2025 Annual Conference

 

Education Expo Sessions

These 20-minute educational sessions are brought to you by health care industry leaders and are held in the Education Expo Pavilion. Education Expo Sessions take place in the conference exhibit hall on April 12-13.

Thursday, March 19

aonl cta sponsor wolters
The Impact of Caring: Empowering Nurses to Impact Outcomes
10:15 - 10:35 a.m.
Presented by Wolters Kluwer

This session examines how variability in clinical care is a quality and cost issue. It results from variations in workflow, inadequate knowledge, or social and behavioral determinants of health factors. Through the art and science of caring, nurses can drive innovative change that optimizes patient care and improves outcomes.


aonl 2020 sponsor tidi
Preventing Caregivers from Inadvertent Eye Splashes with Eye Wear Protection Available at Every Point of Care
10:45 - 11:05 a.m.
Presented by TIDI Products

Inadvertent eye splashes occur when least expected. Nurses—specifically those working on patient floors—have the highest rate of unexpected eye splashes because of infrequent eye protection use, often due to vague eye-protection protocols or inconvenient eyewear availability. Join this session and learn ways to reduce unintentional eye splashes.


aonl 2020 sponsors cipher health
Patients are Not a Box to Check: Round with Purpose to Deliver Meaningful Patient Engagement Outcomes
11:15 - 11:35 a.m.
Presented by CipherHealth

Is your team already rounding on patients but falling short of outcomes and experience goals? If so, you’re not alone. This session will discuss the principles of purposeful rounding, bust common rounding myths, and share best practices on how to make rounds purposeful to deliver meaningful patient engagement outcomes.


aonl cta education expo patientsafe solutions
The Necessity of Nursing Leadership in Clinical Communication Deployments – Taking An Outcomes First, Use Case-Based Approach
12:30 - 12:50 p.m.
Presented by PatientSafe Solutions

Leading health systems understand the importance of nursing’s perspective when implementing Clinical Communication and Collaboration (CC&C) solutions. Hear about an outcomes-first, clinical use case-based methodology to guide enterprise-wide CC&C deployment. Learn how one health system identified key opportunities for improvement, optimized clinical use cases, and trained the care team.


aonl 2020 sponsor conexus
Hospital Full Spectrum Approach to Maximizing Staffing
1:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Presented by Conexus Medstaff

One of the top challenges for health care managers today is maximizing costs while ensuring top-quality patient care and earning adequate HCAHSP scores. This session explores this challenge and discusses staffing models, along with recruitment and retention strategies, to aid the health care manager.

Friday, March 20

aonl 2020 sponsor mobile heart
Best Practices for Enterprise Deployment of Mobile Technology
10:05 - 10:25 a.m.
Presented by Mobile Heartbeat

HCA Healthcare has deployed 75,000 smartphones across 140 facilities to provide a better experience for patients and improve job satisfaction for nurses and clinicians. Whether you are just starting with mobile or have already deployed, come hear some tips and best practices on how to maximize this investment.


aonl-2020-sponsors-healthcaresource
Hire for Retention: Competencies to succeed in Healthcare
10:30 - 10:50 a.m.
Presented by HealthcareSource

Ensuring new hires have the competencies and cultural fit to succeed in a health care setting can drive retention. Second to that is understanding the areas where their skills can be developed. Assessing critical clinical competencies can be done during any stage of an employee’s tenure in your organization—hire, job transfer or promotion.


aonl 2020 sponsor kronos
Engage and Empower your Workforce through Technology
11:00 - 11:20 a.m.
Presented by Kronos

Technology is everywhere in today’s workplace. But, in this age of digital transformation, how you use that technology to empower and engage your workforce is imperative to your organizational success. This session demonstrates how using technology can foster an engaged workforce, improve retention, and promote a results-driven culture.


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What Positive Leadership and Country Music have in Common
12:00 - 12:20 p.m.
Presented by Walden

Country music tugs at your heartstrings. And positive leadership is a way to lead with your heart. Positive leadership fosters an affirmative organizational climate, meaningful relationships, constructive communication, and competitive advantage. Learn how positive leadership skills connect on a visceral level—like the emotions evoked by country music.


aonl 2020 sponsor meditech
Solving the "Patients Over Paperwork" Challenge
12:30 - 12:50 p.m.
Presented by Meditech

Nurses can benefit from current electronic health record tools to meet the new ‘Patients Over Paperwork’ initiative’s requirements for streamlined documentation. In this presentation, learn how implementing the efficiency of handheld devices, virtual assistants, and patient portals can help nurses achieve safer, more meaningful interactions with patients.