Elite Sponsor Thought Leader Sessions

When budgets and resources are tight, investing in staff scheduling may not be top-of-mind. But, without making changes, your organization will miss more opportunities to engage staff and save money. Learn how fast, affordable updates to technology and strategies can empower your staff while boosting productivity and reducing labor spend.

Presenters

Ken Coons, Senior Director, Customer Success, ABILITY Network

PIVs are ubiquitous among hospitalized patients and peripheral vascular harm ranks among ECRI's top 10 safety concerns for 2021. This talk will provide evidence-based guidance on how your organization can improve PIV care and how to leverage your data to address this emerging safety issue.

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Stephanie A. Pitts, MSN, RN, CPN, VA-BC™, Director, Strategy & Innovation

Lynn Soban, PhD, MPH, RN, Consultant, Dowling Dennis

Join leaders from Capella University and Allegheny Health Network to learn how hospitals and higher education institutions are partnering to improve nurse education, provide affordable pathways to leadership, and ensure that nurses can practice to the full extent of their education and training.

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Adele Webb, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, Executive Dean of Healthcare Initiatives, Alternative Learning | Strategic Education, Inc.

Dr. Paula Coe, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, Vice President, Nursing Education and Professional Practice Allegheny Health Network

Dr. Jennifer Schroeter, DNP, MS, MLHR, RN, Director, Nursing Innovation and Performance Development, Allegheny Health Network

Across all industries, employers are capitalizing on marketplace platforms to catch up to today’s technology-enabled workforce. Healthcare should be no different. Join this session to learn how you can leverage marketplace technology and automation to access high-quality talent on-demand, reduce costs, and stabilize your workforce while supporting patient safety.

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Barbara Anspach, MSN, RN, FACHE, CENP, Nurse Executive and Vice President, CareRev

Hospitals using Digital Paper signage have saved money while improving workflow efficiency and patient/clinician experience. Brigham & Women’s Hospital shares a case study on using low energy, lightweight Digital Paper virtual whiteboards to improve communication to patients in the emergency department (ED), and to understand the effect of delivering timely information about a patient’s pertinent hospital course to their satisfaction surrounding their ED stay.

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Andrew Marshall, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

Tim O’Malley, AVP, US Business Unit, E Ink Corporation

Joseph Lucchese, VP, Avalue USA, Avalue Technology

Nurses are at the forefront on the path to achieving health equity. Cultivating new nurses from the start to build their resiliency, skills and confidence is key to providing consistent, quality patient care. Learn how to quickly build new nurses’ professional skills and readiness through a supportive, virtual orientation experience.

Presenters

Kandi Helminiak, RN, BSN, Clinical Nurse Executive, Elsevier

Dr. Lya Cartwright-Stroupe, DNP, APRN, CPNP, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, Manager of Nursing Research and Professional Development, Magnet® Program Director, Transition to Practice Program Director, WVU Medicine

Today’s healthcare landscape is increasingly mobile with more doctors, nurses and care providers using Apple devices to streamline communication and coordination at the point of care. But as organizations adopt mobility strategies with multiple purpose driven apps, new problems present for end users and IT. This session will examine ways to solve these challenges and elevate your organization's mobility strategy to keep users and IT teams happy.

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Adam Mahmud, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Healthcare, Jamf

This session will demonstrate how you can create advanced and streamlined alerting workflows to focus on what matters most: providing safer patient care. Learn how to utilize central monitoring for advanced alerting, deliver alarms via a mobile foundation and reduce alarm fatigue with first-in-class alerting features.

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Angus Douglas, Chief Mobility Architect, GE Healthcare 

Emily Zhu, Senior Product Manager

This case study presentation will review the objectives and outcomes from a HAPI-prevention initiative in critical care at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida that implemented a wearable sensor turn cueing system to improve turn protocol adherence and reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries.

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Robin Gasparini, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC Clinical Nurse Specialist for Quality, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville, FL

Based on the AONL COVID-19 Longitudinal Study Report, please join us for an engaging conversation between industry experts Dr. Diana Berkland and Dr. Karlene Kerfoot as they share their experiences of creating cultures of stability and sustainability through collaborative partnerships with nurse managers. We must lead a viable change!

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Dr. Diana Berkland, PhD, RN, FAAN, Executive leader, Berkland OWL Enterprise and CNO Emeritus

Dr. Karlene Kerfoot, PhD, RN, FAAN, CNO, symplr

The pandemic tested nurses and revealed gaps in systems and processes. As many nurses embrace the mantra ‘Never Again’ and reconsider careers in healthcare, leaders must listen to and support nurses. Join Dr. Rhonda Collins to examine the state of the profession and discover solutions to protect and preserve nurses.

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Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN. FAAN, Chief Nursing Officer, Vocera

This session will discuss how innovation is being used to address workforce well-being, new care models and staffing, retention and recruitment, and facilitating transition to practice to develop practice-ready nurses.

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Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, Chief Nurse,Wolters Kluwer