*Registration payment includes Credit Cards and Interfund Transfers ONLY.
This conference will provide topics that support the role of public health nursing administrators to improve the quality, quantity, comprehensiveness, and continuity of public health nursing care provided by the local health departments in concert with current health care trends and public health nursing practice.
Topics and Speakers
October 26, 2023 - Day 1, 8 AM - 5 PM
Opening Address
Stacie Turpin Saunders, MPH
NC DPH Deputy Director / Section Chief, Local & Community Support
The State of Public Health Nursing Address: An Annual Update from North Carolina's Chief Public Health Nurse
Susan Haynes Little, DNP, RN, CPHN, PHNA-BC, CPH, FAAN
Chief Public Health Nurse, Division of Public Health, NC DHHS
Fill Your Own Cups
Sherry Wright, BSN, RN
NC Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program, NC DHHS
Learning How to Say No!
Amichia Gainey-Jones
Director of Public Health Workforce Initiative, Dept of Public Health Cumberland County
Medicaid Transformation Updates
Patrick Brown, PharmD
Result-Based Accountability (RBA)
Kathryn Dail, RN, PhD
State Center for Health Statistics, NC Division of Public Health
Marcella Beam, BA
Director of Strategy, Healthy Cabarrus Executive Director,
Cabarrus Health Alliance
Kimberly Schnitzer, MSN, RN
Education Specialist, South Piedmont AHEC
Gabriela Staley, MEd
Education Specialist, South Piedmont AHEC
NC AHEC Clinical Instructor Project (CIP)
Jill Forcina, PhD, RN
Director of Education & Nursing, NC AHEC
Katie Fitzpatrick, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
Clinical Instructor Partnership Project Manager, NC AHEC
October 27, 2023 - Day 2, 8 AM - 12:30 PM
Leadership Styles for the Public Health of Today
Amy Belflower Thomas, MHA, MSPH, CPH, DrPH(c)
Assistant Director for Research and Evaluation, Public Health Accreditation Board
Mentoring and Coaching Styles
Susan Bolick, BA
Performing Well
Building Inclusive Spaces: Cultural Humility, Belonging, and Bias
Bryle Henderson Hatch, PhD
Director, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Learner Outcome
Participants will self-report in knowledge gained from the conference on public health topics, to help support their role of public health nursing administrators to improve the quality of public health nursing care provided by the local health departments.
CE Information
8.75 Nursing Contact Hours can be earned by participants attending 90% of the conference for each day.
October 26 (Day 1) - 5.75 Nursing Contact Hours
October 27 (Day 2) - 3.0 Nursing Contact Hours
South Piedmont Area Health Education Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Registration Fees
Early Bird Registration Fee $225.00 before 9/18/23
Registration fee $250 after 9/18/23
Hotel Information
Great Wolf Lodge - Charlotte/Concord, NC
Please call Great Wolf Customer Contact at 1-866-751-9653 or visting www.greatwolf.com
Group Block Code: 2310WAKE (must use group code when making a hotel reservation)
Cut off Date for Group Block Reservations: 9/25/2023
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