The Building Bridges to Research Based Nursing Practice Conference will take place on Friday, May 12, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the AMU.
This conference provides a forum to share and discuss the impact of research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement initiative on clinical practice and patient outcomes and aims to explore cogent person and family-centered issues in the workplace and the community.
Distinguished nurse leader Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN will provide the opening keynote address and closing remarks at the conference. Disch has served as president of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and its certification board. She led the national board of directors for the AARP and headed up the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Additionally, she has chaired the American Nurses Association’s Committee on Nursing Practice Standards and Guidelines and the University Healthcare Consortium’s Council of Chief Nurse Executives. She is currently the Board Chair of Aurora Health Care, a board member of the UW–Madison School of Nursing and a Professor ad Honorem, at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
The event is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing and the Southeastern Wisconsin Nursing Research Consortium.
Registration can be found online.