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Additionally, the following three nurses were selected to present their research from the podium on Friday October 18th at 11:10 a.m. 
Constance Creech, EdD, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, et al. – Collaborating to Build Cultural Competence, Communication and Empathy for Vulnerable Populations- A Rural Health NP Student Simulation 
Kechi Iheduru-Anderson, DNP, RN, CNE, CWCN, et al. – The Paucity of Black Nurse Leaders: A Challenge for Black Nurses’ Advancement in Nursing Profession 
Hannah Musgrove, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, RN-BC, et al. – Emotional Care for Nurses who are Second Victims

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October 17-18, 2019   |    Detroit, MI

OVERVIEW:

The Michigan Center for Nursing’s Michigan Nursing Summit is an annual event that convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip nurses with knowledge to promote understanding of underlying health factors, and the impact that these have on patient interactions and outcomes.

Topics will include:

• Unconscious Biases
• Cultural Congruency
• Food Insecurity and Wellness
• LGBT+ Aging
• Cannabis
• Behavioral Health and Recognizing Crisis
• Creating Healthy Work Environments
• Humor, Self-Care, and Resiliency
• Academic Research
• Professional Longevity

See the full slate of speakers here.

WHERE:

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Detroit – Dearborn
Address: 5801 Southfield Fwy, Detroit, MI 48228
Phone: (313) 336-3340
Book Here for Group Rate: doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/D/DTTDBDT-MNS-20191016/index.jhtml

Nurses, Nursing Students, Educators, Clinicians, Researchers, and Community Partners attend the Summit from all over the state of Michigan and neighboring states.

KEY LEARNINGS:

1. Understanding unconscious biases, cultural congruency, and the socio-historical contexts that impact provider-patient communication and quality of care.
2. Current healthcare trends and issues requiring nursing leadership for individual patients, systems, and vulnerable populations.
3. Techniques for professional resiliency, self-care, and workplace harmony and ways to integrate these techniques into practice.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
For more information regarding contact hours, please call Kristin Sewell at 517-908-8243.

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OVERVIEW:

The Michigan Center for Nursing’s annual Michigan Nursing Summit convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip nurses with knowledge to promote understanding of underlying health factors, and the impact that these have on patient interactions and outcomes.

Where

Crowne Plaza – Lansing West

925 S Creyts Road

Lansing, MI 48917

Phone: 517-323-7100

Mention group code MNS for event pricing

Registration 

Regular: $225

Retiree (RN 65+ and not employed): $120

Pre-Licensure Nursing Student: $120

Register today at mcn.eventbrite.com

Key Learnings

1. Influences of social and healthcare structures on establishing and maintaining a culture of health.
2. Current healthcare trends and issues requiring nursing leadership for individual patients, systems, and vulnerable populations.
3. Techniques for nurse self care, compassionate care, and interpersonal relationships in the workplace.

Special Features

• Academic Posters
• Exhibiting
• Action Coalition Update
• Mentoring Project
• Networking Reception

Continuing Education

This activity will be submitted for approval to award nursing contact hours by an accredited approver of continuing nursing education.

SPEAKERS & TOPICS:

KEYNOTE Delivering Compassionate Care in a Culture of Health
Susan Hassmiller, RN, PhD, FAAN
Senior Advisor for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Equity: What the Eyes Don’t See
Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH
Director, Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative

Maternal and Infant Mortality in Michigan: Who and Where?
Cheryl Larry-Osman, RN, MS, CNM
Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Henry Ford Hospital Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Board of Directors

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma Informed Care
Laura Porter
Co-Founder of ACE Interface, LLC, and Senior Director of The Learning Institute at the Foundation for Healthy Generations

Myth Busting Medical Marihuana
Andrew Brisbo
Director, Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation, State of Michigan

Saqib Nakadar, DO
Physician Advisor for the Michigan Medical Marihuana Advisory Panel

Human Trafficking: What Nurses Need to Know
Sarah Berry, DNP, RN, AGCNS-BC, CEN
Member, Beaumont Human Trafficking Task Force
Magnet Program Coordinator, Beaumont Health System, Troy

Christina Cercy, RN
Member, Beaumont Human Trafficking Task Force
RN, Material Child Health Unit, Beaumont Health System, Troy

Cynthia Weintraub, MS, BSN, RN
Chair, Beaumont Human Trafficking Task Force Clinical Nurse, Beaumont Health System, Troy

Mentoring Nurses: The Future of Nursing
Linda DiClemente DNP, BA, RN
Consultant, Michigan Health Council

Instant Stress Busters for Nurses
Aila Accad, RN, MSN
Speaker, Author, Certified Life Coach, LifeQuest International LLC

Intergenerational Harmony: Recruiting and Retaining Millennials
Lou Ann Brubaker, BS
President, Brubaker Consulting

Living Learning and Laughing Through the Years
Barb Bancroft, RN, MSN, PNP
President and Executive Director – CPP Assoc.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For more information regarding contact hours, please call Kristin Sewell at 517-908-8243.

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The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is excited to announce nine of its state-based Action Coalitions have each been selected to receive up to $25,000 for innovative ideas to advance nursing and build a Culture of Health. The winners were chosen based on their submission of replicable plans to continue working to implement at least one recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the future of nursing, while also contributing to building a healthier America through nursing.

The winners are:

Colorado

The Colorado Action Coalition’s project seeks to advance nursing leadership by supporting the expansion of a nurse-led health care model to federally qualified health centers in the state. Nurse leaders interested in implementing this RN-based model will be offered a two-day workshop and team-based coaching. The project is called Nurses Leading the Transformation of the Practice Environment.

Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Action Coalition’s project, Promoting Health Literacy to Influence Health and Wellness of Students in the Community, aims to develop a health literacy initiative for students in select communities. The initiative will encourage nurses to become leaders and participants in existing school wellness committees. Participating nurses will receive population health training and access to resources from partners so they can be better positioned to shape school policies concerning school nutrition, physical activity, and other student health issues.

Michigan

The Michigan Action Coalition will create a networking platform featuring social and professional networking, as well as online education opportunities.    The aim of Nurses Connect is to  increase professional development opportunities and strengthen connections among nurses to increase job satisfaction, improve retention, and promote lifelong learning. The platform will include leadership development, mentoring, and Culture of Health components.

Nebraska

The Nebraska Action Coalition will involve nurses on an interprofessional committee whose purpose is to increase access to care by promoting the involvement of community health workers on interdisciplinary teams. The Nebraska Action Coalition will also participate in events that promote the importance of nurses leading in their communities to help build a Culture of Health. Such activity includes hosting regional conferences using the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health framework and other tools to assist communities in creating their Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIP). The information gathered will contribute to the development of a national CHIP model for other communities to use as they create their own plans.

Ohio

In an effort to promote nursing leadership and address local health-related issues, the Ohio Action Coalition will partner with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) to encourage nurse participation in CASA’s efforts to train volunteers to advocate in court for the interests of an abused or neglected child.

Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Action Coalition project, a podcast series titled “At the Core of Care,” is an effort to showcase the stories of patients, families, and communities, and the creative efforts of nurses and other partners to better meet their health and health care needs. These podcasts will view a health care need through the lens of the consumer and highlight the ways that nurses and other organizations are intervening and partnering to transform the health care system.

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Action Coalition seeks to improve its state’s health care system by creating a nursing curriculum, competency assessment, and development program to prepare nurses to become primary care providers in high-demand communities. Additionally, the state will develop a campaign to promote interprofessional practices among diverse organizations to foster collaboration within the health care environment.

Utah

The Utah Action Coalition aims to increase diversity in nursing by implementing strategies that include outreach to middle and high school counselors. The goal is to recruit students from underrepresented communities and backgrounds for nursing schools. To support diversity in nursing students’ academic progression and leadership, the Action Coalition will implement mentoring and support programs featuring mentors who represent a diversity of racial, ethnic, age, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

West Virginia

The West Virginia Action Coalition will focus on nurse entrepreneurship, offering webinars and online training to teach skills and build a community for nurses to learn about becoming entrepreneurs. This project is based on the belief that nurses could have a large economic impact in the state and in their communities if they were more knowledgeable about business opportunities.

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For the past few years, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s state-based Action Coalitions have been partnering with local groups to build a Culture of Health in their communities.  As we know, the most effective way to do this usually involves working with organizations outside of nursing to address a common issue or problem. I’m going to tell you about a particularly powerful partnership involving AARP that perhaps you can replicate in your state.

AARP has designated more than 200 communities nationwide as part of its “Network of Age-Friendly Communities.” Simply put, that means these cities or towns are well designed, promote health, sustain economic growth, and make for happier, healthier residents — of all ages. This network is an affiliate of the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Program, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for rapid population aging and the parallel trend of urbanization. The program has participating communities in more than 20 nations, as well as 10 affiliates representing more than 1,000 communities.

Two of the Campaign for Action’s Action Coalitions saw opportunity in age-friendly communities in their backyards. The New Jersey and Michigan Action Coalitions are teaming with AARP in a few of these towns to see how nurses can lead for better health.

New Jersey Action Coalition

The New Jersey Action Coalition learned about age-friendly communities in the Garden State from Stephanie Hunsinger, state director of AARP New Jersey, and an opportunity quickly presented itself.

The age-friendly community of Garfield, N.J., wanted a better understanding of its Meals-on-Wheels clients. But officials struggled to learn things like whether recipients were getting enough food, or what conditions were like in clients’ homes, or whether any or many clients had mental health issues. Then the New Jersey Action Coalition realized that it had volunteer nursing students who could help.

The students used their knowledge and skills to design and produce a form to capture data for Meals on Wheels so it could collaborate with other organizations to provide additional needed services for their clients. It was a valuable assignment for the students, and a great help for Meals on Wheels.

A food pantry that is part of the age-friendly community in Elizabeth, N.J. also recognized that it needed to do more than simply provide food. The pantry staff wanted to offer clients some health education while they were visiting. This time, the New Jersey Action Coalition sent the food pantry an advanced nursing student who is now helping prepare short videos in Spanish that are focused on health issues relevant to the community, such as diabetes prevention and hypertension. The volunteer student is also working to help prepare healthy recipes to be included in the food bags the clients receive to take home.

“Nurses are interested in volunteering with programs within the age-friendly communities because they know that this is where the profession is going – into the community,” says Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, FAAN, co-leader of the New Jersey Action Coalition.

Michigan Action Coalition

When the Michigan Action Coalition heard about what New Jersey was doing, the leaders contacted Karen Kafantaris, AARP’s associate state director in Michigan, who also serves on that Action Coalition’s leadership team. Kafantaris educated the Action Coalition on age-friendly communities, and together they brainstormed a nurse’s role in that domain. The result was a one-pager detailing how nurses can contribute to age-friendly communities in Michigan.

The opportunities for Action Coalitions to collaborate with age-friendly communities are many – reach out to your AARP state office to begin the conversation.

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”The AARP Network of age-friendly communities is an affiliate of the world health organization’s global network of age-friendly cities and communities, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for their own and the world’s growing population of older adults and the parallel trend of urbanization.” -AARP

Nurses can help create age-friendly communities by being mindful of the 8 domains of livability: 

1. Outdoor Spaces and Buildings
• Advocate for rating parks based on “ease” level
• Help develop playground equipment designed for gentle exercise for older adults
• Request that all public restroom stalls be equiped with grab bars

2. Transportation
• Keep transportation in mind when developing health management plans
• Know the availability of community resources
• Ask patients about their ability to get to and from appointments
• Ensure immediate transportation needs are met despite conflicting policies that might make that difficult (like same day wait-lists)
• Create a “transportation broker” role in practice to help patients navigate complicated transportation needs

3. Housing
• Create a “Medical Accompaniment” role to reduce readmissions
• Have Medical Accompaniment nurse to do home safety checks (offer training as CEU)

4. Social Participation
• Create volunteer programs for mentoring
• Trade “life skills” with younger partners (ie. trade cooking skills for computer skills)

5. Respect and Social Inclusion
• Educate family members in memory matters
• Speak directly to the patient, not the family caregiver
• Encourage self-advocacy
• Teach compassion
• Talk about online safety (identity theft, cyber crimes, and romance scams)

6. Civic Participation and Employment
• Work with faith-based organizations for outreach

7. Communication and Information
• Develop partnerships with senior centers
• Meet with older adults on recreational activities (“Education on the Road”)

8. Community and Health Services
• Job shadow and mentoring for Home Health Aides
• Volunteer with coordinators
• Be knowledgeable about community resources
• Talk to older adults about sexuality

Want to get involved in nursing initiatives throughout Michigan? Join the Michigan Nursing Action Coalition at miactioncoalition.org.

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The Michigan Center for Nursing’s Michigan Nursing Summit is an annual event that convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip nurses with a broader lens; to widen their view of current events in Michigan that are changing the landscape of healthcare now and into the future.

Topics will include:

• Chronic pain management
• Human trafficking
• Civility in nursing
• Board leadership
• Culture of health
• Primary care
• Complementary medicine
• Relationship based care

As a result of or during this activity, the learner will:

1. Describe leadership skill development, including inter and intra professional collaboration needed for healthcare transformation.
2. Discuss current healthcare trends and issues requiring nursing leadership for individual patients, systems, and vulnerable populations.
3. Discuss opportunities for nursing leadership with patients, systems and community to create a culture of health.

View Speakers & Agenda

Register Here

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
This activity has been submitted to the Midwest Multistate Division for approval to award nursing contact hours. The Midwest Multistate Division is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. For more information regarding contact hours, please call Stacie Longwell Sadowski at 517-908-8236.

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