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NWONE 2012 Annual Awards


Congratulations to 2012 Award Winners!

Congratulations to the following individuals who received awards during the NWONE Spring Conference!
Pamela Smith
Pamela Smith
Authentic Leadership
Madlyn Murrey
Madlyn Murrey
Authentic Leadership
Angela Thompson
Angela Thompson
Authentic Leadership
Frankie Manning
Frankie Manning
Distinguished Career
Lucille Kelley
Lucille Kelley
Distinguished Career
Estrella Pillar
Estrella Pillar
Distinguished Career
Lucas Hopkins
Lucas Hopkins
Excellence in an
Emerging Nurse Leader
Julie Ostrom
Julie Ostrom
Excellence in an 
Emerging Nurse Leader
Kerry Stewart
Kerry Stewart
Excellence in an 
Emerging Nurse Leader
Meredith Gould
Meredith Gould
Excellence in Healthcare 
and/or Nursing Advocacy
Linda Tieman
Linda Tieman
Transformational Pioneer
Elizabeth McNamara
Elizabeth McNamara
Transformational Pioneer
  Gretchen Schodde
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

 



NWONE Position Papers

We are writing to you today to communicate the creation of two new NWONE position statements (attached).  In an environment where there has been significant debate about the right approach to protection from influenza for both health care workers, patients and the community, and where we have faced difficult and litigious debate over nurse rest periods and meal breaks, it seemed necessary and appropriate for NWONE to state a position on these issues. 

Our discussion on both topics has been sensitive and thorough.  We recognize that our members are individuals with varying views.  Additionally we know that our health care organizations, where many of you are employed, do not share one position on these important issues.  With those facts in mind, and with the input of your NWONE board, the attached documents were created and unanimously approved. 

We provide these documents to you in the hope that they will be helpful to your individual and organizational decision making as we approach both the flu season and our legislative sessions.  Please feel free to share the documents as you find appropriate and to also share your comments and feedback with us.  

Thank you for the important work you do every day, on issues such as these.

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