Title: GS1 - Leading – Not Following: A Brave New World for Nursing

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Analyze health care issues driving policy decisions.
  2. Describe the role nursing clinicians must play in designing a patient-centered and transformed high quality, safe and effective system.
  3. Describe the potential impact of nursing on the future of health care in this country.
Submission Description:
This presentation by one of the country's most energetic and innovative nurse leaders, Dr. Polly Bednash, Executive Director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, will examine where nursing is today and where it's going tomorrow. By 2020, highly educated and diverse nursing professionals will lead (not follow)in delivery of quality, patient-centered care.
Sunday, June 24, 2012: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Prince George's Exhibit Hall D (Gaylord National Harbor)
Moderator:
Rose L. Horton, MSM, RNC
Presenting Author:
Geraldine Polly Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN