Logistics
Date: Tuesday, April 22-Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Day 1: 12:30 PM Registration
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Academy & Reception
Day 2: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Academy
Venue: Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Location: Atlanta, GA
Application window: October 1-31, 2024
Registration Fee: $350 (for selected participants)
Seating Capacity: 50
Program Description
CAPCSD previously offered a Clinical Directors’ Bootcamp. The Clinical Educators’ Academy is a new iteration of the offering aiming to extend opportunities for clinical educators to grow their knowledge, skills, and network surrounding the topic of clinical education. Participants in the Clinical Educators’ Academy will spend a day and a half focusing on human-centered leadership as it relates to clinical education in CSD. Tuesday afternoon’s keynote will be led by Lucy Leclerc, Ph.D., RN, NPD-BC, and colleagues from uleadership LLC, a global resource in relational leadership and wellbeing. Wednesday’s sessions will build on the keynote by examining the skills needed to foster well-being, engaged team-building, and productive conflict resolution in clinical education environments. Innovative strategies for managing challenging roles and responsibilities in clinical education programs will be addressed, and participants will construct an ongoing peer network supporting best practices in clinical leadership. This Academy will include three live webinars in the following year to support continued growth and networking among participants.
Abstract
The Clinical Educators’ Academy will explore principles of human-centered leadership as it relates to clinical education in CSD. This event will provide an opportunity for new and experienced leaders in clinical education to examine the skills needed to foster well-being, engaged team-building, and productive conflict resolution in clinical education environments. Innovative strategies for managing challenging roles and responsibilities in clinical education programs will be addressed, and participants will construct an ongoing peer network supporting best practices in clinical leadership.
Learning Objectives
- Develop an individualized action plan to create clinical workplace environments focused on well-being, engaged team-building, and productive conflict resolution through human-centered leadership principles.
- Describe innovative strategies for addressing challenging responsibilities and roles when managing clinical education programs.
- Construct an ongoing peer network supporting best practices in clinical leadership
Time-Ordered Agenda
Day 1: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Registration
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare™: An Idea That's Time Has Come
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Dive Into The River…Upstream Change Management
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Break
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Networking Reception
Day 2: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM ET
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM - Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM - Crafting a Culture of Empowerment Through Mindful Leadership9:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Valarie Fleming 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM - Break11:15 AM - 12:00 PM - Connecting the Dots: Network and Reflect
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch & Networking
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Keeping it Real: Conversations about Clinical Education2:30 PM - 2:45 PM - Break2:45 PM - 4:00 PM - Let's Get this Show on the Road: Translating Workshop Insights to Team Success
Speakers
Kay Kennedy, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ
Chief Executive Officer - uLeadership™
Dr. Kay Kennedy is an author, nurse executive, nurse educator, and entrepreneur.
By combining a love for nurses, patients, and quality improvement, she has led large nursing teams to create healthy work environments, satisfied patients, and consistent, high-quality care.
Dr. Kennedy has held multiple leadership roles from the bedside to Chief Nursing Officer. She currently serves on the faculty at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, GA and is adjunct faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, MA.
Dr. Kennedy’s goal as a leader is to ignite innovative problem-solving; develop others to be their best; and lead by serving others.
Lucy Leclerc, Ph.D., RN, NPD-BC
Chief Innovation and Learning Officer - uLeadership™
Dr. Lucy Leclerc is a nurse executive, author, and Chief Innovation and Learning Officer for uLeadership.
Dr. Leclerc’s research focuses on healthcare leadership in practice and in academia with the aim to connect leadership behaviors with metrics and outcomes for staff, patients, and communities. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nursing Education. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, MA.
Over the years, Dr. Leclerc has led teams in venues from the bedside to the executive director role to tarmacs across the world in the United States Air Force Reserve as an officer and flight nurse.
Dr. Leclerc seeks to reveal what already exists within healthcare team members and teams…excellence and professionalism.
Susan Campis, MSN, RN, NE-BC, NBC-HWC
Chief Wellness Officer – uLeadership™
Susan Campis is a nurse executive, author, and Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Susan began her nursing career in the Intensive Care Unit where she was a staff nurse for 15 years before moving into a formal leadership role. Over the years, she served as a Nurse Manager, Director, and Executive Director.
Susan is a nurse leader whose passion for coaching and mentoring others helped produce successful and engaged nursing teams throughout her career. As a nurse leader, Susan understands the importance of a safe and healthy work environment and worked to create a culture of excellence, trust and caring where her team could perform at their best, ensuring quality care, and patient safety.
Susan cares deeply for the health and well-being of health care professionals and, as a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, her goal is to work with others to help them reach their full potential.
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Pre-Academy Participant Preparation
- Participants will be provided with will there be any pre-work?
Post-Academy Participant Expectations
- Following the in-person event, there will be any details available about webinars afterward? Could be just a quantity, or time period (i.e. quarterly)?
CEUs
ASHA CEU Provider Logo to be added once CEU count is determined.