KU HealthPartners, Inc. Continuing Education

Friday FEBRUARY 12 | 8:30 a.m. - NOON| KU Medical Center
School of Nursing Auditorium, G013 | 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS

Lessons from Legends: Power, Policy & Practice

Beverly L.  Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, CEO of the National League for Nursing and the NLN Foundation, New York, NY

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
Includes continental breakfast, networking lunch, materials, & Continuing Education credit.

For more information and to register: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/kumc/

Co-sponsors:

Additional co-sponsorships welcomed. Contact Mary Gambino at mgambino@kumc.edu or call 913.588.1695.

Thursday OCTOBER 28 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. &
Friday, OCTOBER 29 | 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
KU Medical Center | 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS

Mindfulness: The Paradox in Managing Uncertainty

Dave Thomas, B.S., Trainer, High Reliability Organizing.

Dave Thomas worked with Dr. Weick for over 13 years, and now does these workshops all over the world for a wide variety of organizations.

Timothy J. Vogus, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management,Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Dr. Vogus is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Vogus did his doctoral studies with Dr. Sutcliffe and is stufying the impact and outcomes of safety organizing on nursing units and in other type of organizations.

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
Includes continental breakfast both days, lunch on day 1, materials, & Continuing Education credit

More information and to register: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/kumc/ (coming soon!)

Co-sponsors:

Additional co-sponsorships welcomed. Contact Mary Gambino at mgambino@kumc.edu or call 913.588.1695