2013 Faculty Practice Pre-Conference Schedule
Faculty Practice Pre-Conference
Policy, Business, and Faculty Practice: Links and Influences
February 20-21, 2013
Buena Vista Palace - Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, February 20
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Opening Program Session
National Health 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 how policy and practice
intersect, and the implications for nursing faculty active in practice as well as for their students.
Speaker: Deborah E. Trautman, PhD, RN, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center
for Health Policy and Healthcare Transformation, Baltimore, MD and former Robert Wood
Johnson Health Policy Fellow
3:00-3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30-5:00 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, RN, CPNP, FAANP, 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, RN, ANP-BC, FNAP, Director, Faculty Practice, School of Nursing, West Virginia,
University, Morgantown, WV
Thursday, February 21
7:15-8:30
Light Continental Breakfast
7:30-8:00 a.m.
Practice Leadership Network Meeting
Join practice colleagues at this informal discussion. Open to members and guests at no charge.
8:00-8:30 a.m.
Poster Presentations
8:30-10:00 a.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, RN, FAAN, Executive Director, Institute for Health Care
Innovation, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Break and Poster Presentations (repeated)
10:30 a.m.-12:00 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 Phillips, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing,
Rush University, Chicago, IL and former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy
Fellow
