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Save the Date for Healthcare Con - June 25, 2021
We are excited to announce Healthcare Con will be offered virtually to attendees across the United States! The live event will feature a dynamic range of insightful oral presentations, e-poster viewing, session recordings, rapid fire posters, and networking opportunities aimed to teach and inspire heath care professionals of all career stages.
Healthcare Con is an interdisciplinary conference developed to showcase the latest in research, innovation, education, quality and evidence-based healthcare improvement projects.
Contact the Planning Committee at: Healthcarecon@stanfordhealthcare.org
Resilience in Healthcare - Building professional partnerships and fostering an agile workforce.
All health care professionals interested in learning and sharing innovative ideas in research, innovation, improvement and education.
This includes interdisciplinary professionals, nurses, leaders, advanced practice providers, allied health providers, and health administrators.
Learners will be able to describe innovative practices to foster resilient relationships in the healthcare environment. Credits are offered to attendees for BRN/ANCC.
Good news! Abstract submission will be offered for Emerging Topics in January 2021.
More information on this will be posted to the website.
Registration and ticket fees will be available in January 2021.
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Keynote Speaker
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PHD, RN, FAAN, recognized as an international leader in nursing ethics, is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing. (Dr. Rushton holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics.)
Dr. Rushton co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee and Consultation Service.
A founding member of the Berman Institute, she co-led the first National Nursing Ethics Summit, convened by the Berman Institute and School of Nursing. The 2014 Summit produced a Blueprint for 21st Century Nursing Ethics.
Her current scholarship focuses on moral suffering of clinicians, moral resilience, palliative care, and designing a culture of ethical practice.
In 2016, she co-led a national collaborative State of the Science Initiative: Transforming Moral Distress into Moral Resilience in Nursing and co-chaired the American Nurses Association professional issues panel that created A Call to Action: Exploring Moral Resilience Toward a Culture of Ethical Practice.
Dr. Rushton is the recipient of three fellowships: a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellowship (2006-2009), a Kornfeld Fellowship in end-of-life, ethics, and palliative care (2000), and a Mind and Life Institute Fellowship in Contemplative Science (2013-2014). Dr. Rushton is evaluating outcomes of the Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy (MEPRA), which her team designed and implemented to build moral resilience in practicing nurses.
She is author and editor of Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare (Oxford University Press), that aims to transform approaches to moral suffering with innovative methods of cultivating moral resilience and a culture in health care that supports ethical practice.
Dr. Rushton has served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on increasing rates of organ donation and was a consultant to its project When Children Die. She is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine’s Committee on System Approaches to Improve Patient Care by Supporting Clinician Wellbeing.
The recipient of numerous awards, she served the first chair of the Maryland State Council on Quality Care at the End-of-Life and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Hastings Center.
Healthcare Con is a brought to you by Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health in collaboration with organizations that form the Bay Area Magnet Convening Consortium (BAMC) & Stanford Nurse Alumnae.
Article by: Sana Younus