8:30 - 10:00 am |
Opening Session:
Conference Welcome and Introductions
Karen Daley, PhD, RN, FAAN, President, ANA
Creating Joy, Meaning and Safer Health Care
Keynote Speaker: Lucian Leape, MD, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at Harvard School of Public Health
Do physical or psychological factors at work leave you feeling more vulnerable than fulfilled? You’re not alone. Lucian Leape, Chairman of the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation, defines the vulnerable workplace and seven safety strategies to change it for the better. Implementing his strategies will help you improve organizational effectiveness, staff satisfaction, and patient outcomes.
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1:30 - 2:30 pm |
Concurrent Sessions:
Nurse Leadership: Moving Beyond the CUSP of Quality Care
Christine Goeshel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN, FAAN, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) at Johns Hopkins University Hospital is unique in its approach to improved outcomes via a supportive patient safety culture. Christine Goeshel takes you through CUSP’s five phases—safety awareness, cultural assessment, senior level partnership, staff education and implementation of a new toolkit—and shows you how you can adapt them for your own use at the unit level. CUSP is a roadmap with its own toolkit and checklist!
Cultivate Tranquility and Balance Through the Practice of Mindfulness
Dawn Bazarko, DNP, NPH, RN, Senior Vice President, Center for Nursing Advancement, United Healthcare
Are you looking for ways to improve your own well-being while delivering a more patient-centered, high quality care experience? Dawn Bazarko, a certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator, will guide you through a number of practices to help lower your stress, improve your listening skills, enhance your overall health, and be more in the moment when providing quality patient care. With a regular Mindfulness practice, you will learn practical techniques to approach common patient situations with heightened awareness, higher quality thinking and enhanced compassion and empathy. This powerful practice helps us to connect more deeply and meaningfully with ourselves and with others, including our patients.
Care Coordination: Surviving & Thriving in Inter-Professional Care Settings
Gerri Lamb, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University
Do you really know your role when part of an inter-professional team providing patient treatment? Or which model of care might transcend others? Gerri Lamb slices through the care coordination maze to show you successful models that drive communication at all care touch points. Using research and real world case studies, she’ll help you learn to identify and overcome the obstacles to working effectively across disciplines and settings. You’ll emerge with a new title: expert collaborator!
Ambulatory Care: Nursing Care on the Go!
Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Dean, Jefferson School of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University
As the landscape of high tech and virtual care rushes by in the migration to ambulatory care, the challenges become dizzying. Beth Ann Swan, Dean of the Jefferson School of Nursing gives you strategies to demonstrate your unique contribution to quality patient care in ambulatory settings. You’ll learn about patient-centered models that unify the role of the RN in care coordination and transitional management.
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4:30 - 5:30 pm |
Session:
What's Next in Quality Improvement?
Patricia Brennan, PhD, RN, FACMI, Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wish innovation could make your work more effective and fulfilling? Don’t miss this session led by Patricia Brennan on streamlining workflow and using electronic tools to better leverage patient-generated and clinician-generated data. You will learn how these tools can help enhance the quality of your nursing practice, your patients’ wellbeing, and your overall career satisfaction.
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