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Continued from page 1 four years and then a mother-baby unit
delivery of care methodologies. This will for 5+ years before applying to our RN
help us reap the greatest benefits for Fellowship for Oncology nursing.
patients while helping satisfy frontline Chastity was hired and serves as an
nurses and leaders, now and in the Oncology nurse at the Memorial Cancer
future. Institute Outpatient Infusion Center at
Memorial Regional Hospital. She delivers
Growing Our Own compassionate and highly skilled care to
I believe the catalyst for positive our patients who require chemotherapy
impact must start by focusing on and other infusions. Like Chastity, all the
employee development. Growth and nurses in the fellowship program have
advancement are key to attracting, unique career paths, abilities, and per-
a review of the
Join the Nursing Consortium of Florida for a retaining, nurturing, and positioning spectives to share.
ext for nursing;
strategies being adopted to build what’s ne RNs to succeed in difficult to recruit
nursing positions. Last year, Memorial Residency Options
s. Learn about
more resilient and higher performing teams
Healthcare System created an RN In addition to the fellowship program,
new onboarding experiences, reconfigured
d nurse teams,
Fellowship Program – a formalized pro- Memorial also offers an RN Residency
evolving leadership roles, and more. In a fessional development opportunity and program for graduated registered nurses
addition to the
keynote presentations the agenda will include three retention incentive for RNs desiring a who want to continue developing their
moderated panel presentations by leaders implementing transition into specialty practice. nursing skills and later specialize in a
initiatives to move their organizations towards what’s Our initial offering in the nursing fel- clinical area through the fellowship. Both
lowship included three high demand nurse residency and fellowship programs
next for nursing. The panel topics will be:
specialties: critical care, emergency serv- focus on leadership, patient outcomes,

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Road Map for an Engaged Nursing Workforce. response from many nurses confirmed nurses to have fulfilling careers. Our
we were on the right path. We discovered nurses utilize their skills at six hospitals,

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Bringing the future into focus now. Today, the fellowship has grown to care that has been a critical part of our
include 13 specialty practice areas, success.
All registered attendees can look forward to a first-class including NICU, PICU, adult and pedi- Our profession faces many challenges,
conference experience. Contact hours will be awarded. atric cardiovascular procedural areas, and many more will come. We must con-
interventional radiology, surgical servic- tinue to innovate, focus on meeting the
Don’t miss this exceptional learning and networking es, and family birthplace specialties. Our needs of caregivers, and proactively
opportunity! For more information and to register nurse residents are introduced to the inspire the current and future generation
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ing their professional development semi- transform nursing and continue to
nar and are eligible to apply once they appropriately care for our communities
have graduated and completed their first in the years to come.
year of practice.
Nurses come into the RN Fellowship Maggie Hansen is senior vice president
Af ternoon Keynote Speaker
Morning Keynote Speaker
program with a wide range of experi- and chief nursing executive at the
ences that contribute to their success and Hollywood-based Memorial Healthcare
that of the program. A prime example of System (www.mhs.net), one of the largest
this is Chastity Bartram, one of our very public healthcare systems in the U.S. and a
first RN Fellowship cohort nurses, whom national leader in quality care and patient,
I had the privilege to connect with physician, and employee satisfaction.
recently. Chastity has been a nurse for 10 She currently chairs the State of
years. She worked on a stepdown unit for Florida’s Nursing Board.
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