2017 Doctoral Conference Materials

Presentations

The Imperative for Innovation in Doctoral Nursing Education
January 19-21, 2017 | Coronado, CA

Breakfast Forums
How U.S. News & World Report Calculates Rankings of Graduate Nursing Programs
Speaker: Victoria Niederhauser, DrPH, RN, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Learning Labs

• Diversity and Inclusion of Students and Faculty
  Speaker: Vernell DeWitty, PhD, RN, Program Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program, Special Advisor for Diversity and Inclusion, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
   
• Federal Funding: Updates and Anticipated Trends
  Speakers: Marguerite Littleton Kearney, PhD, RN (invited), Director, Division of Extramural Science, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD; and Richard Ricciardi, PhD, RN (invited), Healthcare Scientist, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
   
• Innovations in Academic Practice Partnerships
  • Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and Caring-based Academic Partnerships (CAPPs) to Enhance Nurse Practitioner Readiness and Willingness to Practice in Rural and Underserved Communities, Boca Raton, FL: Susan J. Bulfin, DNP, Associate Professor and DNP Program Director; and Lynne M. Dunphy, PhD, RN, Associate Dean for Practice and Community Engagement and Professor
  
  
  • George Mason University School of Nursing and Mason and the Mason and Partners (MAP) Interprofessional Clinic: Bridge for Chronic Disease Care, Fairfax, VA: R. Kevin Mallinson, PhD, RN, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Doctoral Division; Caroline J. Sutter, DNP, Assistant Professor and Mason and Partners Clinic Co-Director; and Rebecca E. Sutter, DNP, Assistant Professor and Mason and Partners Clinic Co-Director 
  
  
  • University of Northern Colorado School of Nursing and an Academic-Practice Partnership to Train Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to Improve Care of Rural Adults across the Transitions of Care, Greeley, CO: Audrey Snyder, PhD, RN, Associate Professor


• Insights into the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)  Accreditation Process and Standards
  Speaker: Lori Schroeder, MA, Director of Accreditation Services, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Washington, DC


• Integrating Population Health into the Graduate Nursing Curriculum
  Speakers: Susan M. Swider, PhD, RN, Professor, College of Nursing, Rush University, Chicago, IL; Amanda Choflet, DNP, Director of Nursing, Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Sonja M. Meiers, PhD, RN, Director and Professor, Department of Graduate Nursing, Winona State University, Winona, MN; and Jennifer Cooper, DNP, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Hood College, Frederick, MD


• Three Year PhD Programs
  • Part 1: Hillman Scholars in Nursing Innovation
    Facilitators: Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing and National Program Director for the Hillman Foundation Program in Nursing Innovation, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Cheryl B. Jones, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
     
  • Part 2: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars Program
    Facilitator: Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, Nightingale Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


• Update: National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education
  Speakers: Shirlee M. Drayton-Brooks, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, PA; and Joan Stanley, PhD, RN, Chief Academic Officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC


• Use and Validation of a Tool to Assess Interprofessional Professionalism
  Speakers: Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, CPHQ, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, John H. Nishimoto, OD, MBA, FAAO, Marshall B. Ketchum University, Loretta M Nunez, MA, AuD, CCC-A/SLP, FNAP, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Plenary – AACN Updates
Speakers: Juliann G. Sebastian, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE and Chair, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC; and Deborah E. Trautman, PhD, RN, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC

Closing Plenary – Nurse Leaders and the Innovation Competence Gap
Speaker: Kenneth White, PhD, RN, Professor and Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships & Innovation, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA