MSU-Northern

Department of Nursing

Faculty Meeting Minutes
December 10, 2004

Teleconference 1:00 – 3:00

 

 

Present:  Rose Hoogendam, Joyce Cleavenger, Renae Munson, Sharon Keeley, Lisa O’Neil, Theresa Petersen, Judy Hembd, Gayle Gransbery, Tina Toner, with Director Mary Pappas presiding. 

Students Present:  Lauralee Bowker and Kim Byrne

 

Announcements
Level I students in Lewistown passed their Math for Meds test on the first try and 92% was the lowest score. 

Maureen Henehan is returning to Lewistown campus to teach N252 during Spring semester.  Rose will help with Med/Surg in Great Falls and Theresa will help in Havre.  Maureen will touch base with Gayle regarding Spring Semester. 

OLD BUSINESS

1.           Approval of minutes
Gayle moves to accept corrected minutes, Lisa seconds the motion and motion carries unanimously.

2.           Made Incredibly Easy books are in for Lewistown
In the Havre library; Mary will deliver Lewistown’s books on Monday. 

3.           Discuss dates for courses for next semester
Scheduling is going well in Havre, Lisa is trying to get an additional class day for Maternal/Child scheduled for NN to replace the day that will be missed because of the assessment in-service day (02/04/05).  Suzanne has scheduled NN for a Wednesday (January 12) for N253 for Lewistown & Havre to make up for class missed due to holidays. 

4.           Approve ASN-BSN evaluation plan
The ASN and BSN evaluation plans were combined into one plan and the new evaluation plan needs to be approved.  Theresa moves to approve the combined ASN-BSN Evaluation plan; Judy seconds the motion and motion carries unanimously.

5.           Approve Self Study
There are 300 pages to the Self Study and Mary would like input for any additions or changes.  Faculty has not had the time to review it. Mary said she will need to have 15 copies of the Self Study for accreditation and she will need to send four copies with catalogues to SBON.  This will need to be done before Christmas so Mary will give faculty until December 15th to make revisions, especially the curriculum and faculty sessions.  N254 topical outline has been submitted to Mary. Theresa, Judy and Mary worked on their topical outlines.  Gayle will submit her content outlines by Tuesday, Tina by Monday.  Rose & Joyce by tonight. 

6.           Committee Reports:
Resource Committee – Gayle & Lisa
Suzanne requested a video for Psych class and is waiting approval by Mary.  Rose submitted something for her class on pharmacology and for elderly issues.  Mary reminded faculty that they could order one video per faculty, per year.  Also please remember to suggest videos to the library for purchase.  Please contact Cynthia Harrison with suggestions or requests.  Great Falls faculty can check out videos from the Havre library and the library will also mail them to you.

Curriculum and Instruction Committee – Gayle, Rose and Theresa
Theresa will submit changes for N449 to a three hundred level course.  Minutes for the last meeting are requested.  Rose will email them. 

Program Evaluation Committee – Suzanne, Judy and Joyce
Committee has not met this month.

Admissions & Progression Committee – Joyce, Judy and Mary
Committee has not met this month.

Student Faculty Communication Committee – Tina, Lisa and Rose
A meeting was held on Monday and the only concern that was expressed involved the nursing club accounts.  Students were informed that all monies raised are for the MSU-Northern nursing clubs and need to be deposited in Northern nursing club accounts.  There are no separate accounts for Havre, Lewistown and Great Falls. All monies are deposited into the nursing club account through the business office in Havre. Judy emailed Level II students pinning announcement information.  Students have some questions regarding criteria for speakers.  Could resigned faculty speak at pinning, Is this information in student handbook? Pinning is Friday, May 6th. 

Reminder to forward all minutes of committee meetings to Renae.

7.           University Committee Reports
Academic Senate – Lisa
Academic Senate is meeting twice a week lasting 4 hours.  Recommendations are not requiring speech, and making sure that there are nor hidden prerequisite courses for general education courses.  ENGL 111 is being eliminated but are requiring placement for ENGL 112.  They are would like to have this resolved so it can be published in the next university catalog. 

General Education – Suzanne (no report)
Curriculum – Theresa
Consensus was not reached on general education, so committee is at a standstill. 
Admissions & Standards – Rose
Meets this afternoon. 
Union Steward – Theresa
Theresa was gone.  Lisa and Judy are on the sub-committee that will be discussing the requirements needed by the chair.  Candidates are not known until the criterion is developed.  According to SBON, a non-nurse cannot evaluate nursing faculty. The chair will be doing evaluations of nursing faculty so things will get interesting.  A nurse within our department will probably need to evaluate faculty along with the chair.  Rose would like to consider a nursing faculty person for this position. Scholarships & FA – Judy
Cultural – Joyce
Computer Use fee – Judy
Library Committee – Gayle
The committee has met twice.   The library needs requests for books to have in the library.  Gayle has submitted a few requests.  A suggestion was made to email students to see if they know of any areas that the library needs resources that would help the students complete their papers.  Maybe we could conduct a survey to get ideas.  Nursing ethics, nutrition, pharmacology, med/surg resource books are some of the ones that could use updating. 

ACTION:  Email students to request topics of interest for books in the Library. 


Instructional Research & Faculty Development – Marguerite

8.           Web Master Report – Debbie submitted the following report via email.

Several pages have been changed on our website, Debbie had sent them to Marianne who will load them soon. Debbie is creating new pages, the front page will have our Level I students orientation picture on it, which should be up this week. Debbie has also created a Nursing Club page, which will have the minutes from the Faculty/Student Communication Meetings on it plus any other information the nursing club, would like to post. Debbie has also created a page for current students; this page will have a link to all the websites our students use such as, eCollege, student email etc. There is also a contact us button for faculty.

NEW BUSINESS

1.    Student Petitions
       Student petitions listed under executive minutes        

2.     Capital Budget
A capital budget meeting is scheduled for Monday. Mary will email requests to Cheri and Will.  Mary will be in Lewistown on Monday and will not be able to attend the meeting.  Judy would like the power point presentation equipment. Test development software (like what was discussed in Miles City) would be helpful. We submitted for clinical simulation computer software and Chuck Jensen did approve it.  There were concerns regarding interfacing and web server security so Chuck had Mike Campbell check it out before approving the purchase.  The company is making some revisions to adapt to our server security.  Can the simulation be used in place of lab or clinical hours?  The company will help us in getting the scenarios together once we get the server issue resolved.  There are about 20 case studies on this software.  Great Falls is short on clinicals hours, so yes these could be used for up to 16 hours out of the 135 hrs needed for N250/N253/N136 clinicals.  The scenarios will need to be matched up with the course objectives. 

1.           Scheduling ATI examinations-at least I each semester
Mary suggests that we schedule an ATI test for each semester so students are encouraged to pay their semester installment.  Pharmacology test could be done first semester of Level II.  Fundamentals test at the end of N136 instead of at the end of N128.  Pharmacology in the first year is unreasonable; students should be tested on it during their second year. Students were concerned about the costs of tests.  Students expressed appreciation for the published books that are given out for the ATI tests.  Some students are using the books to supplement their textbooks.  Faculty would like ATI testing fees added to the nursing application. Theresa moves the ATI test schedule should be arranged to allow a minimum of one test each semester and applicable to content being studied, Lisa seconds and motion carries unanimously. 

ACTION:  Add the ATI Testing fees to nursing application. 

2.           Course Coordination
Course coordination was done after the general meeting concluded. 

3.           Other
Travel Budget
Dean Rawn commented on faculty concerns that budget travel reimbursements was slow.  Brainstorm on solutions. Faculty was asked if they wanted to do their own travel forms; the answer was a definite no.  How best to get reimbursements in a timely manner.  Lisa did not have any problems when Sharon did her travel.  Part of the delay is that travel now needs to be routed to Dean Rawn.  This process was slowed down during Christine’s absence as Dean Rawn was doing everything on his own.  The biggest suggestion made was for faculty to turn in their monthly travel schedule in advance of their travel.  Lisa did this for Sharon and things worked well.  Sharon will track travel as it is submitted to Dean Rawn for signature.  Faculty requests an email to let them know their travel has been submitted. 

Concern was also expressed regarding some tutoring wages not being paid from September. May need to resubmit.

Mary received notice from the NLNAC regarding the visitors. There will be three of them. They are from Texas, Indiana and Ohio.

There was discussion on whom to route things to during Suzanne’s absence.  We need a contingency plan as Suzanne will need time to recover and we don’t want her to be overwhelmed or become overly tired when she returns.  Theresa volunteers to do some of lectures, as she will be writing lectures for Shelby students.  Mary, Lisa and Judy can help with some lectures.  The biggest problem will be in covering clinicals.  If they are done in groups, Rose can drive from Great Falls and do some.  She just can’t do this every week.  Mary said together with our CRRNs we will make it. We will just need to take it one day at a time.  We do have two CRRNs, but will need faculty to supervise. 

ACTION:  Bring ATI results and comparisons at each campus to the next meeting.  Joyce, Judy, & Rose (will help in Suzanne’s absence) will work on data.  Also have information regarding issues at each site in scheduling to see if scheduling affected the student’s success.  Debbie will compile the itemized scores/results. 

Meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.     ACTION:  Email students to request topics of interest for books in the Library. 

2.     ACTION:  Add the ATI Testing fees to nursing application. 

3.     ACTION:  Bring ATI results and comparisons at each campus to the next meeting.  Joyce, Judy, & Rose (will help in Suzanne’s absence) will work on data.  Also have information regarding issues at each site in scheduling to see if scheduling affected the student’s success.  Debbie will compile the itemized scores/results.