Agenda

Arrive before the education session begins to enjoy a healthy breakfast, hot beverages and visit with sponsors, poster presenters and network with colleagues.

This presentation will review the current workforce data and care team models to demonstrate the need to transform care delivery. The current state of technology will be discussed to highlight technologies that will prove useful for nursing practice in order to provide technology enabled nursing care.

During this 30-minute session, join a rapid dissemination of knowledge about what works at the local level. The session is designed to harvest what teams have tested and learned in their quality improvement initiatives that have led to implementation at the practice level.
During the session participants will:
1. Review a research-based article specific to the topic
2. Inventory specific activities that have led to successful implementation of recommended changes.
3. Share new ideas and strategies for testing.
4. Identify teams with similar issues and need for follow-up discussions.

Topic choices –
o Creative Staffing Models
o Strategies to Promote Self-Care and Wellbeing

During this 30-minute session, join a rapid dissemination of knowledge about what works at the local level. The session is designed to harvest what teams have tested and learned in their quality improvement initiatives that have led to implementation at the practice level.
During the session participants will:
1. Review a research-based article specific to the topic.
2. Inventory specific activities that have led to successful implementation of recommended changes.
3. Share new ideas and strategies for testing.
4. Identify teams with similar issues and need for follow-up discussions.

Topic choices –
o Creative Staffing Models
o Strategies to Promote Self-Care and Wellbeing

ONL NJ president, Dr. Helene Burns will report on the organization's major initiatives and happenings.

The world has seen what nurses can do, so now, more than ever, it is essential for nursing to seize the opportunity. Nurses need to have change agility skills to ride the waves of change. Nursing today demands fluidity and the willingness to recognize the need for change, the danger of not changing, and the skills necessary to lead and embrace change effectively. The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030 identified and highlighted changes needed that might ultimately influence all nurses directly or indirectly. The Report identified the nursing faculty shortage, social determinants of health, diversity, equity and inclusion, health equity, and capitalizing on nursing’s impact and importance as essential needed opportunities for change. It is imperative that nurses on all levels guide, accept, embrace, and effectively manage these inevitable changes. Using surfing as a comparison to nursing, the concepts related to the importance of change agility and understanding various change theories are explored. Principles related to high-reliable organizations, innovation, rational and emotional views of change, the importance of data, Roger's Diffusion Innovation, and John P Kotter's 8 Stages of Change are described in a unique and functional format. Like change, the waves in the ocean keep coming and coming. They differ based on the weather, wind, moon, and tide. They can be large, small, fast, or slow. No matter the type of wave, nurses must have the skills to ride these waves of change like a professional surfer, without fear but with skill, grace, and excitement.

Attendees will complete the program evaluations for the day's education sessions. Day 1 is adjourned.