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This is a pre-recorded webinar. The original session was broadcast on October 13, 2020. Upon completion of the program, the learner will state the importance of a nurse residency program and will be able to list three benefits of using the Vizient/AACN model.
Agenda
Speakers
Edna Cadmus
Clinical Professor Specialty Director of Rutgers School of Nursing
EDNA CADMUS PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Edna is currently a Clinical Professor and Specialty Director of the graduate Leadership Tracks at Rutgers University and serves as the Executive Director for the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing. This Center serves as the nursing workforce center for the state. Since 2010, she serves as a co-lead for the New Jersey Action Coalition which is one of 51 national coalitions across the country implementing the Institute of Medicine recommendations. Prior to July of 2010 she was the Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in NJ for 16 of her 22 years at the medical center, achieving Magnet designation 3 times.
She is the past president of the Organization of Nurse Executives of New Jersey. She is a commissioner and chair for the ANCC pathway to excellence program. She has received numerous awards for leadership.
She has received multiple grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on academic progression. Previously she has been the co-PI for a CMS funded grant for $1.6 million for a nurse residency program for Long Term Care and currently serves as a PI for a grant for $4.7 million from the Helene Fuld Trust to implement residency programs in out of hospital settings and the NJDOL GAINS Grant for acute care hospital residency programs.
She graduated from William Paterson University where she received her BSN. Edna received her Masters in Nursing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York and her Doctorate from Adelphi University in Long Island, New York. She is a Wharton fellow, Class of 2003 and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing since 2012.
