COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO
NURSING DEPARTMENT
NURSING STUDENT ASSOCIATION MINUTES
Date: October 24, 2010
PRESENT: Miranda Wyatt, Elsa Hagner, Nicole Cagampan, Mike Palapinyo, Jacqueline Mapalo, Lesly Louie,
Norma Hopkins, Brenda Van Fosson, Carolina Puentes, Joey Cortes, Jr., Rhea Abella, Sanjani Kumar, Rey
Vargas, Christine Larson, Alyssa Viloria, Daisy Salmeron, Tanya Isaeff, Rita Tachis, Cecilia Velasco, Haidee
Lacsina.
MEETING TIME/ LOCATION: 9am, College of San Mateo building 5 room 339
Topics
Discussion & Decisions
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Update from Treasurer (Rey)
Minutes recorded by: Nicole Cagampan
Meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m.
Current budget: $7332. 62 in CSM account.
Status of student fees collected:
 Only 3 people turned it in.
 Deadline: December 1, 2011.
 Ideas needed to encourage the 2nd year students to turn it in.
Secretary (Nicole
Cagampan)
Advisory Update
(Miranda and Norma)
(Daisy and Cecilia)
Representative Update
(Rhea and Lesly)
(Christine and Alyssa)
Activities
(Carolina and Brenda)
Money from Celia’s (10/13) – N/A (too soon)
New Secretary! Welcome Nicole!
Blue “Let’s Communicate” Sheets:
 Students are worried about competition about the new grading scale.
 Concerned about calling the grade a “C” (when it is above 80%).
 Ideas to address:
- Bring to advisory meeting:
1) Statistics from other community colleges in writing.
 Bring up grading scale at the next advisory meeting.
New 2nd Year Rep: Lesly Louie. Welcome Lesly!
Apparel: Reps trying to get the Nursing apparel in the CSM bookstore.
 Options include pullover, hoodies, t-shirt, or zip-up sweater.
 Met up with Dave and have designs
 Two designs for students from 1st year and 2nd year to vote on.
Holiday party: Crown Plaza on Tuesday 12/13/11 at 7:00 pm. $15 per person.
Collect RSVPs:
 An e-vite will be going out later on this week with information and RSVP
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information.
 Carolina and Brenda are in the process of working on e-vite.
Collect Money:
 Pay-pal is an option.
 Checks can be made out to Carolina or Brenda.
 Christine and Alyssa will be in charge of collecting money from 1st year
students.
Cake is also an option.
Adopt a family for Christmas: (Tanya, Christine, and Miranda)
 Christine is waiting on information from her aunt.
 Main places include: Salvation army, JCPenny does it online, Coastside
Hope
 More interested in using Coastside Hope but Christine and Miranda said
they would work together to choose.
Caminar House: (Rita)
December 12
 NSA members will get together at 4:30 pm to assemble packages and
finalize details.
NSA will get together on 12/12/11 to put the packages together.
Beth will take boxes to Caminar
 Pending
Helpers needed
 Pending
Hang fliers
 Fliers are located on the board.
Remind students every couple of weeks to bring stuff in.
Boxes: Done.
 Boxes must be checked in Cosmetology department.
Mary Kay Fundraiser (Haidee)
 Has not gotten much of a response.
 Students encouraged to buy things since holiday is coming up.
 E-mail Haidee to place order at: veniceapples@gmail.com
 There’s a 40% commission.
 Website: www.marykay.com/hlacsina
One can Food Drive (Norma and Cassandra)
 Reminder must be made in class.
 Can drop off whenever
 Website: www.bringonecan.org
Newsletter
First vital signs issue: Came out 10/21. Great job, Newsletter!
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(Mike, Jackie, Haidee,
Sanjani)
(Summer, Joey, Cassandra,
Aaron)
There were some formatting issues.
Mike is trying to work out the formatting issue with Alma.
Need to encourage more 1st year students to take photos and e-mail to
Mike.
Webpage
 Mike talked to Alma about it a couple weeks ago and he will remind Alma
the next day.
 Photos on website to be changed and updated.
to-do’s:
Kaplan test review:
Get a census in class on who is interested in taking an NCLEX Review course
from Kaplan.
 Elsa will check with Jane and check dates.
 Looking around the 1st week of Nurs 242
If 75% of class (about 38 students) attends NCLEX Strategy Seminar, Kaplan will
raffle off One FREE Kaplan Course at the Seminar
 Snacks will be provided at Seminar
 Kaplan will offer attendees $75 OFF any Kaplan Complete program (retail
cost is $499 – discounted it would be $424)
 Three-days: eight hours/day.
 If there are about 15-20 students who are interested, class can be held at
CSM
During the NCLEX Seminar nurses will learn:
 How the NCLEX exam is designed
 What the NCLEX exam is used for
 How you can prepare for the exam
 How Kaplan's Qbank provides state of the art test preparation
 Recent NCLEX Changes
 How to sign up for a Kaplan NCLEX course
Location (Elsa): Cañada College - pending
 Cañada College has more space than CSM’s Theater. There will be a limit
on guests; about 7-8 people per person.
 Jane and Elsa are working on booking it
 Tickets may be raffled off if some students do not use all their tickets
 Jackie will be coordinating ideas on how to distribute unused tickets
Date: Rehearsal: May 22nd time TBA, Ceremony Wed., May 23, 2012 5p-8p
Pinning Ceremony
Photographer: Volunteer to coordinate: Haidee, Brenda
 Last year-Topher—Still want to use?-pending
Flowers: Volunteer: Miranda
 Last year-Sona—Still want to use?
Programs: Volunteer: Jackie, Lesly
 Jackie and Lesly will look at a place to print.
 They will get ideas and research pricing.
Music: Rey, Mike
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Sashes (Rhea and Carolina)
 Some sashes were missing. Rhea gave a design sample to her friend who
just left for the Philippines.
 He will get reimbursed when he gets back.
 There will be one of each of the following…
-NSA Rep
-Events Coordinator
-Editor and Chief
Attire
 Follow CSM dress code for nursing students
 May wear scrubs or nurse dress
 Hats may be an option (optional)
Pins
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Open discussion
Alma and Jane have information about the company they use.
Students order their own pin.
Carolina is in charge.
Questions? Concerns?
Elsa would like NSA members to be more responsive to her e-mails and to the emails of other NSA members. There has been an extreme lack of responses.
Next Meeting November 21, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.