Paul Grundy, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.E.M., F.A.C.P.M., the “godfather” of the patient-centered medical home movement and chief transformation officer at Innovaccer, will deliver the keynote address during Misericordia University’s 10th annual Health Care Symposium, “The Patient-Centered Model: Health and Wellness Achieved,” on Friday, Oct. 18 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall.
The expanded symposium is free, but registration is required due to limited seating. The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association also has approved the activity for contact hours. The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation has accredited the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association as an approver of continuing nursing education.
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Registration is now open for “A 20-Hour Interdisciplinary Breastfeeding Management Course for the U.S.” This three-day event will be held from 8:30 am – 4:45 pm at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Education will be led by Nikki Lee, RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC, Registered Lactation Consultant and Advanced Nurse Lactation Counselor. Nikki has worked with mothers and babies since 1975 in homes, birth centers, hospitals, and clinics. She is a lactation consultant, a childbirth educator, a craniosacral therapist, an infant massage instructor, a teacher, and a nurse. Nikki educates healthcare professionals and works with city and community agencies toward the goal of meeting Healthy People 2020 Breastfeeding Objectives for the U.S. Nikki represents the Philadelphia Department of Public Health on the Philadelphia Multi-Hospital BabyFriendly™ Taskforce. Program objectives: The participant will be able to: (1) assess breastfeeding and offer practical advice and encouragement in a variety of situations from pregnancy to employment; (2) teach a mother how to hand express; (3) facilitate establishment of a milk supply; (4) support adoptive nursing, multiples, and relactation; and (5) identify current lactation resources about medications and medical questions. Click here for more information.
The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association has approved this activity for 20.25 nursing contact hours (6.75 hours/day). PSNA is an accredited approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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- Attendees receive 15.5 continuing education units for this event.
- This conference is for professionals and paraprofessionals working in the following fields: medical; healthcare; mental health; military/veterans; business/industry; justice; child welfare; education (K-12, College); faith based organizations; philanthropy; as well as lay people invested in the health, safety, and humanity of their communities.
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Registration is now open for “A 20-Hour Interdisciplinary Breastfeeding Management Course for the U.S.” This three-day event will be held from 8:30 am – 4:45 pm at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Education will be led by Nikki Lee, RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC, Registered Lactation Consultant and Advanced Nurse Lactation Counselor. Nikki has worked with mothers and babies since 1975 in homes, birth centers, hospitals, and clinics. She is a lactation consultant, a childbirth educator, a craniosacral therapist, an infant massage instructor, a teacher, and a nurse. Nikki educates healthcare professionals and works with city and community agencies toward the goal of meeting Healthy People 2020 Breastfeeding Objectives for the U.S. Nikki represents the Philadelphia Department of Public Health on the Philadelphia Multi-Hospital BabyFriendly™ Taskforce. Program objectives: The participant will be able to: (1) assess breastfeeding and offer practical advice and encouragement in a variety of situations from pregnancy to employment; (2) teach a mother how to hand express; (3) facilitate establishment of a milk supply; (4) support adoptive nursing, multiples, and relactation; and (5) identify current lactation resources about medications and medical questions. Click here for more information.
The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association has approved this activity for 20.25 nursing contact hours (6.75 hours/day). PSNA is an accredited approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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ATECAM LLC is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
The recent emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from the Hubei province in China in late 2019 demonstrates the epidemic potential of coronaviruses. The rapid spread of this virus across the world in only 2 months highlights the transmissibility of this family of viruses and the significant morbidity and mortality that they can cause. We highlight the current state of knowledge of coronavirus biology while answering questions concerning the current outbreak of SARS-CoV-2.
Register using the green ticket link near the top of the page.
3:00 PM
COVID Pandemic: The Evolution and Epidemiology
Kenneth Miller MEd, MSRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, AE-C, FAARC
4:00 PM
Pathophysiology – How COVID Can Create Havoc in Your Body
Kenneth Miller MEd, MSRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, AE-C, FAARC
5:00 PM
Management of Respiratory Failure In COVID Patients
Albert Heuer PhD, MBA, RRT, RPFT. FAARC
6:00 PM
An Clinician View From Inside The COVID ICU
Albert Heuer PhD, MBA, RRT, RPFT. FAARC
7:00 PM
COVID Pandemic: Treatments, Vaccinations, and Herd Immunity
Terrence Shenfield MS, RRT-ACCS, RPFT, NPS, AE-C
About this Event
- The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- 3.0 contact hours can be earned by attending 100% of the activity and completing an evaluation.
- No conflict of interest exists for any individual in a position to control the content of the educational activity.
What You’ll Learn
- Lead with Influence: Learn proven strategies to drive rapid and sustainable behavior change for your teams
- Motivate Others: Enable others to take initiative, think strategically, and improve performance
- Transform Corporate Culture: Grasp essential behavior improvements that create a cascading effect on corporate culture
- Experience Change: Achieve successful team and organizational initiatives, reduce errors, and engage employees
Facilitator
Kevin Surdi, RN / VitalSmarts
Master Certified, Crucial Conversations
Certified, Crucial Accountability, The Power of Habit, Virtual Classroom
With over 15 years of experience in emergency medicine — from EMS and nursing to senior administration — Kevin has personally led many organizational and culture change initiatives. He’s also worked with a variety of frontline healthcare professionals, middle management, executive teams, and leadership development programs. As a result, Kevin provides valuable insights regarding relationship dynamics within organizations. In addition, his emergency medicine experience has trained him to be comfortable in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments and high-stakes situations — and to empathize with those working in similar conditions.
A registered nurse, Kevin has a passion for helping others, which you can feel in his training. When he facilitates, Kevin ensures that everyone has grasped the material and can walk away with a new perspective on complex situations.
Award-Winning Training
The VitalSmarts training solutions address the most common behavioral workplace challenges. Each training focuses on a practical skillset that empowers employees and hospital systems to achieve lasting change and measurable results.
VitalSmarts Knows Healthcare
For the past 20 years, VitalSmarts has researched the effects of silence in healthcare and uncovered some startling trends:
- Cultures of poor communication among health professionals result in medical errors and staff turnover. Their research shows while 84% of doctors and nurses have seen coworkers take dangerous shortcuts, fewer than 10% voice their concerns.
- While safety tools are one part of the solution to improving patient care, they do not compensate for crucial conversations failures in the hospital.
- On the other hand, organizations that build cultures of dialogue among their administrators, physicians, nurses and staff experience significant reductions in medical errors, increased patient safety, higher productivity, and lower staff turnover.
The Biggest Problem in Healthcare is Silence
Unfortunately, drama in healthcare isn’t reserved for TV.
VitalSmart’s latest research shows that while interpersonal drama within caregiver teams is frustrating — it’s not the real problem.
The real problem in healthcare is silence.
Specifically, how well or how poorly employees can speak up and address behavior challenges predicts patient safety, quality of care, quality of patient and family experience, and staff engagement.
Cost
Student* $25
PSNA Member $75
Non-Member $150
* unlicensed nurse graduate or student
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Registration is open for PSNA’s winter 2021 Legislative Ambassador Program (LAP). The LAP is a grassroots advocacy network of nurses from across Pennsylvania who represent professional nursing’s voice in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Ambassadors are a critical tool in advancing PSNA’s legislative agenda and identifying solutions to nursing issues in our Commonwealth. Through the program, Ambassadors have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of advocacy initiatives with the support of PSNA staff while building relationships with elected officials.
This free education is only open to PSNA members. Members who would like to join the winter 2021 class can contact Noah Logan at [email protected].
Fast Facts
- Ambassador online course opens January 11 and closes March 15.
- Coursework is completed through the PSNA CE Center (ce.psna.org).
- Learners will receive support from PSNA’s Government Affairs team and Ambassador graduates.
- Self-paced education modules focus on state-level politics and professional advocacy.
- Earn contact hours.
I became an Ambassador to learn how to bring my patients’ issues to legislators. The program has opened my eyes to new paths for nurses to be recognized for our dedicated work. Legislators have welcomed my information and opinions. Patricia White, LAP Member, PSNA-PAC Member
Ambassador Roles and Responsibilities
- Be a registered voter
- Participate in Ambassador calls (as needed)
- Send letters to elected officials
- Attend meetings with elected officials
- Communicate with legislators and staff via phone, letter, and email
- Submit letters to the editor and op-eds (as needed)
- Set aside personal political agendas when representing PSNA
- Inform PSNA’s Government Affairs team of your legislative activities
- Respond to and share PSNA action alert emails
- Educate RNs on PSNA’s legislative priorities
Ambassadors Receive
- Advocacy and healthcare updates on a “first-to-know” basis
- PSNA’s Advocacy Academy (online education, awards contact hours)
- Legislative agenda, talking points, policy briefs, and position papers
- Legislative materials to leave with your legislators
- Opportunities to provide testimony
- PSNA Legislative Ambassador business cards
Registration Open for Translating Research to Innovations in Practice 2021
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Keynote
The glaring racial disparities and impact on the social determinants of health unearthed by the COVID-19 pandemic support the development of anti-racist research approaches to address these issues. The persistent presence of healthcare disparities in our nation, our racist past, and the lack of diversity in the nursing profession are increasingly evident. Dr. Fields’ presentation will address these issues and the need to improve recruitment of diverse and inclusive human subject samples in research studies.
Dr. Fields is Research Professor and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at the Penn State College of Nursing. He is a well-known and respected HIV/AIDS prevention research scientist with a focus on young men of color. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. He is also founder and CEO of “The S.D.F Group, LLC”, which is a health innovation consultant company. He has 29 years of experience in the health sector as an educator, researcher, clinician, administrator, consultant, health policy specialist, and entrepreneur/business owner.
PSNA is a proud sponsor of this event.
This is about you!
PSNA is proud to present the 2021 Virtual Summit Standing Together: Caring for Each Other. On September 24, 2021, participants will be given an opportunity to lean into their many experiences and emotions over the past year. As we know, many studies have concluded that in 2020 nurses faced significant challenges to their mental health. Take better care of yourself and your colleagues as we learn to cope and heal from the challenges of Covid- 19 under the guidance and insight of our expert and engaging speakers. According to the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics, self-care is our responsibility. If we aren’t caring for ourselves, we can’t care for others. The PSNA Virtual Summit is an opportunity for learners to replenish their capacity to provide compassion and empathy, while improving the quality of care they provide every day. Take time for yourself, because you’ve earned it!
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5.0 contact hours can be earned by full participation in the entire event.
Pennsylvania State Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Cost to Attend
PSNA Member
- $79 Member Benefit – Early Bird Special through July 9
- $99 Member Pricing – July 10 through September 17
Non-PSNA Member
- $149
Unlicensed Student
- $49
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Meet our Speakers
KEYNOTE: Carolyn Jones | President and CEO, Carolyn Jones Production
Celebrating Nurses: A Filmmaker Witnesses Our World
Carolyn Jones—author and filmmaker behind The American Nurse Project and Defining Hope—spent over 10 years documenting the work of nurses across the country, a journey that led her to conclude that “without them, we don’t stand a chance.” That was before the global coronavirus pandemic that has thrust our nation’s nurses even further onto the frontlines of healthcare, addressing our physical and emotional needs before sending us back out into the world. When COVID hit, she had an opportunity to see what emergency nurses were dealing with on the front lines of the pandemic. In this session, Jones will share excerpts and stories from her book The American Nurse, and her three documentary films, including the recently released In Case of Emergency, shedding light on some of the biggest health care challenges facing Americans today—from the opioid crisis to gun violence to behavioral health and lack of insurance—and the ways in which nurses are able to tackle them head-on.
Carolyn Jones is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker who has devoted her career to celebrating invisible populations and breaking down barriers. She has published multiple books include Living Proof: Courage in the Face of AIDS and The American Nurse, and directed three feature documentaries focused on nurses: The American Nurse, Defining Hope, and most recently In Case of Emergency, which focuses on our nation’s biggest public health challenges—from COVID-19 to the lack of health insurance to the devastating impact of the opioid crisis.
FEATURED SPEAKER: Gloria Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP
Overcoming Secondary Stress: Self Care and Resilience in Nursing Practice
Gloria Ferraro Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP, is a longstanding proponent of self-care and resilience-building strategies, beginning with her book, Coping with Stress: RN’s Survival Sourcebook Medical Economics Press (1983), and, most recently, with Dr. R. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice (2021). As editor in chief of the refereed journal, Holistic Nursing Practice, she encourages the practice of holistic self-care modalities to nurture mind, body, and spirit. Dr. Donnelly is also Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita with the College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia. True to her quest for personal resilience, Dr. Donnelly is a stand-up comedian, using her comedic talents to raise funds to assist nursing and health professions’ students. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Philadelphia College of Physicians, the oldest medical society in the United States.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented strains on healthcare professionals, particularly direct care providers and the institutions in which they work. High levels of stress among direct care providers are well documented by the American Nurses Association and have been widely reported in the media and literature, including levels of depression, anxiety, and suicide. Demands on nurse educators have also increased as in-person instruction converted to other formats and clinical sites discontinued student experiences. This presentation will focus on secondary stress — that extra layer of stress that results from the demands of caring for others. Self-awareness and intentionally designed self-care strategies are key in building resilience, some of which will be described in this session.
Grief, Fear, and Loss
Christopher Watts, Sr., PhD, LPC, NCC
Board Certified Counselor, National Certified Custody Evaluator, Licensed Professional Counselor (PA)
Dr. Christopher T. Watts, Sr. has taught in the Department of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University since 2012. He is a frequent international keynote presenter and trainer on Eastern therapies, post-trauma healing, hate and bias crimes, victimology, and multicultural competencies. Dr. Watts is the clinical director of C.T. Watts & Associates, PC Counseling Education Center, a lead counseling clinic in Central Pennsylvania. Past appointments include director of the Triage and Evaluation Center, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and Assistant Professor of Psychology, Temple University. Dr. Watts has consulted on many national research and curriculum projects on cross-ethnic approaches to death, dying, and bereavement; hate violence; multiculturalism; violence against women; and crime victim rights and services.
Mind on the Mend©
Marti G. Derr, MSN, RN, CNE
Associate Professor of Nursing, Clinical Track, Messiah University
Marti G. Derr’s presentation is an opportunity to learn and practice strategies for creating an inner space for quietness and restoration in the midst of our chaotic lives. Marti has taught nursing for 28 years after 12 years of private practice in therapy. Her primary focus has been psychiatric nursing, bioethics, and leadership. As a trained spiritual director, Marti values the integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Step-by-Step: Processing Trauma and Moving Forward After Trauma
Karen Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University, College of Health and Human Sciences
Karen Foli is leading Purdue researchers in identifying at-risk nurses and finding ways for healing and recovery through the concept of insufficient resource trauma and the middle range theory of nurses’ psychological trauma. She is the co-author of The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing. Karen is reviewing data with colleagues, using narratives from a survey of critical care registered nurses, which was sent out in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses are reporting significant mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and symptoms that would indicate posttraumatic stress disorder. Previous ways to cope have been weakened as teams struggle to provide care and grieve incredible patient loss.
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation
Alison Cuccia, MSPH
Research and Program Manager, American Nurses Association
Alison Cuccia is a public health researcher with expertise in health behavior and program evaluation. She is published in peer reviewed journals on behavioral science approaches to tobacco control, access to healthier food options, and creating active communities. This presentation will review the framework and components of Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation and display preliminary data from the Healthy Nurse survey. The presentation will also overview the Well-Being Initiative, which contains a collection of resources to support the mental health and resilience of all nurses.