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MNA
CONVENTION
2014 Schedule
WE CAN DO IT!
MNA Nurses Moving Toward Change
Nursing comes first! As the health care environment
changes rapidly around us –- bottom line budget priorities
replacing appropriate patient care, deskilling and removing
nurses’ ability to critically use their experience and
education, electronic records and the use of ancillary staff
to perform nursing work – nurses must be the foundation
for safe patient care. But how do we adjust to the changing
work environment and still make sure our profession is
respected and our patients are the priority? During the MNA
Convention, we’ll look at the clinical research for appropriate
staffing, discover how our union provides tools to build
strength and unity, and study how women in the past have
made a significant difference by banding together.
Change is here to stay but patients will always need quality
care from nurses. Come join us and lean how to advocate for
your profession and your patients! WE CAN DO IT!
Contact Hours:
Michigan Nurses
Association is accredited
as a provider of
continuing nursing
education by the
American Nurses
Credentialing Center’s
Commission on
Accreditation.
6.5 contact hours will
be provided to RNs who
are in attendance for the
entire day on Thursday,
October 9 and complete
the evaluation.
Agenda
Thursday, October 9
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration and Delegate Credentialing
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Plenary
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
Congresses meet
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Breakout 1
2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Breakout 2
3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Breakout 3
7:00 p.m.
A Taste of Michigan: MNA PAC Event
(members only)
MNA
CONVENTION
2014 Schedule
Plenary Speaker
Nursing Leadership: If Not Us, Then Who?
Presenter: Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, has been a national speaker for the nursing profession
for the past eleven years. She has held positions in marketing, business, communications
and teaching. She has written two books, “Speak Your Truth: Proven Strategies for
Effective Nurse-Physician Communication” and “Ending Nurse to Nurse Hostility.”
Kathleen’s passion for creating healthy work environments is infectious. She is an
expert on hospital culture and speaks internationally to hospital boards, the military,
leadership and staff about safety, communication, cultural change and power. With her
husband, John J. Nance, she co-authored, “Charting the Course: Launching PatientCentric Healthcare.”
“Knowledge utilization” identifies what kind of information people need to be most
effective. According to this research, “generals” need concepts and “captains” need
strategies and tactics. Using Professor Diamond’s “Collapse” framework, attendees
will be exposed to a look at the nursing profession within the American health care
system and receive a call to arms to rally health care professionals to leadership.
Breakout
Sessions
Objectives:
1. Discuss strengths and limitations
of the grievance-arbitration
process.
2. Describe how grievances can
build broad, active member
support through collective action.
Objectives:
1. List three reasons why groups fail at
decision making.
2. Discuss the impact of perception on
patient safety and quality care.
3. Identify two major concepts that
would provide perspective and
power to nursing leaders.
4. Understand how to maximize power
and resources within a human
institution.
Direct-Action Grievances:
It’s a Union, Not An Insurance Company!
Presenter: Fred Kotler, J.D.
Fred Kotler, J.D. is the MNA Labor Representative for the Upper Peninsula. He has
served as a facilitator and instructor in the areas of leadership and organizational
development; presentation skills; strategic planning; and labor law and labor relations
at Cornell University, the National Labor College, and Northern Michigan University.
Many members see the union as a “third-party,” as a kind of insurance company
and not much else. They pay their dues like they pay an insurance premium and file
a grievance like they’d file an insurance claim. These attitudes clearly undermine
union strength and solidarity. This session focuses on building a strong sense
of member commitment, participation and ownership. Attendees will learn how
grievance procedures can be used to engage members in collective action that
leverages the group’s ability to win concrete gains, resolve problems on the job and
give members a sense of their own power.
more BREAKOUT SESSIONS on the following page
Breakout
Sessions
Objectives:
1. Identify various ways to communicate
complex changes in the health care
industry and patient care delivery models
to your fellow nurses.
2. Discuss the ways RNs can collectively advocate in the exclusive interest of their patients.
Nurse Empowerment: Moving Your
Co-Workers from Complaining to Action
Presenters: Kelly Anthony, Kris Michaels
Kelly Anthony and Kris Michaels are MNA Labor Organizers. Between the two, they
have over a decade of experience in helping nurses reach out to co-workers to address
problems and create effective change.
When nurses are engaged, health care is transformed and both nurses and
patients benefit. A unified nursing voice can increase bargaining power at the
table and improve nursing practice in the workplace. Participants will learn skills
to help mobilize their fellow nurses to act collectively in defense of their practice
and be introduced to opportunities for nurses to have a greater voice in their work
environment and in healthcare policy.
MOVIE With Babies & Banners:
The Role of Women in the 1936-1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike
Moderator: Michelle Kaminski, PhD
Michelle Kaminski, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Resources and
Labor Relations at Michigan State University. She works primarily in the area of labor
education, teaching workshops for union members and leaders on a wide range of topics
including labor law, stewards training, collective bargaining, union leadership, workplace
bullying, communication skills, FMLA, and basic economics.
This 1978 Academy Award-nominated documentary tells the little-known story of the
Women’s Emergency Brigade and the strategic role they played in helping the UAW
members obtain improved wages and working conditions. Made up of both workers
and supporters, the Brigade not only stood firm during the strike but stayed active for
decades later in helping build the union. After viewing the film, attendees will engage in a
discussion on how nurses can advocate in solidarity to build a stronger union for nurses.
Objectives:
1. Analyze the important of American
women being active in the public
sphere, particularly in union and
labor actions.
2. Discuss what opportunities nurses
have today to make a positive
impact through day-to-day advocacy.
Substance USE
AND NURSES:
Risks, Responsibilities, Rights, and Recovery
Presenter: Stephen Strobbe, PhD, RN
Objectives:
1. Name and describe three or more
conceptual models of addiction.
2. Identify legal and ethical
implications of substance use
among nurses.
3. Discuss advocacy, treatment,
and recovery from substance use
disorders among nurses.
Dr. Stephen Strobbe is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of
Nursing, and the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Strobbe served as the first Clinical Director
for the University of Michigan Addiction Treatment Services (UMATS). He is boardcertified both in psychiatric and addictions nursing. In clinical practice, he specialized in
the treatment of nurses and other healthcare professionals with concurrent substance use
and mental health disorders. Dr. Strobbe has authored more than two dozen peer-reviewed
articles, position papers, and book chapters on the topic of substance use and related
disorders. He is currently serving a second consecutive term on the Board of Directors for the
International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA).
For years, nurses with substance use disorder have been treated as criminals rather than
as health care professionals with a treatable disease. Attendees will learn new methods of
addressing SUD as a disease including the role of the nurse in identifying warning signs
among colleagues and ways for nurses to advocate both for themselves and co-workers.
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For YoUr PATieNTS • For Your CommUNiTY
For YoUrSelF
WE
CAN
DO
IT!
MNA Nurses Moving Towards Change
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MNA-PAC Breakfast
10:00 am-3:00 pm
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
There is no on-site registration. Register early, space is limited!
House of Delegates Your name will appear on your badge exactly as you indicate on this form.
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CE Sessions
REGISTRATION FORM
Please choose three sessions:
o Direct-Action Grievances: It’s a Union, Not An Insurance Company!
o Nurse Empowerment: Moving your co-workers from complaining to action
o MOVIE: With Babies & Banners:
The Role of Women in the 1936-1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike
o Substance Use and Nurses: Risks, Responsibilities, Rights, and Recovery
$ _______________
On or before September 22
o MNA member - FREE o Non-member - $75*
$ _______________
*Your $75 fee also buys a year of free MNA associate membership!
After September 22
o MNA member – $25 o Non-member - $100
o A Taste of Michigan: MNA PAC Event (members only)
o Contribution to MNA-PAC (optional)
o Contribution to Michigan Nurses Foundation (optional)
$ _______________
50.00
$ _______________
$ _______________
$ _______________
TOTAL $ _______________
Payment Method (check): o Check payable to Michigan Nurses Association
o Visa o Mastercard o Amex o Discover
Card No. ______________________________________ Exp. Date __________
Signature __________________________________________________________
REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 22 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOWER RATES!
Registrations can also be submitted online at minurses.org.
REGISTRATION DOES NOT INCLUDE LODGING. (see sidebar for lodging information)
Mail form and fee by September 22 to:
Michigan Nurses Association, 2310 Jolly Oak Road, Okemos, MI 48864
REGISTRATION
Register by September 22 for Convention
to receive the lower rate!
The cost of the one-day Convention is
FREE for MNA members, $75 for nonmembers. The $75 fee includes a one-year
Associate Membership to MNA. There
will be a $25 late fee for anyone registering
beginning September 23. There is no on-site
registration, and mailed registrations must be
postmarked by September 22.
If you have registered and are unable to
attend, you may choose another health care
professional to attend in your place.
If no health care professional is available to
attend, a refund will be sent if the registration
is cancelled before October 9. No refunds will
be distributed after October 9.
ATTENTION MNA DELEGATES!
YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THE
CONVENTION AND THE HOUSE OF
DELEGATES SEPARATELY!
If you are planning on attending both the
continuing education classes on Thursday,
October 9 and the House of Delegates on
Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October
11, you will need to fill out two (2) separate
registration forms. The registration form for
the October 9 continuing education classes
is to the left or on-line. You will receive the
registration form for the House of Delegates
in your delegate packet, which will be mailed
to you in mid-August.
ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE AT
minurses.org
LODGING
The MNA Convention will be held at the
Kellogg Center, 219 S. Harrison Rd., East
Lansing, MI 48823. Rooms at the Kellogg
Center are $99 per night plus $5 hotel fee
and taxes. For the group room discount, go
to kelloggcenter.com, then “click here for
special rates,” and type in “MNA100814.” You
can also reserve by phone at 800.875.5090.
The cut-off for registration at the Kellogg
Center is Sunday, September 7.
The MNA House of Delegates will be
held Friday and Saturday, October 10 and
11, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing,
MI. Delegates to the House will receive an
information packet in the mail with complete
details.