On Friday, April 24, Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing and the Rho Pi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), the international honor society of nursing, will host a research and scholarship symposium, “Changing Trends in the Healthcare Climate: The Forecast for Nursing.” This symposium is for clinicians, academicians and researchers interested in nursing research.
The event will be held in the Brandt Student Center, Ferrari Room, on the campus of Shenandoah University. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. The morning program will start at 9 a.m. and includes a keynote address by Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies at the Institute for Medicine & Public Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Buerhuas will address “The Nursing Workforce in an Era of Health Reform: Data, Trends, and Complications” and “Comparing the Contributions of Nurse Practitioners and Physicians: New Data and Implications.”
Afternoon keynote speaker is Anne Belcher, Ph.D., RN, AOCN, FAAN, ANEF, associate professor and co-director of the Office for Teaching Excellence at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, who will speak at 12:30 p.m. on “Promoting Civility in Nursing Education and in Nursing Practice.”
The symposium also includes poster displays and dialogue with nurse researchers, afternoon breakout sessions, door prize drawings and a silent auction.
Nursing contact hours (6) are available, and this continuing education activity is provided by Shenandoah University, an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Registration ($125 fee) is accepted at the door. Fee includes contact hours and lunch. For more information, please contact the School of Nursing at 540/678-4374 or via email at rlewis3@su.edu.
About the keynote speakers:
Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is the Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies at the Institute for Medicine & Public Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Buerhaus is a nurse and a healthcare economist who is well known for his studies and publications focused on the nursing and physician workforces in the United States. He also serves as a professor in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt.
Before coming to Vanderbilt, Buerhaus served as assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health from 1992 to 2000. During the 1980s, he served as assistant to the chief executive officer of The University of Michigan Medical Center’s seven teaching hospitals, and assistant to the vice provost for medical affairs, the chief executive of the medical center.
Buerhaus was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 1994 and elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 2003. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed articles with five publications designated as “Classics” by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network.
He is currently an expert advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s health care workforce initiative, an expert faculty for the National Governors Association Policy Academy, and serves on the Board of Directors for AcademyHealth, the nation’s premier association of researchers conducting health services and policy research.
On September 30, 2010, Buerhaus was appointed chair of the National Health Care Workforce Commission. Created under the Affordable Care Act, the Commission (once funded) will advise Congress and the Administration on health workforce policy.
Buerhaus is now in the process of transitioning to Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where he will serve as a professor of nursing in the College of Nursing.
Anne Belcher, Ph.D., RN, AOCN, FAAN, ANEF, is associate professor and co-director of the Office for Teaching Excellence at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She has more than 40 years of experience in nursing education, having taught at the baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral levels.
She has held numerous administrative and instructional positions throughout her career. Belcher’s area of expertise is oncology nursing, and her research interest is psychosocial aspects of cancer, with a focus on spiritual care.
Belcher holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, a Master of Nursing degree from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. She is an Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education. In 2009, Belcher received the National League for Nursing Excellence in Teaching Award.
