Welcome to the May Chapter News. There is lots of information about our May 26th meeting, our June 10th Golf Tournament, and our June 23rd installation of officers dinner. There will be a birthday party too! Scroll down and let all the news!

On May 12, 2011 the AORN of San Diego will turn 60! She looks pretty good for her age. President-Elect Lisa Finch would like to collect any pictures or memories so that she can share them at the meeting. She would like to create and poster and/or a power point presentation. Please contact Lisa to send her pictures or stories about the Chapter. There will be a birthday cake too!

This month our chapter is celebrating a very special event; May 12th, 2011 is our 60th birthday!! At our meeting this month, May 26th, we will be having a birthday celebration, be sure to mark your calendar to join in the festivities! We are asking all members to please share any photos, stories, newspaper clippings or any other memorabilia with the chapter, please contact our President-Elect, Lisa Finch.

Also, we are considering having a Facebook page and a Twitter account for our chapter; please let any board member know what you think.

Please check the website for information regarding this month’s educational offering; please join us; print the flyer and post in your departments and bring a guest (remember you don’t need to be a member to attend!)

Also, our ballot is available on our website; you can vote through May 26, 2011, 2pm. Please see the ballot page for more information.

This month, on Friday, May 13th, our chapter, in association with the AORN Foundation, CareFusion and Palomar Pomerado Health, is offering a free  educational event titled “It takes a Village”; 14.5 CE’s are available; please check our chapter website for more information; and register on www.aorn.org. There are only 60 seats remaining; register soon!

Our annual Golf Tournament is scheduled for Friday, June 10th. Please print the flyer and post in your department!

Looking forward to seeing you all at the "It takes a village" event this Friday the 13th and at our May 26 meeting and birthday celebration!

Michelle Fennell, Chapter President.

Hello Everyone.

With one remaining meeting before we have our instillation dinner I would like to congratulate all of our current members for your involvement. Attending our meeting and conferences, bringing great food and ideas gives us a hometown feel in a big town. Our new members should feel right at home.

Over the last year we have had the opportunity to receive insight and knowledge from experts in fields of study ranging from surgical infections and bariatric surgery to flash sterilization and bloodless surgery. As we go forward into the coming years we are interested in making this information available to our members who work hours other the 7-3pm and 9-5pm.

This month we will continue on our track of great informational presentations with a lecture from Dr Matthew Lutch of Kaiser Permanente. He is a head and neck surgeon and will be speaking on surgery of the larynx. Plan to attend this lecture for the most current information in this field and earn one continuing education unit.

Remember to vote in our chapter election, attend the AORN lecture series on Friday May 13 in Poway and bring a friend to our next meeting. Print the educational flyer.

Randy Blattler RN

Topic: "Awake surgery of the Larynx"
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Lutch, Kaiser Permanente
When: May 26, 2011
Time: 7:00 pm Come at 6:15 for refreshments, networking, and the Chapter General Meeting.
Where: AMN Healthcare, 12400 High Bluff Dr., San Diego, CA 92130

Print the education flyer and bring a friend or colleague. Please post at work too.

June 10th 12:30 Shotgun at Arrowood Golf Course is the annual Chapter Golf Tournament. This is one of our most important events because the funds raised on this day go to pay for scholarship and support delegates to AORN Congress. Print the flyer and make your plans now to attend this fun day!

Ben Ribnick is Chair of this event so if you want to participate or have questions please contact him at benjamin.ribnick@carefusion.com or by phone at 951-551-5451.

June 23rd will bring end to the 2010-2011 Chapter Season and start our new 2011-2012 Chapter Year with the installation of the new officers that will be announced at the May 26th meeting.

Plan now to attend and cheer President-Elect Lisa Finch on as she takes the gavel from outgoing president Michelle Fennell. It is always a fun evening!

The June banquet will be held at the Bali Hai Restaurant 2230 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92106. Print the June Banquet Flyer to get how to register for this event.

GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
APRIL28, 2011

SAN DIEGO AORN BOARD MEETING MINUTES


Call to Order: at 6:20 by President Michelle

Approval of Minutes: MSC to approve minutes as printed.

President’s Report: Spring Seminar “It takes a Village”, has over 100 registrants to date. It’s free with 14 contact hours. Michelle wanted to know if it was possible to have our meetings web/pod cast to draw in the younger crowd, if you have any feedback or suggestions contact Michelle. ORNCC is this Saturday, May 30

President -Elect: Lisa would like all information to her by May 6.Lisa said we are set for the food bank, ”Feeding America” on May 7th there are 15 people registered. June installation of officers will be at Bali Hai, price around $35.00.

Vice President- Dr. Hugo Barerra will be the speaker tonight on “Bloodless Medicine “. Next month the speaker will be Dr. Mathew Lutch from Kaiser on “Awake surgery of the larynx”. We are starting to put together the lineup of speakers for next year. If you have any suggestions please contact Randy.

Treasurer’s Report: Beginning Balance: $ 26,916.66 (from February)
Income: $ 666.57
Expenses: $ 395.00
Ending Balance: $ 27,189.01 (March)


Nominating Committee: We do have a ballot to present tonight For Pres-elect- Vickie Pierce, Secretary- Suzanne Higginbotham, Treasurer- Anne Hones, Board of Directors 2yr- Michelle Fennell, Board of Directors 1yr- Eddie Webb & Esther Morales and Nominating Committee 2yr Linda Brown and 1 yr nominating Jeff . Reminder people can vote on line or on paper the night of election.

Legislative: Virginia said to see article on web site.

Hospitality: Sharp is providing refreshments tonight. Scripps Healthcare will be bringing refreshments in May. June 23 rd is the dinner meeting.

Workshop: Ben brought flyers for the “It takes a Village” workshop for May 13th. There are over 100 people registered so far.

Informatics: no report

Ways & Means: We made $ 23.00 from the raffle last month and we raised $15.00 for Flowers for the Float.

Scholarship: Three applications have been received for scholarship funds. They are due by June 1st. CNOR & CRNFA applications are on the web site.

Golf: Ben reported that he has sent out about 350 flyers to company reps. Flyers handed out for all to take back to their places of work. Ben reminded all that the golf tournament is Friday, June 10th at 1230 shot gun start at Arrowood Golf course. Looking for door prizes and vendor sponsored drink carts.

Respectfully Submitted By:

Suzanne Higginbotham RN, CNOR

Submitted by Anne Hones, Treasurer

I’ m sorry this report is so late but I have been “under the weather” for awhile.  Will be a little shorter than unusal.

Unfortunately not much new about the ANA\C issues I talked about in the last letter.  There are bills before the legislature but none specific to diastat.  There are two bills that will be partially effective in January of 2012. They pertain: Child abduction and sex offender identification and reports of missing persons: Violent Crimes Information Center.   Will try and find out more later.

Periop Insider has several interesting items in the latest few issues. They include information on stolen devices posing a risk of infection and that the checklist success linked to the implementation of the processes.  The question asks what nine specific error-prone abbreviations on the Joint Commissions “Do Not Use” List..  The complete abbreviations are on the Periop Insider May 12th issue which you all can access.  One that stands out is IU (for international unit).  Can be mistaken for IV (intravenous or the number 10 (ten). Use Instead Write “international unit”.     

ANA Smart Brief has several new Legislative Policy and Regulatory News in the last few issues as well. Two Senators and two from the House are sponsoring bills to loosen criteria for Medicare skilled nursing care.  The bill would count observational care as an inpatient hospital stay in the criteria for Medicare skilled nursing care. Several health organizations support this including the American Medical Association.  The other important senate bill by several Senators and House members has introduced a bill that aims to cut lung cancer deaths by 50% by 2020 with a 5-year screening program to capitalize on the results of the National Lung Screening Trial.  For more information on these issues please log on to the ANA Smart Brief. This is a benefit to all AORN members which is easily accessed on line at the AORN website.  If you need help doing this contact me.

I will report on these issues at a later date.      
  
Submitted by Virginia L. Ogren RN, BSN, CNOR