Leadership of the Spirit.
Speaker: Leah Curtin, DSc(h), RN, FAAN
Dr. Leah Curtin is a Clinical Professor of Nursing at University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Health. Dr. Curtin was editor-in-chief of Nursing Management for 20 years - and has been the senior partner in Metier Consultants for the last 15 years. She is a nationally recognized nurse leader and frequent speaker on Nursing trends and leadership.
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Pathway to Excellence^TM.
Speaker: Barbara Haag-Heitman, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC with Carole Staley Collins, PhD, MSN, RN-BC and Mary Golway, MS, BSN, RN-BC
Learn what it takes to be a Pathway to Excellence Organization: ANCC's New Program designed for healthcare organizations. A Pathway to Excellence designated organization is committed to nurses, to what nurses identify as important to their practice, and to valuing nurses' contributions in the workplace. This designation confirms to the public that nurses working in a Pathway to Excellence organization know their efforts are supported. The award invites other nurses to join their colleagues in this desirable and nurturing environment.

Boosting Retention and Doubling New Hires with Sun Health's Nursing Education Transition Unit.
Speakers: Nancy Zismann, RN, BSN, MSOL and Patricia Greene, MSN, RN
Sun Health Boswell Hospital in Arizona designed and implemented a cost effective, new model for supporting new graduate, foreign hired, and re-entry nurse assimilation into the real world practice environment. The NET-U (Nursing Education Transition Unit) has become a unique point of entry for these nurses into the hospital. Within the first 9 months of the program's launch, Sun Health Boswell Hospital doubled their new hires and increased retention by almost 30%; while the innovative unit achieved high patient satisfaction and positive nurse sensitive indicator scores.

A System's Success Story for Cost Effective Staffing: A Case Study from Health First.
Speakers: Jan McCoy, MSN, MSHSA, RN, CNAA with Bonnie Rudolph, RN, MS and Karie Ryan RN, BSN, MS
Jan McCoy, Bonnie Rudolph, and Karie Ryan, share how Health First, a three hospital system comprised of 724 beds, designed and implemented a winning effective staffing program enterprise-wide in just 7 weeks placing the organization on track to realize a $1.56 Million annual net savings within the first year of the program's implementation.