Jane Alberico, MS, RN, CEN - Medical City - Advisory Board Member
Sharon Ikeler, MSN, RN, NEA-BC Las Colinas Medical Center - Advisory Board Member
Claudia Wilder, MS, RN, NEA-BC - Advisory Board Member
Ellen Pitcher, MBA, MSN, RN,NEA-BC Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano - Secretary
June Marshall, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas - Treasurer
Jane McCurly, MBA, BS, , RN, NEA-BC North Hills Hospital - President Elect
Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas - President
Ellen Pitcher, MBA, MSN, RN,NEA-BC Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano - Advisory Board Member
Sharon Ikeler, MSN, RN, NEA-BC Las Colinas Medical Center - Advisory Board Member
Claudia Wilder, MS, RN, NEA-BC - Advisory Board Member
June Marshall, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas - Secretary - Treasurer
Jane McCurly, MBA, BS, , RN, NEA-BC North Hills Hospital - President Elect
Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas - President
The following offices are open: President, Secretary, Treasurer, and one Advisory Board Position. The following individuals have been nominated and agreed to run for office. Please review the bios and then down load the ballot form by clicking HERE.
Please return the completed ballot to one of the following nominating committee members by Aug 20, 2011. Sharon.Ikeler@hcahealthcare.com, Sandy.Haire@hcahealthcare.com, Ellen.Pitcher@Baylorhealth.com
CANDIDATES:
President:
Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC is the Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Executive at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He has lead facilities to Magnet Designation and Re-designation in 2003, 2008, and 2011, becoming the first facility in North Texas to receive such honors. He received the Regional Nurses Week Excellence award and the National Visionary Leader award in 2009.
He is a lecturer at the university, national, and community level, speaking on topics of customer service, transition to practice, evidence-based practice, moral courage in nurse leaders, advancing quality, dispute resolution, and advance neurological assessment. He is a published author on topics ranging from “just” culture environments for nursing practice, moral courage in nurse leaders to implementing evidence-based practice and is a research author.
Dr. Edmonson is adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Woman’s University. He serves on community colleges of nursing advisory boards, university advisory boards, and as an advisor to nursing publications. He completed his Doctor of Nursing Practice at Texas Christian University.
Dr. Edmonson serves as the Treasurer for Texas Organization of Nurse Executives and the President of the North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives. He is also the Vice-President of The DFW Great 100 Nurses Inc. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a certified Nurse Executive Advanced by American Nurses Credentialing Centered.
Secretary:
Ellen Pitcher, RN, MBA, MSN, NEA-BC, FACHE, has been Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Office at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano since 2004. In her role as CNO/COO, she plans, directs, coordinates and evaluates the efficient delivery of patient care for the medical center at the executive level. She represents nearly 500 multi-disciplinary team members. As the CNO/COO, she participates with the top leaders, medical staff and clinical areas in developing the long- and short-term goals.
She earned her bachelor of science in nursing from Texas Woman’s University and her master of science in nursing from University of Texas at Arlington. She graduated from Texas Christian University with a master of business administration. Pitcher is an adjunct clinical instructor for masters prepared students at University of Texas at Arlington and an assistant clinical professor for College of Nursing at Texas Women’s University. Pitcher is a reviewer for the Pathway to Excellence Program from ANCC since 2007.
She’s a member of the American Nurses Association, Texas Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Executives, Texas Organization of Nurse Executives, North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives and the American College of Health Care Executives. In 1993, Texas Nurses Association named Pitcher one of the Great 100 Nurses.
Ellen is a member of MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church and on the Plano Independent School District Business Advisory Council. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives.
Treasurer:
June Marshall, RN, DNP, NEA-BC received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas. Dr. Marshall is currently the Director of Advancing Professional Nursing Practice at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, Dallas, Texas. In that role, she is responsible for Clinical Education, the Magnet Recognition Program® designation, Faith Community Nursing, the American Heart Association Training Center, Family/Childbirth Education, and Research/Evidence-based Practice. Marshall has worked collaboratively to lead two healthcare organizations to Magnet redesignation (2008 and 2011).
Dr. Marshall holds certification as a Nurse Executive at the Advanced level from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She serves as adjunct faculty for the College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s University and for the graduate program in nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has practiced in a variety of roles including staff nurse, APRN (CNS), educator, researcher, consultant, entrepreneur, and nurse leader.
Dr. Marshall currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives. June served on the Board of Directors for District-4 Texas Nurses Association (TNA) until June 2010, as Co-Chair of Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) until 2010, and is a past member of the Nominating Committee. She currently serves as a member of TNA GAC and as North Region Member of the Nominating Committee.
June was named as one of the TNA and D/FW Hospital Council “Great 100 Nurses” in 2006 and as TNA District-4 Member of the Year in 2010. She has published and presented a wide variety of clinical, research, and leadership topics at local, state, regional, and national conferences. Her recent research/EBP efforts are focused on methods of supporting nurses in facing workplace stress.
Advisory Board Member: Please vote for ONE ONLY:
Janice L. Walker, RN, BSN, MBA-HCM completed her MBA in Healthcare Management at the University of Phoenix and graduated summa cum laude. She obtained her BSN at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, AR and graduated magna cum laude. In June 2011, Recently Mrs. Walker completed the Johnson & Johnson Wharton Executive Fellowship through the Wharton Business School within the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Walker is the Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Operation Officer at Baylor Medical Center at Garland, Garland, Texas. As the CNO/COO, Walker has accountability for 75 % of the staff at Baylor Medical Center at Garland. She is responsible for Chest Pain Accreditation March 2011 with Society of Chest Pain Centers, Heart Failure Accreditation March 2011 with the Society of Chest Pain Centers, Executive Lead for Primary Stroke designation, and Executive Lead for Pathway to Excellence Journey.
Mrs. Walker currently chairs the Clinical Director’s Council and Nurse Managers Council at Baylor Medical Center at Garland also is an active member of the Medical Executive Council. At the system level she is a participating member of Chief Nursing Officer Council and the Best Care Committee.
Janice Walker held the position of vice president of clinical services, chief nursing officer at Texas Health Presbyterian - Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, Texas. Walker’s previous experiences include COO duties at Freeman Neosho Hospital in Missouri, and CNO duties at Slidell Memorial Hospital in Louisiana and National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Jane Alberico, MS, RN, CEN is currently the Director of Organizational Development at Medical City Dallas Hospital. In her role she is responsible for Clinical Education, Academic Affiliations, TNA Continuing Nursing Education, the American Heart Association Training Center, and is Chair of Curriculum Development for Results Based Leadership. Jane also serves on several Performance Improvement, Magnet, Regulatory, and Patient Safety committees.
Jane has served in a variety of clinical, educational, entrepreneur, and leadership roles in Not-for Profit, Academic and For- Profit healthcare settings. Her clinical background includes Home Health, Case Management, Medical-Surgical, Oncology, and Emergency Department patient care settings. She has been a Medical-Surgical and Emergency Department clinical educator, and instructor for a hospital based nursing school. She also presents as an educator and key-note speaker on a local, state and regional level. She has published for the American Journal of Nursing, the Journal for Healthcare Quality, and HCPro, Incorporated.
Jane was named as one of the TNA and DFW Hospital Council “Great 100 Nurses” in 2001, and in 2009 the Organizational Development Department at Medical City Dallas was recognized as the “Best Nursing Team” for Texas and Louisiana by Advance for Nurses. She is a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, N-TONE and TONE.
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Title: "Nursing Informatics in a Meaningful Use World"Date/Time: Thursday, September 8th, 4-CNE hours CNEs/CMEs: 4 hours
Workshop topics include:• Nursing informatics and “meaningful use” – What’s it all about?• Real world implementation of an EHR system• Nurses’ role in workflow analysis and improvement• Improving outcomes through HIT vendor relationships• Practice and academia: a unifying approach to prepare nurses for HIT• Patient safety and quality in the changing world of EHR – panel discussion, questions, answers and next steps
Registration Fees:1. Thursday 4-hour pre-Summit Workshops = $85 each2. Friday-Saturday Full Conference = $425 [$200 for students]
Web site for the Summit is:http://www.texashealthitsummit.org/
Please feel free to contact me about questions or to convey more recruitment suggestions. Anything you do is much appreciated!
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSSAssociate ProfessorTexas Woman's UniversityT. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center The Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing 5500 Southwestern Medical Avenue, Office 7112 Dallas, Texas 75235-7299214-689-6792 (office)214-636-4751 (mobile)214-689-6539 (fax)http://www.twu.edu/nursing/[attachment "Dallas HIT Summit Fall 2011.pdf"
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Statement of Issue:
As the largest segment of health care workers, the nursing profession can play a crucial role in making possible the objectives set forth by the 2010 Affordable Care Act. ). Nurses are uniquely positioned to lead the charge to ensure that accessible, high-quality patient-focused care is available to the nation’s diverse patient population (ANA, 2011). Barriers need to be overcome to ensure that nurses are well positioned to lead change and advance health (IOM, 2011).
The Tri-Council for Nursing, comprised of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), American Nurses Association ANA), American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), and National League for Nursing (NLN), strongly endorse the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on The Future of Nursing and call for collaboration to advance the report’s recommendations (Tri-Council, 2010). The IOM (2011) report contains four key messages;
1. Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training.
2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education through improved educational systems that promote seamless academic progress.
3. Nurses should be full partners with physicians and other healthcare professionals in redesigning healthcare in the United States.
4. Effective workforce planning and policy making requires better data collection and infrastructure.
Position Statement:
It is the belief of the North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives (NTONE) that nurse leaders’ have a responsibility to incorporate the key messages and recommendations from the IOM report into daily practice environments, strategic planning processes, and to actively seek involvement at the local, state, and federal levels. Furthermore, the nurse leaders of NTONE believe that we can impact all levels of nursing to effectively and appropriately serve as partners in the health care team.
References
American Nurses Association. (2011). ANA, CMA, and OA activities reflected in the IOM recommendations. Silver Spring, Maryland: Author.
Institute of Medicine. (2011) The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Tri-Council for Nursing. (2010). Tri-council for nursing calls for collaborative action in support of the IOM’s future of nursing report. Retrieved form: http://www.prweb.com
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NTONE and NCONE co-hosted the annual TONE conference at Presbyterian on March 5th. The all day conference had over 180 nurse executives and leaders in attendance from around the state of Texas. Attendees heard from six great speakers on subjects ranging from inspired leadership, HIT implications for nursing, new care delivery models, and nurse residencies outcomes. Pictured here the TONE Board of Directors and Officers.NTONE is excited to announce the new officers and board members for 2010/11.
Dr. Cole Edmonson, President
Jane McCurley, President-elect
Dr. June Marshall, Secretary/Treasurer
Ellen Pitcher, Advisory Board
Sharon Ikeler, Advisory Board
Claudia Wilder, Advisory Board