- CR will contact the Internal Revenue Service [re: IRC

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1 Location: UPMCHamot Auditorium Members present: Don Bucher (DB); Cathy Robinson (CR); Tammy Huey (TH); Julia Roussos (JR); Carol Hager (CH); Vicki Bocan (VB); Heron Warren (HW); Lucy Morrison (LM); Jason Fisher (JF) Guests: Dustin Schumacher (OS), student Absent, sent regrets: Sue Sitter (55); Colleen Barrett (CB) Call to Order - President Don Approval of Minutes of last meeting: Motion to approve THI CR - approved. 3. Treasurer's Report: given by CR. - Checking: $4, Motion to approve CHI LM - approved. - CD: $10, CR and VB met at Northwest Bank on Pittsburgh Ave, West Erie Plaza on 1112 to transfer signatures to VB and DB. Until DB signs and CR returns the papers to the bank, CR and TH are still the names on the accounts. - CR will orient VB to the treasurer's position at a future date - CR will pay AANP Group membership fee (Annual membership expo 2/28/15) - CR will contact the Internal Revenue Service [re: IRC 501 (c)(6)status] to report new contact information, VB, Secretary- Treasurer. 4. Current Members Report-This report is supposed to go to our Regional Rep, TH, first week of each month, but it was not delivered 1 I Page

2 timely for January No report available at this meeting. TH will follow up. 5. Care for Pennsylvania Campaign: Discussion regarding the reintroduction of the 2013~2014 Senate Bill 1063, which never got out of committee. Bill regarding Full Practice Authority for NPs. -DB and Ann Schlimm are the Campaign Coordinators for our region and will participate in the first conference call on 1/28/15. New 1revised legislation to be introduced in both the PA House (Reps Jesse Topper and Thomas Murt) and Senate (Senator Pat Vance). Wait to speak to your local reps until the new bills are written reference. and we have the bill numbers for -DB is making plans to have several members meet with local State Reps. 6. Regional Rep. report. Given by TH (see attached) * Members who successfully recruit new member to PCNPreceive a chance to win a free registration to the PCNPAnnual Conference. *Free 3 hr. course for mandatory Act 31 credits available now at 7. Lobby Day May 12,2015. SAVETHE DATE. Meet in Harrisburg 0800; Rally 0900; Pre-arrange appointment with your legislators to meet after the rally. -DB will send out date by and Twitter in order to get responses1commitments from membership and attempt to coordinate carpool or rent a van. PCNPis planning to have a block of rooms so that we can go the night before. 2 I c

3 8. National AANP Conference: June 9-14 New Orleans. One board member, executive staff member or NP program director can receive a complimentary registration for the conference. Who will attend? -DB is already planning to attend as he won a registration by virtue of his recent award from AANP: The NP State Award for Excellence, which is given annually to an individual NP in each state who has demonstrated excellence in NP clinical practice. Congratulations, Don! 9. Bylaws-VB will acquire current digital copy from CR, post to PCNP website and forward to DB. DB will solicit comments from membership for revision. Discussion to follow at next meeting. 10. Spring Conference: Committee DB, CH, JR, LM, CH and others. We are sponsoring this in conjunction with NPASP,see below. -Registration is $65. Maximum about 150 attendees/venue. Breakfast and Lunch provided. -JR has set up a Google account (npnpaorg@gmail.com) account, and a PayPal linked to our checking account, so that people can register with credit card. (Cost to us is 2.9% plus $0.30 per registration). available also for future -DB will and contact events, no recurring cost. This will be reach out to Mary Jo Cerepani of NPASPto do mailing to all NPs students. -Vendors welcome. Protocol not yet established. -Plan is to raffle our free registration for the PCNPfall conference (We won this at Nov 2014 conference by getting the most tickets from people trying to win the IPAD we donated to the Chinese Auction) 3 I "3 ~ e

4 -Will consider donation to Penn State Shenango School of Nursing as well as gift cards for custodian and security, pending financial receipts. -The announcement below was in the PCNPNewsletter of 1/12/15: Save the Date Northwest Pennsylvania Nurse Practitioner Association and Nurse Practitioner Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania Spring Conference When: April 18, 2015 Speaker: Wendy Wright Where: Penn State Shenango 1147 Shenango Avenue, Sharon, PA Adjournment - Meeting adjourned at 1855 Motion to adjourn CR/TH- approved. Next meeting date - Saturday April 18, 2015 after Spring Conference. Following the business meeting, we had Journal Club articles from Journal AANP. Articles: 1. Use of Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in the Older Adult--O.91 GEI80 pharm GE 2. Malabsorption anemia & iron supplement induced constipation in post Roux- en- Y gastric bypass patients-o.91 GEIO.27phann GE 3. Orthostatic Hypotension in older people-o. 9 GEIO.24 phann GE 4. Multidisciplinary osteoporosis management of post low-energy trauma hipfracture patients-1.0 GElO.25 pharm 5. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in adults: an overview-o.93 GEIO pharm GE

5 SusanSitter, President-Elect JR presented #3; VB presented #1; CH presented #2, 4, & 5. Participants CR; TH; HW; LM FUTUREMEETINGDATES/LOCATION: April 18, 2015 after SPRINGCONFERENCE2pm-4pm June 20, 2015 September 11, 2015 November 14, 2015 Edinboro University 11am-1pm Sue S. food Edinboro University 6pm-8pm Julia R. food Allegheny Health/St. Vincent 11am-1pm Ann S. food Respectfully submitted, 5 I ''1 Q E'

6 NPNPA MEETING Coalition Representative Report PCNP Board meeting 1/10/15 Treasurer Report: Julia Roussos Net Conference Profit $87,000, 2014 Budget on target did not need to take anything from savings Finance committee looking into investing 50,000 to 100,000 President Report: Lorraine Bock Weekly conference call with Committee leaders and officers, will send out minutes on a monthly basis on PCNP website to keep members informed on board activities 2014 Conference 575 Attendees, $10,098 raised with PAC baskets (NPNPA sold the most) Each member who brings a new member in will have their name placed in a drawing for a paid registration to the state conference. Brochures may use old ones, will update in the future,? donation from regional groups Membership list will be sent out to each regional group between the 1 st and the is" of every month Chief Executive Officer Report: Sue Schrand SB 1063 didn't make it out of committee, revising language to strengthen case for direct reimbursement and to add ACA non-discrimination language. Senator Vance has agreed to reintroduce the bill and Rep Topper will sponsor a companion bill in the House. Regulatory issue, working with PA Homecare Association on changes with DOH. They cannot accept an NP's orders at this time. This will effect non-medicare/medicaid patients only Care for PA continuing campaign PCNP membership 1508, statewide 9477 NP's Strategic Planning: 3 proposals received. Reviewed at meeting, board members voted to retain Michaela Perrone PHD Strategic Program Communication Program: Sue Schrand and Lorraine Bock Sue is running for region 3 director of AANP, be sure to vote for her! Legislative Report Reviewed current and new members in the legislature Session schedule was provided Lobby Day 5/12/15 meet at 8 am to review talking points, rally at 9 am then meetings with members November, December and January meeting were summarized

7 Ceisler Media Care for Pennsylvania Campaign New bills to be introduced to senate and house will have new numbers, don't contact legislators until that time Monthly calls to leadership Video project, interviews at PCNP November conference (Paul Dill) on PCNP facebook page to watch Child abuse CE Websites to be posted on PCNP site Narcan online training: naloxone today Next meeting Respectfully submitted, Tammy Huey