October 16 – 19, 2008

Hotel Intercontinental on the Plaza
Kansas City, Missouri

AM - Crucial Conversations      PM - Crucial Confrontations

Emily Moss, MD, MBA, Director of Training & Master Trainer, VitalSmarts (faculty for both sessions)

Learn from this dynamic speaker how to create a culture where patient care and safety reign! The morning session, Crucial Conversations, will teach you how to bring up touchy, controversial and complex issues and then resolve them – even when strong emotions, differing opinions or high stakes show up! In the afternoon session of Crucial Confrontations you will learn how to effectively confront crucial issues by turning conflict into productive dialogue.

These two pre-conferences are part of KU School of Nursing’s, Deep Discovery Series. Co-sponsored by the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing and Kansas University Medical Center Continuing Education.

All Day - ANCC Workshop 

Pamela S. Dickerson, PhD, RN, BC, President and co-owner of PRN Continuing Education. Pam is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant on a variety of health care issues.

This workshop provides the participant the opportunity to understand the value and process of Accreditation, gain a foundational understanding of the accreditation process with practical information regarding the requirements and criteria for accreditation, and learn from a clear overview of the appraisal process. The participant will experience ‘hands on’ preparation of accreditation self study documents, hear real-life examples that will provide lessons on how companies large and small achieved ANCC accreditation. Whether your organization is just beginning to explore CNE accreditation or wants to substantially improve its application process, this workshop will deliver the techniques and strategies needed to apply for ANCC accreditation effectively.

Conference - October 17-19

Keynote Address I: The Power to Change ANYTHING!!!
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 8:50 AM
Emily Moss, MD, MBA, Director of Training and Master Trainer, VitalSmarts(TM). This session will be based on the new book Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Drawing from an impressive education and rich experience, Emily Moss, M.D., helps organizations achieve hard-hitting business results in the area of productivity, change management, and leadership effectiveness. A leading member of the 2007 VitalSmarts Facilitator Faculty and master certified in both Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontation Training, Emily lends her extensive background to assist major corporations and leading healthcare facilities become measurably more vital by practicing and implementing the high-leverage skills of top performers.

General Session Speakers

Keynote II: Clinical Simulation in Education and Practice
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 10:30 AM
Pamela R. Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Indiana University School of Nursing. Dr. Jeffries' major contributions in research and scholarship of teaching are focused on innovative pedagogies in nursing education using technology and simulated learning for content delivery, skill application and promotion of clinical diagnostic reasoning. With over 20 years of teaching experience in the classroom, learning laboratory, and clinical setting with undergraduate and graduate nursing students, Jeffries is leading nursing faculty across the country in determining the most effective ways to teach students clinical skills. She is currently leading a multi-site study to develop and test the effectiveness of various simulated teaching models, such as CD-ROMs and life support training devices.

Keynote III: National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 4:20 PM
Nancy Dunton, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Kansas will deliver a session on the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (TM), that collects data on nursing sensitive indicators from 1,200 hospitals across United States. The indicators include common but preventable hospital-acquired illness and injuries for which Medicare will no longer pay providers, beginning in 2009. Dr. Dunton will discuss cost savings from a reduction in nursing-sensitive adverse events, ways to engage the nursing workforce in using data to improve outcomes, and how nursing performance measures can be adopted into the industry's pay-for-performance efforts. Read about NDNQI here.

Keynote IV: Educating Nurses: Teaching and Learning a Complex Practice of Care
Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 8:30 AM 
Patricia E. Benner, RN, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, is a Professor in the Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Physiological Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, where she holds the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality. For the last three years she has also been the Director of the National Study of Nursing Education, the first national study of nursing education in thirty years, for the Carnegie Foundation.Nursing. Dr. Benner will address the demands of learning to be a nurse and the most effective strategies for teaching nursing. For more information on the study: Click here

Keynote V: The Transforming Edge: Complexity Science Applications in Education
Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 2:30 PM
Michael Bleich,RN, PhD, CNAA, BC, FAAN, Associate Dean and Professor, Clinical and Community Affairs, Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer, KU HealthPartners, Inc. (Bleich as recently been named Dean and Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing, Portland, Oregon) and Mary L. Gambino, PhD, RN, Assistant Dean for Community Affairs, Director of Nursing Continuing Education, The University of Kansas School of Nursing will share what they are learning about a new science -- the Science of Complexity -- that provides a more holistic way to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate our educational practices in today's healthcare environment.

Keynote VI: Teaching and Professing
Sunday, October 19, 2008 - 11:30 AM
William B. Bondeson, PhD, Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri - Columbia. Dr. Bondeson will close the 35th Annual program. In this session we will explore the difference between teaching and professing, discuss some teaching strategies and some of the ethical issues which teaching raises.

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Create Some Transforming Jazz!

In addition to six plenary and general session speakers who will challenge your thinking about how to create and use transforming exchanges in education and practice, there will be over 200 podium, poster and round table presentations from around the United States. There will be ample opportunities to dialogue and enjoy the city of fountains, jazz & barbeque!

Registration and Fees