the emergency nurses association

– Monitor and promote activities or benefits applicable to the member at the local and state level – Conduct an annual membership campaign in conjunction with the national association – Develop a method of surveying members as to their needs

Meetings Planning

• Purpose: Develop annual budget for TxENA

quarterly meetings

– Designate meeting sites for TxENA quarterly meetings – Assist site coordinators with arrangements for TxENA quarterly meetings – Develop and implement strategies to reduce cost of TxENA quarterly meetings and assist host chapters with budget process for TxENA quarterly meetings

Meetings Planning cont.

– Update and maintain meeting planning guide – Oversee and approve, with the input from the board, any contracts for meeting arrangements – Communicate with site coordinators agendas, room requirements and meeting requirements – Serve as resource for local site coordinators for meeting planning

Nursing Practice

• Purpose: Monitor and address issues affecting professional

nursing practice, encompassing issues related to all areas of emergency nursing practice and emergency nursing standards – Disseminate information to chapters and members regarding professional nursing issues – Serve as a resource to other groups and interested individuals regarding issues related to professional emergency nursing practice – Work in conjunction with public and consumer education to develop position statements and resolutions on issues pertaining to professional nursing practice

Pediatric

• Purpose:

– Serve as a pediatric resource and advisory committee to assist with the organization, implementation, and evaluation of the ENA Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC) on a state level – Train ENPC instructors

• Develop the appropriate number of

instructors to support the state.

Pediatric cont.

• Precept and evaluate ENPC instructors who

are conducting a course for the first time (instructor candidates). – Be a Pediatric resource and report on issues relating to the practice of pediatrics within the scope of emergency nursing practice

Trauma

• Purpose:

– Serve as a trauma resource and advisory committee

• n the state level and assists with the organization

and implementation of ENA's trauma courses. – Assist with the organization, implementation, and evaluation of the ENA Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) on a state level

• Train TNCC instructors

Trauma cont.

• Develop the appropriate number of instructors to

support the state

• Precept and evaluate TNCC instructors who are

conducting a course for the first time (instructor candidates)

– Be a trauma resource and report on issues relating to the practice of trauma within the scope of emergency nursing practice

Professional Education

• Purpose: Develop and coordinate state council

professional education activities.

– Provide at least one educational offering every two years. – Coordinate with other state council committees and

• utside organizations in the planning and

implementation of education / prevention programs for health care professionals and the lay public. – Collaborate with the planning and implementation

• f Texas ENA’s annual education program.

Resolutions

• Purpose: Monitor all resolutions/bylaws changes

being presented at general assembly and communicate those resolutions/bylaws changes to the state council.

– Serve as a resource to other interested individuals and groups regarding issues related to resolutions and bylaws changes. – Develop and propose resolutions and/or bylaws changes to the general assembly regarding issues affecting emergency nursing.

Additional Committees

• Awards and Honors
• Media
• Scholarship
• Historic Archives

Ad Hoc

• Charged with completing the duties assigned by the

Texas ENA Board

– Monitor and address issues as identified by the state council – Disseminate information to chapters and members – Serve as a resource to other interested individuals and groups regarding such issues – All appointments to these committees are subject to reappointment by the state council president and subject to approval by the board, and chapter representatives to the council

2017 Committee Chairs

• Injury Prevention – Rendi Bonner
• Nursing Practice – Valerie Brumfield
• Awards & Honors – Christine Russe
• Bylaws & SOPs – Karima Durrazai
• Elections Process – Lynn Kelley
• Media Awareness – Rhonda Manor-Coombs
• Government Affairs – Kim Grant
• Meetings Planning – Ingrid Steinbach

2017 Committee Chairs, cont’d.

• Resolutions – Barry Hudson
• Trauma – Courtney Edwards
• Delegate Selection – Pat Yancey
• Pediatrics – Crissie Richardson
• Scholarship – Polly Johnson
• Emergency Preparedness – Teresa Coyne
• Membership – Jody Bauer
• Professional Education – Carol Twombly

Meeting Times

• 1000-1200 Board Meeting
• 1300-1800 Committee Meetings
• 1300-1350
• Injury Prevention
• Nursing Practice
• Awards and Honors
• 1400-1450
• Bylaws and SOPs
• Elections Process
• Media Awareness
• 1500-1550
• Govt. Affairs
• Meeting Planning
• Resolutions
• Trauma
• 1600-1650
• Delegate Selection
• Pediatrics
• Scholarship
• 1700-1750
• Emergency

Preparedness

• Membership
• Professional

Education Saturday 0900 -1600 State Council Meeting

Questions?

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