Thursday: Leadership & Collaboration
Opening Keynote Speaker:
Stephanie L. Ferguson , Switzerland
Stephanie Ferguson is a Consultant for Nursing and Health Policy and Director of the Leadership for Change™ (LFC) Programme with the International Council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of more than 128 national nurses associations. The ICN LFC™ programme is an action-learning initiative that develops nurses as effective leaders and managers in a constantly changing health environment. Operating in more than 60 countries, participants collaborate with partners to address health policies at local and national levels. They develop strategies for strengthening health care services and addressing workforce issues that best meet their country and local needs. Programme evaluations indicate that LFC™ graduates are involved in a range of nursing leadership activities, roles and partnerships. Through country projects, nurses have successfully worked to improve nursing care and reduce maternal mortality and hospital infections; address HIV/AIDS and malaria and develop human resources development strategies, curricula, quality assurance programmes and new models of nursing care. Dr. Ferguson received her baccalaureate nursing degree and her PhD in nursing from the University of Virginia, School of Nursing in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her master’s in nursing degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Ferguson is a registered nurse and a perinatal and neonatal clinical nurse specialist and childbirth educator in the United States of America (USA). She comes to us with considerable experience in health care administration, policy and leadership development, and international health.
Leadership Panel:
Lisbeth Fagerstom, Norway
Ann Baile Hamric, USA
Pascal Rod, France
Helen Ward, UK
Lisbeth Fagerstom , Norway
Lisbeth Fagerström (born in 1960) is an RN, MNSc and has a PhD in Caring Science from Åbo Academy University in Vaasa, Finland. She works now as a Professor at the Buskerud University College, Norway. She is also affiliated as an Associate Professor at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland, at the Lovisenberg Deaconale University College in Oslo, Norway and at University of Skøvde in Skøvde, Sweden. During 1990-2000 she worked as a Director of Nursing at Vaasa Central Hospital and from 2000 to 2007 as the Dean for the Sector of Health Care and Social Welfare at Svedish Polytechnic University of Applied Sciences in Vaasa, Finland. Since the beginning of the1990’s, her main research area has been the development of a new patient classification system, the so called the RAFAELA system. During the last seven years she has been responsible for research projects in geriatric and gerontological nursing and research on advanced clinical competence. She has also participated in several research and development projects both on the Nordic and European level.
Ann Baile Hamric, USA
Dr. Ann Hamric is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Faculty Associate of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. She received her BSN from Vanderbilt University, her MS in medical-surgical nursing from the University of California at San Francisco and her PhD in nursing with a concentration in ethics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She has worked as a staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, nursing administrator, and educator, and recently served on the American Association of College of Nursing’s Task Force that wrote the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice.
Dr. Hamric has edited five books on advanced nursing practice: two editions of The Clinical Nurse Specialist in Theory and Practice, and three editions of Advanced Nursing Practice: An Integrative Approach, which she edited with Judith Spross and Charlene Hanson; the fourth edition of this book is currently being prepared for publication in 2008. She is an active national and international speaker and author on issues related to advanced practice nursing as well as ethical dimensions of patient care.
Pascal Rod, France
Mr. Pascal Rod is a French registered nurse since 1978 and a registered nurse anaesthetist since 1985. He is one of the founders of the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists ( IFNA) in 1989 and has been serving as President of the IFNA for eight years and as current Executive Director since 2004. He has been involved in the preparation of the International Standards of Education and Practice for nurse anesthetists. He is representing the nurse anaesthetist’s interests at the European level and is an active Board Member of the European Specialists Nurses Organizations (ESNO). He has chaired the steering group for developing a European framework for nurse specialist education in collaboration with the European Federation of Nurses (EFN). He is representing the Nurse Anaesthesia advanced practice nursing specialty to the ICN, the WHO and different International Organizations.
Helen Ward, UK
Helen Ward, MSc, BSc(Hons), RGN, RCN NP Diploma, PGCEA, is a Principal Lecturer for Non-Medical Prescribing and Deputy Course Director for the MSc Nurse Practitioner (Strategic Leadership and Expert Practice) at London South Bank University, London, England. Helen was amongst the first cohorts to qualify as Nurse Practitioners in the UK and has a background in Primary Care, where she developed the role as a Nurse Practitioner in General Practice before moving into Education in 1999. She has been working at London South Bank University since 2000. Helen has specialized interest in the OSCE and has recently developed an OSCA as a tool for the assessment of clinical skills at the master’s level. She is Deputy Chairperson of the Association of Advanced Nursing Practice Educators (AANPE) and co-chair of the ICN communication sub-group. Helen works clinically as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at a Nurse Led NHS Walk-in Centre in London.
Friday: Innovations & Outcomes
International Panel on Models of APN Role Evaluation:
Dorothy Brooten,USA
Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Canada
Jessica Corner, UK
Ruth M. Kleinpell, USA
Dorothy Brooten, USA
Dorothy Brooten, PhD, FAAN, Professor at Florida International University, has over 24 years of funded research developing, testing and refining a Quality Cost Model of APN Transitional Care for high risk, high cost patient groups. Among her many awards and honors, Dr. Brooten is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and received the first STT Baxter Episteme Award. She has served on numerous grant review panels and as a member of the National Advisory Council of the NINR, NIH. Her publications appear in nursing and medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine.
Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Canada
Denise received her BScN from McMaster University, a master’s of Community Health Nursing and Education from D’Youville College in Buffalo, and a PhD in Nursing, also from McMaster University. From 1999 to 2001 she held a Clinical Research Fellowship in Malignant Urology at the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre. From 2003 to 2005, she was awarded a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and Canadian Institute of Health Research Post Doctoral Fellowship. Denise is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Senior Researcher for the CHRSF/CIHR Chair in Advanced Practice Nursing at McMaster University. She is also an academic clinician who practises as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in GU Disease Site Team at the Juravinski Cancer Centre. The focus of her doctoral research was “Defining an Advanced Practice Nursing Role for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer.” As part of this work Denise developed the PEPPA Framework, or a “Participatory, Evidence-Based, Patient-Focused Process for APN Role Development and Evaluation”. Her post doctoral research focused on evaluating the introduction of advanced practice nursing roles in Ontario cancer centres and on developing and evaluating new models of cancer care delivery that include an advanced practice nursing role.
Jessica Corner, UK
Dr. Corner is the Director for Improving Cancer Services for the Macmillan Cancer Relief, a major charity in the United Kingdom with an income of over £90 million per year. As an executive director, she has responsibility for the organization’s investment in cancer services throughout the UK. She is also Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care and Deputy Head of School, at the University of Southampton’s School of Nursing and Midwifery. At the University she leads a research programme aimed at improving the care of people affected by cancer. This patient-centred program of research examines people’s experiences of cancer, treatment and care as a strategy for developing and evaluating new approaches to managing the problems of living with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. She has written over 80 papers for academic journals, and has also written three books and numerous chapters for edited texts. She undertook her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Chelsea College, London University graduating in 1983, she studied for her PhD at King’s College, London, awarded in 1990, and she trained as a cancer nurse at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London from 1984-5. She is most well known for developing a new approach to managing the symptom of breathlessness in advanced lung cancer by helping people to use breathing control techniques and overcome the fear associated with breathlessness. She was also the first nurse to be awarded the Nuffield Trust’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Fellowship in 2001 and as a result of work undertaken while holding the fellowship published a monograph entitled “Between you and me: closing the gap between people and healthcare.“
Ruth M. Kleinpell, USA
Dr. Ruth Kleinpell is currently a Professor at Rush University College of Nursing and a Teacher-Practitioner in Critical Care at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago Illinois. In addition, she is a Nurse Practitioner at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago Illinois. She is an experienced researcher and clinician and has conducted research on advanced practice nursing roles in the US. She has published on clinical and professional topics and served as the editor for the book Outcomes Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing, which was rated one of 11 "Best Books of 2001” by The Nurse Practitioner journal. She is an active member of several critical care organizations including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Association of Critical Care Nursing. She publishes widely and is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine, Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and Nurse Practitioner. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Most recently, she received the 2007 Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Norma J. Shoemaker Award for Critical Care Nursing Excellence.
Saturday: Maximizing Health and Global Development of the APN Role
International Expert Panel:
Beng Choo Ang, Singapore
Anna Green, Australia
Kaaren Neufeld, Canada
Petrie Roodbol, Netherlands
Beng Choo Ang, Singapore
Beng Choo Ang is Director of Health Services Research (Nursing) at the Ministry of Health, Singapore, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). She has a master’s in Public Policy from the NUS, a Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing) from Curtin University of Technology, Australia, a Certificate in General Nursing and Midwifery from the School of Nursing, Singapore. Ms Ang was the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at the Ministry of Health and Registrar of the Singapore Nursing Board from 2001 to 2007. The major events that occurred during her term as CNO were the commencement of the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) and Master of Nursing programmes at the NUS; the amendment of the Nurses and Midwives Act to allow the setting up of an Advanced Practice Nurse register; the implementation of a career structure for registered nurses; and the introduction of staffing ratios in acute care and community hospitals.
Anna Green, Australia
Anna Green has a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Melbourne and was endorsed as the first critical care Nurse Practitioner in Australia in 2004. She is currently the Manager of the ICU Liaison Department at Western Health. For the last 10 years she has been following up intensive care patients who have been discharged to the ward and provides consultations for other ward patients who are showing early signs of deterioration. Anna sits on the Nurse Practitioner Advisory Council at the Nurses Board of Victoria. The Council reviews and recommends applications for endorsement to Nurse Practitioner status. In addition, Anna is the Chair of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Nurse Practitioner Association. In 2007 Anna was successful in obtaining a travelling fellowship to evaluate the ICU Liaison role in Victoria, Australia.
Kaaren Neufeld, Canada
Kaaren Neufeld is the Chief Quality Officer at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Prior to this appointment she served as Executive Director and Chief Nursing Officer at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg from 1997 to 2007. She is a registered nurse and holds baccalaureate and master’s of Nursing Degrees from The University of Manitoba. Kaaren holds an appointment of Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba Faculty of Nursing. Her career path includes experience in management, education, research and clinical practice. Kaaren is currently President of the Canadian Nurses Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
Petrie Roodbol, Netherlands
Professor Petrie F. Roodbol, RN, PhD, is the Dean of the School of Nurses and Health of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. She is the manager director of the Wenckebach Institute (Educational Institute and Facilities of the UMCG) also. She is also responsible for the implementation of the Nurse Practitioners in her country. The first program has started in 1998 with 16 students. In 2007 there are master programs in nine cities with over the 300 students. She is a member of the board of the Dutch Nurses’ association V&VN and several other national committees. She is a member of the ICN CSG ANP/NP.
Closing Keynote Speaker:
Stephen Lewis, Canada
Formerly the Special Envoy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Stephen Lewis is co-Director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization, based in the United States (www.aids-freeworld.org). Mr. Lewis is also a Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a Senior Advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. Stephen Lewis’ work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York. From 1984 through 1988, he was Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations.
Mr. Lewis was an elected member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1963 to1978. In 1970, he became leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, during which time he became leader of the Official Opposition. Mr. Lewis is co-chair of the Leadership Programme Committee for the XVII International AIDS Conference, which will be held in Mexico City in August 2008. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and is the chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org). In 2006, Stephen Lewis’ best-selling book, Race Against Time won the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year and Mr. Lewis was named the CBA’s Author of the Year for 2005.
