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Board Minutes
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April
5, 2002
Twin Falls
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Members Present: Steve Schaal, Tanya Baker-Layer, Nancy
Roberts, Carmen Griggs, Carlene Gaston, Judy Edge, Duke Richardson, Renie
Johnson, Conrad olbCy, Lande and Pam Lambert, Rob Devinaspre, Heidi Brown,
Amanda Kisk, Marilyn Miller, David Blakeman, Ramona Sailor.
Nancy Roberts, President, called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were not read.
Treasurer's Report:
The treasurer’s report was accepted. (See attached)
Committee Reports:
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PACT – Renie and Conrad will meet with the Idaho Congressman on April 12.
The issue at this time is Home Care.
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Membership – David is the new membership chair. Nancy drafted a letter
to send to persons who have not renewed their membership.
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Delegates report – Renie stated the summer forum is June 12, The resolutions
needing decided upon will be addressed at the next meeting.
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Newsletter – Nancy stated we received $150 from Norco and $100 from Mednow.
The next issue goes out in April.
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Nominations – Nolan Bybee is the new chair.
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Bylaws – No report.
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Camp Super Breathers – There are 40 counselors and 10 campers signed up.
Need to look for more campers. There are 30 scholarships available.
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Fall Conference – The Nevada Society did not wish to participate in the
planning. The new dates for the conference will be August 22-23 at
Cactus Pete’s in Jackpot Nevada. David had downloaded some information
on how to plan a conference. This will be passed on to each conference
chair.
Old Business:
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Website – A motion was passed to have Pam Lambert continue as the web master
and to pay her yearly. She will also pay the bills yearly and submit
a bill for all the services yearly to be reimbursed.
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Asthma Summit is September 23-24 in Boise.
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Disaster Response – Lande stated that all persons who wish to become part
of this team must pass a security check.
New Business:
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International Fellow – Nola will no longer be doing this. After Conrad
volunteered BSU, a motion was made to have BSU pick up this project.
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Nominations for Life and Honorary Membership – The deadline has passed
for this year, but the following names were suggested for next year,
Tom Gable, Conrad Colby and Paul Gauer.
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President’s meeting – The AARC is sending the president-elect all the information
that the president gets in order to help get the president elect get ready
to take over the president’s duties with a better understanding of what
is expected. David stated one of the big concerns he learned about
is the societies tax status. Duke will look in to finding this out.
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Scholarship – The deadline for application was changed to August 1.
The committee to select a winner will be composed of Nancy, David and Ramona.
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Other – Duke will look into having discussions via a private site on the
internet. Duke also reported that there is a Respiratory Therapist that
works at St. Joe’s in Lewiston that has colon cancer. There will
be a golf tournament benefit for him on May 4. His name is
Gene Reel. The ISRC will send $200.00 to help him out.
The next meeting will be in McCall on June 7 at 7:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
ISRC Secretary Elect

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August
22, 2002
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Jackpot
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| Members present: Rob DiVinespre, Tom Gable, Nola Darling, Lande
Lambert, Marilyn Miller, Steve Schaal, Terry Hale, Nancy Roberts, Tanya
Baker-Layer, Jody Edge, Renie Johnson, Conrad Colby, Ramona Sailor, Jan
Ford, Leslie Mulder
President Nancy Roberts called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The treasurer was unable to attend. The report is attached.
A motion was made to renew CD # 2 for 6 months. This will make it
due about the same time as CD #3. At the next meeting it will be
discussed as to what to do with them. Renew them as CD’s or invest
them elsewhere.
PACT Report: Renie and Conrad reported that more grassroots involvement
and more public awareness of respiratory issues is needed. Idaho
has no key congressmen on health care related committees, but congressman
were made aware of issues to vote on.
Membership: Nancy sent letters to 12 non renewers, 3 of those
did renew their AARC membership. David Blakeman has the student list
to contact. 10 new members have preregistered for the conference.
Renie has called the Idaho hospital Respiratory Therapy departments and
has talked to 16 of them. There was a lengthy discussion on how best
to keep people informed. Suggestions were to call department directors
at work and send a letter about the website to directors. Nancy will
e-mail board members with a letter she will draft.
Delegates: Renie went through the resolutions that were brought
up for voting. A motion was made that when there are resolutions
to be decided upon, they will be communicated to the department heads to
discuss them with their staff to help increase contact and feedback on
the issues concerning respiratory therapy. Dr’s offices and
DME’s will be included. They will also be made available on the website
and put into the newsletter.
Newsletter: The next issue will go out after the conference with
pictures. Pam Lambert will put it together.
Nominations: There is at least one name of a person running for
each office needed. There should be results by the next meeting.
Bylaws: No report
Camp Super Breathers: There were 24 campers. It was successful,
fun and there were no incidents. There will be pictures posted on
the website.
Fall Conference: Due to company policy, the public awareness events
will not be allowed. It was decided to give $250.00 too the speakers
as an honorarium.
Old Business
Scholarship: There have been no applications turned in.
Disaster Response: The application will be made available at the
conference as well as on the website. There still is not enough people
to have an Idaho team.
International fellow: Idaho will be getting a Dr. from India late
in September.
Message board on the Internet: Nancy asked that board members
use this as a communication tool.
Credit card: Tabled until the next meeting.
New Business
Duke Richardson has moved to Colorado, but will finish out his term
as treasurer.
Tom Gable brought to the board’s attention, that a food service bill
for the conference two years ago remains outstanding. A motion was
made to pay it.
COPD Awareness: November is COPD Awareness month and Respiratory Care
week is October 20-26. All the paper work has been submitted to the
governor’s office. A date needs to be set to have a group of respiratory
therapist’s come to the statehouse to witness the signing. Carmen
Griggs will notify the governor’s office to set a date. The
board members will be contacted with the date.
Licensure for Polysomnographers: A lengthy discussion about
this ensued What has been proposed is to open the Respiratory licensure
bill and include polysomnographers in it. A motion was made to not
support this bill as written. There was one abstention. We
will get a panel consisting of one polytech who is certified, one who is
not, two respiratory therapist’s and an educator to put together a proposal
to respond to this. Nancy will contact Mary Leonard of the Idaho
State Board of Medicine to begin this process.
The meeting was adjourned. The next meeting will be decided upon
at a later date.
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October
24, 2002
Boise
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| Members present: Rob DeVinespre, Nola Darling, Steve Schaal,
Renie Johnson, Nancy Roberts, Nolan Bybee, David Blakeman, Lande Lambert,
Ramona Sailor.
President Nancy Roberts called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The treasurer was unable to attend. Nancy read a letter from Tom
Gable, that stated that the food service bill for the conference held two
years ago in Boise will be picked up by St. Luke’s. The CD’s will
automatically renew when the maturity date is reached, nothing
needs to be done. There will be more discussion on different ways
to invest these at the nest meeting. Renie’s request for reimbursement
for the last three meetings she has attended as delegate has not been replied
to. Nancy will contact Duke. David suggested that we obtain
a specific form and policy that delegates can use for reimbursement.
AARC has something we could use and modify for our own use.
PACT: There is a link in the ISRC web site to access the Capital
Connection from the AARC. Follow the prompts and you can e-mail your
congressmen or their address is listed so that you can write to them. Renie
would like everyone to at least look at it and then get involved with contacting
your congressmen on issues that will affect your job. Nancy read
a letter requesting that the ISRC endorse a specific candidate. The
consensus was that as a society we cannot endorse specific candidates.
Everyone needs to find out the issues for themselves and vote accordingly.
The governor wants to use the tobacco fund to help balance the state budget.
He and the congressmen need to be contacted about leaving this fund for
what it was intended. David will send Pam Lambert something to put
on the web site.
Membership: There were 12 new members from the fall conference.
Nancy will contact non-renewers again at the end of this year about renewing.
Delegates: Renie stated that membership is down by 200 since last
year. She has the resolutions that were voted on in the International
Congress this year. Contact her if you would like to know about them.
Newsletter: Nancy just sent one out to all the ISRC members.
If anyone else would like to take over the job of getting the newsletter
put together, contact her.
Election results were as follows: Director at Large-Keith Goodwin,
Treasurer-Renae Palmer, Secretary-Ramona Sailor, President Elect-Nolan
Bybee
Bylaws: No report
Old Business
Fall Conference; There were about 50 people in attendance and
just over $1,400.00 was cleared.
International Fellow: The ISRC picked up the tab for dinner and
a gift for the doctor we had from India. A good time was had by all.
Licensure Issue: Nancy read a letter that stated that the proposal
to open the Respiratory licensure bill to include polysomnographers has
been withdrawn. Jody Lester will head up the committee to address
this issue.
COPD Awareness Month: The governor was too busy to fit this into
his agenda this year. Nancy will try to get some public interest
announcements in the media for this year.
Crediit Card: Tabled until next meeting.
New Business
Bob Roselle sent in his letter of resignation as ISRC delegate, due
to health issues. A motion was passed to accept his resignation.
Nolan Bybee will finish out the term. Nancy will draft a letter of
thanks to Bob and will have it available for everyone to sign at the next
meeting.
Open discussion
The AARC needs people to help review clinical practice guidelines.
If you are interested contact Kris Williams at the AARC.
Nancy will look into the cost of getting the treasurer’s books audited.
Rob asked that sympathy cards from the ISRC be sent to a local respiratory
therapist who lost her son in a accident and to the family of a local respiratory
therapist who passed away recently.
Nola and Lande stated that visits to the ISRC web site dramatically
increased after the fall conference.
Many thanks to Nancy for all her hard work and dedication this past
year.
David reviewed Connie and Nancy’s goals for their terms and brainstormed
some ideas about how to get more people interested in the ISRC/AARC and
how can we do what we state in the mission statement. More on this
at the next meeting.
The next meeting will be decided on at a later date.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
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November
14, 2003
Twin Falls, Idaho
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Members present: Rob Devinespre, Michele Andrew, Carmen
Griggs, Tom Gable, Ramona Sailor and Nolan Bybee.
President Elect Nolan Bybee called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer’s report: Nolan presented a 2004 projected budget,
with the addition of the scholarship money. $5,800.00 was cleared
from the fall conference. The asthma camp did not get the $200.00
that was to be sent to them. Nolan will look into this. A motion
was passed that the officers of the board are the budget committee and
are to decide where extra funds are to go, since the ISRC now has extra
money.
PACT: No report
Committee Reports:
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Membership: The AARC feels that personal contact with members whose
memberships are expiring is very important. Renie will be doing this.
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Delegates: Rob read the resolutions and the following were voted
on. 61-03-23 no, 57-03-24 yes, 75-03-26 yes, 57-03-28 no, 21-03-29
no, 31-03-25 yes, 75-03-27 Renie and Nolan will decide. If you wish
to know what these resolutions are, contact Rob or Nolan.
$250.00 will be sent to the AARC’s disaster fund and $250.00 to the
International Fellow program.
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Newsletter: The next edition will come out in January or February
2004. Send any noteworthy items to Tom.
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Nominations/Elections: Some people who want to run for office, are
not being asked to. A possibility to facilitate knowing who wants
to run would be to have several representatives from around the state on
the nominations committee. This will be considered for next year.
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Bylaws: No report
Old Business:
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Idaho has a Doctor coming and she will be here later in November.
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The fall conference will be in Lewiston on September 9-10, 2004
New Business:
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The American Lung Association, the State Asthma Coalition and the ISRC
will be putting on a Asthma Certification Educator class in Idaho in the
future, it will not be able to be held in Lewiston as part of the fall
conference because of the location. It needs to be more central,
probably in Boise.
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The decision to sign the Revenue Sharing Contract from the AARC was tabled.
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Nancy Roberts submitted two names to the State Board of Medicine for a
public member.
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Committee chair assignments:
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Tom Gable-newsletter and bylaws
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Renie Johnson and Conrad Colby-Nolan will contact for PACT members
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Renie Johnson-Nolan will contact for membership
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Ramona Sailor-public relations
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Martin Gaither-fall conference
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Michele Andrew-nominations
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Rob presented the Strategic Plan for Tobacco Prevention and Control in
Idaho. Contact him if you would like as copy of this.
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Michele explained how decisions were made for the Millenium (tobacco settlement)
funds. The Coalition for a Healthy Idaho goes over the grant proposals.
The CDC has 9 guidelines that are applied to the grants. If the grant
proposals have all nine guidelines, they are sent to the millenium fund
legislators, who make the final decisions. There are currently no
funds available, the fund was used to help with the tight state budget.
The next meeting will be in Boise on January 16, 2004 at 7:00 PM, at a
location to be announced.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
ISRC Secretary

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January
10, 2003
Twin Falls
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Members present: Lande Lambert, Conrad Colby, Nolan Bybee, David
Blakeman, Ramona Sailor, Tom Gable and visitors SueAnn Reese and Lisa Blakeman.
President David Blakeman called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer’s report: David will contact Nancy Roberts to get the
books transferred to the new treasurer.
PACT: A motion was passed to send two people to the PACT meeting
in March. David will contact Renie to see if she is still interested.
If she is not David will e-mail the board to send him nominations within
a week. Conrad is the other person going.
Membership: No report
Delegates: No report
Newsletter: Tom Gable volunteered to take over this job.
It was discussed about putting the conference registration in the summer
newsletter and sending this one out to all the RT’s in the state
and the other newsletters to only members of the ISRC. This will
be decided by Tom and David.
Bylaws: Tom reported that Nolan cannot be a delegate because of
holding an elected office. He is already included in the delegation
by being the President elect. The vacated spot can remain unfilled.
Annual Conference: Idaho Falls is planning on having it this year.
Nolan Bybee and Terry Hale are co-chairs. There is talk of having
the conference split between Thursday and half of Friday. No date
has been set yet, but will be sometime in August.
Old Business:
COPD awareness: Con will contact the governor’s office to get
this done this year.
Credit card: It was decided not to get one, since the president
and treasurer are in the same part of the state these next two years.
New Business:
There is no activity to report on the sleep tech licensure.
Con reported on the following. Debbie Hill, a congresswoman wants
to propose a $1.00 per pack cigarette tax increase. The plan for
this money will be 1-Getting a tobacco control plan. 2-Providing financial
relief for prescription’s for the elderly. 3-Getting more Idaho children
covered under health insurance (CHIP). 4-Replenishing the tobacco
fund, so that the interest will maintain the programs. The AARP,
American Heart Association and the American Lung Association have endorsed
the following statement: The following organizations endorse a significant
increase in the Idaho tobacco tax with the majority of the revenue being
dedicated to programs that improve the health of Idaho’s citizens.
It was decided that the ISRC would also endorse this statement.
SueAnn Reese from the Coalition for a Healthy Idaho gave a presentation
on what CHI is and what it does and can do. She asked if the ISRC
as a group would become members. Someone would need to attend the
quarterly meetings and there maybe a chance to serve on ad hoc committees.
A motion was passed to have the ISRC become a member and we will
discuss at the next meeting what our role will be in this organization.
See attached for further information on the Coalition.
The next meeting will be in April. Time and location to be announced.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
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May
14, 2004
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McCall
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| Present: Steve Schaal, Martin Gaither, Dana Hagestad, Nolan Bybee,
Ramona Sailor, Renie Johnson, Tom Gable, Rob DeVinespre, Michelle Butler
President Nolan called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer: No report
PACT: Renie read a letter from the AARC about HR 2905. This
is the bill for recognition of Respiratory Therapists under the Medicare
Home Health Services Benefit. A lot of work needs done yet, but everyone
can help by logging on to Capital Connection either on the AARC or the
ISRC web site and sending a message to your legislator in favor of this
bill. At the PACT meeting in Washington D.C. the delegation only
got to meet with the aides. The legislators were out. See attached
for more information.
Membership: Nolan has brochures about the advantages to joining
the AARC. Everyone was encouraged to take some and pass them out
to non-members.
Delegates: Rob cannot go to the HOD meeting in June. Dana
will go. Renie read the only resolution and the vote was for a yes.
See attached.
Newsletter: Tom is collecting items for the next one, which will
be in 2-3 weeks. If you have any items of interest let him know.
Nominations: There is a need for a president elect. Let
Nolan or Michelle know if anyone is interested.
Bylaws: No report
Old Business
Martin reports that speakers have been lined up and they are sending
out flyers to all the hospitals as a promotion. The registration
forms will be following.
Dana reported on the State P
resident’s conference in Dallas.
The Asthma Educator’s conference is in August. Contact Con or
Michelle for more information. There are still some openings.
New Business
The Coalition for a Healthy Idaho and the Association for a Tobacco
Free Idaho will be meeting May 20 in Boise. Contact Rob for more
information.
The next meeting will be at the fall conference in Lewiston.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
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September
9, 2004
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Lewiston
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| Present: Renie Johnson, Conrad Colby, Nolan Bybee, Martin Gaither,
Nancy Roberts, Jan Ford, Rob DeVinespre, Tom Gable, Ramona Sailor, Dana
Hagestad, Venna Love, Kelly Dwello, Chad Rye
President Nolan Bybee called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer: See attached financial report. A motion was passed
to take $3,500.00 from savings and add the money gained from the conference
and put these into a CD, putting in a minimum of $10,000.00.
PACT: The senate finance committee is sponsoring bill 2707 and
they are trying to make it revenue neutral. Contact your senator
to support this bill. March 5-6, 2005 is the next PACT meeting.
Membership: The AARC was offering 3 month trial memberships.
The deadline was Sept. 30.
Delegates: The House of Delegates will be meeting for two and one half
days, instead of
two as was previous.
Elections: Results as follows: President elect-Chad Rye, Vice
president-Linda Erfurth, Secretary-Mary Kimbel, Treasurer-Marty Gaither,
Director at large-Kelly Dwello. Positions to be filled next year
are president elect, vice president and delegate.
Bylaws: No report
Old Business
Renie went to the House of Delegates meeting in June.
The fall conference was a great success and big thank you to Marty Gaither
for pulling it all together.
There will be another Asthma Educator’s conference again next year.
Coalition for Healthy Idaho: No report
New Business
The ISRC scholarship was awarded to Raquel Bravo.
Respiratory Care week is October 24-30.
The place for the 2005 fall conference was discussed. It was decided
to look at the conference evaluations to see if any place was mentioned
more often.
There is a House of Delegates meeting in December as part of the International
Congress.
The next meeting will be November 5th, 2004, in Boise at the BSU Health
Science Riverside building, at 7:00 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Ramona Sailor
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November
11, 2005
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Twin Falls
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| Present: Chad Rye, Dana Hagestad, Lynda Erfurth, Mary Kimbrel, Kelly
Dwello, Ramona Sailor, Lande Lambert, Carrie Massey, Rob Devinaspre, Tom
Gable, Cindee Weatherly, Debbie.
Dana called the meeting to order.
Past minutes were approved.
Treasury report: In the checking accout $9,000, In savings $4,000, In
CD $3500, In another CD $7200 and from the 2005 ISRC Conference $2,000.
No pact news
Membership: It is up around 40,000 members. Membership committee to
maximize membership. Motion passed for the Delegate to either call, send
a letter or email to expiring members to keep membership going. Chad Rye
will get a copy of the member list to the delegate. Also discussed
advertising membership in the Mountain Air newsletter.
Delegate: Rob Devinaspre discussed in great length one resolution. The
resolution is regarding VA hospitals and licensing. For further details
see Rob.
Newsletter: Coming to a mailbox to you! Thanks, Tom! The new officers
are noted in this issue and if you want to place a article please
contact Tom Gable.
Conference Update: Lynda and Mary gave an update on the 2005 ISRC state
conference. Lynda reported the banking summary and Mary discussed the evaluation
form results.
Motion Passed for the 2006 ISRC Conference is to be held in Lewiston,
ID. September 14-15 2006. The Committee members so far are Chad Rye,
Dana Hagestad, Carla Edmunson and Greg Pilcher.
Bylaws: no changes
Coalition for a Healthy Idaho: Con not present, no new news.
Please get your travel expense reimbursements to Dana!
Elections: Tom was the last elections chair. We need a new nomination
committee or chair each time.
RT week 2005: Discussed events/highlights in Lewiston, Idaho Falls and
Boise hospitals.
ISRC Website: Let the ISRC president know if mistakes are found on the
website.
Disaster: Lande brought up that the AARC wants a disaster RT representative
at the local level. Can be either a ISRC member or AARC member. The person
volunteering can decide to be on a national list as well. ISRC president
will contact hospital directors to encourage/recruit RT's to get involved.
HOD: San Antonio meeting Chad, Dana, Renie, Rob, Ramona all looking
forward to attending!
Smoking Cessation: Lynda was one of 15 RT's across the country to attend
the Dallas summit. She gave us an update. Basically nationwide we need
to increase participation with RT's teaching smoking cessation. We
discussed getting the word out via our website. If interested please
contact Lynda Erfurth.
Philanthropy: Kelly discussed the need to broaden advertisement for
our Wainwright scholarship. ($500) We need more applicants. We agreed to
sponsor BSU in state research ($500) Disaster fund we support every
year ($500) Also agreed to help provide a grant ($500) to the AARC International
fellowship program candidate.
AARC contract: Dana discussed this year's contract. Motion passed to
sign.
Other Mike Glee from the Idaho State Board of Medicine is looking for
new RT candidates for open postions. To nominate persons of interest please
send their CV/resume to Dana Hagestad.
Also discussed a new critical care certification under adult care.
Next board meeting to be Friday, February 26, 2006 in Boise at BSU at
7 p.m. or via teleconference depending on winter weather/driving condidtions.
Meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Kimbrel, RRT, AE-C
ISRC Secretary
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May
12, 2006
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McCall
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Members present: Mary Kimbrel, Lynda Erfurth, Rebecca Brollier, Michelle
Andrews, Carrie Massey, Chad Rye, Kelly Dwello, Rob Devinaspre, Dana Hagestad,
Tom Gable, Carla Edmundson.
Chad called the meeting to order.
Previous meeting minutes were approved.
Treasurer report given by Carrie. She read and gave an update on the
financial report.
PACT-Chad gave an update on temporary permit/prorate fees for polysomnographers.
Membership-Carla printed out addresses of current ISRC members so Chad
could send out renewal reminders for memberships.
Delegates-Carla/Chad are going to the HOD upcoming meeting.
Newsletter-Kudos to Tom for the last newsletter! Also if any RT's have
subjects of interest/article you would like to submit contact Tom Gable.
Nominations/Elections- Dana reported that we have pending nominations
for Delegates, VP, President-elect, Secretary and Director at Large. Get
your nominations to Dana ASAP!
Bylaws- No new changes.
OLD BUSINESS:
Board of Medicine RT representative is Steve S. the new ISU program
director.
Discussed possiblity of getting a student representative from Idaho
State to be on the ISRC.
ATTENTION: Contact the ISRC for the Donna Wright memorial scholarship
for RTstudents! This is a Great Opportunity!!! For more info contact ISRC
president Chad Rye. This is open for ISU and BSU students.
NEW BUSINESS:
Chad reported that on a grant review to be done through B.I. so we can
have more funds towards the state conference.
There is one speaker lined up so far, if any ideas/suggestions for State
Conference contact Chad Rye.
The conference is to be held at Williams Conference Center at Lewis
and Clark College, September 14-15 2006 in Lewiston ID.
Asthma Camp- Michelle said there are 30-35 scholarships available and
we need kids. So please recruit those Asthma kids for camp!!!!
ISRC logo- Lynda Erfurth has graphic artist in the family that may help
embellish the details of either Mark Wood's design or our old logo for
the ISRC.
Miscellaneous- Northern Idaho is behind on a possible pandemic/disaster
plan we discussed what the southern Idaho hospitals had come up.
Open Discussion- Carrie brought up info on California College student
issue she's dealing with and has decided to take it up with NBRC.
Next meeting at the State Conference in Lewiston ID.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mary Kimbrel RRT, AE-C
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November
3, 2006
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Twin Falls
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Members present: Chad Rye, Rebecca Brollier, Mary Kimbrel, Ramona Sailor,
Tom Gable, Kelly Dwello, Carrie Massey, Carla Edmison, Greg Pilcher.
Chad called the meeting to order.
Last meeting minutes approved.
Treasurer Report: Carrie presented 3rd and 4th quarter financial reports
and updated us thus far on 2006 ISRC conference earnings and expenditures.
We also discussed renewing our medical director's annual dues and we decided
possibly changing medical director's to include a new proactive candidate.
PACT: Conrad not in attendance.
Membership: Chad reported it is looking good. Discussed ways to recruit
and retain memberships.
Delegates: Carla discussed the resolutions and we held an open forum
on which way she could vote on these resolutions at the HOD.
Newsletter: Tom states it is in the press. Look for it in your mailbox
soon!
Nominations/Elections: For 2007 Chad Rye-Past President, Michele Andrews-President,
Brandi Johnson-
President-elect, TJ Wing-Vice President, Elena Ilyusha-Secretary, Dana
Hagestad & Greg Pilcher-Directors at large, Kelly Dwello & Carla
Edmison-Delegates, Carrie Massey-Treasurer. As for an ongoing student representative,
it is up to the ISRC president to appoint and approve a student representative.
Bylaws: No new business.
OLD BUSINESS
RT Scholarship: We are missing scholarship essays (applications) via
ISRC website. We need to check with Pam Lambert and see if she can find
out what happened. Otherwise applications can be sent to ISRC president.
We have three applications already.
ISRC logo: Our newly revised logo will be further edited to have the
"ISRC" logo be in the center of the design. Otherwise look for it in the
future on pens and t-shirts.
Sputum Bowl: It was discussed about BSU students participating and putting
together a team.
NEW BUSINESS
Chad passed around a copy of a state pandemic event letter to the governor
to include RTs and showcase the importance of our profession if such an
event occurred.
BSU Scholarship: BSU has a $5000 RT scholarship and you need to have
$10000 in the account to keep the scholarship going. We need member/alumni/vendor
donations. Tom will put a memo in the newsletter.
Job openings: Chad has been receiving request to advertise job listings
and there is a place on the ISRC website for job listings. They just need
the approval of the ISRC president first.
Motion approved by the board for a $200 donation on behalf of Carmen
Griggs,a longterm ISRC member.
State Conference: Chad will discuss @ the national meeting with Dr.
Cavelli and others from Coeur d' Alene to see if they are still interested
in hosting next year's conference. A decision will be finalized in February
at the next board meeting.
The next meeting will be held in Boise, February 23, 2006 at 7:00 pm,
place to be announced.
Meeting adjourned
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Kimbrel RRT, AE-C
ISRC Secretary
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September
13, 2007
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Pocatello - Annual
State Conference
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Michele called the meeting to order.
Minutes of previous meeting read and approved.
Treasurer report read by Carrie Massey for April ‘07-June ’07.
Elections Committee: Officers for 2008 starting in January:
Steve Schaal- Director at Large
Carrie Massey- Treasurer
Niki Stephens- President Elect
Ramona Sailor- Delegate
Delegates: Michele Andrew spoke for Carla Edmison. The following
are resolutions:
1) AARC is working with the credentialed sleep specialists
and their organizations to avoid
adversity between groups. It will ensure that all healthcare
professionals working in sleep
are competent. This was passed.
2) Competency tests for RT’s to administer moderate sedation.
This was voted down. However, it resolved that the AARC survey the
membership to see if there is enough interest to proceed with development
of a roundtable group to support the RT’s role in the delivery of moderate
sedation. This was passed.
3) Resolved that the AARC adapt age appropriate care verbage into clinical
practice guidelines and other organization statement. This was voted
down.
4) Resolve that the HOD create an additional HOC committee to investigate
the issues surrounding transition from two NBRC (CRT and RRT) credentialing
exams to one NBRC exam. This was passed.
5) Resolution concerning training paramedics. It was voted down
due to the fact that not all states have the same education for paramedics
and not one single body oversees the paramedics from state to state.
Also, they did not ask for help.
Membership: Rob Devinsapre not present.
Disaster Guy: Lande Lambert not present.
Legislative/PACT: Conrad stated that Senator Crapo wants to change Medicare
Part B, which will effect
1300 RRT’s outside the hospital. The RRT’s would be paid @80%
of what the MD would get paid. Senator Crapo is very favorable for
this. The board members need to call Eric Rasmussen to ask Sen. Crapo
to vote on this bill.
Newsletter: the most recent newsletter was sent out.
OLD BUSINESS
News from AACVPR on Rehab legislation. There is a new bill with
changes for
Cardiopulmonary Rehab. More info to follow.
NEW BUSINESS
Funds: Carrie and Michele addressed ways to reduce costs.
1) A recommendation was made to hold the November meeting or
have a teleconference.
Michele will notify the board later.
2) Carrie will do a comparative analysis to see if we can purchase
a non-for-profit stamp from US Postal Service. However, the mail
will need to be mailed from the same place.
Next Meeting: Michele will notify regarding the next meeting.
Meeting adjourned
Respectfully submitted,
Elena Ilyusha, RRT
ISRC Secretary
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