Visions 2024
Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64108
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 8:00am CT - 4:00pm CT
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Multiple
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This event offers
5.25 CE credits
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation..
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The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the AACN is proud to present Visions 2024, the annual educational symposium, back in person! Join us as we LEAP into Learning on February 29th at Children's Mercy Hospital Big Slick Auditorium. Welcome President of AACN, Terry Davis, as keynote speaker, together with past-president Lisa Riggs and other dynamic speakers.
Speakers
President of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Davis is assistant vice president of nursing at the High Reliability Center, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia. Most recently, she was clinical operations director of enVision teleICU at Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, from 2004 to 2021, implementing and leading the teleICU. She was also adjunct faculty for George Mason University and Shenandoah University with a focus on nursing informatics, advanced pathophysiology and research from 2016-2020. In partnership with the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance in 2009-2010, she implemented the Teledisaster Program in nine hospitals across Northern Virginia, which is now present in 16 hospitals. An AACN ambassador since 2017, she was also a Beacon Award reviewer (2017-2018), TeleICU Task Force member (2017-2018; 2010-2013), a member of the NTI Program Planning Committee (2015-2016), and a member of the AACN Nominating Committee (2014-2015). Her clinical specialties are trauma/neuro critical care and teleICU, and she has led research in the areas of healing touch, caring science and technology acceptance. She is also exploring research in integrative care for symptom management. Davis is a co-author of "AACN TeleICU Nursing Practice: An Expert Consensus Statement Supporting High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care" (2018), and "Tele-ICU Today: Connecting Care Through Innovation," in Nursing2015 Critical Care, among many other publications and numerous presentations. Additional affiliations include membership in the Virginia Nurses Association, Sigma's Epsilon Zeta Chapter and Society of Critical Care Medicine. She is past chair of the American Telemedicine Association's Tele-ICU Special Interest Group and served on the American Nurses Association's Professional Issues Panel: Connected Health/Telehealth. Among her many awards, she received the 2017 IAMS Quality Merit Citation and Alumni of the Year in 2015 from George Mason University College of Health and Human Services, Virginia. In 2018, she was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Davis earned a PhD in nursing philosophy and a Master of Science in nursing administration in 2002 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1998, all from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. She is also a certified healing touch practitioner (CHTP), 2016-2026.