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Thursday, June 15, 2006
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7:00 am
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8:00 am
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8:15 am
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9:00 am
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| Moderator |
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Elaine Scherer, RN, BSN, MA
Director, Magnet Recognition Program
American Nurses Credentialing Center
 View Biography
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Suzanne Gordon
Journalist & Author
Nursing Against the Odds
View Biography
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Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH
Executive Director
The Center for Nursing Advocacy
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Patricia Yoder-Wise, RN, MBA, MSN, FACHE
President
American Nurses Credentialing Center
Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
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10:00 am
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| Suzanne will autograph copies of her latest book, "Nursing Against the Odds:
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris
Undermine Nurses and Patient Care." Be sure to have your copy signed! |
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10:30 am
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- Implementing transparency in your organization
- Establishing accounting guidelines
- Benchmarking your organization against the best as it relates to
the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)
- Improving system access, quality and efficiency
- Developing a viable business case to improve quality of
care and patient safety
- Measuring the sustainability of change within the organization
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- Exploring the most effective ways to provide the best possible care
for your patients
- Effectively integrating clinical expertise with clinically relevant research
- Three areas of research competence: interpreting and using research,
evaluating practice, and conducting research
- Translating all of this into bricks and mortar through evidence-based
hospital design
- Making clinical decisions using the best available research evidence,
clinical expertise and patient preferences
- Strengthening the nursing research agenda
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- Identifying the predictors of organization commitment
- Determining the factors that contribute to commitment or
lack of commitment
- Expanding the use of evidence-based learning initiatives in
healthcare leadership development to improve quality and patient safety
- Organizational trust – an important element in determining employee
performance and commitment
- Understanding the importance of nurse executive leadership in
organizational involvement among nurses
- Defining organizational culture and its close link to staff turnover
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12:30 pm
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1:30 pm
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1:45 pm
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2:30 pm
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- Implementing a business/retail model for problem solution
and customer/patient focus
- Consumer driven culture and what it means for healthcare
reform
- Utilization of appropriate location, cost structure, and level
of practitioner for differing healthcare needs
- Implications of retail wave for advanced practice nursing
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Donna Haugland, RN, MSN, CRNP
Director of Recruitment & Hiring
MinuteClinic, Inc.
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Jan Towers, PhD, NP-C, CRNP, FAANP
Director of Health Policy
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
View Biography
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3:15 pm
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3:45 pm
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4:30 pm
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- How do health care organizations know they are receiving
competent, qualified services from temporary workers?
- Certification supports health care organizations' efforts to
improve quality and safety of care delivered to their patients
- Developing a set of standardized performance measures for
HCSS firms - how will the standardized performance
measurement set data affect the health care industry?
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Michele Sacco, MS
Executive Director of Health Care Staffing Services Certification
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
View Biography
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5:00 pm
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5:30 pm
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5:45 pm
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