2023 Annual North Carolina Association of Public Health Nurse Administrators Conference: Reigniting the Passion and Facing the Future Together!

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Description

This conference will provide topics that support the role of public health nursing administrators to improve the quality, quantity, comprehensiveness, and continuity of public health nursing care provided by the local health departments in concert with current health care trends and public health nursing practice.

Topics and Speakers

October 26, 2023 - Day 1, 8 AM - 5 PM
Opening Address
Stacie Turpin Saunders, MPH
NC DPH Deputy Director / Section Chief, Local & Community Support

The State of Public Health Nursing Address: An Annual Update from North Carolina's Chief Public Health Nurse
Susan Haynes Little, DNP, RN, CPHN, PHNA-BC, CPH, FAAN
Chief Public Health Nurse, Division of Public Health, NC DHHS

Fill Your Own Cups
Sherry Wright, BSN, RN
NC Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program, NC DHHS

Learning How to Say No!
Amichia Gainey-Jones
Director of Public Health Workforce Initiative, Dept of Public Health Cumberland County

Medicaid Transformation Updates
Patrick Brown, PharmD

Result-Based Accountability (RBA)
Kathryn Dail, RN, PhD
State Center for Health Statistics, NC Division of Public Health

Marcella Beam, BA
Director of Strategy, Healthy Cabarrus Executive Director,
Cabarrus Health Alliance

Kimberly Schnitzer, MSN, RN
Education Specialist, South Piedmont AHEC

Gabriela Staley, MEd
Education Specialist, South Piedmont AHEC

NC AHEC Clinical Instructor Project (CIP)
Jill Forcina, PhD, RN
Director of Education & Nursing, NC AHEC

Katie Fitzpatrick, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
Clinical Instructor Partnership Project Manager, NC AHEC

October 27, 2023 - Day 2, 8 AM - 12:30 PM

Leadership Styles for the Public Health of Today
Amy Belflower Thomas, MHA, MSPH, CPH, DrPH(c)
Assistant Director for Research and Evaluation, Public Health Accreditation Board

Mentoring and Coaching Styles
Susan Bolick, BA
Performing Well

Building Inclusive Spaces: Cultural Humility, Belonging, and Bias
Bryle Henderson Hatch, PhD
Director, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NC Department of Health and Human Services

Learner Outcome
Participants will self-report in knowledge gained from the conference on public health topics, to help support their role of public health nursing administrators to improve the quality of public health nursing care provided by the local health departments.

CE Information
8.75 Nursing Contact Hours can be earned by participants attending 90% of the conference for each day.

October 26 (Day 1) - 5.75 Nursing Contact Hours
October 27 (Day 2) - 3.0 Nursing Contact Hours

South Piedmont Area Health Education Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Registration Fees
Early Bird Registration Fee $225.00 before 9/18/23
Registration fee $250 after 9/18/23

Hotel Information
Great Wolf Lodge - Charlotte/Concord, NC
Please call Great Wolf Customer Contact at 1-866-751-9653 or visting www.greatwolf.com
Group Block Code: 2310WAKE (must use group code when making a hotel reservation)
Cut off Date for Group Block Reservations: 9/25/2023

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Objectives

• 01_Participants will recognize the impact of nurses on NC Public Health
• 01a_Participants will understand the impact of burnout and stress on the national public health workforce
• 01b_Participants will be able to identify strategies to balance the position you hold with the person you are.
• 02_Participants will be able to List the new relationship-based program for local health department senior nurse leaders that facilitates a path to building skills, knowledge, and employee engagement.
• 03_Participants will be able to identify and adopt at least one self-care strategy that you will implement in your daily routine.
• 04_GAINEY-JONES
• 05_Participants will be able to list the five managed care organizations currently operating prepaid health plans with NC Medicaid.
• 05a_Participants will be able to develop a list of action items for local public health agencies to deepen their partnership and supports for NC Medicaid beneficiaries.
• 06_DAIL
• 07_Beam
• 08_Participants will explore key concepts of RBA with a focus on performance measures (how much, how well, better off) to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs.
• 09_Participants will be able to list three benefits of the CIP role.
• 10_Participants will understand the difference between Management versus Leadership.
• 10a. Participants will describe the difference between assigned and emergent leadership.
• 10b. Participants will distinguish between different leadership archetypes.
• 10c. Participants will construct their individual leadership style as a blend of leadership archetypes.
• 11_Participants will know the difference between Mentoring and Coaching.
• 11a. Participants will gain knowledge of behaviors that make for a good mentoring relationship.
• 11b. Participants will understand What the COACH model is.
• 11c. Participants will be able to apply Guided Discovery listening.
• 12_Participants will gain knowledge of how to work towards building belonging in our workspaces and with our patients/clients.
• 13_Learner Outcome:Participants will self-report in knowledge gained from the conference on public health topics, to help support their role of public health nursing administrators to improve the quality of public health nursing care provided by the local health departments.

Contact

Kimberly Schnitzler MSN, RN, 704-512-6523

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