Sunday, October 2, 1:00-5:30 pm and
Monday, October 3, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
Holiday Ballrooms, Hilton Baltimore, 401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD

Purpose
ANCC is excited to present the 2011 Research Symposium to be held in conjunction with the ANCC National Magnet Conference®.  The purpose of this symposium is to advance research topics aimed at understanding the impact of factors in the professional nursing practice environment on patient, workforce, and organizational outcomes. The symposium provides a venue for researchers from various disciplines to share and discuss their latest research findings with colleagues and professionals in the healthcare community.

Highlights

Opening Keynote: Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM
Dr. Pronovost is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is dedicated to finding ways to make hospitals and health care safer for patients. He has developed a scientifically proven method for reducing the deadly infections associated with central line catheters. His simple but effective checklist protocol virtually eliminated these infections. The protocol is now being implemented across the U.S. His book, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out , discusses this important work. In 2008, Dr. Pronovost won a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the "genius grant." He also won the 2004 John Eisenberg Patient Safety Research Award. He has been named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 “most influential people” for his work on patient safety, and he regularly addresses Congress on this issue.

Closing Plenary: Ingrid M. Nembhard, PhD, MS
Dr. Nembhard is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Management at Yale University in the School of Medicine and in the School of Management. She also serves as the Associate Director for the Healthcare Management Program at Yale. Her research focuses on how characteristics of healthcare organizations contribute to their ability to implement evidence-based practices, engage in continuous organizational learning, and ultimately improve clinical outcomes. She is currently principal investigator for a study of how different types of workforce engagement affect the implementation of practices to treat heart attack in U.S. hospitals and for a study of the relationship between the psychological safety of frontline staff and organizational performance. Dr. Nembhard integrates knowledge of organizational behavior, organizational theory, and health services research to answer questions about managing learning, change, and innovation within healthcare delivery organizations.

Breakout panel sessions: Concurrent sessions will present papers grouped by topic and include discussant commentary.

Click here to view symposium programs from previous years.

Schedule at a Glance
View the 2011 preliminary program for more information.

Who Should Attend?
Researchers, interdisciplinary healthcare team members , nurse executives, clinicians

Call for Abstracts
The call for abstracts closed on April 4, 2011.

For inquiries, please contact Linda Ingram at 301.628.5259 or linda.ingram@ana.org.

Continuing Education
Contact hours will be awarded to nurses who successfully complete this activity.

The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
ANCC Provider Number 0023
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 6178.
The ANA Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development includes ANCC's Institute for Credentialing Innovation.