Faculty Practice Pre-Conference Schedule

Policy, Business, and Faculty Practice: Links and Influences
2013 Faculty Pre-Conference
January 23, 2013
Hotel del Coronado -San Diego, California

7:45-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast and Posters

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Practice Leadership Network Meeting
Join practice colleagues at this informal discussion. Open to members and guests at no charge.

8:30-10:00 a.m.
Opening Program Session
National Health Care Policy: Impact and Influences on Nursing Practice
Consider the ways national health care policy affects nursing practice and how practice can
effectively influence the national policy agenda. Discuss the many ways policy and practice
intersect, and the implications for nursing faculty active in practice as well as their students.
Speaker: Deborah E. Trautman, PhD, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for
Health Policy and Healthcare Transformation, Baltimore, MD

10:00-10:30 a.m.
Break and Posters

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Program Session
Institutional Policies: Making Faculty Practice Work
Explore the institutional infrastructure and policy elements that are pivotal to faculty practice being a successful part of the nursing academic unit. How does practice align with the academic mission? What is possible to achieve with the right support? How does practice impact promotion, tenure, research, and scholarship? Examine these questions and others to gain insights about how practice can be more effective at your school.
Speakers: Julie Cowan Novak, DNSc, Vice Dean, Practice and Engagement, and Executive
Director, UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise, School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science
Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and Sandra L. Cotton, DNP, Director, Faculty Practice,
School of Nursing, West Virginia, University, Morgantown, WV

12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Program Session
From Negatives to Positives: Business Aspects of Faculty Practice
The business aspects of faculty practice are always of fundamental concern to participants and
supporters alike. Focus on the fiscal and administrative considerations for establishing,
maintaining, and expanding a faculty practice enterprise.
Speaker: Kathryn Christiansen, PhD, Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Innovation, University of Illinois, College of Nursing, Chicago, IL 

3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break and View Posters

3:30-5:00 p.m.
Closing Program Session
Future Opportunities: Links Between Policy and Practice
As a continuation of the opening session, and drawing from all previous deliberations, examine
how the intersection of policy and practice offer challenging opportunities for faculty and students. Learn how to recognize and respond to these opportunities to influence both policy and the future of nursing. Share your own successful approaches with colleagues.
Speaker: Janice Philips, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Rush University,
Chicago, IL