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  National Student Nurses’ Association, Inc.
66th Anniversary Convention 
Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville, TN
Faculty Schedule begins on April 3, 2018
 
FACULTY, CONSULTANT, ADVISOR SCHEDULE
Faculty Connect Sponsors:  Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sentara Healthcare, Virginia Beach, VA
State University of New York, Delhi, NY

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
 
Consultants and Advisors Leadership University Certificate Program
5:00pm – 8:15pm     Part I (Part I and Part II = 4.25 contact hours)
It doesn’t matter if you are a brand new or well-seasoned faculty advisor or state consultant—you will learn as well as contribute during this highly interactive two-session certificate program.  The goal of the workshop is to enhance your effectiveness in these essential roles.  Starting with the onsite pretest, you will become engaged in an intense discussion that will elevate your learning as you hear (and share) your knowledge and experiences with your colleagues.  Utilizing the NSNA essential tool kit (including Getting the Pieces to Fit and the Consultant’s and Advisor’s Guidelines), a wide array of topics from communicating with student leaders, understanding bylaws, policies and procedures, to preventing fraud will be on the agenda.  Following the completion of an online posttest, you will be rewarded with a beautiful NSNA Leadership University certificate—suitable for framing. 
Facilitators:  Diane J. Mancino, EdD, RN, CAE, FAAN, NSNA Executive Director; Dev Persaud, MA, NSNA Director of Finance and Administration; Rosemary Mortimer, MS, MS Ed, RN, CCBE, ANA-Appointed
Sponsor: National Student Nurses Association, Brooklyn, NY
 
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Consultants and Advisors Leadership University Certificate Program
7:15am – 8:15am   Part II See description above
 
Pre-Conference: How to Teach with Technology
8:30am - 3:30pm     Faculty Pre-Convention Workshop (6 contact hours available)
Special Registration Required
Nurse educators need to understand and use the power of technologies to prepare the next generation of nurses.  This workshop focuses on using technology to enhance the student engagement and learning in and out of the classroom.  Considerable time will be allotted to demonstrate and practice using the latest low-cost and free educational technologies, including web-based resources, desktop resources, and online applications.  With a concentration on practical knowledge and hands-on classroom experience, workshop participants will: learn to apply at least one new technology skill to enhance teaching; discuss ways educational technology can support instruction and student learning, not interfere with it; and demonstrate leadership by modeling the use of educational technology.  Participants are encouraged to bring their fully charged devices.
Contact hours will be awarded for this program by the National League for Nursing, an authorized provider through the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET). No partial credit will be awarded. You must attend the learning event in its entirety and complete all required assessments to receive contact hours.  
Speaker: Jone Tiffany, DNP, MA, RN, CNE, CHSE, ANEF, Professor of Nursing, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN and Technology Scholar in Residence, National League for Nursing, Washington, DC
Sponsors: National League for Nursing, Washington, D.C.; National Student Nurses’ Association, Brooklyn, NY 
 
NLN Update
4:00 – 5:00pm
Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for faculty and leaders in nursing education. Join us as the NLN President shares how NLN brings faculty development, networking, testing and assessment, grants and public policy initiatives to its members. 
Speaker: Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, President, National League for Nursing, Washington, DC, and Associate Vice Chancellor/Chief Diversity Officer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Sponsor: National League for Nursing, Washington, DC
 
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address
5:45pm – 7:30pm The Keynote Address, recognition of scholarship winners and sponsors, and presentation of awards including Honorary Membership, make the Opening Ceremony one of the highlights of the convention.
 
Keynote Speaker:  The American Nurses Association president, Dr. Pamela Cipriano, past NSNA president, will keynote the Convention. Dr. Cipriano is the 35th president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the nation’s largest nurses’ organization representing the interests of 3.6 million registered nurses across the nation. Please join us as Dr. Cipriano shares her experiences in nursing, and highlights how to use insight, inspiration, and ingenuity in your own nursing education and career.
 
Keynote Speaker Sponsor: American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, MD
Opening Ceremony Sponsor:  Nurses Service Organization, Fort Washington, PA. 
 
Thursday, April 5, 2018
 
Faculty-Student Mentorship: Preparing the Next Generation of Nurses for the "Real World"
7:30am – 9:00am (1.5 contact hour)           
Learn how to help your students plan their future career in nursing.  This session will also serve as an introduction to volunteering in the Career Development Center.
Speaker: Lois Marshall, PhD, RN, nurse education consultant, author, national speaker, Miami, FL. 
Sponsor: National Student Nurses Association, Brooklyn, NY
 
Plenary Session: Be a Barrier Breaker, Smile Maker and Healthcare Innovator
9:15 am - 10:45 am
Delta A
Every day, nurses are innovating on the front lines of health, providing life-changing care, and driving better health outcomes for patients and families. Join Johnson & Johnson in this dynamic Plenary Session as they celebrate and showcase the power of insight, inspiration and ingenuity in nursing. Gain new insights about how culturally competent healthcare can break down barriers to care, get inspired by a nursing medical mission veteran, and be motivated to bring your inner ingenuity to your nursing career.
Speakers: Genevieve Handy, MSN, RN, CPNP, Acute Care and Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner & Operation Smile volunteer, Oakland, CA; Jana Lauderdale, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Assistant Dean, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; and Rebecca Love, MSN, RN, ANP, Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship, School of Nursing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Sponsor: Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing, New Brunswick, NJ
 
Grand Opening Career Development Center in the Exhibit Hall
11:00am – 3:45pm     
Click here to sign up or go the Convention Office to volunteer to review resumes and coach students about planning their career. For your participation, you will receive partial registration rebate following the convention.
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First Time Consultant/Advisor Orientation to Convention
11:30am –12:30pm    
Attending Convention can be overwhelming whether you’re a student or faculty member. Attend this session to find out how to obtain continuing education and how to maximize your time — and your students’ — while you’re here. 
Speakers:  Cheryl Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rosemary Mortimer MS, MS Ed, RN, CCBE
Sponsor: National Student Nurses Association, Brooklyn, NY
 
Best Practice Panel
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Come join us and discuss with a group of faculty and advisors, success stories from membership to policy; successful projects; and resolutions.  This will be a panel discussion with your input and questions and answers.
Speakers: Margaret Mullarkey, MS, RN, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY; Carol Toussie-Weingarten, PhD, RN, ANEF, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Villanova University, Villanova, PA; Lynne H. Miller, MSN, RN, CNE, Clinical Instructor,  College of  Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; David R. Ranck, MEd, RN, Professional Consultant, Student Nurses’ Association of Pennsylvania (SNAP),  Harrisburg, PA; Cindy Shingler, Executive Director, SNAP, Harrisburg, PA; Paul Logan, PhD(c), CRNP, past SNAP president (1990-1991), Faculty Advisor, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 
Moderators:  Cheryl Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rosemary Mortimer MS, MS Ed, RN, CCBE
Sponsor: National Student Nurses Association Brooklyn, NY
 
American Red Cross Disaster and Sheltering Certification
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
NSNA has collaborated with the American Red Cross (ARC) to offer disaster training. This exciting opportunity teaches how to provide health care services in disaster shelters. Conference registration is required but there is no additional fee for this certification. There is a limited amount of faculty seats in this session. All participants are required to complete Part I online before they can attend Part II at the Annual Conference. To receive a certificate, you must complete parts I and II and then complete the evaluation that will be sent to you by Homeland Security. 
Speaker: Cheryl Schmidt, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, American Red Cross Nurse Educator
Sponsor: American Red Cross, Washington, DC
 
An Editor’s Guide to Getting Published
3:00pm –4:30pm (1.5 contact hours)          
Publishing successfully is not just a matter of writing and submitting a paper. Authors need to think about how to best position a paper to be accepted. This one hour and half session will cover some basics to consider in early manuscript planning stages, review the elements of an effective scholarly paper and common problems that may arise, choosing a journal for submission, the submission and review process, and criteria that editors and reviewers use to make publication decisions.
 Speaker: Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Nursing, New York, NY
Sponsor: Wolters Kluwer Health, New York, NY
 
Consultant/Advisor Briefing
4:45pm – 6:15pm
Meet with the national consultants to review the 2018 Resolutions and key issues that will be brought before the House of Delegates.
Speakers:  Cheryl Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rosemary Mortimer
Sponsor: National Student Nurses Association, Brooklyn, NY
 
Friday, April 6, 2018

National Council of State Boards of Nursing Update – breakfast and discussion
7:15am – 9:15am (2 contact hours)
Get important updates that will impact your students and your curriculum.  Hear about the transition into practice initiative with an emphasis on QSEN tool findings, simulation study results, and extensive regulatory news. 
Speaker: Nancy Spector, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Regulatory Innovations, NCSBN, Chicago, IL
Sponsor: National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Chicago, IL
 
Climate Change
9:00am – 10:45am      Plenary Session
As the earth ‘s climate changes, human and ecological health is being impacted,  what effects are we already seeing in humans?  Nurses are seeing increased rates of asthma, vector borne diseases, and heat-related illnesses.  You’ll hear about the role for all nurses in education, practice, and advocacy.
Speaker: Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Professor, University of San Francisco and international leader in environmental health and nursing. Founding and active member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (www.enviRN.org), an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing.
Sponsors: Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN), Des Plaines, IL; Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; and Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Mount Rainier, MD

Career Development Center in the Exhibit Hall
11:00am – 3:30pm     
Sign up in the Faculty Lounge to volunteer to review resumes and coach students about planning their career. For your participation, you will receive a partial registration rebate following the convention.
 
Strategies to Incorporate Environmental Health and Climate Change into the Nursing Curriculum
1:30pm– 3:00pm         (1.5 contact hours)
Nursing education is critical in assuring that all nurses are adequately prepared to help our communities prevent, address, and mitigate the health impact of environmental issues, including climate change. As the most trusted profession, nurses are poised to help our communities to make safer choices. This session will provide several strategies to use in classroom and clinical settings to teach and apply environmental health into the nursing curriculum.
Speakers: Kathy Murphy, EdD, RN, Professor of Nursing, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, CT; and Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Professor, Public Health Program, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Sponsor: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Mount Rainier, MD
 
Eight-Step Approach to Teaching Clinical Nursing!
3:15pm – 4:45pm (1.5 contact hours)
You will learn the clinical instructors' eight step approach for the accountability and responsibility role in clinical education and discuss how to set realistic personal and professional expectations for novice students. Discover how to use the “SAFETY” structure to develop advanced clinical reasoning. Standard based interactive clinical teaching and evaluation strategies will be shared for simulation, pre-and post-conference and during the clinical day. Strategies will be reviewed on how to link clinical teaching to classroom learning for student success.  
Speakers: Loretta Manning, MSN, RN, GNP, President, I CAN Publishing®, Inc. and Regional Director, Sylvia Rayfield & Associates, Duluth, GA; Lydia Zager, MSN, RN, Associate, I CAN Publishing®, Inc.
Sponsor: I CAN Publishing®, Inc. and Sylvia Rayfield and Associates, Inc., Duluth, GA
 
 
Maximizing Your Memory
5:00pm – 6:30pm (1.5 contact hours)
How many of us have way too much to remember and very little time to do it? Such is the life of a nursing faculty and students! However, we have tools to help. Join us as we walk you through how to form powerful memory anchors to help you teach complex information faster and retain it longer. In this presentation, we will discuss the science behind memory, as well as provide you with tips and tricks to help you and your students succeed. We guarantee you’ll walk away with a new take on learning that will help you assist in teaching today’s students.
Speaker: Marlee Liberman RN, BSN, BA      
Sponsor: Picmonic, Phoenix, AZ
 
Saturday, April 7

7:00am –8:30am
Forever Nursing Fun Run
Run with a friend or a team, show your spirit and speed and raise funds for undergraduate nursing scholarships.  To register for the Fun Run click here.  Sponsor:  Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
 
Overthinking is NOT a SuperPower!
8:30am – 10:00am (1.5 contact hours)
Overthinking exaggerates challenges and underestimates your ability to make a change. It can be one of the most effective ways we self-sabotage our efforts to sustain change. 
Speaker: Rhonda Lawes, MSN, RN, CNE, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, Tulsa, OK
Sponsor: Kaplan Nursing, New York, NY
 
Career Counseling Center in Exhibit Hall
9:00am – 12:00pm     
Sign up in the Faculty Lounge to volunteer to review resumes and coach students about planning their career. For your participation, you will receive partial registration rebate following the convention.
 
 
ERRORS Happen! Malpractice Case Studies
10:15am- 11:45am (1.5 Contact Hours)
Hear actual case studies that resulted in malpractice claims and license protection defense to the Board of Nursing. Claim scenarios will be reviewed in detail so that faculty understand the situation, allegations and outcomes of professional negligence claims.  The session will conclude with question and answers.
Speakers: Roxanne Filson, BBA
Sponsor: Nurses Service Organization, Fort Washington, PA
 
NICE Network: Prepared Nurses Protect Patients
1:30pm – 3:30pm (2.0 Contact Hours)
This session will focus on the essential information a clinician at any level must know in order to provide safe care to patients with infectious and potentially infectious diseases. With the ongoing adaption of both viruses and bacteria, healthcare providers must stay on top of the recommendations for safe and appropriate use of isolation and  protective equipment as well as the identification and treatment of these diseases. The presentation is provided through a sub-grant from ANA/CDC, which have created the NICE Network. NSNA is part of the NICE Network.
Speakers: Michelle Milly Miller, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, CMSRN, Medical Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist, Special Pathogen (Ebola) Assessment Hospital Program Coordinator, Frederick Memorial Hospital, Frederick, MD; Jamie Swift, RN, CIC, FAPIC Corporate Director, Infection Prevention Ballad Health, Johnson City, TN Sponsors: National Student Nurses’ Association, Brooklyn, NY; National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Philadelphia, PA; American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, MD; and Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
                                                    
American Red Cross Disaster and Sheltering Certification (Repeat)
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
NSNA has collaborated with the American Red Cross (ARC) to offer disaster training. This exciting opportunity teaches how to provide health care services in disaster shelters. Conference registration is required but there is no additional fee for this certification. There is a limited amount of faculty seats in this session. All participants are required to complete Part I online before they can attend Part II at the Annual Conference. In order to receive a certificate for this program you must complete part I and II and then complete the evaluation that will be sent to you by Homeland Security. 
Speaker: Cheryl Schmidt, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, American Red Cross Nurse Educator
Sponsor: American Red Cross, Washington, DC
 
Closing Ceremony and Endnote Address:
4:00pm – 5:30pm
The Closing Ceremony also includes introduction of the newly elected 2018-19 Board of Directors and Nominating and Elections Committee; and announcement of NSNA chapter award winners and Stellar School Recognition.
Endnote Address
Expand Your World View—Nursing Student Advocacy in the European Union
Endnote Speaker: Julian Vadell Martinez, former president, European Student Nurses Association.
Sponsor:  CGFNS International, Philadelphia, PA