Master’s Education Conference

Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina
700 South Florida Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: 813-221-4900

• The room rate starts at $229 single/double.
• The cutoff date for reservations at the group rate is January 30, 2019.
• To make reservations, please call the hotel at 888-789-3090 and request the group rate for AACN. You may also place your reservation online.
• Guests, who qualify for the government per-diem rate, please book here. A qualifying identification must be presented upon check-in. You may also place your reservation over the phone at 888-789-3090 and specify that they would like to book within the Government block.

The room block at the Tampa Marriott Waterside is now filled. The following hotels are within walking distance of the Tampa Marriott Hotel and may have availability over the meeting dates:

Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa Downtown Convention Center (approximately 1 minute)
513 South Florida Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33602
Phone: 813-769-8300

The Westin Tampa Waterside (approximately 5 minutes)
725 South Harbour Island Blvd
Tampa, Florida 33602
Phone: 813-229-5000

Hilton Tampa Downtown (approximately 10 minutes)
211 North Tampa Street
Tampa, Florida 33602
Phone: 813-204-3000

Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel (approximately 12 minutes)
200 North Ashley Drive
Tampa, Florida 33602
Phone: 813-223-2222

Courtyard Tampa Downtown (approximately 15 minutes/1 mile)
102 East Cass Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: 813-229-1100

Attendance earns participants valuable continuing nursing education (CE) hours toward maintaining your certification and/or license. AACN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Registration Open

12:00-7:00 p.m.
Learning Center and Networking Lounge Open

2:00-3:45 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Plenary Session
Radical Transformation of Health Care: Implications for Graduate Education and Practice
With an eye on the future, explore the opportunities for innovation and transformation that exist at the nexus of health care and higher education. This presentation will highlight emerging trends and challenges facing rapidly changing healthcare and higher education systems. Implications for the evolving faculty role and master’s level nursing education and practice will be considered.
Speaker: Eileen Breslin, PhD, RN, Dean and Dr. Patty L Hawken Nursing Endowed Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

3:45-4:00 p.m.
Networking Break

4:00-5:30 p.m.
Plenary Session
Innovations in Health Care: Preparing Nurses to Think like Detectives, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs
Today’s clinical practice brings with it challenges for clinicians and the educators responsible to prepare tomorrow’s workforce. Identifying opportunities to leverage new technologies in practice has tremendous potential for improving healthcare outcomes. This session will explore the use of smart technologies and other innovations in improving healthcare and the roles nurses can and should play in identifying and implementing new technologies and reinventing “old” technologies. As nurses continue to be on the front lines of the care continuum, their experience and expertise is critical in designing and improving care. Clinicians and educators must ensure that nursing leaders are empowered to develop and implement changes to streamline the patient pathway and improve outcomes.
Speakers: William Cohn, MD - Vice President of Medical Devices at Johnson & Johnson, and Executive Director, Johnson & Johnson Center for Device Innovation at the Texas Medical Center

5:30-7:00 p.m.
"Welcome to Tampa" Networking Reception with Poster Presentations
Our opening reception provides a great forum to network, mingle with friends and colleagues, talk with our poster presenters, and to once again visit our exhibits. There is no better way to kick-off our conferences than by attending this event.

6:00 a.m.
Early-Bird Walking Group
Join the group a few minutes early at the hotel entrance for a self-guided walk.

7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration Open
Networking Lounge Open

7:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
Learning Center Open

7:30-9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast and Poster Review

8:00-9:00 a.m.
New Dean Dialogue
Gather for a thought-provoking conversation about the opportunities and challenges of a new deanship.
Facilitator: Teri Murray, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO and Treasurer, AACN Board of Directors

8:00-9:00 a.m.
All of Us Research Breakfast Forum Program
Bring your breakfast and learn about the All of Us Research Program as well as its future funding opportunities for AACN member schools. Get details on how your school can seek grant monies to advance the rapid dissemination of the National Institutes of Health Precision Health/Medicine initiative.
Speaker: Colleen Leners, DNP, APRN, Director of Policy, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC

9:00-12:30 p.m.
Podium Abstracts (break from 10:25-11:00 a.m.)
(See separate schedule)
This is AACN’s version of TEDTalks, whereby presenters have 20 minutes to get their key points across, the audience has five minutes to ask questions, and then the last five minutes of each podium presentation are used strictly as a passing period among rooms in order to attend the next session of interest.

Abstract Themes:

• Diverse Nurse Workforce
• Interprofessional Practice
• Educational Pedagogies
• Innovative Teaching Strategies/Methodologies

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

2:00-3:15 p.m.
Learning Labs
Select from six engaging sessions offered concurrently.

• Assessing Trends in the Nursing Workforce: Moving Toward a Preferred Future
  This presentation will explore trends and projections for the nursing workforce, which point to new opportunities on the horizon for professional nurses. Participants will consider how changing norms, care delivery, and patient expectations will likely affect the roles for registered nurses and how we educate them. Come share your thoughts on the future of nursing education and how best to prepare the next generation of nurse clinicians, scientists, and leaders.
  Speaker: Debra Barksdale, PhD, FNP-BC, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor, Alumni Endowed Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
• How to Make Interprofessional Education and Practice Thrive in Your Academic-Practice Partnerships
  Come to this session and hear the interprofessional perspective from nursing and social work -- cutting-edge strategies and resources to ensure that your academic-practice partnership is promoting interprofessional education and practice which leads to better patient outcomes.
  Speakers: Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice Partnerships, Special Advisor on Quality Initiatives, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and JoAnn Regan, PhD, MSW, Vice-President of Education, Council on Social Work Education
• Preparing Nursing Leaders in Health Informatics In an Era of Big Data
  Explore what graduates need to know to assume informatics leadership in the era of data-driven health care. In addition, today’s graduates will need leadership skills to manage interprofessional stakeholders such as teams that are learning to use a new technology, administrators who need information about the potential for reuse of electronic health record data to improve care quality, or students who hope to earn a new credential in informatics. All of these scenarios require us to be knowledgeable regarding the specific informatics and leadership competencies that are likely to optimize outcomes. Participants will gain self-knowledge through completing the Minnesota Nursing Informatics InventoryTM (MNILI) based on the competing values framework and discuss using this framework in nursing informatics leadership education and training.
  Speaker: Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Nursing Informatics, Director, Omaha System Partnership, University of Minnesota
• Simulation: So Much More than Plastic
  Simulation encompasses much more than a plastic manikin. The pedagogy of simulation includes pre-briefing, debriefing, and devising engaging learning opportunities for professional practice. Reimagined, simulation skills are applicable to many aspects of MSN education. This presentation will provide you with some new ideas and a good reason to get to know your academic simulationists.
  Speaker: Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, Professor and RISE Center Director, Robert Morris University
• Strategies to Advance Evidence-Based Teaching
  Although evidence-based practice (EBP) has been a focus in health care since 1992, it continues to provide challenges for the effective implementation of evidence driven care. The nursing profession was challenged to have 90% of all activities based on evidence by 2020. Students are being taught to use EBP, but instructors continue to teach as they were taught or what seems to be working for the majority. Decisions, whether clinical or educational, must be based upon sound evidence. Teaching nursing curricula requires strategies based in evidence. This presentation will provide practical ideas for moving your teaching processes toward an evidence-based level. Foundational information on accessing and confirming evidence to determine best practices will be provided. Three to four teaching strategies, such as flipped classroom, OSCE, and “just in time” learning, will be used to demonstrate the expectations in a desire to stimulate dialogue for future development.
  Speaker: Carol Boswell, EdD, RN, Professor, James A. “Buddy” Davidson Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair for Evidence-Based Practice, Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in Evidence-Based Practice, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
• Using Data to Fuel Innovation and Excellence in Nursing Practice
  With the advancement of technology, MSN prepared nurses are in key positions to stimulate change through the use of data and visual analytics. MSN nurses can be empowered to use data to analyze outcomes and improve the health and safety of their patient or client population. Few nursing professionals are taking advantage of the data that is being collected and stored in numerous database systems by different types of technology. By using data analytics nurses are in a position to implement change and initiate programs, in order to improve outcomes and quality of care. This presentation will introduce faculty to the educational needs of nurses in identifying sources of data, in using guiding principles of data collection and how to begin using analytics to improve the health and safety of the population they serve.
  Speaker: Debra Wolf, PhD, RN, Professor of Nursing, Healthcare Informatics, and Director, Healthcare Informatics, Chatham University, School of Health Sciences, and Kim Olszewski, DNP, CRNP, Associate Professor and Director, DNP and NP Programs, Bloomsburg University

3:15-3:45 p.m.
Networking Break

3:45-5:00 p.m..
Learning Labs (repeated)

5:45 p.m.
Connect @ Dinner (Optional)
A great opportunity for you to connect with other participants and expand your network while enjoying the local cuisine! Simply choose from our pre-selected restaurants posted near the registration desk and sign-up. Participants are responsible for their own tabs and share transportations costs (if any). The dinners are scheduled for 6:00 p.m. - participants meet at 5:45 p.m. at the concierge desk in the hotel lobby.

6:00 a.m.
Early-Bird Walking Group
Join the group a few minutes early at the hotel entrance for a self-guided walk.

7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Registration Open
Networking Lounge Open

7:30-9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00 a.m.
CCNE Forum: Introducing the Revised Accreditation Standard
The 2018 revision of accreditation standards brings new opportunities for engagement and enhanced understanding of expectations regarding program quality and effectiveness. What has remained the same in the standards and what has changed? How might the changes impact nursing programs at the baccalaureate and graduate levels? When do the revised standards go into effect? What assistance and resources are available to program administrators and faculty during the transition to the revised standards?
Speakers: Nancy DeBasio, PhD, RN, President Emerita, Research College of Nursing, and Lori Schroeder, Director of Accreditation Services, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Washington, DC

9:00-9:15 a.m.
Stretch Break

9:15- 10:15 a.m.
Plenary
Revising the AACN Essentials: Re-envisioning Master’s Nursing Education
The session presents the progress to date on the revision of the Master’s Essentials. Learn more about the process and opportunities for public comment.
Speakers: Cynthia McCurren, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, Grand Valley State University

10:15-10:45 a.m.
Networking Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Closing Plenary
Nursing’s Role in Sustaining Global Health
Advances in human health have come during a time of great cost to the natural systems of the earth that sustain life. As health providers, scientists, educators, and leaders, nurses must understand the connection between human health and the health of the planet - a concept commonly known as planetary health. In this session, explore the drivers of planetary health, the importance of global health competency education, and the role of nursing in making health systems more resilient in an era of increasing stresses.
Speaker: Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, Dean and the Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing, Yale University