Nursing and the Health of Populations.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
3–5:30 p.m.
doors open, 2:30 p.m. Reception to follow.
Hiebert Lounge
72 East Concord Street
Boston
Services for deaf and hard-of-hearing people provided.
#BUSPHSymposia
Livestreaming Available During Event
Where has nursing made the most difference in population health worldwide? Where can it make a difference moving forward? This half-day symposium will address the state of nursing science and practice and its intersection with the evolving field of global population health. The meeting aims to ask questions and encourage provocative answers, pointing to future synergies between nursing and population health.
Cohosted with the Nursing Now campaign and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Agenda
3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
OPENING REMARKS
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Maureen Bisognano (SON ’82)
President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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3:15 p.m. – 4 p.m.
KEYNOTE
Barbara Stilwell
Executive Director, Nursing Now
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
PANEL
Education
Jacqueline Fawcett (SON’64)
Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Jacqueline Fawcett, RN: PhD; ScD (hon); FAAN; ANEF, received her Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University in 1964, her Master of Arts degree in Parent Child Nursing with a minor in Nursing Education from New York University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in Nursing, also from New York University, in 1976. Dr. Fawcett has been a nurse educator for more than 40 years; currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston. Previously, she held faculty positions at the University of Connecticut and the University of Pennsylvania.
For more than 35 years, Dr. Fawcett’s program of research has focused on Roy Adaptation Model-based studies of adaptation to life events. Her earlier program of research, starting with her doctoral dissertation, was based on Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings. Dr. Fawcett and her research team colleagues have received funding from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, NAACOG, the American Cancer Society, the National Center for Nursing Research, and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Fawcett and colleagues have published reports of their research in numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Fawcett is perhaps best known for her meta-theoretical work, which focuses on the nature and structure of knowledge in nursing. Dr. Fawcett’s meta-theoretical work is published in many journal articles and book chapters, as well as in several of her books. Her most recent books are Applying Conceptual Models of Nursing: Research, Quality Improvement, and Practice (2017), and co-edited with Sarah Beckman, The Neuman Systems Model: Celebrating Academic-Practice Partnerships (2017).
Leadership and Government
Karen Daley (SPH’88)
Former President, American Nurses Association
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Karen Daley, PhD, RN, FAAN, served from 2010 to 2014 as the president of the American Nurses Association, the nation’s largest nursing organization representing the interests of the nation’s 3.5 million registered nurses. She is a past president of ANA Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Center for Nursing and has served on the boards of ANA, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the ANA-PAC. She is a current member of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the American Nurses Foundation, The International Safety Center and the Barnstable Land Trust.
A resident of Cotuit, MA, Daley spent more than 25 years in clinical practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She has been honored for her outstanding leadership and excellence in practice, including being recognized as a living nurse legend by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses. In 2006, she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in recognition of her advocacy work in needlestick prevention. In 2011, Daley was listed among Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential People in Health Care” and, in 2013, was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the “Top 25 Women in Healthcare.” In 2015, in recognition of her global public health advocacy and leadership, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire and in 2017, received her second honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts.
Daley holds a diploma in nursing from Catherine Labouré School of Nursing, a bachelor of science in nursing from Curry College, a master of public health from Boston University School of Public Health, and a master of science and PhD in nursing from Boston College.
The Role of Technology in Nursing and Population Health—Looking to the Future
Kelly Brittain
Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Nursing
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Dr. Kelly Brittain is an Associate Professor at the Michigan State University College of Nursing. In her role, she teaches Public Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice courses. Her research aims to improve health outcomes by helping individuals make informed decisions about their health. Her colorectal cancer screening adherence interventions use mobile technology and social media to improve colorectal cancer screening awareness among women while addressing cancer health disparities in the community and primary care practices.
A National Institutes of Health funded researcher, Brittain has experience conducting research as part of a national multi-disciplinary team. She has over two decades of public and community health experience in health promotion/risk reduction serving youth to older adults.
She has published and presented in the areas of informed decision as it relates to adherence, colorectal cancer screening, mHealth interventions, web-based psychoeducational intervention, social support, and sociocultural differences.
Serious Illness, Quality of Life
Kate Lorig (SON’64)
Professor Emerita, Stanford University
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Kate Lorig, DrPH, received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Boston University and her Doctoral degree in Public Health from the University of California Berkeley. She is Emerita Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She developed, evaluated and translated into practice a series of community based, peer led, self-management programs for older people. These programs, including the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, the Diabetes Self-Management Program, The Chronic Pain Self-Management Program, Cancer Thriving and Surviving and Building Better Caregivers, are now use across the United States and in 25 or more other countries. She is a fellow in the Society for Public Health Education and the Society for Behavioral Medicine. She is currently a partner in the Self-Management Resource Center, a startup dedicated to furthering the use of evidence based community education programs.
Scope of Practice
Deborah Washington (SON’86)
Director, Nursing & Patient Care Services Diversity Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Deb Washington has been Director of Diversity for Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1995. However, she’s been a nurse at the hospital since 1986. A graduate of Boston University School of Nursing and a 1993 graduate of Boston College School of Nursing with a Masters in Adult Mental Health, Deb was featured as an AONE Leader to Watch in that organization’s February, 2005 publication. She was a fellow in the inaugural class of the HRET Cultural Competence Leadership Fellowship where her project focus was the effect on nursing practice of a curriculum on culturally competent care. In May of 2007, Deb was honored as the national finalist in the Nursing Spectrum Excellence Award in the category of Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has twice been recognized by the Boston Ad council with a Rosoff Award and is the first recipient of the inaugural Rosoff Agent of Change award. Deb has also received recognition with the
Boston Business Journal的
Nursing Administration Quarterly.
Moderator: Maureen Bisognano (SON ’82)
President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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