Sponsorship Invitation
ENDING HORIZONTAL VIOLENCE:
Creating a Culture of Cohesion Among Nurses
April 29-May 1, 2009
Audience
The target audience is nurses in management and administration, clinical care, research, and schools of nursing. Our marketing campaign reaches across the United States with emphasis on the northeastern states.
Conference Description
An acute shortage of nurses in our health care systems is due in part to nurses leaving their jobs because of hostile workplace environments. Horizontal violence, a term used to describe hostile and aggressive behaviors by individuals or group members toward one another, has been reported for as many as 60% of nurses. The Joint Commission, the accrediting body for hospitals nationwide, has mandated that “leaders must address disruptive behavior of individuals working at all levels of the organization, including management, clinical and administrative staff, licensed independent practitioners, and governing body members.” The expectation of the Commission is that leaders will develop and implement successful strategies to manage “disruptive behavior” in their organizations by 2009.
This conference will address the problem of horizontal violence among nurses and the Joint Commission mandate by bringing international speakers together with nurses and nurse managers from across the country to develop plans for reducing horizontal violence in health care organizations. These plans will be directed toward positive individual and group relationships that in turn will affect morale, retention of employees, and improved patient outcomes including reduced mortality rates. To be effective, interventions to reduce horizontal violence and create a culture of cohesion must be available to individual nurses, as well as at the unit and at the organizational levels.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Westin Hotel in Providence, RI. Exhibits with pipe and drape will be 8 x 10 feet. Skirted tables for table top displays will be 6 feet long with two chairs. Arrangements for delivery can be made with Westin staff members who are well experienced in large exhibitor conferences. Food for all the breaks will be served in the exhibit hall to encourage participants to interact with exhibitors.
Conference Agenda and Speakers
Wednesday, April 29
8 AM – 4 PM Registration
12 PM – 1:00 Buffet lunch
12:30 – 1:00 Welcome, introductions
1:00 – 2:15 - Horizontal violence in nursing: Understanding the problem -Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:30 Horizontal violence: Examining Theories and Underlying Causes - Gerald Farrell, PhD, RN
3: 30 – 4:30 Evolution and Implementation of the Joint Commission’s Standards from the Leadership Chapter –Patricia Adamski, RN, MS, MBA
4:30- 5:00 Questions and answers –Patricia Adamski, RN, MS, MBA
5 – 6 Informal reception and restaurant sign up
Thursday, April 30
7:30 – 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 –8:45 Overview of 3 tracks
8:45 – 9:45 Addressing Horizontal Violence across Levels: Organizational, Unit, and Individual Nurse – Martha Griffin, PhD, RN
9:45 – 10:45 Reducing Horizontal Violence: Strategies for Individual Nurses - Martha Griffin, PhD, RN
10:45– 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Reducing Horizontal Violence: Unit Level Interventions - Laurie Lauzon Clabo, PhD, RN
12:00– 1:15 Luncheon buffet
1:15 – 2:45 Concurrent session I - peer reviewed papers/ posters
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00- 4:30 Concurrent session II - peer reviewed papers/ posters
Friday, May 1
7:30 – 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 Reducing Horizontal Violence: Organizational/ system Level Interventions – Gerald Farrell, PhD, RN
9:30 – 10:30 Nursing Systems Research and Evidence: How do we know if interventions against horizontal violence worked? Rosanna F. DeMarco, PhD, APRN,BC, ACRN, FAAN
10:30 - 11:30 Concurrent Sessions: Showcase of interventions
Creating Cohesion Collaborative – RI Initiatives
11:30 – 12:00 Summary/ Wrap- up
About Us
The Creating Cohesion Collaborative was created in 2006 in response to the growing need for strategies to decrease horizontal violence among nurses. The collaborative consists of representatives from the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing and from five Rhode Island Hospitals—Butler Hospital, Eleanor Slater Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, and The Westerly Hospital.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsors may fund all of the cost of a meal, break or speaker, or may choose partial funding. Meal and speaker costs are as follows, based on an estimated 300 attendees:
Breakfast - $6400
Lunch (2) - $10,800 each
Break (4) - $3600 each
Reception - $7500
Speakers - $10,000; $6000; $2000; $1500; $1000 (2)
Funding levels and corresponding benefits -
Diamond - $10,000 +
Emerald - $8,000
Sapphire - $6,000
Ruby - $4,000
Opal - $2,000