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With or without passage of healthcare reform legislation, the coming decade will challenge hospitals like never before. Demographic trends suggest a sharp jump in demand, but Baby Boomers better informed about technological and treatment advancements and about patient safety, outcomes, and satisfaction measures, are likely to increasingly steer that demand towards the top performing hospitals. Reimbursement model changes from government and private insurers will also increasingly favor top performers. Meanwhile, thin margins and workforce shortages will provide significant hurdles to improved performance in a decade when three-fourths of our nurse leaders are expected to retire.
The next generation of CNOs, Nursing Directors, and Managers will need new skills to most fully leverage the resources available and maximize performance outcomes. In addition to controlling costs and developing talent, tomorrow's nurse leaders will have a major role in driving revenue, but how will they acquire these needed skills?
Don’t miss Growing Nursing Leadership for the next Decade. This next in a series of educational conferences by the Nursing Consortium of South Florida for current and future nurse leaders will take place on the 19th of March at the Seminole HardRock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL. Registration is $99.00 per attendee, and may close without notice due to limited seating.
The day long conference will include presentations by Laura Caramanica, RN, Ph.D., FACHE, Executive Director of the Institute for Nursing Excellence at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, Jennifer G. Nooney, Ph.D. the Associate Director for Research at the Florida Center for Nursing, and Diane Whitehead, Ed.D., RN, ANEF, Department Chair and Professor of the Nova Southeastern University College of Allied Health and Nursing.
Attendees of this day-long educational conference will learn about the
• latest work by the American Organization of Nurse Executives and how AONE toolkits and other resources can be leveraged to support nurse leadership development
• results of the latest Florida workforce studies conducted by the Florida Center for Nursing
• Consortium's ongoing efforts to create the South Florida Nursing Leadership Academy
For additional information including speaker bios and registration information, please click here. For sponsorship information please click here.
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The Research Consortium of the Nursing Consortium of South Florida thanks the region's nursing community for its enthusiastic response to Practice to Research Solutions: Local to International Perspectives, to be hosted by the Florida International University College of Nursing and Health Sciences, on the FIU University Park Campus on Friday the 16th of October. "This is the third annual Research Conference that the Consortium has organized to raise the awareness of nursing research taking place throughout South Florida and to facilitate discussion about the ways that nursing practice informs research and nursing research informs practice," explained Carol "Pat" Patsdaughter, PhD, RN, CNE, ACRN, chair of the conference organizing committee. "We are totally sold out and can not accept any additional registrations or walk ups. Each year this conference has sold out and we are pleased that such was the case again in 2009. We are also grateful to the sponsors that have stepped forward to support this conference." The conference keynote speaker will be Susan Gennaro, RN, DSN, FAAN, Dean and Professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College and editor the the Journal of Nursing Scholarship (formerly Image), the premier publication of Sigma Theta Tau International. For the conference brochure please click here.
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More than 60 South Florida Nursing Leaders attended an Advocacy Conference organized by the Nursing Consortium of South Florida and the South Florida Organization of Nurse Executives at the Broward College North Campus Omni Auditorium on the 19th of June. The six hour program featured a statistical update on the nursing shortage by Mary Lou Brunell of the Florida Center for Nursing, and presentations by one of the state's premier lobbyists Bob Levy, FHA's Martha DeCastro, and four State Representatives; Yolly Roberson, Luis Garcia, Juan Zapata, and Estevan Bovo.
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Florida Center for Nursing, "Fact Sheet: Florida RN, LPN, & NA Workforce Information January 2006"
Florida Hospital Association, "Nurse Staffing in Florida: The Challenges Continue"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - "Wisdom at Work" The Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace".
Center for Health Workforce Studies. The Impact of the Aging Population on the Health Workforce in the . Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. December 2005. Summary (228 KB) Full Report (981 KB)
Association of Academic Health Centers, "Out of Order, Out of Time, The State of the Nation's Health Workforce July 2008"
Florida Center for Nursing, "Forecasting Supply, Demand, and Shortage of RNs and LPNs in Florida, 2007-2020 July 2008"
AARP, USDOL, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity May 2008"
Florida Center for Nursing, "Addressing the Nursing Shortage in Florida: Strategies for Success December 2007"
Florida Center for Nursing, "2007 Nursing Education Program Annual Report and Workforce Survey January 2008"
Florida Center for Nursing, "Nursing Shortage Quick Facts" September 2008
Florida Center for Nursing, "The Economic Benefits of Resolving Florida's Nursing Shortage September 2008"
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