California Strategic Planning Committee for Nursing

Implementation Oversight Committee

December 5, 2001

9:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Present: S. Keating, E.Lewis, P.Walker, D. Rutledge, A. Sargent, J. Harlow, L. Askew-Miller, D.Welch, D.Harms, K.Sechrist, L.Stevens, A.Whatley, R.A. Terry

Regrets: P.McFarland, J. Martin-Holland, S. Ruh, S.Fox, D.Jones

Call to order S. Keating

Approval of minutes Approved

Financial Reports

CSPCN Acct @ ACNL: D.Harms reported for Pat McFarland: Very limited funds are available in the CSPCN Account. These monies are being held in reserve for anticipated prepayments related to the Nursing Summit. Also, there is one outstanding payment to be made related to the recruitment video development.

RWJF Acct: E.Lewis, $14,247 left for remainder of RWJF project. Project consultant has been paid through September, 2001. It is necessary to explore additional funding sources to pay Karen Sechrist for the remainder of the year. The BRN had hoped to support the data collection, analysis and reporting for this grant year but with fiscal restraints at the State level, they are unable to contract to cover this activity. IOC committee members offered several suggestions on who to approach for addition financial support. Karen Sechrist will work with Dorel Harms to put a proposal together for CHA and E. Lewis will continue to seek OSHPD’s continuing support. Arlene Sargent, DianeWelch and Linda Stevens will pursue additional contributions for the educator groups.

Project report E. Lewis

Attached

Forecasting Model Update K. Sechrist

Faculty data survey – done since last meeting; posted on website; WIN abstract covers this; Karen encouraged to publish CA data.

CIC data task force, Pat Prescott chairs, minimum data set on a state basis; Wisconsin online survey (mandatory for relicensure); CA BRN to look at.

Discussion of data quality with employer surveys; Karen states is "worse than terrible." Hospitals, despite multiple probes, not responding. Ideas – CHA assistance with CEOs, BRN assistant with staff help and mailing assistant. (see discussion under "Other)

Update on Political/Policy Initiatives S Keating

RuthAnn Terry shared with the IOC that the BRN has approved the formation of the Advisory Committee on Registered Nursing Work Force Issues. A 9-11 member advisory committee will be appointed ASAP and will consist of representatives from workforce planning groups, consumers, professional nurisng organizations, nursing service organizations, nursing education organizations, employer organizations, and nursing unions. (See Attached for other detail). It is anticipated that CSPCN will transition its activity in March, 2002. This Advisory Committee will provide "sustainability" for the work of CSPCN. RuthAnn indicated that she will continue to call this advisory committee CSPCN.

Jean Harlow will be retiring at the end of December. She will be missed at the BRN and because of hiring freeze will not be able to be replaced. It is anticipated that Jean will continue to work with the new advisory committee.

D. Harms - Meeting with group regarding the Ortiz bill. It is hoped it can continue to move forward despite lack of monies. Visibility is important. An initiative has been advanced by (R.Cohen) to seek funding for nursing institute. It may or may not be successful. Reasons of lack of success in nursing legislation is that CA is that CA is a huge state with many issues to be addressed. The unions have had more success because of labor heavily supported current administration.

Reports from Teams

Career Mobility Team: Diane Welch

Website information done. Sherry Fox to email to Dana Rutledge to put on CSPCN website. Levels of education, financial info, articulation, LVN info, pathways. Will update…. Face-to-face meeting planned for January. On CSPCN website, look for Career Mobility for Nurses.

Competency-based Role Differentiation P. Walker, A. Sargent, D. Rutledge

Background to pilot TriPartnership study. Meeting Dec. 4 with liaisons – discussions of variability in data collection, qualitative data collected; benefit of process information; objective met that tool usable. Model able to be used in practice/education with implications.

Recruitment: L. Miller-Askew & Sarah Keating

Fuld Grant was submitted but not awarded. Lawren reminded us of how videotape was made. Target group – middle and high school students. Dissemination is planned through schools of nursing and major med centers. The Title: Nursing: Opportunities for Caring. Ruth Ann recommend that diversity be added back to the title. This is important to secure funding and emphasize the theme of the tape. Audio will be smoothed out. Credits: CSPCN first with copyright. Websites to be checked for accuracy. Seed funding from St. Johns Medical Center. Need $100,000 to disseminate – Lawren suggested the possibility of $1000 per hospital. Sarah –video production by other groups cost much more…our costs has been very reasonable. No introduction –Ruth Ann was asked to appear in the video and introduce it. She agreed to appear. The Ortiz Bill information will be deleted – too long. A Middle School audience field tested the video and could answer questions about its content.

Next steps: The master copy is with the director as he has not received the final $1000 payment yet. Lawren needs to have him make changes; and secure the master. The Fuld Grant could be recycled to other funding agencies. The tape could be converted into CD-ROMs for dissemination to high school counselors. The California Wellness Foundation has funding for diversity; Lawren to investigate the possibility of their funding the dissemination of the video. Ruth will send the information to Lawren.

Other groups we could network with include: Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow (national group), NURSEWEEK Central Valley initiative, and CNCC. Arlene Sargent offered some suggestions for working with CNCC. It would be very effective if we could stream the video into a website for access to all audiences. However we need to find a site with someone willing to pay monthly server fees as well as the cost of converting the video into web access. Sarah showed mock-up brochure, which captured points from the videotape (this would accompany video when distributed).

Plans for Summit: E.Lewis reported for planning committee. See Project Director's report for the detail of what the Summit planning committee had drafted to date. Based on report and discussion of the need to have good attendance in order to make budget, it was determined that additional time was needed for planning and therefore the IOC recommended that the date of the summit be changed from May 9,2002 to September 13, 2002. The IOC had several suggestions for the planning committee to consider regarding the title: They are:

Ruth Ann says she would be in a better financial situation with a fall meeting.

Need to draw staff nurses and educators. May date would not be good for educators or students. Need to have a look at content. Who are attendees? Broad group. Focus on future! Something to bridge past work with future activities. More participation from attendees. Fall is governor reelection time. Summit Committee to look at this. The IOC also recommended that the conference fee be raised to $100 and a $50 student rate. Several names were suggested for the major key speaker i.e. Liz Figueroa, G.Davis, someone from health committee, D.Bonte, R.Cohen (new health Com member), speaker of the assembly, LA, Herb Wesson, Scott Bill (Pasadena City College - Scott now moved on to technology), J. Goldberg (LA, old board of supervisors). IOC also wants to keep coffee/tea & something light for breakfast for attendees, want a professional brochure, and a save the date card. At statewide conference in February (north this year), make sure student nurses group aware and speaking it up… Diane Welch to check with this group. Vendor efforts could be helpful in increasing Summit revenue. Diane Welch to coordinate this effort. She will connect with Donna Duell, who did this for last Summit, as well as building off her success at the nursing educators annual conference. People with additional ideas need to send ideas to committee members (jrharlow@quixnet.net; pmcfarland@calhealth.org)

Next meeting: March 13 (Wednesday) in Oakland. Details TBA by Jean Harlow. This is a change of date.