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The 2012 Nursing Education Summit will be May 20th through May 22nd at the Best Western Ramkota in Casper. This year the Nursing Education Summit will look at Hawaii’s nursing curriculum and problem based learning. There is no cost to register and breakfast and lunch is provided.
Designing Nursing Leadership in Wyoming: A Day of Dialog for the Future is your chance to build on the successes of the Wyoming Nursing Leadership Institute and expand the leadership competencies and curriculum to prepare future Wyoming nurse leaders. Through a facilitated and interactive process, your perspectives and ideas as current health care leaders will be gathered to create a new vision for Wyoming nursing leadership. Your input is essential so please save the date and plan to attend this day of dialogue in Casper.
Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing and the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine, will be joining us for the day.
The 2012 summit and WNA meeting will be held in Laramie September 13th – 15th. We have already confirmed the major speakers for the summit. We are thrilled that Peter Buerhaus, Valere Potter Professor of Nursing and Senior Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbuilt University School of Nursing, will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Buerhaus is chair of the National Health Care Workforce Commission, a 15 member panel comprised of distinguished leaders from academic and the health care industry. (For more information, go to http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases.php?release=1883). He will give us the national perspective on nursing and health care workforce. Mary Lou Brunell, Executive Director of the Florida Nursing Workforce Center, will be the other speaker talking about the role that the Florida Center has played in collecting, analyzing and dissemination data on nursing workforce.