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ISNA Board of Directors Meeting
November 18 & 19, 2005
ISNA Headquarters

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 Present: Carol Walp, Chair, Southeast Region. Opal Freiburger and Joan Kern, Northeast Region; Cynthia Stone, Chair, ISNA-Nurse PAC; and ISNA and ISNAP staff were present in the afternoon session on strategic planning.

The Board met at the ISNA headquarters on November 19, 2005, and members received orientation that included the history and programs of ISNA and the legal responsibilities of ISNA officers and board members.

The minutes of the 2005 Meeting of the Members were approved as corrected.

2005 Member Trends and the September 30, 2005, financial statement were reviewed.

A Strategic Planning session was held in which Leslie Murphy, CAE, Executive Director, National Dart Association, reviewed and reaffirmed the ISNA Mission Statement and ISNA major goals and discussed the Strategic Plan with Board members, other ISNA members, and ISNA/ISNAP staff.

The meeting recessed at 4:15 pm.

November 19, 2005

The meeting reconvened on November 19, 2005, at the Brickyard Crossing Golf Resort and Inn.

The Board discussed and completed a draft of the Strategic Plan for 2006.

The minutes of the Board meetings on September 30, 2005, and October 1, 2005, were approved.

Approval of revisions to the Policy and Procedure Manual was deferred until policies for implementation of Chapters, as required by the October 1, 2005, amendments to the ISNA Bylaws.

The proposed budget for 2006 was reviewed, revised, and adopted.

The following members were appointed to the Chapter Implementation Task Force: Louise Anderson, Chairperson; Eileen Dvorak, Opal Freiburger, Teresa Holland, Elizabeth Jackson, Gloria Plascak, Stephena Sheets, and Carol Walp, members.

Appointments to the Task Force on Member Category Options will be made at the March 2006 Board meeting.

The Board voted to become an organizational member of the Center for Nurse Advocacy for the year 2006.

ISNA will have a booth at the meeting of the Indiana Association of Nursing Students provided nurses are available to staff the booth for the Fort Wayne meeting.

September 30, 2006, was selected as the date for the 2006 ISNA Meeting of the Members.

Dorene Albright reported on the American Nurses Association Constituent Assembly and ANA Lobby Day meetings in Washington, DC, early in November. Dorene and Executive Director Ernest Klein represented Indiana.
 

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