When
Saturday March 18, 2017
9:00 AM to 3:30 PM CDT
Where
Illinois Wesleyan University - Memorial Center1312 Park St
Bloomington, IL 61701
Driving Directions
Contact
Carl Crowder
SNAI
2ndvp@snaillinois.com
www.snaillinois.com
Student Nurses Association of Illinois
Spring Leadership Conference 2017
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams
Registration Fees
- NSNA member- $50
- Non-Member- $65
- Faculty- $65
- High School Students- $35
Lunch
- Lunch will be provided
- Please send an email to 2ndvp@snaillinois.com if you have any dietary restrictions.
SPEAKERS:
Kelley Johnson, RN, Miss Colorado 2015
Kelley Johnson represented the Miss Colorado Organization across the nation as Miss Colorado 2015. Kelley also competed for the title of Miss America 2016 and was awarded second runner up. Kelley graduated Summa Cum Laude from Nursing School at Grand View University, where she was also valedictorian. As a Registered Nurse, she hopes to obtain a Doctorate in Nursing Practice beginning classes in the spring of 2017.
Her year as Miss Colorado included appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, E News, various other television and radio studios and speaking engagements across our country. Currently, Nurse Kelley lives and works out of Los Angeles as the Brand Ambassador and Nurse Advocate for United Staffing Solutions Inc, a travel nursing company in Torrance, California. Nurse Kelley is also a model for Uniform Advantage, a scrub company out of Florida, and continues to host and emcee television and pageants in Colorado.
Through her participation in the Miss America Organization and performing her nursing monologue for the talent portion in scrubs and a stethoscope, Kelley drew national attention to nursing sparking the #NursesUnite campaign. Now, Nurse Kelley spends her time publicly speaking about the nursing profession and serving various nursing communities through direct care, advocacy, and education.
Rosemary Gibson, MSc
Rosemary Gibson writes and lectures about health care, health care reform, Medicare, and patient safety. She led national health care quality and safety initiatives at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was chief architect of the foundation’s decade-long strategy that successfully established palliative care in more than 1,600 hospitals in the United States. She is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Gibson is an editor for JAMA Internal Medicine. Previously, she worked with Bill Moyers on “On Our Own Terms,” a PBS documentary viewed by more than 20 million people that showed ways in which the U.S. health care system can better care for seriously ill patients and their families. She is an author of the critically acclaimed book, Wall of Silence, which tells the human story behind the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human.
Anne O'Sullivan, MSN, RN, CNE, NE-BC, ANEF
Ann has 45 years of experience as a nurse educator and nurse administrator. At the national level, she has served on the ANA Advisory Committee of the Professional Panel on Workplace Violence and Incivility, the Steering Committee of the ANA Professional Panel on Barriers to Scope of Practice, co-chair of the ANA Congress of Nursing Practice and Economics, and several other ANA committees. Ann is currently Vice-President of ANA-Illinois and served as the chair of the Expert Panel on RN Scope of Practice.
She was President of the Illinois Nurses Association from 1999-2001. Ann has served as President of Pi Pi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau and received the Outstanding Performance in Leadership Award in 2003. She has served on the Governor’s Task Force on Patient Safety and as the nurse representative on the Illinois State Board of Health. Ann has co-edited the book “The Essential Guide to Nursing Practice: Applying ANA’s Scope and Standards of Practice and Education” published in June 2012, authored the chapters on Scope of Practice and Communications, and several articles on Scope of Practice. Ann currently maintains certification as a Nurse Educator and Nurse Executive and is a Fellow in the Academy of Nurse Educators.
Schedule of Events: Saturday, March 18th, 2017
8:00am-9:00am: Council of Chapter Leaders****
9:00am- 10:15am: Attendees sign-in and may visit the morning exhibitor hall
10:15am- 10:30am: Opening Remarks
10:30am- 11:30am: Speaker Nurse Kelley and Student Nurse Leader Recognitions
11:30am-1:00pm: Lunch will be provided and the exhibitor hall will be open
1:00pm-2:00pm: Speaker Rosemary Gibson
2:00pm-3:00pm: ANA-IL address from Vice President Ann O’ Sullivan
3:00-3:30pm: Future Nurse Leader Scholarship awarded and closing remarks
***This small session will be for school chapter board members only.