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Strategies for Creating and Sustaining a Professional Practice Environment

Health Care Worker This conference focused on successful strategies and lessons learned in creating and sustaining a professional practice environment in a hospital setting. Morning sessions examined leadership, strategic planning and evaluation. Afternoon breakout sessions focused on specific scalable and translatable best practice programs.
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Symposium Power Point Presentations and Video

Welcome
Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, DNP, FAAN - Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse

Monday Morning Sessions

Setting the Stage: The Importance a Professional Practice Environment
Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, DNP, FAAN - Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse
Video

The Transformative Powers of Nursing Leadership Presentation.
Keynote Speaker - Selected slides from Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Video (MGH Internal Access Only)

Evaluation of the Professional Practice Environment.
Marianne Ditomassi, RN, DNP, MBA
Dorothy A. Jones, EdD, RNC, FAAN
Video

Panel Disscussion - Video
Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, DNP, FAAN - Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse
Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Marianne Ditomassi, RN, DNP, MBA
Dorothy A. Jones, EdD, RNC, FAAN

Monday Afternoon Breakout Sessions

An Evidence Based Approach to Fall Prevention & Intervention
Keith Perleberg, RN, MDiv
Deborah D'Avolio PhD, ACNP

Patient/Family Centered Care MGH Medical Intensive Care Unit
Lillian Ananian, RN; Adele Keeley, RN

Patient Family Centered Care
Mary Lou Kelleher RN, MS

Promoting Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Susan Lee, PhD, RN, NP-C; Lynda Brandt, MS, RNC; H. Tom Blanchard, MS, MEd, RN, ACNS-BC, CEN

Diversity
Deb Washington, RN, PhD(c)

Collaborative Governance
Sharon Brackett, RN, BS, CCRN
Virginia Capasso, PhD, ANP-BC, CWS
Katherine T. Fillo, RN-BC, MPH
Claire Paras, RN, MSN, MBA
Mary Ellin Smith, RN, MS