2025 Annual Conference
Plan ahead to participate in a Wednesday morning breakfast session at AONL 2024. These Sunrise Sessions are conducted by industry partners, covering a diverse range of topics relevant to nurse leaders, and include a hot breakfast.
Submit your preferences before March 22.
Virtual Nursing at the Crossroads: To Scale or Not to Scale
Over 2/3 of recently surveyed nurse leaders report that virtual nursing is integral to acute care delivery. However, the 2024 virtual nursing landscape largely reflects myriad med surg pilots with limited appetite for expansion. This session will challenge nurse leaders to move beyond model pilots. High-impact opportunities and essential building blocks for optimizing virtual nursing across the entire clinical enterprise will be examined. In addition, overarching questions concerning the evolution of virtual nursing as a nursing specialty as well as the over-due need for research in key practice areas will be highlighted.
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Transform Your Staffing Office into a Profit Center
Despite the post-pandemic cooling of contract labor spend, it will be with us for the foreseeable future. This session describes how a West Coast Hospital System took over many of the functions that their vendors were doing and captured up to $400,000 for each $10M of spend.
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Nurse Led Excellence in Infusion Therapy
Nurses devote considerable time and energy to medication administration, a critical component of nursing practice. Efficient use of time and well-designed systems that support quality outcomes are essential for nurse leaders. This session will provide insight into the role of nurse leaders in supporting clinical, operational and financial improvements within infusion therapy.
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Strategic Float Pool Management: Crafting Your Action Plan
A well-run float pool – along with the establishment of an internal agency model – is your key to addressing the three key contingent labor challenges: reducing costs, increasing fill rates, and establishing your organization as an employer of choice. Join this session, led by former nurse leaders, to learn proven best practices and develop concrete next steps that you can apply right away to supercharge your contingent labor strategy.
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Expanding Virtual Nursing Workflows to Drive Better Outcomes
An interactive panel discussion featuring different models of virtual care delivery with demonstrated impact from multiple leading organizations
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Using the AONL Competencies for Quality Improvement in Pressure Injury Prevention
Nurse leaders are uniquely qualified to improve care delivery and affect change in organizations. In this session learn about the clinical and financial risk of pressure injuries. Explore how technology and the AONL competency framework can affect quality improvement outcomes.
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The Transformation Imperative: Differing Approaches to Scaling Virtual Nursing
Naturally innovative, nurses can play an impactful role in using technology to transform care delivery. Join this session to understand how three health systems took differing approaches to grow and scale their virtual nursing programs and how they’re strategically leveraging technology like virtual care to support care delivery transformation efforts.
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Mastering AI Integration in Nursing: A Roadmap for Innovative Care Delivery
In an era where technological advancements are reshaping healthcare delivery, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in nursing stands at the forefront of innovation. Betty Jo Rocchio, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive at Mercy, presents a compelling roadmap for AI Adoption in nursing. This presentation dives deep into the realm of AI in nursing while focusing on its pivotal role in workforce, work environment, and workflows while enhancing caregiver and clinical efficiency.
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