The California Association of Colleges of Nursing Spring Conference occurred the week of March 7-8, 2019, at the Embassy Suites in Sacramento. The Spring Conference is designed to assist both emerging academic leaders and seasoned deans to find the power of their collective voices in planning and creating a new future for nursing education and…Read More
From Discovery to Translation
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Doctoral Education Conference Jan. 17-19, 2019 in San Diego, California In addition to a plethora of poster and podium presentations on the latest doctoral nursing research, the conference offered current data on the trajectory of Doctoral Education in Nursing regarding the goals, challenges, and opportunities in preparing doctoral graduates…Read More
Meeting Population Healthcare Needs
Transforming Nursing Education in California Dr.’s Wickman and Callis traveled to San Diego to attend the COADN/CACN (California Organization of Associate Degree Nursing/California Association of Colleges of Nursing) Joint Fall 2018 Conference, October 24 to 26th. This conference allowed us the opportunity to network with nursing deans and directors across the state as well as…Read More
Invest in Yourself, Sharpen Your Saw
Vanguard Faculty Development Funding generously supported my attendance at two professional conferences this academic year. One meeting was the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Fall Annual Meeting (October 26 – 31, 2017) that was held in Washington, DC. This conference brings chief nursing academic officers together with noted thought leaders to discuss key…Read More
Who knew health care could be so complicated?
The topic of the opening conference plenary that Dr. Callis and I attended at the Master’s Education Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was “Driving Quality Improvement in Today’s Health System.” The speaker, Margarita Baggett, is the Chief Clinical Officer at UC, San Diego. She reinforced that the complexity of today’s health care practice environments require nurse…Read More
Learning for Nursing and Non-Nursing Faculty from the California Colleges of Nursing Conference
I received professional development funding to attend an annual nursing conference, the California Colleges of Nursing Conference, in fall 2016 that was jointly sponsored by the California Association of Colleges of Nursing (CACN) and the California Organization of Associate Degree Nursing Program Directors (CO-A.D.N.) The Vanguard Nursing Program is a member of CACN and values…Read More