Congratulations to 2012 Award Winners!

Pamela Smith Authentic Leadership	Madlyn Murrey Authentic Leadership	Angela Thompson Authentic Leadership
Frankie Manning Distinguished Career	Lucille Kelley Distinguished Career	Estrella Pillar Distinguished Career
Lucas Hopkins Excellence in an Emerging Nurse Leader	Julie Ostrom Excellence in an  Emerging Nurse Leader	Kerry Stewart Excellence in an  Emerging Nurse Leader
Meredith Gould Excellence in Healthcare  and/or Nursing Advocacy	Linda Tieman Transformational Pioneer	Elizabeth McNamara Transformational Pioneer
	Gretchen Schodde Transformational Pioneer and Distinguished Career

NWONE Invitational Retreat Summary

For the second time this year, the NWONE Board of Directors invited nurse leaders from across our membership to join them in dialogue.  The idea of hosting invitational retreats grew from member requests for an opportunity to be more involved without formally becoming an organizational leader.  On November 10, 2011, the NWONE Board of Directors and guests gathered together in retreat at Seattle's Hotel 1000.  The day began with a presentation from Carolyn Corvi, recently retired Vice President and General Manager of Airplane Programs at Boeing.  Carolyn spoke about what it means to be a transformational leader and illustrated this through her experience at Boeing.  Following Carolyn's talk was a presentation from Barbara Trehearne, Vice President for Nursing and Quality and the Chief Nurse for Group Health Cooperative, and Barbara Hyland-Hill, Director of Nursing Operations at Group Health Cooperative.  They spoke about nursing leadership in a reformed health care environment addressing the movement from hospital centricity to ambulatory care, home care, and self care settings.  After these presentations, the group of 53 people broke out into small groups to discuss how NWONE can build transformational leaders within its membership and how NWONE can strategically position itself for the changing health care environment in order to better serve our members.  After the small groups had a chance to discuss and brainstorm, everyone was brought back together and asked to share their ideas.  Demonstrating the true power of the collective, the groups came up with a host of insightful recommendations for NWONE Board of Directors.  These recommendations are being used to reshape the NWONE strategic plan. 

A few of the recommendations include:

• Expand the NWONE membership both vertically and horizontally across the continuum of care
• Focus on nursing leadership across the care continuum to include care coordination and the role of the nurse navigator
• Increase strategic partnership with education colleagues
• Mobilize nursing leadership to use our collective voice, knowledge, and power to participate and influence health care reform
• Support the design of collaborative ambulatory residencies that could be replicated
• Understand, articulate, and demonstrate nursing's unique contribution across the care continuum
• Create a technologic infrastructure to communicate with nursing across settings and disciplines on our website

Thank you to all who attended this energizing and powerful day!  We appreciate your generosity of time and commitment to NWONE.  If you are interested in attending a NWONE invitational retreat in the future, please send an email to Erika Wilczek at erikaw@wsha.org.