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About MDAC 2024 Leadership Summit

Nursing educators and practitioners are collaborating to develop innovations to prepare faculty and practice-ready students and to support health care settings in retaining nurses and other health care personnel. The 2024 MDAC Summit will explore novel approaches to education and models of care that advance the profession and hold promise for the future.

 

Why should I attend the 2024 MDAC Leadership Summit?

Explore

new and innovative practice collaborations and partnerships that can drive the implementation of models of care that address the current nursing crisis.

Describe

well-being in a diverse nursing workforce.

Identify

progressive collaborative academic and practice approaches to prepare faculty and students to meet Maryland’s future health care needs.

Agenda

9 - 9:10 A.M.

Welcome and Summit Overview

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Yolanda Ogbolu,
PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN The Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Professor
Co-Chair, Maryland Action Coalition

9:10 – 10:10

Keynote Presentation: The Courage to See Hope

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Tad Worku,
MS, RN, FNP-BC Mission Coach, Speaker, Musician

10:10 – 10:40

Innovations in Practice: Future of Community Health

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Erin Denholm,
MSN, RN Chief Nursing Officer

DispatchHealth

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Sarah L. Szanton,
PHD, RN, ANP, APRN, FAAN Dean and Patricia M. Davidson Professor for Health Equity and Justice

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Moderated by Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

10:40 – 10:45

Presentation of the Dr. Peggy Daw Exemplary Leadership Award

10:45 – 11:20

Innovations in Practice: Using AI to Drive New Models of Care

New Models

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Tracie Risling,
PhD, RN Associate Professor, University of Calgary Nursing
Vice-President, Canadian Nurses Association
Past-President, Canadian Nursing Informatics Association

Population Health

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Sophia Walker Henry,
MSN, RN Beckham Coulter Diagnostics

Moderated by Cory Stephens, DNP, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS

11:20 – 11:35

Break

11:35 – 11:50

NSP I and NSP II Update

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Kimberly Ford,
BS Nurse Support Program II Assistant Grant Administrator

Maryland Higher Education Commission

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Laura Schenk,
DNP, RN, CNE Nurse Support Program II Grant Administrator

Maryland Higher Education Commission

11:50 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Innovations in Education

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Crystal DeVance-Wilson,
PhD, MBA, PHCNS-BC Director, Maryland Nursing Workforce Center Vice Chair and Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland School of Nursing at the Universities at Shady Grove

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Casey Embert,
BA Program Director, Nursing Programs

University of Maryland Medical Center

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Carolyn Rutledge,
PhD, FNP-BC Professor and Eminent Scholar Associate Chair of Nursing and Director of Nursing Practice Program

Old Dominion University

Moderated by Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

1 – 2

Peer-Reviewed Poster Presentations

2 – 2:35

Innovations in Well-Being and Retention

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Stacey Brull,
DNP, RN, NE-BC Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services

Mercy Medical Center

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Adriane Burgess,
PhD, RNC-OB, CCE, C-ONQS, CPHQ, C-LSSGB, FAWHONN Director, Perinatal and Neonatal Quality and Safety

Maryland Patient Safety Center

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Susan Finlayson,
DNP, RN, NE-BC Senior Vice President, Operations

Mercy Medical Center

Moderated by Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

2:50 – 4:20

Podium Presentations (15 minutes each)

Moderated by Lynn Marie Elizabeth Bullock, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

An Academic-Practice Partnership: Mentoring Nurses as Future Leaders and Educators

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Linda Hickman,
PhD, MBA, RN, FACHE

Future-Ready Nurses: Coaching Skills for 21st Century Healthcare Challenges

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Eileen O'Grady,
RN, NP, PhD

Increasing and Expediting New BSN Nurses in Responses to Maryland’s Intensifying Critical Needs

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Kimberly Allen,
DNP, RN, CNE

Increasing Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurses with Collaborative Strategies

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Rebecca Diaz,
PhD, RN

The Cohen Scholars Program Revisions: Experiences from the Frontline with Transitioning to the Nurse Faculty Role

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Jessica Murphy
DNP, CRNP, CPNP-A,C CPHON, CNE

Mapping, Gapping, and Wrapping our Heads Around Competency-Based Education

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Susan Bindon,
DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, FAAN

4:20 – 4:30

Summary and Closing Remarks

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Patricia Travis,
PhD, RN, CCRP Senior Associate Director, Clinical Trials

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Co-Chair, Maryland Action Coalition

Continuing Education for Nurses

Nurses may receive 6.5 contact hours for participating in this educational activity. Partial credit is not provided. You are required to complete the overall conference evaluation that will be emailed. After completing the evaluation, a link will be provided so that you can print your continuing education certificate. All requests must be received within 60 days of the summit.

The University of Maryland School of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This year’s Summit is supported in part by the Maryland Nursing Workforce Center and the Nurse Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, through the Nurse Support Program II, which is funded by the Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.