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Thursday June 15, 2006

7:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am
Chairperson's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Karlene Kerfoot PhD, RN, FAAN
Chief Nursing Officer & Senior Vice President
Clarian Health Partners

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8:15 am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Changing the Odds for Nurses and Patients: Addressing the Denursification of Developed World Healthcare and the Associated Nursing Shortage
Suzanne Gordon
Journalist & Author
Nursing Against the Odds

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9:00 am
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Status of Magnet - Updates and Latest Initiatives?
Moderator
Elaine Scherer RN, BSN, MA
Director, Magnet Recognition Program
American Nurses Credentialing Center

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Suzanne Gordon
Journalist & Author
Nursing Against the Odds

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Sandy Summers RN, MSN, MPH
Executive Director
The Center for Nursing Advocacy
Adjunct Faculty
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Patricia Yoder-Wise RN, MBA, MSN, FACHE
President
American Nurses Credentialing Center
Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
10:00 am
Book Signing with Suzanne Gordon & Networking Refreshment Break
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!
10:30 am
Executive Seminars Begin (Delegates Choose One)
Executive Seminar A:
Create Efficient Systems to Increase Hospital Performance
  • 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
Isis Montalvo RN, MS, MBA
Manager, Nursing Practice and Policy
American Nurses Association

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Carol Sheridan RN, MA
Chief Nurse Executive & Vice President
Sacred Heart Medical Center

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Executive Seminar B:
Climbing the Corporate Ladder - Moving from the Staff Room to the Board Room
  • Identifying the tools and resources needed to make an effective transition
  • Strategies to develop the individual and the service to optimum levels
  • Emphasizing the need for greater business and financial expertise
  • Recognizing the entrepreneurial leadership characteristics of the CNO
  • Strategic planning, conflict resolutions and negotiating skills
  • Reaffirming yourself as a vital member of your healthcare team and the organization
Anthony Disser RN, BSN, MSN
Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations, Hospital Division
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.

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Brent Robinson MS, CCRN, RN,C, NP-C
Chief Nursing Officer & Vice President, Patient Care Services
DeKalb Medical Center

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Executive Seminar C:
Translating Research into Practice Using an Evidence-Based Design
  • 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
Kathy Reno RN, BSN, MBA
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Nursing Officer
Northwest Community Healthcare

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Joan Shaver PhD, RN, FAAN
2003-2005 President
American Academy of Nursing
Professor & Dean
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

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Executive Seminar D:
Best Practices to Increase Organizational and Cultural Commitment among Nurses
  • 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
Wilhelmina Manzano MA, RN, CNAA, BC
Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

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Marie Sinioris MPH
President & Chief Executive Officer
National Center for Healthcare Leadership

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12:30 pm
Close of Executive Seminars
1:30 pm
Conference Resumes & Chairperson's Remarks
Karlene Kerfoot PhD, RN, FAAN
Chief Nursing Officer & Senior Vice President
Clarian Health Partners

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1:45 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Living Up to Number One & Making Use of Number One
Kathleen Perry RN, PhD
President
Illinois Nurses Association

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2:30 pm
Implementing Solutions to Improve: "Right Time, Right Place, Right Price, Right Practitioner" - How Retail Medicine is Changing the Delivery of HealthCare
  • 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
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

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3:15 pm
Networking Refreshment Break
3:45 pm
CASE STUDY
An Actionable Plan to Improve the Work Environment, Optimize Patient Care and Retain Your Professional Staff
  • Analyzing the work environment and how it impacts nurse retention
  • Successfully managing relationships with the medical staff and hospital administration
  • Creative partnerships with schools of nursing in rural healthcare as a meaningful recruitment and retention strategy
Connie Jastremski MS, MBA, RN, ANP-CS, FCCM
Chief Nursing Officer & Vice President, Nursing & Patient Care Services
Bassett Healthcare

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Bertine McKenna PhD
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Bassett Healthcare

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William F. Streck MD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Bassett Healthcare

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4:30 pm
Performance Measurement in the Health Care Staffing Industry
  • 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?
Michele Sacco MS
Executive Director of Health Care Staffing Services Certification
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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5:00 pm
KEYNOTE CASE STUDY
Using Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Excellence
Deborah Baehser MSHA, RN
Chief Nursing Officer
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton

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5:30 pm
Chairperson's Close of Day One
5:45 pm
Networking Cocktail Reception
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