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Versant’s First Executive in Residence!

Versant assists clients in fundamentally improving the quality of patient care through developing and sustaining professional nursing organizations ... One Nurse at a Time®.”

As an Executive in Residence, Dr. Elaine Scott will utilize the most extensive new graduate RN database in the nation to assist Versant in strengthening our research strategy, provide clients with more sophisticated outcomes supporting their strategic organization development and most importantly, contribute to the science and profession of nursing.

Jean Shinners, PhD, RN-BC, Director for Research and CE at Versant has been appointed to the National Teaching Institute (NTI) Planning Committee for 2014.  Jean will be at NTI 2013 in Boston next week to present Versant's 10-year article poster:  Improving Retention, Confidence, and Competence with an Evidence-Based Nurse Residency Program.  Please stop by and visit our poster!

Gayle Dasher, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNRN from Children’s Hospital of San Antonio CHRISTUS Health along with Versant's Jean Shinners, PhD, RN-BC and Cindy Clark, RN, have had their abstract accepted for a poster presentation at the 2013 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, held in San Antonio, TX, July 11th - 13th.  The Summer Institute is sponsored by the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE) UT Health Science Center, San Antonio.  The title of the presentation is Championing Quality Improvement with New Graduate RN Engagement.

Baptist Health South Florida and Versant will be presenting a poster session, Elevating Safe Practice while Developing Nurse Leaders through a Nurse Residency Program at the 2013 Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on May 30 – May 31, 2013.  

Jean Shinners, PhD, RN-BC, Director for Research and Edahrline Salas, MA, BSN, RN-BC, Curriculum Administrator, Versant RN Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles have been accepted for a podium presentation at the 2013 Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Conference, May 30th – 31st in Atlanta, Georgia.

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