Maryland Action Coalition Summit
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2023 MDAC Virtual Leadership Summit:
Collaborating to Meet Challenges and Opportunities: The State of Maryland’s Health
Monday, May 22, 2023
Virtual
Overview:
The summit will explore new and innovative collaborations and partnerships to meet nursing’s future health care challenges and to recognize opportunities for making diversity, inclusion, and equity a reality in the workplace.
Objectives:
- Explore new care models, staffing initiatives, and support services that will cultivate the retention of a resilient, skilled, diverse nursing workforce.
- Describe collaborative partnerships for preparing faculty and students linked to progressive educational programs that will meet Maryland’s future health care needs.
- Identify key legislative stakeholders and organizations that will fund and drive the implementation of long-term sustainable change within Maryland’s health systems.
- Recognize the vital role of nurses in strategizing academic and practice approaches to address the current nursing crisis.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9 – 9:10 a.m. |
Welcome and Summit Overview and MDAC Annual Award Presentation |
| 9:10 – 10:10 a.m. |
Fireside Chat: Health of Marylanders: Sustainable Change Kevin Sowers, MSN, RN, FAAN M. Joy Drass, MD Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA Moderator: |
| 10:10 – 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 – 11 a.m. |
Keynote |
| 11 – 11:15 a.m. |
NSP I and NSP II Update Laura Schenk, DNP, RN, CNE Kimberly Ford, BS |
| 11:15 a.m. - noon |
Poster Presentations and Roundtable Discussion - Session 1
|
| noon - 12:15 p.m. |
Break |
| 12:15 - 1 p.m. |
Poster Presentations and Roundtable Discussion - Session 2 Session 1 Repeats. |
| 1 - 1:15 p.m. |
Break |
| 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. |
Keynote Panel: ANA’s Nursing Staffing Task Force Members Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, CCTP Cheryl Peterson, MSN, RN, Sherry Perkins, PhD, RN, FAAN, Moderator: |
| 2:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:30 – 4 p.m. | Podium Presentations (includes Q&A via chat box) Formal 15-minute sessions describing initiatives to prepare and strengthen the nursing workforce |
| 4 – 4:15 p.m. |
Summary and Closing Remarks |
Posters
Podium Presentations
| Title | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Academy of Clinical Essentials in Action: A Revolutionary Nurse Staffing and Education Model |
Heather V. Westerfield, DNP, RN, CNE, CMSRN; Lisa Rowen, DNSc, RN, CENP, FAAN; Casey Embert, BA; Robin Seal-Whitlock, PhD, RN, CNE; Kathryn Reuwer, MSN, RN; Jenni Day, PhD, RN; and Jodi Baker Stein DNP, RN, CNE |
| Delivering High Quality Faculty Development in 10-Minute Microlessons | Susan Bindon, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, CNE-cl, FAAN |
|
Insights into Inconsistent Infant Safe Sleep Practices Among African American Caregivers |
Malliga Jambulingam, PhD, RN; Margaret Alston, PhD, PT; Ariel Hunt, DrPH; David Thomas, DrPH; and Yvonne Bronner, DSc |
| Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral in Low-Income and Diverse Community |
Marilyn Berchie, DNP, CRNP, NP-c; Linda Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN; and Kimberly Callendar, DNP, CRNP, APRN-BC |
| R3: Resilience, Retention and Renewal: Results of a Needs and Opportunity Survey for Ethics and Resilience in Maryland Faculty | Erin Wright, DNP, CNM, APHN-BC, FACNM and Victoria Hughes, DNS, MSN RN |
| Team Nursing in the Emergency Department: A Medical/Surgical Nurse Extender Care Model | Laura Ogle, DNP, CENP, CNE, CEN and Kristin Quade, MSN, RN, CNM |
Dr. Peggy Daw Exemplary Leadership Award
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The Maryland Action Coalition (MDAC) Exemplary Leadership Award was created in 2022 to recognize and celebrate the leadership and accomplishments exhibited beyond one’s day to day role.
In 2023, the award was renamed in memory of Peggy Daw, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, FAAN.
The nominee embodies the core values of MDAC; honors diverse experiences and perspectives; and sets an example of including others while exploring new ideas and partnerships to achieve large-scale goals.
The nominee’s achievements enhance MDAC’s strategic mission and advance access and opportunities for others.
About Peggy Daw, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, FAAN
Peggy E. Daw, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, FAAN, served for 12 years (from 2010 - 22) as Nurse Support Program II grant administrator at the Maryland Higher Education Commission. In this position, she marshaled resources of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the Maryland Deans and Directors of Schools of Nursing to create a statewide lattice of educational Nurse Support Program grants, which changed the structure of educational financial support in Maryland to expand the nurse educator workforce. She was the architect and developer of nine different types of continuous nurse educator grants, academic-practice partnerships, and statewide resource grants totaling over $200,000,000 and funded through 2025.
Her work promoted rapid expansion of the associate-to-bachelor’s programs. Her efforts resulted in new statewide funding for the Maryland Clinical Simulation Resource Consortium, providing clinical simulation equipment statewide and establishment of simulation quality guidelines; the Nurse Leadership Institute, which prepares nurse faculty and clinicians for leadership positions and collaborative partnerships between academia and practice; the Maryland Nursing Workforce Center; and many other forward-thinking programs.
Most importantly, Daw developed a supportive working collaboration of academic and practice nurse leaders across the state to communicate; inform; and mutually create, implement, and continuously improve initiatives to strengthen and advance nursing in Maryland.
Daw passed away in December 2022.
Recipients
2022 Inaugural Recipient: Joan Warren, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, FAAN, Executive Director, MONL Inc./MNRC
2023 Recipient: Peggy E. Daw, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, FAAN, Former Director, Maryland Higher Education Commission, as presented to her family
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Planning Committee Members
Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Bill and Joanne Conway Dean and Professor,University of Maryland School of Nursing
Co-Chair, Maryland Action Coalition
Patricia Travis, PhD, RN, CCRP
Senior Associate Director, Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Secretary, American Nurses Association
Co-Chair, Maryland Action Coalition
Lynn Marie Bullock, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Assistant Professor and Director, Office of Professional Education, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Mary Etta Mills, RN, ScD, FAAN
Retired Professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Giordana Segneri, MA
Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Sonia Smith, BS
Senior Program Specialist, Office of Professional Education, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Enjoli Sonnier, MBA, MS
Associate Director of Events, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Stephanie White, MA
Office Manager, Office of the Dean, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN
Director, Maryland Nursing Workforce Center
Treasurer, National Forum for State Nursing Workforce Centers
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Registration costs for this year’s summit were subsidized by the Maryland Nursing Workforce Center, a Nurse Support Program II-funded initiative.
For questions regarding continuing education credit, email pe.nursing@umaryland.edu.