Ensuring Success in Transitions to Practice
Webinar Details & Objectives
The significant nursing workforce challenges that have exacerbated during the pandemic have highlighted the importance of ensuring a successful transition to practice for new graduate nurses. The retention of new graduate nurses is critical for building a sustainable nursing workforce. This session will explore the unique role of employers, faculty, and new graduates can contribute to ensure a positive transition from school to practice.
Objectives:
- Describe how faculty can positively contribute to the transition to practice process success for graduating nurses
- Identify criteria that new graduates should consider when evaluating employment opportunities
- Understand the characteristics of successful transition to practice programs
- Describe strategies a graduate can utilize to ensure a successful transition to practice
- Describe how new nurses can make the most of the preceptor relationship during the transition to practice process
Speakers
Amy Matthews, DNP, MS, RN, CENP
Chief Nursing Officer
Cheshire Medical Center, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health affiliate
Amy Matthews serves as chief nursing officer and vice president of Patient Care Services at Cheshire Medical Center (Cheshire), a not-for-profit community medical center located in Keene, NH. She provides strategic organizational leadership and implements operational goals, financial plans, and community initiatives at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) affiliate.
Dr. Matthews partners with other chief officers and senior leaders in the D-HH system to support the organization's mission. She provides executive leadership for patient care services while finding new ways to improve the patient experience. She serves as a guide to excellence in practice grounded in science but characterized by compassion, respect, and the best possible outcomes for patients, the community, and others.
She has been in the field of nursing since 1985 in health care settings across the country. Matthews relocated to the Monadnock Region in 2000, continuing her career at Cheshire as an emergency department nurse and assuming progressive leadership roles. She is a member the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), completing both manager and executive fellowships with AONL. A lifelong learner, she earned an Executive Doctor of Nursing Practice from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., in 2019. Matthews was honored by the Keene Sentinel as one of ten "Extraordinary Women of 2020."
Michael R. Bleich, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN
Senior Professor, Director
Langston Center for Innovation in Quality And Safety
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Michael Bleich is a Wisconsin native who has held clinical, consultative, service, academic, and association leadership positions. A recognized scholar and thought leader, Dr. Bleich was one of the five nurses on the committee that wrote the seminal report, The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health issued through the Institute of Medicine; Wisdom at Work: the Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace published through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Men in Nursing: Understanding the Challenges Men Face in this Predominantly Female Profession; and Analysis of the Nursing Workforce Crisis: a Call to Action, both published in the American Journal of Nursing.
Dr. Bleich earned a diploma, BSN, MPH, and PhD from midwestern schools. An inductee of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Practice. He currently is President and CEO of NursDynamics, LLC and directs the Langston Center for Innovation in Quality and Safety at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing.
Tami Taylor, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer
St. David's Round Rock Medical Center
Tami Taylor is a Chief Nursing Officer who works with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center in Central Texas and provides executive nurse leadership to plan for nursing and strategically guide patient care. Tami has 30 years of nursing experience and is a self-motivated, innovative, energetic, and quality-focused healthcare leader with progressive clinical, administrative, and senior leadership experience in complex healthcare organizations. Tami is a board-certified nurse executive; Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certified (NEA-BC) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Tami holds an MSN degree in nurse executive practice from Research College of Nursing, an MBA from Grand Canyon University. She will graduate in December 2021 with a DNP in executive nurse leadership from Baylor University.
Launette Woolforde, EdD, DNP
Chief Nursing Officer
Lenox Hill Hopsital
Dr. Launette Woolforde is Chief Nursing Officer for Lenox Hill Hospital and the Manhattan region of Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in NY State. Launette co-authored the national Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development and served on the Board at the National League for Nursing and the Association for Nursing Professional Development. Launette earned numerous degrees including a DNP from Case Western Reserve University and a Doctor of Education from Columbia University, Teachers College. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the esteemed American Academy of Nursing.
Kimberly Hatchel, DNP, MHA, MSN, RN, CENP
Chief Nursing Officer
Blake Medical Center
Dr. Hatchel (Kim) brings 30 years of experience, including both patient care and innovative executive leadership. She joined Blake Medical Center in July 2019, from Lexington KY where she was the Market CNE and Senior VP for Saint Joseph Health, a market of 8 hospitals. Dr. Hatchel is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. Kim is a member of the State College of Florida Foundation Board of Directors. Kim served on the Society for the Advancement of Disaster Nursing. She currently has chapters in two textbooks… Goodhue (2020) Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster and Huber 7th edition (2020) Leadership and Nursing Care Management. Kim received her undergraduate degree in Nursing from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, her master’s degree in Nursing and Health Care Administration from University of Phoenix, and her DNP from Vanderbilt University.
Moderator:
Carol Bradley, MSN, RN, CENP
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Legacy Health System
Carol Bradley is a seasoned healthcare leader who has served as a senior system executive responsible for Nursing, Pharmacy, Care Management, and variety of other operational roles including Supply Chain. Within the system CNE roles, she was responsible for system-wide nursing strategy and integration, nursing practice and education, clinical resource management, care management, pharmacy, and clinical service lines. Carol holds associate and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from the University of Nebraska and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Arizona. She is a 1991 Wharton Fellow and is certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP) by the American Organization of Nurse Executives. She recently completed a term as Board Chair for the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. She has contributed to several books and served many years on the editorial board of the Nursing Administrative Quarterly.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.