3:00 - 4:00 pm
Registration and Greeting
Posters
Snack, refreshments
 

4:00 - 4:15 pm
Welcome to the Conference

4:15 - 5:45 pm
Sandy Summers

Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk

5:45 - 7:30 pm
Cocktails, meet fellow nurse advocates
Posters
Buffet dinner, New Orleans style

7:30 - 9:00 pm
Kathleen Bartholomew

Improving Relations with Our Colleagues--Starting with Ourselves

       Saturday, April 16, 2011

7:30 - 8:30 am
Breakfast
Posters

Creating Civility
Presentation and Discussion

9:45 - 10:00 am
Break

10:00 - 11:00 am
Sandy Summers and Harry Jacobs Summers

How we can remake nursing's media image
Presentation and Discussion

11:00 am -12:00 pm
Stacy Mason, The 2012 Project

A Year of Opportunity for Nurses:
Putting Nurses into Politics

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Crescent City Luncheon

1:00 - 2:00 pm
Pecha-kucha:  Nine Concise Tales of Nursing Empowerment
(what is Pecha-kucha? (pah-chák-cha))

1. Richard Kimball:  Increasing Nurses' Advocacy Skills;
    
   
2. Greg Riehl: Recruitment Ads and Nursing Retention;
    
3. Pat Woods: Changing the Perception of Nursing in Bangladesh (download slides);
    
4. Dee Riley: Campaign Against the Naughty Nurse at the Jet Nightclub, Las Vegas;
    
5. Edna Hull: Medication Errors: Discipline Without Punishment;
     
6. Gina Ann Woody: Scouting Out Nursing: Teaching Boy and Girls Scouts about Nursing;
    
   
7. Fhaied Alotaibi: Improving Understanding of Nursing in Saudi Arabia;
    
8. Jacinta Kelly, Gerard Fealy, and Roger Watson: Research on the Images of Nursing on YouTube, from Dublin, Ireland
   
   
9. Gina Pistulka: Nurse-Driven Community Health Centers.

2:00 - 2:15 pm
Break

2:15 - 3:45 pm
Donna Cardillo

Nurse Power!™ Harnessing the Power, the Passion and the Pride of Nursing

3:45 - 4:00 pm
Break, snack, refreshments
Posters

4:00 - 5:00 pm
Sandy Summers and Harry Jacobs Summers

Grabbing the Media's Attention
Presentation and Q&A

7:00 - 10:00 pm

Riverboat Jazz Dinner Cruise
Meet the leaders of The Truth About Nursing and the speakers at this year's event. Event tickets $60, payable with registration. Must be reserved in advance. Family and friends welcome with purchase of additional tickets.

      Sunday, April 17, 2011
 

7:30 - 8:30 am
Breakfast
Posters

8:30 - 9:30 am
Ellen Ceppetelli

A Nursing Shadowing Elective for Medical Students: Setting the Stage for Inter-Professional Collaboration

9:30 - 10:15 am
Penny Jensen, President, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Tricia Pearce, and Sophia Thomas

NPs and the Media: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy

10:15 - 10:30 am
Break
 

10:30 - 11:30 am
Donna Cardillo

Positioning Ourselves for Success -- How Nurses Can Increase Their Impact and Expand Their Sphere of Influence

11:30 - 11:45 am

Farewell
Final thoughts and conference wrap up
 

(Lunch on your own)