Announcing UR Nursing's 9th Annual DNP Summit: Innovation & Inspiration
By Gianluca D'Elia
Monday, August 26, 2024
The University of Rochester School of Nursing will host its ninth Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Summit on Oct. 4, 11 and 18.
Since the DNP degree was first introduced 20 years ago, DNP-prepared nurses have become increasingly integrated into health care systems. The DNP Summit fosters meaningful conversations about DNP education, practice, policy, and leadership.
The conference also showcases the contributions of DNP-prepared nurses, and highlights how they transform clinical practice, health policy, and care delivery across the healthcare continuum.
The theme of this year’s summit, “Innovation and Inspiration,” will explore DNP education, practice, and potential contributions through an innovation lens.
“There is a great need for practice transformation, and DNP-prepared nurses are perfectly positioned to implement changes that benefit both patients and health care systems,” said Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education & Innovation and DNP program director, Lydia Rotondo, DNP, RN, CNS, FNAP. “By providing a platform for in-depth discussions on innovation among DNP-prepared nurses, we hope to energize nurses to expand their perspective, and to consider how they can move the profession forward in new ways.”
Three distinguished nursing leaders will join the Summit virtually this year to share their insights:
- Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN, FAHA, director of innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, will open this year’s Summit on Oct. 4 with her presentation, "Nursing Innovation: Overview for DNP Practitioners and Leaders."
Leary helps Penn Nursing create and execute curriculum focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and design-thinking in nursing. She has also taught courses in Penn’s Master of Health Program, including methods implementation and public health communication. Leary has served on the American Nurses Association’s Innovation Advisory Committee and is also a founding member of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Leaders. - Continuing the conversation on Oct. 11, Virtual Nursing Academy Founder and CEO Bonnie Clipper, DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN, will present “Moving Nursing out of the Middle Ages.”
Clipper, a leading healthcare influencer, was a successful chief nurse executive for over 20 years and was the first vice president of innovation at the American Nurses Association. She founded the Virtual Nursing Academy to educate and enable hospitals to launch virtual care models, and is passionate about motivating nurses to become leaders in technological innovation. - Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, RN, FAAN, will close out the three-week series with his talk, “Cultivating Cultures of Innovation: Roles for DNPs.”
Weberg supports Kaiser Permanente as the executive director of nursing workforce development and innovation. In this role, he oversees nursing workforce planning, a new-graduate residency program, and other system-level nursing workforce initiatives. Weberg is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation, and human-centered patient design with extensive experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings, large health systems, start-ups, and academia. He is an inaugural graduate of Arizona State University’s PhD in Healthcare Innovation program.
Categories: Nursing Leadership, DNP
