"There's a way to do it better - find it." Thomas Edison
Have you bumped into a problem and needed to search for a solution? Nurses are problem solvers who use their creative ideas to develop innovations to do things differently and more effectively. There is a science and process behind innovation. Whether you are in nursing leadership, practice, research, policy or education, the Planting Seeds of Innovation Colloquium will inspire you to ask yourself “what if?” If you are ready to grow an innovation seed into action, come join us and learn how it’s done!
We invite you to also join the Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Conference, June 5-7, 2024.
Oriana Beaudet, DNP, RN, PHN
Vice President of Nursing Innovation, ANA Enterprise
Oriana Beaudet is the Vice President of Nursing Innovation for the American Nurses Association Enterprise. The ANA Enterprise includes the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the American Nurses Foundation. She currently sits on the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy – Expert Advisory Council for Transformation and the Governing Directors Board for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.
Prior to ANA, Dr. Beaudet ran her own business as a strategic partner for organizations, healthcare executives, and startups. In a previous position as the Vice President of Transformation for a national healthcare design firm, she focused on strategy and business development for national health systems around operational and business innovations; simulation modeling and technology; design of the built space, and care delivery design.
June 4, 2024
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP; Dean, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Shirley A. Brekken, MS, RN, FAAN; Director, Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
9:15 Keynote
Oriana Beaudet, Vice President of Nursing Innovation for the American Nurses Association Enterprise. Dr. Oriana Beaudet is a graduate of the University of Minnesota DNP program, Health Innovation and Leadership. In her role as the Vice-president for Innovation at the American Nurses Association, she is leading and inspiring innovation across healthcare for new and emerging leaders. Dr. Beaudet will address the importance and the presence of innovation in healthcare.
10:00 “A Nurse Engineer’s Lens: 10 Observations on Health Care Systems Challenges and Innovation”
Kelly Landsman, MN, BME, BS, RN, PHN, biomedical engineer and RN, will discuss current health care system challenges in need of innovative solutions.
In 2017, I began a quest to define and create the role of a nurse engineer in the health care system. I believed that becoming a nurse could help me gain an understanding of why even our best innovations as engineers did not dramatically change health care outcomes. It has become clear to me that challenges result because health care is a complex adaptive system - these challenges have a dramatic impact on all aspects of innovation. The defined methods for innovation I use as a biomedical engineer, although grounding and informative, are themselves in need of innovation for meaningful use in health care systems. Even though challenges are abundant, health care is moving forward in the innovation space. COVID proved that given a certain set of parameters, the health care system can rapidly and successfully accommodate innovation. While the COVID parameters are not sustainable, the experience illuminated possibilities. In this talk, I use my lens as a nurse engineer to discuss 10 observations to mitigate challenges of innovating in the health care system.
10:30 Break
10:45 “Innovative Thinking”
Stephanie Gingerich, DNP, RN, CPN; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, will lead audience members to consider “what if” and ways of innovative thinking that may help to pursue solutions to the current challenges in healthcare.
11:15 Panel: Innovation Seeds
What happens when we say “what if”? From innovation in surgery workflow using AI, to wellness efforts in the United Nations, innovation in research and innovative systems thinking, our panelists will share their stories about innovation being applied in practice.
- Stephanie Gingerich, DNP, RN, CPN (Moderator)
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing - Steve Burmeister, DNP RN-BC CNML, Lead Perioperative Clinical Solution Architect at Qventus
- Cheristi Congnetta-Rieke, DNP; Chief Nursing Officer, Mayo Clinic
- Angelica Walton, DNP, RN, CCRN; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
- Siobhan McMahon, PhD, MPH, GNP-BC; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
12:30 Lunch provided
1:15 Panel: Diversity & Innovation
While marginalized communities face worse healthcare outcomes, there are people who are shaping their practice to ensure that everyone has access to innovation . Panelists will speak about methods to increase doctorally-prepared nurses in the American Indian population, how to ensure that climate change is being considered within the most vulnerable populations, and how human-centered design and positive deviance efforts are being used to improve care in Sierra Leone.
- Teddie M. Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP (Moderator) Clinical Professor and Director of Planetary Health, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Centering Local Voices in International Development Work
- Jill LaLonde, Executive Director, OneVillage Partners
This session will explore ways that those of us in the Global North can support populations around the world in ways that honor the resources and cultures that are present rather than taking away from the assets that exist. Historically, much international development work has been done to those who are economically impoverished instead of with them. This mode of operating removes agency from those most impacted by the work and those with the lived experience of the challenges we seek to address. At OneVillage Partners, we work on the basis of partnership. Our work in Sierra Leone seeks to put communities front and center in solving challenges related to multi-dimensional poverty. We will explore various aspects of our work as one example of asset-based programming and how working in partnership results in systems-level, sustainable outcomes.
“Innovative Strategies to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice”
- Misty Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN, (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Métis) Clinical Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing Pathway to Doctoral Education for AIAN Nurses Director; Center of Indigenous People, Health and Nursing Director; and School of Nursing Assistant Director of Inclusivity, Diversity, & Equity
Addressing the diversity of the health care workforce has been identified as a necessary evidence-based strategy to alleviate racial and ethnic disparities. American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) nurses are lacking in the workforce. AIAN nurses with advanced degrees (DNP and PhD in nursing) are needed to serve as educators in schools of nursing, at health care organizations creating policy changes and in communities that provide health care services to AI/AN. This presentation will discuss an innovative pathway to increase the number of AIAN students and support them for success.
2:00 Planting Your Own Seeds: Networking & Brainstorming
2:45 “Mitakuye Oyasin (We are all related)”
- Margaret Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN [Hidatsa/Dakhóta]
Professor and Associate Dean for Nursing and Health Policy, Katherine R. & C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership, University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
Innovation is imperative in this day and age. One way to implement and sustain innovation is through policy and advocacy efforts, as expert Dr. Margaret Moss will discuss.
3:15 Wrap Up: Stephanie Gingerich
3:30 Adjourn
Oriana Beaudet is the Vice President of Nursing Innovation for the American Nurses Association Enterprise. The ANA Enterprise includes the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the American Nurses Foundation. She currently sits on the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy – Expert Advisory Council for Transformation and the Governing Directors Board for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.
Prior to ANA, Dr. Beaudet ran her own business as a strategic partner for organizations, healthcare executives, and startups. In a previous position as the Vice President of Transformation for a national healthcare design firm, she focused on strategy and business development for national health systems around operational and business innovations; simulation modeling and technology; design of the built space, and care delivery design.
Steve Burmeister is the Lead Perioperative Clinical Solution Architect at Qventus, where he provides perioperative clinical expertise in product design, development, and implementation. Steve has a background as a Perioperative Clinical Nurse Specialist leading large scale quality improvement initiatives in the perioperative domain as well as OR nursing and Acute/Perioperative Informatics nursing. Steve holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in Health Innovation & Leadership and Certificate in Healthcare Design & Innovation from the University of Minnesota. He is also ANCC Board Certified in Informatics Nursing and an AONL Certified Nurse Manager & Leader.
Cheristi Congnetta-Rieke, DNP; Chief Nursing Officer, Mayo Clinic
Stephanie Gingerich, DNP, RN, CPN; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Jill LaLonde is the Executive Director of OneVillage Partners, a non-profit organization that uses a community-led development model to put communities at the forefront of improving their own well-being. She leads a team of 62 staff to implement community-led and sustainable programs in health, education, and livelihoods, impacting more than 40,000 people annually. She is especially passionate about work and research on anti-colonial approaches to aid, and about operationalizing this concept at an organizational level.
Kelly Landsman is a biomedical engineer with 20 years of industry experience in R&D of patient care related technologies. She is also a registered nurse with experience in adult cardiology and perioperative nursing. Her passion lies in bringing nursing voices to the forefront of healthcare design processes and striving to ensure positive healthcare experiences for both patients and clinicians. Kelly is a passionate advocate for the role of the nurse engineer, hosting the website, NurseEngineer.com. She founded and is the principal nurse engineer of Landsman Engineering LLC. She has been directly involved in the design, development and launch of at least seven medical devices and is an inventor on six issued patents. Recently, Kelly has been partnering to focus the lens of the nurse engineer on the next generation healthcare workforce.
Siobhan McMahon, PhD, MPH, GNP-BC; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Dr. Margaret Moss is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. Currently, she is a Professor and Associate Dean of Nursing and Health Policy in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and she sits on a Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Moss is currently a committee member on a NAM consensus study to review Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research. She published a first ever and award-winning text on American Indian Health and Nursing (2015) followed by Health Equity and Nursing (2020). In other experiences, Dr. Moss was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She was a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University on Indigenous Life Across the North American Context. She is asked to speak often on Indigenous, health, aging, diversity and policy issues with academics, health professionals and other groups nationally and internationally.
Teddie M. Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP Clinical Professor and Director of Planetary Health, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Angelica Walton, DNP, RN, RYT; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Misty L. Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Métis) is a clinical associate professor, Director & Mentor for the Pathway to Doctoral Education for AI/AN Nurses, Assistant Director of Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity (IDE), and Inaugural Director of the Center of Indigenous People, Health, & Nursing at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Dr. Wilkie’s scholarship interests include supporting minority nursing students with a focus on those from American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous backgrounds to improve health outcomes for the individuals and their communities.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the colloquium attendees will be able to:
- Discuss the current challenges facing health care in the US and why nursing leadership is essential for innovating change.
- Describe a broad range of current innovations being championed by nursing leaders.
- Promote the involvement of diverse groups of people and diverse ways of thinking as an essential element of innovation.
- Plan one next step to advance innovation in their respective roles to contribute to positive change in the healthcare sector.
This activity is equivalent to 6.6 Minnesota Board of Nursing contact hours. The program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing requirements for continuing education. It is the responsibility of the individual nurse to determine if the course fulfills that requirement.