General Sessions
Wednesday, April 171:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Join The Inspiration Nurse for this transformational program where she shares a roadmap for a bright and hopeful future for nursing. Donna will outline the amazing opportunities before us to create a new paradigm that will empower, enlighten, and elevate the profession to new heights. With her customary humor, animated style, and forward vision, Donna will uplift and energize to illuminate a new path for all to follow. Look out, world, here come the Nurses! Following Donna's session on Wednesday, April 17, attendees will have the opportunity to meet Donna for a book signing. Donna will have some books for sale at the Annual Conference for the attendees to purchase, however if you would like to pre-order a book please click here. Thursday, April 189:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 
DeAnna Hawkins DNP, RN, NEA- BC Workforce diversity is a contemporary and relevant issue the nursing profession is grappling with regardless of role or practice setting. By 2045, it is projected the minority population will be the majority. This presentation will discuss an organizational nursing journey to attain and retain underrepresented groups and positively impact culture. 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
LaDonna Kay Northington, DNS, RN-BC This interactive session will provide participants with an opportunity to gain insights from their peers on pressing issues and collaborate on effective strategies for addressing key challenges in pediatric healthcare across the United States. Friday, April 199:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Emotional safety is the intentional, interdisciplinary practice to promote resiliency, healing, and trust for pediatric patients and their families during medical experiences (www.emotionalsafety.org).This presentation will review the tenets of emotional safety and the creation and operationalization of an emotional harm scale incorporated into the hospital’s safety event reporting and classification process. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Part One: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: A Call for Action Within the Society of Pediatric Nurses Asma Taha PhD, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, PCNS-BC We invite you to join us as we lend our ears to an SPN committee leader and an SPN task force leader as they reflect on the achievements of their committees. Together, we can review past accomplishments and shift our gaze toward the future.
Part Two: Safe Staffing: New Minimum Staffing Recommendations Kathy Van Allen, MSN, RN, CPN Pediatric nurses are essential to the successful delivery of safe, high quality, culturally humble, patient and family centered care that supports emotional safety, health, and development. Learn about SPN’s revised Safe Staffing Position Statement and our new minimum staffing recommendations. 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Vincent Guilamo- Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN Dr. Ramos will provide an overview of U.S. health inequity and will integrate eight principles of the social determinants of health (SDOH) into one applied framework. The framework serves as a roadmap to mitigate harmful SDOH and bolster strength-based resilience factors that set communities up to thrive despite structural adversity. |
Donna Cardillo, MA, RN CSP, FAAN
Barbara Romito, MA, CCLS
