• Shared Governance: Starting From Scratch or Revitalizing a Current Model
  Designing or refurbishing a shared governance model can be difficult. Learn not only about creating appropriate models, but how to implement both organizational and unit-based structures. Find out how to formulate bylaws that support them.
  

  By Vicki George, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Barbara Haag-Heitman, RN, PhD, PHCNS, BC

  17-Nov   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Shared Governance: The Manager's Role in Shared Governance
  Many discussions focus on the changing role of the staff nurse in shared governance. However, the manager’s role is critical to success. Learn differences between managers’ roles in traditional and shared governance healthcare organizations. Examine the manger’s role in supporting the cost, return on investment, and participation in a shared governance model. Find out how managers can ensure appropriate essential education for themselves and staff.
  

  By Vicki George, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Lisa Thomka, PhD, RN

  18-Nov   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Shared Governance: Using a Self-Regulation Model to Conduct Peer Review in a Shared Governance Environment
  One of the most difficult but defining hallmarks of a shared governance model is the implementation of a mechanism for appropriate peer review. Discover how to develop a conceptual model that incorporates council accountability for peer review. Understand how to use it to improve patient safety and quality and to develop organization-wide accountability, using scorecards to track nursing outcomes.
  

  By Vicki George, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Barbara Haag-Heitman, RN, PhD, PHCNS, BC

  19-Nov   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Healthcare Leadership
  This course outlines the major concepts of healthcare leadership and management that can be applied throughout and individual’s career. It is important to learn and understand these concepts because leadership and management principles are typically not emphasized in healthcare education and training. Finally there are concepts unique to healthcare leadership and management that are not seen in other industries.
  

  By Al Rundio, PhD, DNP, RN, APRN, NEA, BC

  30-Nov   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Healthcare Informational Technology
  The Institute of Medicine, the Bush administration, and the current administration are propelling healthcare toward a paperless record. This transition is obviously a monumental task. This course summarizes the major HIT and electronic healthcare record initiatives, concepts, and regulations currently in place as well as a sneak peak at what lies ahead over the next several years.
  

  By Virginia Wilson, PhD(c), MSN, RN, NEA, BC

  1-Dec   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Healthcare Law
  This course summarizes critical, current issues in healthcare law and techniques that healthcare professionals can use to avoid healthcare litigation. The content outlined in this course is well supported in the literature and pertains to healthcare professionals whether or not they have direct patient contact in their day to day activities. Every attempt has been made to present practical, litigation avoidance recommendations that can also improve the quality of healthcare services provided by all attending this course.
  

  By Al Rundio, PhD, DNP, RN, APRN, NEA, BC

  2-Dec   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• Quality Assurance and Medical Errors
  The Institute of Medicine reports that as many as 100,000 deaths per year occur in the US as the result of a medical error. This course outlines the most common causes of medical errors and ways to avoid them in everyday practice. Decreasing medical errors not only will improve the quality of healthcare delivered but will also help to decrease the number of healthcare malpractice cases that occur.
  

  By Virginia Wilson, PhD(c), MSN, RN, NEA, BC

  3-Dec   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  

Nursing Professional Development (NPD)

• Nursing Professional Development: Principles in Practice I
  Introduces the learner to the specialty of Nursing Professional Development (NPD), provides a brief history of nursing education and staff development looks briefly at the new Nursing Professional Development System Model presented at the 2009 NNSDO Conference, and discusses organizational culture and climate as they relate to NPD.
  

  By Diana Swihart, PhD, Dmin, MSN, CS, APN, RN-BC

  7-Dec   4:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
• Nursing Professional Development: Principles in Practice II
  Explores some of the theoretical foundations for principles of education, specifically in teaching and learning and the characteristics of adult learners. Three key leaders in education are presented with Bloom’s Taxonomy and its application to writing objectives.
  

  By Diana Swihart, PhD, Dmin, MSN, CS, APN, RN-BC

  8-Dec   4:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
• Nursing Professional Development: Principles in Practice III
  Considers the ethical and legal issues attached to Nursing Professional Development: principles and ethics, copyright law, risk management, boundaries, and regulatory concerns. NPD specialists adhere to and support professional standards, e.g., licensure, accrediting bodies, and professional organizations. They employ and facilitate change that helps nurses actualize their profession at the point of care and within the global communities of practice.
  

  By Diana Swihart, PhD, Dmin, MSN, CS, APN, RN-BC

  9-Dec   4:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
• NPD: Principles in Practice IV
  Guides the learner into the issues and trends of Nursing Professional Development, i.e., continued NPD specialty competencies in all six roles/functions. As more innovative practice and excellence initiatives (e.g., IHI, TCAB, Magnet Recognition Program®) unfold, credentialing, practice based on evidence, and evidence-based practice reflected in safer, more effective and efficient patient outcomes provide ever growing opportunities for NPD specialists to influence health care today and tomorrow.
  

  By Diana Swihart, PhD, Dmin, MSN, CS, APN, RN-BC

  10-Dec   4:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  

Becoming a Nurse Educator

• How to Become a Nurse Educator: Teacher & Evaluator
  Sorry! This session is full. Please consider attending the session on Friday, December 11.
  A recording of this session will also be available here shortly after the session ends.
  
  As the nursing shortage becomes acute again (and it will), the supply of nurses will be dependent on a crack cadre of educators. Nurses who want to join this group will need new strategies not only to teach, but to evaluate. Learning the principles of teaching, learning, and evaluation will facilitate this.
  

  By Alfreda Harper-Harrison, EdD, RN

  20-Nov   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• How to Become a Nurse Educator: Teacher & Scholar
  Nurse educators are not only scholar within the nursing community, but become obligatory leaders. Learn how you can fill these roles when becoming a nurse educator. Find out about current trends in nurse education.
  

  By Dennis R. Sherrod, EdD, RN

  4-Dec   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
• How to Become a Nurse Educator: Teacher & Evaluator
  As the nursing shortage becomes acute again (and it will), the supply of nurses will be dependent on a crack cadre of educators. Nurses who want to join this group will need new strategies not only to teach, but to evaluate. Learning the principles of teaching, learning, and evaluation will facilitate this.
  

  By Alfreda Harper-Harrison, EdD, RN

  11-Dec   11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  

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