Bringing nationally and internationally known speakers and scholars to Kansas City
This series of programs will bring to campus national and international speaker-scholars and give them an in-depth opportunity to present their major work. These conferences will typically be 1 – 2 days in length and will focus on areas of critical importance to healthcare delivery and systems improvement. Click on a link below for a program overview.
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Lessons from Legends: Power, Policy & Practice
Start the year in a day of reflection and dialogue with an internationally renowned speaker. Dr. Malone, one of healthcare’s preeminent leaders, will speak about issues of diversity that affect leadership, including cultural humility. She will also discuss the skills needed and steps necessary for a successful leadership journey in nursing. In addition to her current position with NLN, Dr. Malone has served as secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, deputy assistant secretary of health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and president of the American Nurses Association. Fees: Early Bird $100; Regular (after January 29) $125; Students $50 For more information and to register: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/kumc/ |
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Thursday OCTOBER 28 |
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Mindfulness: The Paradox in Managing Uncertainty
This exciting program will be a 1 ½ day workshop on the KUMC campus. Participants will learn to apply the research findings of Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe as it pertains to creating an organizational culture of safety. Weick's work was promoted by Don Berwick in the classic article, Escape Fire: Lessons for the Future of Health Care, and recently in Five System Barriers to Achieving Ultrasafe Health Care. In an ongoing effort to improve patient safety, a number of health care organizations have begun using lessons learned from other types of organizations. The organizations of particular interest are high reliability organizations (HROs) -- organizations that have nearly error-free operations in extremely trying environments (e.g., aircraft carrier flight decks, nuclear power plants, air traffic control, etc.). These organizations are similar to health care organizations in two primary ways. The first involves the need for interdependence among individuals in the organization and the second involves a high incidence of non-routine work. Non-routine work is cognitively demanding and characterized by high levels of uncertainty. The emerging evidence in health care is that patient safety can be improved through the creation of a mindful infrastructure that does five things: tracks small failures, resists oversimplification, remains sensitive to operations, maintains capabilities for resilience, and takes advantage of shifting locations of expertise. In this workshop, participants will discern the five infrastructure building blocks, practice using tools known to improve the ability to create a mindful infrastructure, and leave the workshop with a plan for implementation in their own work setting. Fees: Early Bird $175; Regular (after October 14) $195; Students $50 More information and to register: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/kumc/ (coming soon!) |
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Healthcare professionals can earn continuing education credit. For more information or to register, visit www.ContinuingEd.ku.edu (keyword: nursing), call toll free 877-404-5823 or 785-864-5823 or e-mail kuce@ku.edu
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The University of Kansas Medical Center
Friday FEBRUARY 12 |
8:30 a.m. - NOON| KU Medical Center 
Beverly L. Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, CEO of the National League for Nursing and the NLN Foundation, New York, NY
Dave Thomas, B.S., Trainer, High Reliability Organizing. 
Timothy J. Vogus, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management,Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 