The Chapter meeting was called to order by President Julie Martin at 6:15PM.
President Martin welcomed members and guests. Thank you to Tammy Woolley and The Children’s Hospital for providing the facility and our sponsor, Norma Roath from Cardinal, for the meal.

There is not a quorum present.
Thank you to all of the Congress volunteers, send any pictures you have to Julie. The missing Congress pin was found. The winners of the raffle were an RN from Ohio and Karen Knapp, a travel RN.

Minutes from the March and April Chapter meetings were read and approved as written.
Correspondence: Deb Warren, at AORN Headquarters, sent a letter reminding the Chapter of the Leadership conference on July 16-18, 2010. Volunteers are needed as dinner hosts on July 17. There will be a Fundraisers table on July 16 from 4:30 to 7:00pm, jackets and pins will be available for purchase.

The Chapter received notification that member, Kathy Justice died. Condolences to the family.

Treasurer’s Report: Current assets are $18937.73 in the General Fund, $1235.29 in the raffle fund, $7827.39 in the Bill Lord Scholarship Fund for a total yearend balance of $28000.41. There is also $5275.00 in King Soopers Certificates. The yearend balance is $600.00 over the ending balance in 2009, staying below the $1000.00 limit for non-profit organizations.

Committee Reports:
Board Report: Signup sheets to be a meeting host for 2010-2011 are circulating along with committee volunteer sheets.
There are four recipients for the Bill Lord Scholarships, the Board has recommended that each person receive $1000.00. Without a quorum this cannot be approved. Julie will send out an electronic ballot, in a week, to each member to approve the scholarships.
Orange County presented a challenge last month to all chapters to meet their $500.00 donation for a float in the Tournament of Roses parade in 2013. In 2010, a nurse is the Chairperson for the Tournament of Roses Parade. The Board recommended that we meet the challenge. This will be held until fall for a vote until a quorum is present.
Awards: Three Chapter awards were given. The Clinical award went to Tammy Woolley, the Clinical Educator award went to Karin Underberg, and the Leadership award went to Denise Moroney. Tammy and Karin are with Children’s Hospital and Denise is with Medical Center of Aurora-South Campus.
Bylaws: Please return all DAORN officers notebooks.
Education: No report.
Fall Workshop: There will be a meeting over the summer.
Finance: No report.
Hospital Captains: No report.
Informatics: No report.
Legislative: The Colorado legislature closed on Wednesday.
Effective 7/1/2010 the new requirements for Advanced Practice Nurses begin regarding safe prescribing.
Information regarding the new requirements is available on the DORA site.
Membership: No report.
Nominating: Thank you to the Teller’s committee.
OR Nurse Week: No report.
Publicity: No report.
Research: Tonight’s offering is “Perceived Effects of Specialty Nurse Certification: A Review of the Literature”
Scholarship: There are four Bill Lord Scholarship recipients.
Tellers Committee: Tellers Committee met on Tuesday April 6, 2010. We received 109 ballots, 9 were ineligible. The results are:

President:                             Jan Stull
President Elect:                    Tammy Wooley
Vice President:                     Faith Beazer
Secretary:                             Julie Mower
Board of Directors:              Denise Moroney
                                              Maggie Zeaphey
Nominating Committee:     Kathy Doughty
                                              Nancy Johnson
                                              Suzanne Sortman

Ways and Means: The signup sheet for volunteers at the Golf Tournament is circulating.
Golf Tournament: The Golf Tournament is June 7, 2010 at The Ranch. Pamphlets and fliers are available.
There will be a silent auction, contact Ellen Lord if you have a contribution.
CCI has made a contribution of two certificate programs, the Management Certificate program, valued at $199.00 (six modules), and the Educator Certificate program, valued at $250.00 (seven modules). You can make a bid at the silent auction.

Unfinished Business: The scanning project is completed. The disc containing all the Chapter and Board meeting minutes was presented to incoming president Jan Stull.
The request from Headquarters to co-host a candidate’s forum was dropped, no further action required.
AORN dues will increase after June 30, 2010, you can renew before then and pay the lower fee.

New Business:
Bill Lord Scholarships: Scholarship recipients:
                                     Teresa Herbst-Metropolitan State College of Denver
                                     Heather Peterson—Metropolitan State College of Denver-Accelerated
                                     Amanda Jernigan-Metropolitan State College of Denver-Accelerated
                                     Amanda Miskulin-University of Colorado-Denver
DAORN will continue to market the Congress scrub jackets. The price will be $20.00 if shipping is not required or $25.00 if they must be shipped. They will be sold at the golf tournament, the leadership conference, at the fall workshop, and the possibility of selling them on the DAORN website.
Kathy Kliner , from AORN Headquarters, thanked all the people who volunteered at the 2010 Congress. The first advisory board meeting for educators will take place in the fall. Directors and/or Vice Presidents of peri-operative services are encouraged to participate.

It was suggested that DAORN consider reducing the percentage of members present for a quorum. This will be pursued in the fall.

Thank you to Jessica Reutlinger for her contributions to the DAORN Chapter and Board. Cards are available with her blog address.


The meeting was adjourned at 6:50PM.

Submitted by Kay Taylor, Secretary