Spring Conference Committee Report March 2016

Name of Committee: Central Region

Major Goals of the Committee: Workforce Development

DPHN Representatives:

Amador County - Connie Vaccarezza Kern County Michelle Curioso

Calaveras County – Linda Winn Kings County – Debbie Grice

Fresno County – Rose Mary Garrone Madera County – Vacant

Merced County – Marianne Biangone Mono County – Sandra Pearce

San Joaquin County – Floreida Quiaoit San Luis Obispo Co. – Pam Dudley

Stanislaus County – Debbi Jo Trinidade Tulare County – Cathy Volpa

Tuolumne County – Kathy Amos

DPHN Role on the Committee: N/A

Summary of Activity: The Central Region has not met since the Fall Conference. There are plans

to meet at the Spring Conference and then quarterly.

Recommendations: N/A

DPHN Action Needed: N/A

Spring Conference Committee Report March 2016

Name of Committee: Northern Region

Committee Major Goals:

Meet bi-monthly to address common issues/needs of the Regional membership and complete

Regional assignments.

DPHN Representatives:

Directors of Public Health Nursing in the Northern Region

Cindy Watson, DPHN Executive Committee Representative for North

Summary of Activities/Updates:

DPHN-North met bi-monthly as scheduled. In addition to sharing information/resources and addressing

issues affecting and of interest to Northern jurisdictions, we began planning for the fall 2016 Conference,

scheduled at the Lake Natoma Inn in Folsom, with the theme Leadership and Change: the Future of Public

Health Nursing. In our October 2015 meeting, Michael Ungeheuer gave a presentation and led discussion

on CCS Redesign and Foster Care Legislation.

During each meeting, we also continued our work on our Strategic Plan - Priority Area 4 (Leadership) to

build DPHN membership with strong leadership. This included the following specific activities:

1) Drafted a letter to send to potential DPHN associate members describing the organization,

highlighting some of the benefits of membership, and encouragement to consider taking an active role as a

DPHN member. Letter shared with the EC for review in February, but postponed to review in March

meeting.

2) Identify mentors from each region to welcome and support new members – the group established that

regional representatives on EC will be the first mentor to new DPHNs. Agreed rather than having North

identify a second mentor in each region, that each region will have responsibility to identify additional

mentor(s) and a structure for mentoring new DPHNs in their region. North began featuring one county at

each meeting, becoming familiar with county characteristics and role of the DPHN (structure of

organization, where DPHN sits on org chart, assigned programs, areas of interest/expertise, etc.). This will

help identify appropriate mentors when new DPHNs come into the region, as they can be assigned

experienced mentors with similarities in size, demographics, programs, etc.

Spring Conference Committee Report March 2016

Last revised: 2/16/16

Name of Committee: Southern Region Nursing Directors (SRND)

Committee Major Goals:

1) To provide a support network for each other to facilitate sharing of ideas related to public health

nursing funding, staffing, and program development.

2) Coordinate and assure achievement of DPHN Strategic Plan through development, coordination and

leadership of the assigned priority area of the strategic plan (assignments will be made during Fall 2013

conference)

DPHN Representatives:

Megan Steffy (Ventura; President for DPHN)

Noel Bazini-Barakat (Los Angeles; Regional Rep to Exec Committee)

Pat Orme (Orange)

Eileen Haley (San Diego)

Paige Batson (Santa Barbara)

Hermia Parks (Riverside)

Pamela Shaw (Long Beach)

Vanessa Long (San Bernardino)

Leticia Saenz (Pasadena)

Vacant (Inyo)

Cheryl Turner (Imperial)

Summary of Activities/Updates:

SRND meets monthly: conference call/webinar every month.

Southern region organized the DPHN 2015 fall conference in San Diego

Los Angeles: The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, together with the California

Action Coalition, the HealthImpact, and the California Directors of Public Health Nursing, is convening

A Symposium between Academia & Practice: Preparing the Future Public Health Nursing

Workforce. The symposium is scheduled for Friday, May 20, 2016 in Los Angeles.

Santa Barbara: hiring a New MCAH director, who will also serve as Director of Public Health Nursing,

and will serve as the new representative to DPHN. Unfortunately, this means that Paige will no longer

be the DPHN rep. We want to thank Paige for contributions and participation in DPHN and the

Southern Region group for the past several years.

Riverside: Hermia Parks continues to serve on the California Department of Public Health Office of

Health Equity Advisory Committee. Hermia was nominated to one of the three Director-at-Large

positions for APHN, leading their Policy/Procedures and Bylaws committee.

Long Beach: Pam is hiring PHN III who will serve as MCH Coordinator.

San Diego: Eileen has hired three QA PHNs to help with standardization and QA. They will be rolling

out Persimmony in February, and are creating a new web referral portal.

Spring Conference Committee Report March 2016

Name of Committee: Bay Area Nursing Directors Regional Report

Committee Major Goals:

Identify PHN best practices to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations

Develop tools and resources to support public health nurses in local health jurisdictions with

adopting best practices to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations

DPHN Representatives:

Angela Ball

Sue Crosby

Laura Keller

Cheryl Ford

Laura Brunetto

Diane Beetham

Pamela Dixon

Sheila Proctor

Veronica Alvarez-Javinollo

Lynn Mello

Anita Alvarez

Juliet Chandler

Linda Ferguson

Fritzi Nelson

Summary of Activities/Updates:

• National web based resources with listings of evidence based programs and practices relevant to

public health nursing practice identified

• Frameworks and tools for a) assessing community or population needs; b)identifying and/or

prioritizing problems and c) selecting and implementing evidence-based strategies and best practice

approaches to address the prioritized needs in the context of available resources and community

assets identified.

• Criteria developed to determined which protocols would be considered best practice:

o Do practice guidelines involve PHNs?

o Are practice guidelines/protocols based in evidence?

o Do the guidelines/protocols impact nursing practice?

o Do the guidelines/protocols show an impact to patient outcomes?

• Plan developed for repository to aggregate identified tools and resources in progress.

Recommendations:

Will work with Cristy to post repository and contents by June 2016

DPHN Action Needed:

None at that time