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Minutes of SAON meeting held October 12th 2011
Meeting commenced at 1925hrs.
Present:
Anita Taylor (President), Larissa Bailey (Secretary), Cheryl Kimber, Paul McLeish,
Ann Chapman (Treasurer), Kristian Sanchez, Bree Coombe, Jenny De Young.
Apologies:
Cathy Magor, Cathy Dorsey, Marilyn Pascoe, Helen Fuss, Angela Munoz, Maria
Coutlakis, Lesley Thomas, Sam Miller.
Minutes of Previous Meeting:
Amendment to previous minutes under correspondence. It should read Elsevier sent
an invoice about the journal, not ANZONA.
Otherwise accepted as a true record.
Correspondence:
Letter received from Paul McLeish (committee member) requesting grant for his
research project. See new business for outcome.
Email from Albert from Hong Kong, who will be visiting Australia for the ANZONA
conference and would like to join ICON.
Treasurers report:
Ann presented reports for May, June & July. A few expenses paid out; post box
redirection, payment for journals, web page rental and poster printing costs. Closing
balance of $6,813.35.
Ann also renegotiated the term deposit/investment account at 5.8% for 5 months after
consultation with Anita (President) & Larissa (Secretary). Committee happy with
result.
ANZONA:
Recent teleconference reported that there was close to 300 delegates for the upcoming
conference. Anita is happy to stay as our state rep with ANZONA, with other office
roles up for election.
ICON:
Recent Bristol conference with Ruth from the Northern Territory going as
ANZONA’s representative. Philosophy/competencies discussed. There are still some
disagreements between NAON and ICON regarding involvement.
Hip fracture group progressing well, Anita involved via Skype. Documents sent to
experts, including Alan Pearson to review and hopefully should be published in the
International Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedic Nursing. The SAON committee
want to thank Anita for all her excellent work with this group.
Next year’s conference is in Malta.
Ortho Network:
Another meeting coming up. Cheryl attended the Executive meeting; she reported
that Andrew Sais had written to the Department of Health regarding the lack of action
from the documents and recommendations that had been made and there were still
many issues not resolved. Waiting for a response.
Membership:
There are 43 members currently. There is a new member from Qld, Anita will follow
up with her.
Clinical skills night:
The September education night was very successful and well received. Larissa to use
the contact list when informing people of the AGM/membership in February.
Newsletter:
Maria to send out by mid to late November.
Items to be included are; President’s report & clinical skills night (Anita), conference
(Larissa), quiz night and AGM reminders (Maria), Ortho research (Paul), Fasting
project (Kristian) & recipe or Xmas funnies (Anita or Larissa).
Quiz night:
Date – December 5th 2011
Venue – Calvary Wakefield or SportsMed
Supper – Trade to be asked. ?Covidien – Jenny, ?Actonel – Lena.
Prizes – party bags for everyone &/or spend some money ourselves for 1st, 2nd & 3rd.
Quiz – Maria and Sam to write, possibly include questions about the trade company
into quiz.
AGM:
Date – February 6th 2012
Venue – Calvary Wakefield
Speaker – Robert Baird regarding his time in Afghanistan (Anita to liaise)
Sponsor – KCI (Meredith) to be asked
Office bearers up for election – President and Secretary (Larissa happy to continue,
President unknown at this stage as Anita not continuing)
Committee members up for election – Cathy Magor, Bree Coombe, Marilyn Pascoe
and Sam Miller. Others all continuing for another year. Anita wanting to continue on
the committee.
New business:
Paul proposed that we purchase USB sticks for all members. He will investigate
prices and report back. Committee liked idea.
Paul’s research grant request – Paul stepped out of the meeting so that the committee
could discuss his request.
After discussion, it was decided that the committee support, in principle, Paul’s
research grant request for $1500, subject to review of grant guidelines by the corium
of the committee present this night. Anita will distribute post meeting, including
Paul’s research grant proposal for all those present.
The committee did mention that his research should show benefits and relevance to
the Orthopaedic speciality, have ongoing commitment to education for SAON
members, acknowledge SAON’s involvement in any published material and the
SAON would encourage publication and education.
Next meeting: February 1st 2012
Meeting closed at 2130hrs.

Source: http://www.saon.org/documents/2011oct12_saon_minutes.pdf