Chief Nursing Officer Summit 2023
The Bellevue Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
September 10, 2023 - September 12, 2023
Welcome to Opal Group’s premier event for senior nursing leaders!
Healthcare Professionals: Encouraging a Shift in the Narrative
The Chief Nursing Officer Summit is an invite-only executive Summit for CNOs from hospitals and health systems to discuss vital clinical challenges, pertinent trends, and practical ideas while exploring innovative solutions. Join us for 3 days of insightful panels, presentations, collaboration, and unparalleled networking.
We often talk about healthcare being broken, but healthcare gets many things right. Evolution is required and needed, and healthcare professionals are working hard every day in that direction. We see effective strategies for boosting nursing staff engagement and improving retention, navigating the multigenerational nurse workforce, focusing on nurse wellbeing by combating high rates of burnout, and improving patient care, safety, and experience.
Join nursing leaders from some of the most well-respected healthcare organizations across the U.S. as they discuss the most pressing issues within nursing today. We will explore top tactics for motivating teams, action items to boost staffing plans and maintain firm personnel, dynamic and daring visions to strengthen the clinical workforce, and much more through keynote presentations, panel discussions, and small group roundtables. Attendees will return to their organizations with necessary action items to collaborate internally and improve their processes. You won’t want to miss this. Request your invitation today by contacting summits@opalgroup.net.
The Summit Experience
Current as of September 9, 2023
| 1:00 pm |
Registration & Itinerary Pick-up & Refreshments |
| 2:15 pm |
Opal’s Welcome Remarks
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 2:30 pm |
Emerging Nursing Professionals: Training, Preparation, and Issues Related to Generation of Nurses Coming Forward
Presented by
Anne Derouin, DNP, ARPN, CPNP, PMHS, FAANP, Clinical Professor, Director, Pediatric Behavioral Mental Health Specialty Program, Duke University School of Nursing |
| 3:00 pm |
Recognizing the Need to Educate More Nurses
Presented by
Bryan Sisk, Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, Memorial Hermann Health System |
| 3:35 pm |
Roundtables and Refreshments – NON CE |
| 4:55 pm |
Panel: Nurses’ Mental and Physical Health
Presented by
Anne Derouin, DNP, ARPN, CPNP, PMHS, FAANP, Clinical Professor, Director, Pediatric Behavioral Mental Health Specialty Program, Duke University School of Nursing Maria Huling, RN, CWON, Director of Nursing, Unified Pledge Health Elizabeth Rodriguez, DNP, RN, Chief Operations Officer, Optimus Health Care |
| 5:40 pm |
Day 1 Recap
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 5:45 pm |
Networking Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by BlueSky |
| 7:15 am |
Breakfast & Itinerary Pick-up
Sponsored by AMN |
| 7:55 am |
Day 2 Welcome
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 8:00 am |
Panel: Healthy Work Environments as a Right, not a Privilege
Presented by
Stephanie Gedeon, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, Assistant Chief Nursing Officer, Augusta Health Neena Philip, DHA, RN, FACHE, CENP, CCRN-K, Chief Nursing Officer, New York Health + Hospitals Cherie Smith, PhD, MBA, RN, Chief Nursing Officer & Vice President, Patient Care Services, OhioHealth |
| 8:50 am |
Roundtables & Refreshments -NON CE
Sponsored by GE Healthcare |
| 10:10 am |
The Complexities of Crafting an Effective Contract Labor Strategy
Presented by
Melissa Hosey, MSN, RN, NP-C, System Director of Clinical Workforce, Adventist Health System |
| 10:40 am |
Reducing the Economic Burden and Patient Harm of HAPIs
Presented by
William Padula, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics in School of Pharmacy, Fellow, Schaeffer Center, University of Southern California |
| 11:15 am |
Roundtables & Refreshments – NON CE |
| 11:55 am |
Morel Remarks & Brainstorm Session – NON CE |
| 12:30 pm |
Luncheon
Sponsored by Arjo |
| 1:30 pm |
Trauma Response Strategies: Reducing the Nursing Shortage
Presented by
Michele Szkolnicki, RN, FACHE, CMPE, Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer, Penn State Health |
| 2:00 pm |
Pandemic Visitation Restrictions: As Viewed Through a Patient/Family Lens
Presented by
John Sims MSN, RN, CNL, CMSRN, Strategic Healthcare Leader, Texas Health Resources |
| 2:45 pm |
Roundtables & Refreshments – NON CE |
| 4:05 pm |
At the Corner of Compassion and Outcomes
How a culture of compassion leads to exceeding outcomes
Presented by
Wendy Clayton, MSN, RN, CCM, CPHQ, Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer, Penn State Health St. Joseph |
| 4:35 pm |
Panel: Legal Strategies for CNOs
Presented by
Mary O'Connor, PhD, MSN, RN, Professor Emeritus, Global Online Coordinator MSN Nursing Administration program (retired), PennWest University, California Campus |
| 5:20 pm |
Day 2 Recap
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 5:25 pm |
Roundtables – NON CE
Networking Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by Medical Informatics |
| 7:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 8:15 am |
Day 3 Welcome
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 8:20 am |
Bringing Nurses Back: Encouraging and Supporting Nurses’ Return to Practice; Nurse Emeritus Program
Presented by
Helene Burns, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Senior Vice President & Regional Chief Nursing Officer, Jefferson Health |
| 8:50 am |
Staff Development – How Leadership Impacts Effectiveness & Quality of Service
Presented by
Jill S. Anderson, MBA, MBB, PMP, Vice President – Patient Experience, RWJBarnabas Health System Samantha Bobinski, Patient Experience Intern, RWJBarnabas Health System |
| 9:25 am |
Roundtables & Refreshments – NON CE |
| 10:05 am |
Succession Planning: Nurse Emeritus Programs
Presented by
AnnMarie Papa, Chief Nurse Executive, Emeritus, Jefferson Health |
| 10:40 am |
The Cost of Nurse Turnover: 3 Million Reasons for Change
Presented by
Heidi J. Zedlar MSN, MBA, RN, NE-BC, Chief Nursing Officer, Dedicated Nursing Associates |
| 11:10 am |
Panel: Leading Through Adversity – Building Endurance and Resiliency in Healthcare
Panelists
Matthew Fiddler, DHA CPXP, Director of Patient Relations, Augusta Health Michele Szkolnicki, RN, FACHE, CMPE, Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer, Penn State Health Jose Torrez, Director of Food and Administration, University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center David Weisman, Ph.D., CPXP, FPCC, Chief Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals / Queens
Moderator
Soojin Jun, BCGP, CPPS, CPHQ, Co-Founder, Patients for Patient Safety US CE |
| 11:55 am |
Closing Remarks
Presented by
Michelle Cardinal, Deputy Managing Director, Opal Group |
| 12:00 pm |
Close of Program |
The Chief Nursing Officer Summit is an invitation-only event for senior nursing leaders from hospitals, healthcare systems, physician groups, nursing home facilities, assisted living facilities, and senior living facilities. Registrations are complimentary for qualified nursing leaders and include 2 nights of accommodations, meals, networking functions, roundtables, and access to all conference sessions. Solution providers can attend through sponsorship with a limit of two companies per category.
- Nurses Mental and Physical Health
- Telehealth: Virtual Nursing Care
- Travel Nurses and Contingent Staff
- Advance Practice Registered Nurses
- Strategies to Reduce the Nursing Shortage
- Recognizing the Need to Educate More Nurses
- Increased Burnout & Executive Stress
- Meaningful Recognition: Nurses at Decision-Making Tables, Authentic Leaders
- Healthy Work Environments as a Right, not a Privilege
- Nurses Well-Being
- Data & Privacy Management
- Expense Control Strategies for Health Systems
- The Multigenerational Nursing Workforce
Determining the Optimal Nurse – Doctor Relationship to Make Your Staff Effective
Challenges of Chief Nursing Executives in Small & Rural Hospitals
Population Health
Bringing Family Engagement into the Patient Experience Formula
Optimizing Nurse Resiliency
Tackling Population Health & What it Means for Today’s CNO
Dynamics of a Multi-Generational Nursing Staff
Understanding the Numbers: Making a Budget Work
- Chief Patient Engagement Officer
- Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
- Chief Nursing Information Officer
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Nurse Executive
- Chief Operating Officer
- Senior Nurse Leader
- Patient Experience Officer
- EVPs, SVPs, VPs & Directors of:
Patient Care
Patient Services
Clinical Operations
Nursing
Staffing
Nurse Services
Human Resources
Nursing Administration
Operations
Patient Engagement
Patient Experience
Telehealth
