1. Empowering Texas nurses to advance the profession
Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE CEO

2. Policy Council Updates APRN Issues Expert Advisors Workplace Advocacy
Nursing Education
Nursing Regulation
Maternal
M&M
MH/SU
End of Life

3. Key Policy Issues Funding: APRN practice environment
Workplace advocacy
Violence
Staffing
Nursing Peer Review
Funding:
Violence prevention grant program
Nursing faculty loan repayment program
Nursing shortage reduction program

4. Partnerships with academia
DNP Projects with Purpose Program
DNP Policy Fellows Program
2016: 6 DNP students
2018: 35 DNP students
2018/9: 11 DNP students

5. November 14|6 p.m. CT

6. City Council
School Boards
County Commission
State Legislature

7. Visit texasnurses.org/nursesinoffice
Find Resources Online
Visit texasnurses.org/nursesinoffice
Information on running for local positions
Nurses currently running for office
Downloadable one-pagers
Introduction to Running for Office
Get Started
Get Support
Get Elected
Vision 2040
Who Should Run for Office?
An article from Dr. Lolly Lockhart

8. 20th Anniversary Guest presenters include:
Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN UT Austin Alum, former Deputy Secretary of US HHS ( )
John Hellerstedt, MD Commissioner TDSHS

9. Care for the Caregiver: J&J grant
Nurse Advocacy Scholarships: 2 - $1000 scholarships for nurses pursuing BSN, MSN, DNP, or PhD
Care for the Caregiver: J&J grant
Nursing Policy Research Grant: Jessica Smith, PhD, RN
secondary data analysis to determine how nurse education, skill mix, staffing ratios, and work environments influence patient mortality for heart disease and stroke in rural hospitals in four states.
Post-doc student under Drs. Eileen Lake and Linda Aiken

10. Available!

11. Available! Jurisprudence and Ethics Geriatrics Forensics
Nursing Peer Review
Incident-Based Peer Review 
Safe Harbor Peer Review
What the Nurse Needs to Know About NPR
What the CNO Needs to Know About NPR
Electronic Health Records
Nurse Experiences 
Role of Nurses
Managing EHR Interoperability 
Universal Suicide Screening

12. Resources!
Faculty, student, and new graduate resources (ANA)
TNA Faculty and Student Engagement Toolkit

14. Texas Team: Strategic Plan  2020
Education
Clinician --> faculty
Clinical Residencies
APRN
RN: across continuum of care
Staff nurse leaders
Leadership development at the bedside
Nurses on Boards
Sustainability
Placement/Measurement

15. Nurses on Boards
November 6, Tyler

16. Questions/Comments?