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Continuing Education
Upcoming Events  | The Wisdom Dialogue Series
How to Climb the Ladder without Getting Dizzy or Falling Off! With Jeannine Rivet, RN, MPH, FAAN The Wisdom Dialogue Series connects thought leaders with nurses and other stakeholders to explore career lessons and wisdom gleaned over time. The goals of this project are to harvest the personal and professional wisdom of leaders and stimulate dialogue and insights among invited participants.
Dialogue: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 8:00am – 12pm, Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
Registration information coming soon! |
Past Events
| |  | The Florence Schorske Wald Lectureship on Palliative/Hospice Care
The Wald Lectureship honors Florence Schorske Wald, who is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States from England.
Upcoming Wald Lectureship:
Cancer Pain: Current Challenges and Breakthroughs, with Judy Paice, PhD, RN, Director of the Cancer Pain Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology and Research Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.
Sunday, April 14, 2013, Doubletree Hotel, Bloomington, MN
The 2013 Wald Lectureship will be hosted in partnership with the Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care.
For more information, or to register, please click here | 
| The Wisdom Dialogue Series
A Nurse-led Model for Community Care: Buurtzorg Nederland, with Jos deBlok, Founder and Director of Buurtzorg Nederland
The Wisdom Dialogue Series connects thought leaders with nurses and other stakeholders to explore career lessons and wisdom gleaned over time. The goals of this project are to harvest the personal and professional wisdom of leaders and stimulate dialogue and insights among invited participants.
Dialogue: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 8:00am – 12pm, McNamara Alumni Center
Workshop: Friday, February 22, 2013, 8:30am - 4pm, Coffman Memorial Union
For more information, and to watch videos from the Dialogue click here |  | The Wisdom Dialogue Series
Becoming Influential with Eleanor J. Sullivan, PhD, RN, FAAN
On December 12, 2012, Dr. Sullivan was the inaugural speaker of the Wisdom Dialogue Series. Dr. Sullivan is a previous associate dean in the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, the former dean of the University of Kansas School of Nursing, past president of Sigma Theta Tau International, and prior editor of the Journal of Professional Nursing. Dr. Sullivan is known for her publications in nursing, including the award-winning textbook, Effective Leadership & Management in Nursing, and Becoming Influential: A Guide for Nurses, both recently released in new editions. | In Collaboration and Partnership with: | Leadership Resilience Workshop: Wisdom that Supports Meaningful Change
Hosted on November 8, 2012, the Leadership Resilience Workshop featured Dr. Elle Allison, PhD, founder of Wisdom Out, a professional development company specializing in leadership and organizational learning.
During the full-day workshop, Dr. Allison helped participants create a foundation of ideas about drawing out and sustaining leadership wisdom in oneself and others. Participants learned to distinguish between ordinary resilience and leadership resilience and how adversity creates defining leadership moments.
Leadership Resilience Workshops are hosted annually by the Densford Center. Please check back for information about the 2013 workshop. |  | Summit of Sages
This premier event is held every 2-3 years and presents outstanding leaders --"Sages" who are both renowned and those who walk among us -- that have impacted health care in substantial ways. Several hundred participants join the Densford Center in these 2-1/2 days of presentations, dialogue, and audience discussion. Past Summit of Sages themes:
2012: Professional Joy
2009: Innovation, Inspiration and Transformation
2007: Health Care and Social Justice
2004: Extraordinary Nursing Leaders |  | DNP Innovation Institute
In September 2012, the School of Nursing launched the DNP Innovation Institute -- the first event of its kind nationwide. This full-day event illustrated how to make an idea sustainable by highlighting evidence-based innovative projects that solve real-world problems and improve patient care. The program showcased outstanding projects developed and piloted by nurses with Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees, featured amazing speakers and practical break-out sessions. Click here for Presentations from 2012 DNP Innovation Institute. | | | Community Forums and Nursing Grand Rounds
Community forums grew from Nursing Grand Rounds in order to expand the dialogue to a wider variety of participants. Held once or twice per academic year, they have drawn up to 200 people to hear and discuss topics such as global health, health care reform, and the relationship between public health and the media. The Densford Center’s Community Forums have featured prominent local and national health care representatives and experts.
Nursing Grand Rounds presented topics of particular interest to the nursing profession, including nurses in the military and the role of schools in helping prevent childhood obesity. |
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