Highlights and Benefits

Please Join Us!

The 6th annual Leadership Excellence & Management Solutions conference is the educational event of 2008 for nurse leaders in the neonatal, obstetric and pediatric clinical areas. Take the time to join us and celebrate the progress you’ve already made in your leadership role as well as to recognize the potential for growth that still exists.

Great Information!

• Two timely Preconferences that encourage you to “think outside the box”:

It All Starts with You! Creating a Culture of Accountability challenges you to first take a look at your own behaviors when evaluating your organizational culture, then provides you with tools to assist you in becoming a more effective change agent.

“ Wow” Your Patients: Best Practices in Service Excellence focuses on the importance of customer service, how to achieve and maintain outstanding patient satisfaction scores, and what this means to your organization.

• 16 Concurrent Sessions from which to choose in order to individualize your conference experience and meet your personal educational needs and interests.
  


• A variety of topics ranging from positive work environments to budgets, technology to patient throughput, and safety to the Magnet journey.
  


• A chance to improve your interpersonal skills, including conflict management, trust building with your staff and working with families.

Excellent Speakers!

• Nationally known experts who make a significant difference daily as clinical leaders, consultants, researchers, educators and administrators.
  


• Dynamic presenters who will encourage creativity and utilize case studies, question and answer periods and informal interaction to ensure that your educational goals are met.

Lots of Fun!

• Take a “time out” from your normal routine to re-focus and re-energize.
  


• Build professional relationships with colleagues from across the country.
  


• Bring your team along to learn and relax together.
  


• Enjoy the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas and all it has to offer!

Competent leadership is both intense and highly rewarding. Return to work better equipped to meet the challenges with increased self-confidence and the tools you require. Grab your calendar and plan now to be there!

Nancy Blake, MN, RN, CCRN, CNAA
Planning Committee Member

Dorothy C. Foglia, MS, PhD(c), RN, CNAA, BC
Planning Committee Member

Susan E. Osborne, MSN, MBA, RN
Program Consultant

Jeannine Strunk, BSN, RN
Program Manager • Contemporary Forums