NURSING SUMMIT 2005

SPONSORED BY CATSKILL HUDSON AHEC

Bonnie Kaido, MS, AEMT-CC, CIC-RF, President, Board of Directors

On August 16, 2005, fifty-five practicing nurses, nurse educators and healthcare professionals attended the Nursing Summit 2005 in Albany, New York, representing all eleven counties of Catskill Hudson AHEC. The goal of the Summit was to bring together leaders in nursing education and practice to begin a dialogue about partnering with Catskill Hudson AHEC in the development of programs to educate, recruit and retain nurses. Presenters included Connie Jastremski, MS, MBA, RN, ANP-CS, FCCM, Chief Nursing Executive of Bassett Healthcare; Sharon Dettenrieder, MSN, RN, Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing, Hartwick College; Maureen Creegan, EdD, RN, Director and Professor, Division of Nursing, Dominican College and Coy Smith, ND, RN, MSN, CNAA, Vice President of Patient Care Services, Benedictine Hospital. Presentation topics included, “Magnet Recognition: What Does it Mean?”, “Partnering for Success”, “Articulation: Time to Connect”, and “Creating A Professional Practice Environment that Retains and Grows RNs”. The afternoon was dedicated to breakout sessions for roundtable discussions on “Barriers to Faculty Recruitment”, “Urban vs. Rural Nursing Issues”, “Make the Workplace Friendly” and “Innovative Approaches to Connecting Nursing Service with Nursing Education”. The information gathered from these breakout sessions will assist CHAHEC in developing future programs and continue education series to address these issues. The program evaluations were excellent and the participants were anxious to get information on future continuing education programs and conferences as an outgrowth of this endeavour.

Participants of the Nursing Summit 2005 will receive all of the notes from the four Breakout Sessions as well as a list of all Nursing Summit participants Email addresses.