IONL Aspiring Nurse Leaders Workshop

• 9:15 - 9:20 AM, Nov 11, 2016

  Welcome and Opening Remarks

• 3:15 PM - 3:30 AM, Nov 11, 2016

  Closing Remarks

• 9:20 - 9:30 AM, Nov 11, 2016

  Welcome

Beverly Hancock DNP, RN-BC

Director of Educational Programs

American Organization of Nurse Executives

Beverly Hancock, DNP, RN-BC, is the Director of Educational Programs for AONE, leading a team of staff and expert faculty in developing educational resources and programs for nurse leaders at all levels. She also oversees the team responsible for planning and executing the AONE Annual Meeting. She has presented widely on the topics of environments of excellence, shared governance, and leadership development. Prior to AONE she worked at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL where she held a variety of clinical and administrative roles, including Magnet Program Director for Rush’s three Magnet designations. She has also worked as an educator and consultant for the ANCC Magnet Recognition® Program. She is an instructor at Rush University College of Nursing and has her certification in Professional Development through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

• 9:30 - 10:00 AM, Nov 11, 2016

  Leadership as a Specialty

Cathy Grossi RN, BSN, JD

Vice President, Quality/Health Policy and Regulation

Illinois Health & Hospital Association

Cathy N. Grossi is the Vice President of the Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality at the Illinois Hospital Association. For over seventeen years, she’s had extensive responsibilities for developing and facilitating policy initiatives to advance the Illinois Hospital Association’s leadership in quality and patient safety across the state. She has staffed numerous task forces on clinical issues, organized and presented educational programming, provided testimony at legislative hearings, submitted regulatory comment and represented IHA at various public/private advisory meetings.

Cathy played a key role in drafting language for Illinois’ landmark Hospital Report Card Act, and in recent years, state laws on nurse practice, mandated overtime, adverse event reporting, and controlled substances. In 2010 she joined IHA’s newly launched Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, coordinating numerous improvement programs and events intended to enhance hospitals’ ability for delivering quality health services and strengthen relationships with state, federal and other key stakeholders to impact positive outcomes for patients within cost-effective systems of care.

Ms. Grossi currently holds Illinois licenses to practice both law and nursing.

• 10:30 - 11:15 AM, Nov 11, 2016

  An Overview of State and Federal Laws that affect Your Everyday Nursing Practice

Lynn Polhemus MSN, RN, TNS

Director of Patient Care Services

Little Company of Mary Hospital

Lynn holds an RN, MSN degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago, and is presently employed at LCMH as a Director of Patient Care Services. The areas of concentration include the Emergency Department, ICU, PCU, Telemetry and Med/Surg units, and Nursing Informatics. She leads a team of staff RN’s to review and update nursing intervention screens for value added nursing documentation within the EMR system. Prior to her current role she has had a wide range of leadership responsibilities including overseeing other ancillary departments within the hospital setting.
Her career started off as an ICU RN and was promoted to the Assistant Manager after a few years. Other previous experiences have included roles as the Staff RN, EMS Coordinator and Nursing Manager at a Level I Trauma Facility. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Council Health Care she was the system representative regarding clinical care for the Health Information Exchange (HIE) program development. Lynn has extensive experience with the development and validation of nursing documentation as impacted by the Meaningful Use requirements and organizational attestation. Nursing education is supported by maintaining her Course Director status for ENA’s Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course.
During her 34 year career in the health care field, she has always kept the patient her primary focus to ensure safe quality care is being delivered. She has recently returned back to school in a secondary Master’s program with Nursing Informatics as her focus.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  Panel of Experts - Stories from the Front Line

Nancy holds an RN, MSN degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago, and is presently employed at LCMH as a CNML for an Intensive Care Unit and a Progressive Care Unit. Prior to this she has had a wide range of leadership responsibilities in the areas of Outpatient Oncology, Cardiac Telemetry, Cath Lab, Medical Surgical, and Interventional Radiology to include Diagnostic Imaging, Mammography, Electrophysiology and Neuro Interventional Labs.
She has also had the opportunity to work as an Associate Director for the Joint Commission, helping organizations across the country comply with the Joint Commission Standards for Hospitals.

During her 26 year career in the health care field, she has been fortunate to have had leadership experience in progressive and diverse patient care, quality, and operations. As a leader, she is continually committed to moving forward with ideas and initiatives that will promote safe patient care, staff development and healthcare innovations.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  Panel of Experts - Stories from the Front Line

Marisol Arellano MSN-MBA, CCRN

Patient Care Manager-Medical ICU 10N/S

University of Chicago Medicine

Marisol Arellano currently manages a 24-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit at a 568-bed academic medical center. Marisol received her BSN and MSN with a focus of Executive Leadership from Chamberlain College of Nursing, and her MBA through Keller Graduate School of Business Management, all with honors. Marisol developed a strong sense of nurse leadership during over six years as a charge nurse and was promoted to Assistant Patient Care Manager for two years. She was also recently promoted to Patient Care Manager of MICU. She is accountable for 80 nurses, and works with large multidisciplinary team.

Leadership background includes administrative strategic planning, program and project management, interdisciplinary collaboration, fix and flexible budgeting, shared governance, professional development, quality and risk management, benchmark data management and analysis, research and evidence based modeling, acuity and work load measurements, performance improvement, theory-based and evidence-based best practices. As a nurse leader, she strives to be the best version of herself by reading a lot of leadership books; favorites include John Maxwell and Stephen Covey. Her nursing career has been dedicated to creating high quality, reliable systems of care and developing the next generation of nurses and health care professionals to lead in these ever-changing times. She is an Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders Fellow where she has gained so much knowledge.

She is currently a member of AACN, AONE, IONL, ANA and Sigma Theta Tau International.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  Panel of Experts - Stories from the Front Line

Frank Bradtke DNP-L, RN, NEA-BC

Director of Operations, ICU/TCU, ED, Telemetry & Stroke Program

Advocate Trinity Hospital

Frank is currently the Director of Operations for the Emergency Department, Critical Care, Step Down, Telemetry units, and the Stroke Program at Advocate Trinity Hospital. He has 32 years of nursing experience, with 25 of those years in various leadership positions.

Frank’s passion is nursing leadership, and he works every day to support and promote nursing in all arenas. He can often be heard saying. “My job is to make your job easier”, a mantra he lives by. He believes in leading by example, and to that end completed his Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a focus on leadership this year. He also holds a board certification as a Nurse Executive- Advanced.

Frank holds a seat on the board of directors for the Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders, and was recently elected as the President Elect.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  Panel of Experts - Stories from the Front Line

Jennifer Grenier MSN, RN-BC

Director of Nursing Rehab

Rush University Medical Center

Jen Grenier has been a Rush nurse for over 16 years. She has experience in medical-surgical, surgical ICU, liver transplant, telemetry, and recently has become the director of the acute inpatient rehab hospital at Rush. She is a 40 under 40 Nurse Leader Winner and has been the chair of the Nursing Care Consortium Committee for IONL. Recently she was elected secretary of the Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders. Jen is currently working on her DNP at Rush University with her focus being on bullying and incivility.

• 1:00 - 3:15 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  The Synergy Campaign

Sally Walton MSN, MBA, RN, OCN, NEA-BC

Director of Nursing Technology & Innovation and Program Director for Patient Care Services and Strategic Projects

University of Chicago Medicine

Sally Walton is a highly motivated nurse leader with over 23 years of experience as an RN. She is currently the Director of Nursing Technology & Innovation and the Program Director for Strategic Projects in the department of Patient Care Services at the University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Sally received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1993 from Saint Xavier University and in 2006 received her Master of Science in Nursing & Master of Business Administration also from Saint Xavier University. She holds a Nurse Executive Advanced certification and is also an Oncology Certified Nurse. She is a member of the America Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, Delta Mu Delta Honor Society in Business Administration, the Oncology Nursing Society and the Chicago Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society.

Sally began her career as a staff nurse in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at Loyola Medical Center and quickly moved into a leadership role as the Assistant Nurse Manager. She then transitioned to the University of Chicago Medicine to become a Patient Care Manager and was soon promoted to Nursing Director. Sally has held various positions at the Director level including Director of Adult Oncology, Director of the Comer Children's Hospital, Program Director for Clinical Operations Planning and Director of Patient Access & Short Stay/Hospitalist Unit.

In her current role, she works collaboratively with IT/IS leadership to provide vision, direction and support of technology that enhances the delivery of quality patient care and enriches nursing practice. Sally is also is the nursing clinical lead for design, operations planning and activation of new, clinical construction projects that support patient care. Recently completed projects include successful operations planning and activation of five new inpatient floors in the Center for Care and Discovery. Her current project includes planning for the new Adult Emergency Department (to open in 2018) and future project will be planning for the new Cancer Hospital slated to open in 2021.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Nov 11, 2016

  Panel of Experts - Stories from the Front Line