4th Annual Nursing Workforce Diversity Conference

Madison, WI US
February 26, 2020

Health Equity in Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

Join us at the 4th Annual Nursing Workforce Diversity Conference. Our theme this year is Health Equity in Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice.

The event kicks off with a career fair featuring employers from throughout Wisconsin. Conference sessions will inspire and address translation of research into evidence-based practice, strategies to use when approaching communities in engage in research, and the stigma of nursing research and scholarship.

The United States and Wisconsin population is rapidly diversifying. By 2040, racial and ethnic minorities will make up the majority in the United States. It is for this reason that the nursing workforce must work to intentionally recruit, retain, and graduate more nurses from diverse backgrounds. According to the Wisconsin Center for Nursing diversity report (2016), 95% of nurses in Wisconsin identify as white. According to the United States Census (2010), 79% of the Wisconsin population is white.

Research indicates that patient health outcomes are better when nurses share or have similar culture and linguistic backgrounds as their patients. Increasing workforce diversity and preparing all nurses to provide culturally competent care and advocate for diversity in the workforce can improve health and health outcomes for vulnerable or minority populations.

Elements of Competence

This educational activity is designed to change learner competence and focuses on the American Board of Medical Specialties’ area of professionalism, and Nursing areas of values/ethics for interprofessional practice and roles/responsibilities.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this educational activity learners will be able to:
  1. Explain the value of holistic student success in nursing   
  2. Discuss how to translate health equity research into evidence-based practice
  3. Identify strategies for engaging community perspectives and capacity to promote equitable health and care
  4. Describe opportunities in nursing research and evidence-based practice

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for pre-nursing and nursing students, nursing faculty and staff, UW–Madison nursing alumni, practicing nurses, and others with interest in nursing workforce diversity and underrepresented populations.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 1.00 Iowa Board of Nursing Contact Hours
  • 1.00 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
Registration opens: 
11/25/2019
Course expires: 
04/11/2020
Event starts: 
02/26/2020 - 3:00pm CST
Event ends: 
02/26/2020 - 6:00pm CST
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Agenda

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

UW–Madison, Signe Skott Cooper Hall

The conference agenda has been modified in response to weather complications impacting the participation of our keynote and call to action speakers.
Please join us for the Career Fair and Breakout Sessions.
TimeActivity/Topics/Highlights
3:00-6:00 PM

     Career Fair (Curran Commons)
     Meet diverse employers throughout the state of Wisconsin.

     *No credit will be awarded for attending the career fair.

3:00-4:00 PM

Session cancelled

Keynote speaker: Advancing Health Equity    Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN (Auditorium)
                                                                                       Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

4:00-4:25 PM

Session cancelled   

Let's Get it Done: From Promises to Practice    Gina Green-Harris, MBA (Auditorium) 
                                                                                        Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships 
                                                                                        (CCEHP) in Milwaukee

4:25-4:30 PMTransition Time

4:30-5:30 PM

     Breakout sessions - Choose one to attend
         
Space is limited. Sessions are first come, first serve.

          Session one: Holistic Student Affairs: Where does heath equity show up in and outside of classrooms? (Room 1231)
               ~Panelists: Amy Perez, UW–Madison BSN student; Darby Sugar, MS; Jessica Coburn, PhD, RN; Tracy Saladar, DNP, RN; and Cynthia Nana-Ama Afari, UW–Madison BSN student
               ~Moderator: Olivia Gonzalez, UW–Madison BSN student

          Session two: Equitable Evidence-Based Practice (Room 1227)
               ~Panelists: Madelyne Greene, PhD, RN and Megan Zuesldorff, PhD
               ~Co-Moderators: Andrea Gilmore-Bykoyskyi, PhD, RN and Pam McGranhan, DNP, RN

          Session three: Approaches to Community Engagement That Support Research Equity (1321)
               ~Presenters: Katrina Phelps, PhD; Betty Kaiser, PhD, RN; Laura Block, UW–Madison BSN student; Quinton Cotton, UW–Madison Student in the Clinical Investigation PhD program; and Jessi Kendall, RN

          Session four: Stigma of Nursing Research and Scholarship (Room 2309)
               ~Panelists: Ben Eithun, NP, RN; Maichou Lor, PhD, RN; Kristen Pecanac, PhD, RN; and Wan-Chin Kuo, PhD, RN
               ~Co-Moderators: Phuoc Hong Nhan, UW–Madison BSN student; and Sara Wilke, UW–Madison BSN student

6:00 PM

     Conference closes

 

PROGRAM CHANGES

Emergency situations occasionally occur and may necessitate topic or speaker changes. The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership reserve the right to alter or substitute a topic or speaker without prior notification.

 

 

 

 

University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, Signe Skott Cooper Hall Hall
701 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
United States
+1 (608) 263-5200

Conference Attire

To ensure your comfort in the conference room, please bring a sweater or jacket to accommodate temperature variations.

Parking

Parking is available for a fee at the following locations:

  • University Bay Drive Ramp (Lot 76)-West of Signe Skott Cooper Hall and on the other side of Rennebohm Hall
  • UW Hospital Ramp (Lot 75)-Across the street from Signe Skott Cooper Hall

For more information: https://transportation.wisc.edu/campus-maps/

The conference agenda has been modified in response to weather complications impacting the participation of our keynote and call to action speakers. Presentations by Dr. Villarruel and Gina Green-Harris scheduled for 3:30-4:30 pm have been cancelled.
Please join us for the Career Fair and Breakout Sessions.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN

Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and holds numerous national leadership roles. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Award. As a bilingual and bicultural nurse researcher and leader, she brings extensive experience with diverse Latino and Mexican populations, with her research focusing on interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviors among their youth; one such program, ¡Cuídate!, has been disseminated nationally. As dean, she has increased NIH funding, strengthened academic practice partnerships and diversified the school’s faculty and student body with a focus on improving health equity and access for an increasingly diverse patient population.

 

 

 

Let's Get it Done: From Promises to Practice

Gina Green-Harris, MBA

Gina Green-Harris, MBA, is the director of the Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships (CCEHP) in Milwaukee. CCEHP is a newly created center to further advance research in the African American community in a culturally inclusive manner. This office builds upon the health equity work that Green-Harris has implemented over the past years at the UW for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute’s Regional Milwaukee Office with the  overall goal to introduce and integrate research programs that are culturally tailored to address the needs of Southeastern Wisconsin’s underserved and underrepresented communities.  As the director of WAI MKE she provides leadership and governance to guide and build the capacity of the WAI Milwaukee office which is designed to provide outreach services, programs, resources and to recruit African Americans into research using culturally tailored methods. Along with being director of the Milwaukee Regional Office, she also and leads the Health Equity Pillar of the WAI and serves as one of the UWMSPH’s Diversity Inclusion Ambassadors.

 

 

 

PLANNING COMMITTEE 

Mel Freitag, PhD, Diversity Officer-Course Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Beth Dawson, BA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Taylor Mathewson, MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Hong Nhan, UW-Madison BSN Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Lisa Bratzke, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Pam McGranahan, DNP, RN
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Megan Reinhardt, UW-Madison BSN Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Anna Carlson, UW-Madison BSN Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Roan Haines, UW-Madison BSN Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Tracy Mrochek, MPA, RN
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Sara Wilke, UW-Madison BSN Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing

POLICY ON DISCLOSURE

It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership, that the faculty, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this CE activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests in order to allow CE staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Detailed disclosures will be made in the activity materials.

Disclosures will be available prior to the start of the conference.

*The ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC defines a commercial interest as any entity producing, marketing, re‐selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.

The University of Wisconsin provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. The University of Wisconsin fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please contact info@icep.wisc.edu.

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Accreditation Statement

Jointly Accredited Provider LogoIn support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) & Iowa Board of Nursing

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC and Iowa contact hours. The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing is Iowa Board of Nursing provider 350. A copy of the evaluation may be sent to the Iowa Board of Nursing, 400 SW 8th Street, Suite B, Des Moines, IA 50309. 

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.10 CEUs or 1.00 hours. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 1.00 Iowa Board of Nursing Contact Hours
  • 1.00 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours

Cost:
$0.00
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Kindly notify us at ceservices@son.wisc.edu at least 96 hours prior to the summit to cancel your registration.

QUESTIONS ABOUT REGISTRATION

Email ceservices@son.wisc.edu or call 608-262-8017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

For conference information please contact Mel Freitag, PhD, Diversity Officer, Course Director at 608-263-5273 or mbfreitag@wisc.edu.

EXHIBITORS

Contact Beth Dawson at beth.dawson@wisc.edu or 608-263-9109 to exhibit during the career fair.