NEWONS Membership Meeting Agenda
February 06, 2008 5:30 pm Registration and Networking
Rock Garden/Comfort Suites
1951 BOND Street, Green Bay
920-497-4701
Speaker: Dr. Edith Krueger
Sponsor: MGI Pharma
2008 Officers and Chairs for NEWONS
President Vicki Eggebrecht
Chapter Excellence Award Connie
President Elect Shirley TriestWorzala
Robertson
National Awards Monitor Karen
Past President Karen Klarkowski
Klarkowski
Secretary Amy Blevins
Membership- Richelle Deist, Jason
Treasurer Lisa Wright
Buxell
Programs Nancy VanAlstine
2008 Outstanding Achievement
Nominating Roberta Baxter
Award – Jason Buxell
Historian Karen Klarkowski/Jan Burt
Outreach - Jennifer Kolar
Web Site Shirley Triest-Robertson
What’s the Buzz – Jason Buxell
Grants Michelle Hamre
Scholarships – Bonnie Hoersch
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II.
Call to order- Vicki President –Call to order @ 5:55 PM President
called for motion to add chairs to standing committees, initially
members agreed to add this with vote – however with further
discussion: This will serve as member notification and vote for
acceptance or rejection will be completed at March Meeting. Members
were reminded of Presidents working situation and need to contact
President per Phone @ 262-894-4520 if no response by email in time
needed.
Reports:
A. Secretary- Amy Blevins – Excused Lisa Wright completed minutes
in Amy’s absence.
Members present tonight = 22 Appreciation extended to MGI for
support of tonight’s meeting
B. Membership – Richele Deist / Jason Buxell Excused – Vicki
introduced new member tonight: Welcome was extended to Lynn
Schroeder CNS works at Amgen Pharmaceutical and lives in the
Twin Cities and looks forward to being a part of our group.
C. Program- Nancy VanAlstine: Discussed need for flyer changes to
meet the minimum requirements for CNE certification. Nancy has
started to work on this process and that is why the meeting flyer has
changed at this meeting. We will need Meeting place and time as
well as general format i.e. business meeting & time, speaker & time,
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networking & time. Nancy discussed survey of educational needs
as completed by members and members requested if this could be
posted on WEB and Nancy agreed. Discussion continued
regarding need for evaluation of all meetings even if they are not
CNE’ed to give members a greater voice and help program
committee develop programs of interest. Not all meetings can be
sponsored by Pharma companies due to CME requirements.
Members discussed possible revenue options; such as grants
which could be applied for and put into a general education fund,
use of monographs for CNE’s & criteria discussed, Adding display
table at each meeting & charge $250.00 to have outside of meeting
room for educational opportunity. Future meetings and topics
discussed: March 6 – Multiple Myeloma, April 1st – Rosch TBA, May
7th – MGI CINV BREAK September 9th – Bone Loss in Malignancy
ONS CEU’s, OCT Fall Conference, Nov 12th – TBA, DEC 3 - TBA.
D. Treasurer-Lisa Wright Discussed treasure report to be posted on
WEB site – members agreed to have available for review upon
request, $1000.00 given as scholarship to Green Bay Fund in
mistake rather than $500.00.
E. Nominating - Roberta Baxter Announce Positions Excused
submitted written report All members were sent out election results
and current board and committee chair members, positions for
2009: PROGRAM / NOMINATING / MEMBERSHIP / GRANTS /
WEBSITE. Roberta encouraged everyone to start to think of
positions of interest to run for. Discussion continue regarding ways
to increase voting and from membership feed back regarding need
for more than one person to run for office – this would make voting
more relevant – some members feel with one person running what is
the need to vote. Some challenges with email process, some
members could not open ballot: some suggestions discussed: send
out test ballot with instruction on how to open and have email
notification of opening of email. Also some members sent back
blank ballots – instruction on detachment and need to save and then
reply. Continue with blind fax return – Shirley Triest – Robertson
discussed confidentiality of fax vote process. Will Karen Watzka
still return to help us with voting? Members notified of request to
change voting time table: Roster out by Oct meeting – Vote in
November and report results in Dec. This would allow new board to
start more quickly in January 09. Voting on this issue scheduled for
March meeting.
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F. Web Site & Newsletter - Shirley Triest-Robertson Report Newsletter
committee established and no meeting as of yet due to weather
closings and safety needs. Shirley will post revised grant
information and needs survey on WEB site. Calendar was updated;
date of next meeting needs to be written in minutes of previous
meeting for better communication with members.
G. Grants – Michelle Hamre - Report Michelle request input from
members as to change in grant request – Presently we offer grants
every 3 years and we discussed offering this opportunity to
members for every other year. This would offer membership more
access to national meetings and we have the funds to support this.
A motion was sent to the floor to increase eligibility from 3 years to
every 2 years by Nancy Van Alstine and a second was submitted by
Shirley Triest – Robertson and members passed with 100% positive
vote. ONS Congress id scheduled for May 15-18, 2008 and 3
grants are available.
H. Scholarships – Bonnie Hoersch Reported 2 scholarships were
awarded One to Diane Haszel of UW - GB & One to Heidi Bauman
______________. $1000.00 was given to UW-GB in error to follow
up with school to evaluate possible refund.
I. Community outreach activities - Jenny Kolar Excused Rosemary
Brelow reported and read moving thank you letter from St John’s
Shelter. Tonight’s recipient of our grant is Fr. Blair Emergency
Shelter of Fox Valley Appleton, WI. This organization was started
in 1981 as giving vouchers for homeless people to stay at hotel. In
1997 a building was built for temporary shelter for homeless.
Tonight NEWONS will donate $100.00 and $20.00 was raised from
member’s donations. Speaker commented how wonderful
NEWONS was for our community service work that we do in the
community and will take this back to her medical group.
J. What’s the Buzz Report - Jason Buxell excused Richelle Diest
K. Historian - Karen Klarkowski No report
L. President Report- Vicki Eggebrecht
 Need to start Fall Education Planning Committee – This is
critical to start Now – Members invited to join Elisabeth
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and Lisa agreed to join as well as myself and Karen
Klarkowski. Meeting to be scheduled
Program for supportive care – discuss dates, possible
times. Members interested in this opportunity. Will
present this idea as possible topic for Education Day /
Fall Conference
New Business Karen presented 3 protocol used for
patient care (pain control, Rash due to chemotherapy or
biotherapy, Diarrhea from Chemotherapy/Biotherapy) for
members to review any input would be very much
appreciated.
In closing Vicki thanked members for there continued
support. The weather has offered continue challenges at
the start of this year and members have been receptive
to frequent changes needed.
III.
Date/Location/Speaker of next meeting – March 6th Rock Garden
Multiple Myeloma
IV.
Adjournment Introduce speaker Drawing for Applebees gift certificate
______________Meeting adjourned @ 6:40 PM by Vicki Eggebrecht
ONS Vision
The vision of the Oncology Nursing Society is to lead the transformation of
cancer care.
ONS Mission
The mission of the Oncology Nursing Society is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and
quality cancer care.
Core Values of ONS and Affiliated Corporations
When all else changes, values endure. Values are our organizations' guiding principles. They
represent our core beliefs for the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) and its family of affiliated
corporations, including the ONS Foundation, Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation, and
OES. The ONS values serve to guide our leaders and members. All are encouraged to assign
their personal meaning to each of these words, for values are beliefs, both personal and
collective. The explanatory phrases with each value are meant as guides for understanding.
These phrases should neither limit the intent of the value nor serve as a definition.
Goals / Strategic Plan 2008
1. Encourage and invite prospective nurses into the world of Oncology by awarding nursing
scholarships to students at local universities/colleges.
 Include a one year student membership to ONS and NEWONS.
 Promote networking between scholarship recipient and membership by awarding
scholarships at chapter meeting.
2. Contribute to community outreach by encouraging members to bring donations of food,
money or other items to each meeting to be donated to a charity of a member’s choice.
 The chapter will contribute $100.00 each month in conjunction with member
donations.
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3. Explore new ways to recruit & retain , continue to allocate resources that give continuing
nursing education to our membership, i.e. programmed modules as groups, CD
programs, and ONS sponsored programs.
4. Continue to support national ONS activities
 Support ONS Foundation raffle for congress
 Support other requests from ONS to donate financially
 To increase participation in national organization by increasing membership
voting in national elections, nominate chapter members for national award and
have chapter members participate at national conference.
5. To develop a newsletter of monthly communication for chapter.
Date: January 28, 2008
Name: Richelle Deist
Education: UW – Stevens Point (Bachelors Degree is
Health/Promotion Wellness)
Work Facility: MGI Pharma
Family: Jeff (Husband), Dominick (4 Years) and Brock (1
Year), Madi (Golden Retriever) & Gracee (cat)
Interests/Hobbies: Cooking, Reading, Scrap booking and
Shopping
What is the one thing you enjoy most about your job? The
people I get to meet and work with on a daily basis and
learning about the disease states and treatment options for
cancer patients.
Why did you join NEWONS? It’s an opportunity to continue
learning and to get more involved in the Oncology Nursing
Community.
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