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Metropolitan Washington
Association of Occupational Health Nurses (MWAOHN)
Annual Business Meeting Minutes May 9, 2007
Dinner, awards, and CEU lecture preceded the
business meeting. Business
meeting was held from: 8:40 PM-9 PM
These minutes pending approval by e-mail audit and
acceptance by attendees;
Paper copy will be presented at the 2008 annual
meeting, to be held on May 14, 2008
Attendance/Quorum
Count: 15 active MWAOHN members,
including 3 officers of the board, including the President.
Quorum achieved.
Location:
U.S. Capitol Ford House of Representatives
Office Building
Cafeteria
3rd and D
Streets SW
Washington, DC
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Program
activity
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Discussion
or notes
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Result
or Action
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The
evening began with
a
dinner buffet from 6 to 7:00 PM was followed by a presentation in honor of
Lucille Camarota, RN, MSN.
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Lucille
has been a member of MWAOHN since 1965 and worked in Occupational Health in
DC for 40 years. She won a contest in 1967, 40 years ago, for choosing the
best name for the chapter newsletter:
the “REFLEX.” MWAOHN’s REFLEX newsletter won the AAOHN 2007 Chapter
Communications Award.
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Barbara
Hayden accepted the 2007 AAOHN Communications Award on behalf of MWAOHN. The
award, given at the AAOHN convention in Orlando,
FL. in April ‘07, was a plaque and a $ 300 check. It recognizes MWAOHN for
having the best newsletter in the USA! The plaque will remain in
the home of our current Editor, Claudia Beach.
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From 7:15 until 8:30 PM, members enjoyed a 1.0 CEU presentation
on Lyme Disease.
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Our
speaker, Kitty Nalewaik, NP, MSN, COHN-S, gave a power point presentation on “Lyme
Disease.”
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1.0
CEUs were awarded to all participants. The topic was very well received
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At
8:30 PM, a drawing for door prizes was held.
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This
was in order to allow our guests and non-voting attendees to leave before the
annual business meeting
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9 prizes were
awarded
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8:40
PM annual meeting began.
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Roll call
determined 15 active members were present, including 3 officers, one of whom
was our President, so quorum was achieved. Agenda was adopted, rules agreed
upon, minutes from the May 24, 2006 annual meeting read and accepted
unanimously by the members. Reports from the following officers and committee
chairs received:
- Chapter President Virginia Rauer
-Annual report.
- Karen Vesterby, Treasury- Treasurer’s
report and Professional Affairs Committee Chairman’s report.
- Beverly Kozak, Chairman: Governmental
Affairs Committee.
- Ludie Gibson, Chairman: Membership
Committee
- Joe Ann Conrades, Chairman: Planning
Committee.
- Claudia Beach, Chairman: Public
Affairs/Reflex Committee.
- Linda Scotti, Chairman: Community
Affairs and Chairman: Telephone Tree
- Lillie Mitchell, Chairman: Nominating
Committee
- Chief Teller
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Nominations
Committee
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Ballots were
sent out and received, but the Chief teller, Lillie Mitchell, is not present
to make her report.
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The board
Secretary, Barbara Hayden, and Chapter president, Ginny Rauer, promised the
assembly that we would notify them of the election results when they were
available. All agreed.
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Bylaws
were revised and reviewed favorably by AAOHN but the chapter needed to vote
to accept them.
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Bylaws had been
distributed for review to the members 2 months prior to this meeting;
additional copies were passed out for last minute review. A vote was called
to accept the by-laws and this was passed unanimously.
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Bylaws as
amended in January 2007 were accepted unanimously.
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New
Business
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It might be
helpful to have our new bylaws made into a single booklet with NVAOHN and
SVMAOHN bylaws. This would provide a handy reference.
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Announcements
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The planned
dinner CEU topics for 2007 - 2008 session were announced, and suggestions
taken for other topics. One of the
suggestions was “How to recognize and intervene with employees who may be
suffering domestic abuse.”
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Adjournment
at 9:00 PM
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Respectfully
submitted August 28, 2007, Barbara Hayden, Secretary, MWAOHN
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