The Chapter meeting was called to order by President Julie Martin at 6:15PM.

Project Cure is open to volunteers Monday through Saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm, groups can be arranged in the evening. Carol is looking into a summer schedule at Project Cure in June-August on the second Thursday of each month.

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 Chapter meeting were deferred until the May meeting.

Correspondence: A thank you letter was received from Rose Seavey for her scholarship and from the AORN Foundation for our contribution.

Challenge letter from NLDC to nominate someone, by May 1, from our chapter for a national office. Rose SeaveyÕs name was suggested. She will be contacted to evaluate her interest.

The Orange County AORN Chapter presented a challenge to all other chapters to match their $500.00 donation. This was deferred until the May meeting.

Delegates at Congress approved the one member/one vote initiative with amendments. The limitation on the members of the House of Delegates was removed but the structure and chapter allocation of delegates will continue. The position statement on the Care of the Older Adult in Perioperative Settings passed. The Position statement on the RN First Assistant passed.

We are working on a marketing plan for the jackets. Julie will e-mail all the chapters and make them available for sale at $25.00 if they require mail delivery and $20.00 if they do not. Julie will also contact AORN Headquarters to see if they are interested in selling them on their site.

Awards: Chapter Awards are due by the end of April, no applications have been received. The awards are Clinical, Education and Management. The applications are available on line.

Bylaws: Please return all DAORN officers notebooks by next month.

Education: No report.

Fall Workshop: There will be a meeting soon.

Finance: No report.

Hospital Captains: Thank you for your contributions to the Colorado basket.

Informatics: No report.

Legislative: The bill to limit the practice of Nurse Practitioners in clinics died. The bill to register Surgical Technicians is not out of committee. CNA has a contract with the Rockies for specific games, watch for dates.

Congratulations to David Wyatt.

Membership: There are six guests this evening.

Nominating: No report.

OR Nurse Week: No report.

Publicity: No report.

Research: No report.

Scholarship: No report.

Tellers Committee: Tellers Committee met on Tuesday April 6, 2010. We received 109 ballots, 9 were ineligible. The results are:

President Elect: Tammy Wooley

Vice President: Faith Beazer

Secretary: Julie Mower

Board of Directors: Denise Moroney

Maggie Zeaphey

Nominating Committee: Kathy Doughty

Nancy Johnson

Golf Tournament: The Golf tournament will be June 7, brochures will be available at the May meeting, save the date cards are available today. The cost is $150.00 per person. Any items you want to contribute to the silent auction can be brought to the May meeting.

Unfinished Business: The scanning project will be done by May. We are still missing minutes prior to 1990.

Bill Lord Scholarships: Six applications were received, four were accepted. Dollar amounts have not been decided, the Board will await any further applications and make a final decision at the May meeting.

Scholarship recipients: Teresa Herbst-Metropolitan State College of Denver

Heather PetersonÑMetropolitan State College of Denver-Accelerated

Amanda Jernigan-Metropolitan State College of Denver-Accelerated

Amanda Miskulin-University of Colorado-Denver

Criteria for the scholarship recipients need to be clarified.

Clipboards are circulating to sign up for Committees for 2010-2011. There is also a list to sign up for hosting a DAORN meeting next year.

Industry Representative, Jessica Reutlinger, announced that May will be her last meeting. She will be travelling for 7 months, then moving to New Jersey.

Donations for Growing Home, battered womenÕs shelter, can be given to Maggie Zeaphey.

Doug Jackson, CEO of Project Cure, spoke, thanking members for volunteering and their contributions.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:00PM.

Submitted by Kay Taylor, Secretary