8:00 - 9:00 am |
Session:
NDNQI® Research Presentation: Implications for Practice
Nancy Dunton, PhD, FAAN, Principal Investigator, NDNQI & Associate Researcher, University of Kansas
Vincent Staggs, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
How do nurses address a growing list of quality and safety concerns with all the pressure to reduce expenses? Learn about the cost effectiveness of changing levels of RN and non-RN staffing and walk away with strategies to implement at your hospital to improve patient safety without expanding the cost of nursing care.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
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Closing Session:
Empowering Frontline Nurses
Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN
Dean, College of Nursing, Ohio State University
Learn the best strategies for empowering frontline nurses from author, professor and clinician Bernadette Melnyk. She’ll walk you through the six steps of evidence-based practice (EBP), tackling areas such as how to use the system, barriers you’ll encounter and overcome, and how to create a culture that breeds success. Using real case studies and stories, she will demonstrate a number of different empowerment models and their outcomes that you can adapt for your own staff.
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