Nurses from all over the organization are invited to join an around-the-clock nursing professional day designed to educate through knowledge sharing. The 24-hour event is a first-of-its-kind seminar-style program that allows nurses with expertise in specific areas to present, sharing their knowledge with their colleagues. The nursing professional day is aimed at improving patient care and promoting professional development and nursing excellence. It fosters collaboration and teamwork within the vast department of more than 2,700 nursing professionals.
The day was organized based on identified learning needs gathered from a survey sent out to nurses across the organization.
“The concept came about in order to educate and develop all nurses via ‘knowledge sharing’ on a global scale in a meaningful and impactful way,” said Leslie Morris, one of the event’s organizers. “The purpose of this day is to promote professional development of registered nurses throughout the organization.”
The sessions provide increased knowledge and clinical skills. Participants will receive up to six hours of CNE credit with no fees.
Various topics are approached by different nurses presenting to their colleagues from across the organization.
The sessions include:
- Building Relationships
- Workplace Civility
- Team Collaboration
- Crucial Conversations
- Escalating Concerns
- Delegation
- Managing Conflicts
- Team Building
- Communication with patients and families
- Specialty Certification
- Nursing Portfolio
- Risk Management
- Legal Issues
- Ethics in Care
- Evidence Base Practice
- Disease Management
- Treatment Decisions
- Quality Improvement
- Documentation Practice
- Standard of Care
- Code Management
- Patient and Family Education
- Trauma
The day will be a come-and-go format and does not require registration. The 24 hour period is designed to encourage all nurses to join for as long or as little as they can throughout their workday or before and after work. The session is coordinated in the 24-hour format to allow both day and night nurses to take advantage.
Nursing professional day will be held from 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, to 8 a.m. Thursday, July 30, on the fourth floor of the Pavilion for Women.
Texas Children’s Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.