5/2/2024 SEWNY General Membership Meeting Minutes Approved

John McIntyre (co-president of SEWNY- retiring Dec, simulation educator, University of Rochester)

Maria Bajwa (co-president of SEWNY, simulation educator)

Sharon Kurtz (Roberts Wesleyan University, assistant professor)

Ruth Ann Nasso (technical assistance MCC- Sim ops)

Laura Coles (Director of Clinical, Roberts Wesleyan University)

Rebecca Herlan (GCC, simulation educator)

Brie Geisler (assistant professor- voted secretary, Roberts Wesleyan University)

Laura Paytash (simulation educator, Graduate Clinical Education Co-Coordinator, University of Rochester)

New Business:

John Mcintyre is retiring - Thank you for everything you have done over the years!

Secretary position filled- Brie Geisler voted in (8 attendees)

Co-chair for president of SEWNY open (John leaving in December)

Treasurer Update:

$4896.24- Kim B is treasurer  5,396.24 once we get final vendor check 

Meeting Minutes:

Goals by end of 2024 

Organizational structure Moving the meeting in a more structured way 

Roberts Rules implement during 2025 

Motion to Pass and require a second 

Governance discussion

Establish monthly meetings 

Invitations / reminders 

Jen zignoni is webpage expert for sewny specialist - brie to meet and collaborate meeting minutes for webpage 

Ideas for website updates:

Website link = https://sewny-newyork.squarespace.com/

Submit to john and maria info for website from certain schools that are part of SEWNY

Network sharing page- add in recipes for moulage?

New simulation/ sim sharing (what's new in simulation)

RWU escape room 

MCC escape room 

Open discussion:

Call for schools to send information to include on the SEWNY website

Sim sharing: Write up a blog/post to be put in What’s New in Simulation

Discussion Board (to ask for advice, experiences, products, etc) Something that should be looked at and information disseminated to all members (touch base with Jen Z to discuss this)

Discussion surrounding setting a routine meeting time/day each month. Using “when2meet” might be easier than a doodle poll. Google Forms would be another possible option. 

Experiential Learning Sumit at University of Rochester June 6th, 7th. Registration is open see link below. 

SEWNY is LLC right now. The last treasurer closed out the organization, which required setting the SEWNY organization back up. Due to time constraints with setting it up as a non-profit, the option was to go LLC. Future: switch over to education non-profit. 

Should we implement bylaws based on the organization rules

Needs follow up:

Give Brie Geisler access to the webpage as the new secretary (talk with Jen Z. so meeting minutes can be entered)- done

When2Meet survey on meeting times- done

Goals for 2025 for the organization

Organizational structure development

Organizational Governance: Nomination Procedures/Voting: voting rules/by laws, criteria

Frequency of meetings- done

Digital record of SEWNY activities

Update the website to include all schools that participate:  call for members to send their information and any pictures with captions to Jen Z and cc John, Brie, and Maria- done but need reminders

Next meeting: 

John to schedule next Board meeting first then will send out when2meet poll to general members 

When2meet- polling site- enter name and put in availability for when works to meet month to month

June 6th & 7th Experiential Learning Summit at URSON Helen Wood Hall Register here https://son.rochester.edu/experiential-summit/index.html?utm_source=DNP+Summit&utm_campaign=37fdb95369-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_04_29_08_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-37fdb95369-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

10/17/2024 SEWNY General Membership Meeting Minutes 

Attendees 

John McIntyre Maria Bajwa; Kim Buholtz  Ruth Ann Nasso; Liz Schwarz; Brie Geisler

Every member- please take a moment and fill out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRJl9Qdfv-_5N-OHuaB5WGq1JI2NlNRrFLMQWkhwHpmpZqtA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0 

Open discussion/ SIM news:

• U of R school of nursing is apart of an Acsend grant - project developed through the behavioral and developmental pediatric program and has expanded to adult specialty as well. Education for nurses who work with patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. There is a didactic portion and then a three different simulations Kim and Erin Baylor created. There’s a goal to share the ideas with other institutions as well in the future 

• U of R also had an NP program interprofessional sim on sexual health counseling 

• John discussed some changes in sim and having students have peer reviewers instead of going in with another student so they can work independently and receive feedback 

• Ruth Ann mentioned we can discuss different product we each use for sim such as printing drug labels 

Presentation: 

Maria Bajwa presented on AI in Teaching and Learning practices in the experiential learning summit back in June. She was able to give some research and background info on how AI can and should be safely implemented in teaching practice. 

Needs follow up:

• Google form gets sent out again to get some more feedback - Brie to send out 

• Next meeting agenda items - educational activities, products being used in sim

Next meeting: December 12th 1p-2p 

Looking for anyone to share any educational updates at the next meeting. Email Brie geisler