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ISNA Board of Directors Meeting
August 3, 2007

Present: Dorene Albright, President; Ella Harmeyer, Vice-President; Sue Gaebler, Secretary; Paula McAfee, Treasurer; Judy Barbeau, Eleanor Donnelly, Jennifer Embree, Teresa Holland, and Barbara Kelly, Directors; Ernest C. Klein, Jr., CAE, Executive Director.

Others: Sue Ann Pflum and Louise Neufelder (p.m.).

The ISNA Board of Directors met at ISNA Headquarters on August 3, 2007, and took the following action:

Approved minutes of Board meeting on April 20, 2007.

Reviewed the June 2007 Financial Statement.

Reaffirmed the Executive Director’s authority to execute contracts, including the one-year extension to the ISNAP contract recently negotiated.

Approved increase in non-dues income for mailing labels, continuing nursing education applications, meeting room rental, administrative fees, office rental, and Nurses Calendar listings.

Approved a $100 donation to support the Indiana Perinatal Summit.

Approved the revised ISNA Board and Employee Conflict of Interest Policy.

Approved Executive Director Succession Plan.

Approved revisions to the Executive Director Position Description.

ISNA Public Policy Platform revisions were approved.

Ernest Klein will attend a three-day workshop on designing questionnaires.

Advanced Practice Nurse issues were discussed and a group of stakeholders will be convened to further discuss the patient compensation fund issues.

Noted that the automatic ANA assessment increase of $8 will be passed on to the members effective January 1, 2008.

ISNA will convene a conference call with Carol Sternberger, Cindi Moon, and others from Indiana who attended the ANA Conference “Nursing Care in Life, Death, and Disaster” to assess interest in sponsoring an Indiana Conference.
The Board discussed the censure of the Michigan Nurses Association by ANA.

Approved the initiation of an investigation into possible disaffiliation with the United American Nurses (UAN).

Discussed the activities of the five ISNA Chapters. The Board approved sending a letter to the two ISNA Chapters which are inactive re continuing as a Chapter.

The Board approved the proposal from the ISNA Bylaws Committee to amend Article VII – Elections, Section 6, of the ISNA Bylaws by adding the following sentence to item b) “One alternate delegate to the Center shall be the Vice-President.”

The following appointments were approved:
Awards Committee – Paula McAfee, Barbara Kelly, and Teresa Holland
Tellers Committee – Donna Schmeiser, Opal K. Porras, Carolyn Tungate, and Marian Pettengill
Prenatal Substance Abuse Commission – Veronica Philbin and Debra Mallory were recommended by the Board for appointment to this new commission that was created by the recent session of the Indiana general Assembly. Their names will be submitted to Senator David Long, Senate President Pro Tem.

The Board met in executive session to review the Executive Director’s evaluation and contract. The Board authorized a salary increase and renewal of the employment contract with Ernest Klein, Jr., through September 30, 2008.

Plans for the 2007 ISNA Meeting of the Members were discussed, agenda, budget, fees, candidate slate were approved, and two resolutions were reviewed.

President Dorene Albright reviewed her written report and discussed the Members’ Meeting of the Center for American Nurses she attended.

Executive Director Ernest Klein reviewed his written report and Member Trends.

Jennifer Embree and Paula McAfee reported on the Department of Workforce Development Summit they attended.

Barbara Kelly will represent ISNA at the Indiana Nursing Workforce Development Coalition meeting on August 17, 2007.

The following meetings will all be held at the Holiday Inn Select at the Indianapolis Airport:
September 21, ISNA/ISNAP Workshop, 9 am – 4 pm
September 21, ISNA Board of Directors, 5 – 9 pm
September 22, ISNA Meeting of the Members, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
September 22, ISNA Board of Directors, following the Meeting of the Members

 

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