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We've already shown you the highlights of Monday's session. To help you choose which breakout sessions will best augment your leadership skills, consider a number of choices from Tuesday's offerings.
Certain sessions are supported by nursing associations, such as the one given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) member Rosanne Raso, RN, CNAA, MS, senior vice president of nursing, Lutheran Medical Center. She presents "The Charge to Change: Establishing a Healthy Work Environment."
"What are the essentials of a healthy practice environment?" she asks. "Find out about the AACN's Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments, why the standards are needed, and how they serve as a toolkit for change."
The American Association of Nurse Attorneys-sponsored session, "Managerial Response to Nursing Practice Violation," will be given by Cynthia A. Mikos, BSN, MBA, JD, health law attorney, and Suzanne Edgett Collins, BSN, MPH, JD, PhD, associate professor, Duquesne University School of Nursing. They'll review the historical responses and associated consequences to nursing practice violations and analyze potential managerial responses, based on categories of violations with emphasis on error as a special category meriting additional consideration.
Healing the work environment
Prepare for your future with Vickie M. Moore, RN, CHE, CNAA, BC, MSN, senior vice president of operations, chief nurse officer, St. Joseph's Medical Center.
"This isn't just another presentation telling you that nurses are getting older," she says. "You'll learn from research data and from the words of nurses currently 'aging in the workforce' what it'll take to keep them at the bedside for years to come."
In a Nursing Service Organization-sponsored session titled "Nursing's Impact on Quality Outcomes through Patient Safety Initiatives," Penny S. Brooke, APRN, MS, JD, University of Utah College of Nursing, discusses nursing outcomes.
"If nursing managers encourage and support the nursing staff to see errors as a systems problem that can only be addressed through the cooperation of the nursing staff, quality improvements are likely outcomes," she says. "This session will discuss the manager's role in promoting safe care through the support they provide to the nursing staff to report errors."
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)-sponsored session "Pay for Performance: Revenue Enhancement through Quality Care" will be presented by Kathleen Kimmel, RN, CHE, MHA, vice president for nursing informatics, McKesson Provider Technologies, and Joyce Sensmeier, RN, BC, CPHIMS, MS, director of informatics, HIMSS. Their session will provide nurse leaders with key information to guide and position their organizations to adapt to the new reimbursement pay-for-performance (P4P) model.
Patient safety is a strategic initiative in every facility in this country. Kathleen M. White, RN, CNAA, CMAC, PhD, associate professor, MSN/MBA Program, Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, will present "The Leadership Role with Patient Safety."
"Are you ready to lead your team to a safer place for your patients?" she asks. "This session will give you the strategies you need to build a safer organization, including your role in resource allocation, systems and process analysis and redesign, team building, open communication and reporting, and fostering the use of evidence-based practices."
Seeking to redesign your care management structure? Eleanor Wilson, RN, MSN, MHA, will present a case study on how to do it the right way.
"I'll explain how establishing care management by utilizing advanced practice nurses will result in decreased length of stay and reduction in mortality, as it did in my facility."
Afternoon highlights
Kicking off the afternoon sessions, Jeff Doucette, RN, CEN, CHE, CNAA, BC, MS, associate operating officer, Duke University Medical Center, says management by walking around can be hazardous to your health.
" Do you know what it's like to be a patient in your facility?" he asks. "Join the presenter for these and other tales 'from the other side of the bed rails.'"
We'd be remiss if there wasn't programming on cultural diversity. G. Rumay Alexander, RN, EdD, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, clinical assistant professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, will present "When Cultures Clash."
"Cultures are the lenses through which people view their worlds, so different viewpoints within an organization will often intersect and sometimes clash," she says.
Judith "Ski" Lower, RN, CCRN, CNRN, MSN, nurse manager, NCCU and NVICU, Johns Hopkins Hospital, will discuss staff members who are disruptive and destroy morale.
"In a time when teamwork, good interpersonal relations, and a stress-free environment are critical to today's workplace, we can no longer afford to allow this to continue," she says. "Come learn how to deal with caustic co-workers and what to do if they don't change."
Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FASCP, medication safety analyst, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, will address error prevention.
"A little learning today can help your institution avoid unnecessary, costly, and tragic problems using automated technology," he says. "This session is designed to give you a wealth of hands-on strategies and information that you can use immediately in your own institution to make today's technology work for you-safely and effectively now and in the future."
This year's program is chock-full of best practices for your managerial needs. Read page 80 for a brief summary of Wednesday's programming. Be sure not to miss Congress2005.