MOUNT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAM FACULTY MEETING MINUTES September 14, 2015 FINAL Present: Michelle Boyer,, Denise Condra, Arleen Fiorito, Jamie Hooper, Connie Kunkler, Billie Lynes, Jondea Orr, Genene Arvidson-Perkins, Carolyn Perry, Oscar Romero, Lance Wilcher, Crystal Espinosa (Student Rep). Susie Chen (excused) Scribe: Carolyn Perry Facilitator: Oscar Romero Time Keeper: Lance Wilcher TOPICS DISCUSSIONS ACTIONS 1. Review Meeting Agenda Agenda reviewed. Agenda Accepted with minor revision: add item #5a PIE, Change Item #17 to Nursing 9 and change item# 18 to Student Issue, 2. Final Review Faculty Minutes Minutes were approved.. August 21, 2015 final meeting from August 21, 2015. 3. Student Rep Crystal Espinosa (1 st Semester Rep) discussed how the Power Point Lectures do not match the Power Point Lectures that are presented. minutes draft filed. Mrs. Orr explained that the posted Power Point Lectures are provided for the student as a guideline. She further explained that as a teaching team the information is being continuously reviewed and updated as necessary. Students are responsible for studying the material as it is outlined and 1
covered in the course. Ms. Espinosa also discussed the inability of one student to access Moodlerooms. Student Reps: 1 st Semester-Crystal Espinosa, 2 nd Semester-Andrew Hollis, 3 rd Semester-Mary Water, 4 th Semester-Peter Liu Ms. Espinosa was provided with several suggestions on how the student could gain access to Moodlerooms. 4. Director Report Michelle presented the following info discussed at COADN Meeting; New Bill pending approval re: Military Issues (Personnel credit for military experience) Nurse Tim Handout distributed for Free Faculty CEU s NCLEX some complaints of taking more than 90 days to test. We need to notify NEC when this occurs. Please inform/notify Nursing Director. Men in Nursing Conference coming up November 13, and 14, 2015. Flyers are being distributed. Advisory Meetings; October 9. 2015 Michelle will attend the LA Regional Advisory for Nursing Affiliates Director Report Attached. For information. Flyer distributed 2
October 15, 2015 between 1400 1600 our Annual Advisory Committee Meeting will take place in Bldg. 67A Rm. 150 Back to School Night is September 17, 2015 1800 to 2000. Please RSVP with Maria. Application Process; 170 completed application. 120 Applications are in Review and will need to be completed by September12, 2015. Michelle asked faculty to email request the number of hours needed for tutors PIE deferred to agenda item 5a We need to maintain consistency with anecdotal and remediation for Tardy and/or incomplete work. (ie:3 Tardies = 1 Absence). Student Handbook needs to be reviewed by all faculty. Billie will take over revising the handbook. Faculty Association contract approved. Adjunct faculty must complete 1 office hour per week. Their rate of pay is going up to $25.00 for that hour. The office hour needs to be posted in the syllabus. It can be ½ hour before clinical and ½ hour after clinical. Office hours can be done by phone as long as the office hour is posted and students are notified. Adjunct faculty must have a MTSAC email account. All communication must be done through MTSAC email only. Budget: Please email your intended use of Please RSVP to Maria if you are going to our Advisory Meeting 3
CTA s and/or Tutors for your class this semester by October 02, 2015. Elsevier Conference: The conference is in Las Vegas. If you are interested, please email Michelle by October 07, 2015. 5. Department Chair Report PIE Goals Each Faculty meeting we will spend 5-10 minutes discussing our PIE Goals) Goal #1 Draw students to MTSAC Establish a Professional Photo Wall (10/15) Posters with Adjunct Photos Review Grad Survey SLO s are at 100% (3yrs update) Alumni Success board T2P (song Brown Funded) Fall 2015 and Spring 2015. It is a 12-week course. The course contains 240 hours of bedside care. The student must have graduated, passed the RN board and is not working as an RN. Goal #2 Moving Students Through our Programs Efficiently Goal #3 Provide Our Students with in-demand skills Goal #4 Providing our Students with a Path to Transfer and/or Employment Goal #5 Engage Alumni Discussion ensued to consider real time minutes for departments meetings and advisories. Also to consider rolling minutes into the next agenda and to consider discussing 5 or ten minutes on PIE in each department meeting. 4
Lack of Fulltime Positions (we have 3 positions) 6. Committee Report- Admission 170 students applied. Top 150 applications are being reviewed by faculty. Faculty review of applications needs to be completed by September 21, 2015. Then the top 120 will be sent to Counseling for Verification Appointment. NCLEX Review is week of January 04, 2016. New Nursing Orientation is week of January 11, 2016.. 7. Committee Report Curriculum Connie asked faculty to bring SBAR Assessments to next Curriculum meeting. Electronic Binders: Connie suggested we go to electronic minutes instead of maintaining binders with paper minutes. 8. Committee Report Program Evaluation Faculty requested to submit agendas items prior to the next meeting. Further discussion needed 9. Academic Senate Jaimie is unable to attend the next Academic Senate Meeting is seeking a faculty volunteer. Need Volunteer. 10. CNSA Denise discussed interclub paperwork requirements. 11. Faculty Association Oscar emailed faculty association information to all 5
faculty. 12. Content Expert Reports OB: Denise attended orientation and discussed the new patient simulator. 13. Mt St Mary s University Update MSMU/MTSAC meeting October 8, 2015 at 3:30 14. CEDC Genene asked if our faculty would entertain a class so that we could be on the job screening committees. 15. POTH Connie discussed the upcoming fundraiser and changes to POTH for year 2016. Encouraged faculty participation. 16. Pinning Ceremony Update The Pinning Ceremony is Saturday December 12, 2015 at 5:30 PM. 17. Nursing 9 Arleen wants to apply for an online course for Nursing 9 18. Student Issue Closed session The group reached consensus that yes they would like a class on Mondays, held after N1A was done. They also reached consensus that the campus could be invited should others want to attend. Consensus reached to move forward in seeking online status. 6