2008 Conference Overview
Nursing Practice Based on Evidence: The Case for Collaboration
Thursday, April 3 and Friday, April 4, 2008
Overview
One of the biggest challenges facing health care organizations today is the creation of partnerships in order to allow for collaborative practice. In this, the fifth annual conference jointly sponsored by the University Of Maryland School Of Nursing and the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, we will explore collaboration as a powerful strategy to enhance evidence based practice. Collaboration offers many significant benefits and advantages that may be difficult to achieve on your own. As always, we will present the most current information from some of the leading experts in the field of evidence based practice.
Featured Speakers
Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, FAAN
Senior Partner and Mediator, Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, Inc.
Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director of the VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry (PSCI)
Department of Veteran’s Affairs
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH
Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health
Virginia Commonwealth University
Cathy Rick, RN, CNAA, FACHE
Chief Nursing Officer
Department of Veterans Affairs
Location
University of Maryland School of Nursing
655 West Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Thank You
The sponsors of this conference would like to extend a special thank you to the Commander Lura Jane Emery Seminar Series for Nursing Practice Endowment Fund and Sigma Theta Tau, Pi Chapter for their generous support of this program.
