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NWONE 2012 Annual Awards

It is once again that time of year when we solicit nominations for the NWONE annual awards program. This year our awards dinner will be held on March 15, with Lee Woodruff, national speaker, author and wife of Bob Woodruff ABC new anchor who was seriously injured during the Iraq war. We hope you won't miss this event.

I have attached for your review the nomination forms with award criteria for all 5 of our NWONE awards:

The award for an Authentic Leader

The award for a Distinguished Career

The award to recognize a Transformational Pioneer

The award to recognize Excellence in an Emerging Nurse Leader

and the award for Excellence in Health Care and/or Nursing Advocacy

Many of us have experienced sitting in an awards program and thinking "gosh these folks are great but I know ______ and s/he should really get this kind of recognition". We often go home committed to writing an award nomination for that person we admire... and then get busy and soon forget. I am challenging you to remember who you believe is worthy of recognition and to take the time to nominate them for one of our awards. There are few things as honorable as recognizing and rewarding the contributions of a professional colleague. It is also something you can do for FREE! All award nominations must be postmarked by February 1, 2012. We look forward to receiving your nomination and to seeing you in March at the NWONE awards dinner. Thanks for taking the time to consider recognizing someone you admire.

Congratulations to 2011 Award Winners!

Congratulations to the following individuals who received awards during the NWONE Spring Conference!

Jo Ellen Vanatta Distinguished Career	Patti Crome Distinguished Career	Tracy Dunham Excellence in Health Care or Nursing
Linda Latta Authentic Leadership	Heather Schoonover Authentic Leadership	Marcia Johnson Authentic Leadership
June Altaras Authentic Leadership	Keith Sprague Emerging Nurse Leader	Ruth Hansten Transformational Pioneer

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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. 

 

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Eighteenth Annual Fall Conference and Meeting of the NWONE Membership September 21-23, 2011

NWONE Fall Program - This Magic Moment: Nursing's Strategic Leadership in Transforming Health Care Delivery 

The annual NWONE fall program and meeting of the membership was held on September 21 - 23, 2011, at the Vancouver Hilton Hotel in Vancouver, Washington.  This event, a highlight of the year for many NWONE members, is an opportunity for nursing leaders at all levels and from every practice arena, to come together in fellowship and support while learning from world class speakers on health care topics of current concern. 

This year's fall program theme, "This Magic Moment", capitalized on the tremendous current transitions  in health care, as reform is implemented, and also referenced the opportunity for nursing to play a mighty leadership role in the design of a reformed delivery system.   Attendees were encouraged to not miss the opportunities for nursing leadership inherent in a changing environment - and our high profile non-nursing presenters strongly voiced the need for nursing to step up to local and national leadership during this time.  Speakers at the event included

• TR Reid, a correspondent, reporter, and the best-selling author ofThe Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care,
• Monique Lambert a technology expert and medical ethnographic researcher who shared her research on the tribal nature of nursing and our opportunities as entrepreneurs to design the next best products and systems for care delivery,
• Edward O'Neil, Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF, and Director of the Center for the Health Professions created to assist health care professionals, care delivery organizations, and public policy makers understand the challenges and opportunities of educating and managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well-being of people and their communities,
• Jack Needleman, Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health and recent author of research published on the correlation between nurse staffing and patient mortality, and
• Carol Bradley, Joanie Ching, Linda Tieman, and Paula Gubrud-Howe, all from our membership, speaking about their work to advance nursing in this climate of change.

In dialogue with the audience, Monique Lambert and the NWONE leadership encouraged the development of an "incubator" where nurses, as entrepreneurs, could test and market patient care products and models of care design.  Additionally a reframing of our domain from hospital "centricity" to nurses as leaders of the movement toward health care outside the walls of the hospital was emphasized.  Using the feedback from our dialogue with the audience and NWONE membership, the organization plans a strategic retreat in November of this year focused on nursing leadership in ambulatory care and in communication with Dr. Lambert on the possibility for forming an entrepreneurial "incubator" to develop and launch nursing innovation. 

Evaluations from the program and its three pre-conferences communicated appreciation for a valuable and enjoyable event for our local nurse leaders.  We look forward to being together again for the NWONE Spring conference and meeting of the membership, March 15 - 16, 2012, at the waterfront Marriott in downtown Portland, Oregon.  All nurses are invited to attend.  

Gladys Campbell, CEO, NWONE  

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.

• NWONE Position Statement - Flu Immunization Draft #3
• NWONE Position Statement - Rest Periods and Meal Breaks Draft #4

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