Dear Truth Member:

We've been planning our first ever annual conference--Empowering Nurses and Improving Care Through Better Understanding of Nursing--to be held April 15-17, 2011, at the Marriott Renaissance Arts Hotel in New Orleans. Here's what we've lined up:

Join us Friday night for cocktails and mingle with others who are determined to improve nursing's image in their hometowns. The Truth's founder Sandy Summers will lead us off with a film-clip packed presentation of media images of nurses and how we can improve them. Then after dinner we'll hear Kathleen Bartholomew talk with us about working relationships and how we can improve them.

Saturday is a day for empowerment as we learn how to change relationships, the media, and the world, followed by an evening Riverboat Jazz Dinner Cruise on the Missisippi River where you can meet the speakers and leaders of the Truth.

Sunday morning we'll cap it off with learning how to educate decision makers and physicians at our institutions. Then Donna Cardillo will send us off with clear steps to achieving our empowerment.

Registration for the conference will be $450 ($525 for late registration).

The work that we will do together is critical in helping the nursing profession get the respect, resources, and recognition it deserves! But because we are a very small non-profit, we need to know how many of our members may be attending before we commit to the space.

Please take a moment and let us know if you think you might be able to attend. That would be a great help as we come into the final stages of our event planning!

Can you attend? Please click on our survey to let us know a yes, no or maybe

My original text:

Please plan on joining us for The Truth About Nursing's first annual conference! We'll be holding it in enticing New Orleans as part of our effort to help support the city as it gets back on its feet.

Come spend a empowering weekend that will help you return back home inspired to make the needed changes that will strengthen nursing at your workplace and improve patient care.

Meet the speakers

Donna Cardillo will help you present yourself as a first class professional.

Kathleen Bartholmew and Barbara Chamberlain will help you interact more effectively with troublesome colleagues and create more civil working environments.

Truth leaders Sandy and Harry Summers will help you improve public understanding of nursing by understanding the power of the media, the stereotypes it so often uses to present nursing and what we can do to improve nursing's image.

Ellen Ceppetelli will present her ground-breaking work in creating a nurse shadowing program so physicians can follow nurses, learn the value of our work--important building blocks on our path to create more collegial relations and better media about nursing.

Tony Allen and Harry Summers will help us learn how to grab the media's attention and get nursing into the media spotlight.

Leaders from Project 2012 will help guide us into empowering nurses into the ultimate policy making job--politics. With more nurses in office, nursing can't help but to get more of the funding it needs to save lives and improve health care.

And eight people will present enlivening stories on nursing empowerment in the fun format of Pecha Kucha-- 20 powerpoint or keynote slides for 20 seconds each. Please submit an abstract to present at our conference today!

Activities

Join us Friday night for cocktails and mingle with others who are determined to improve nursing's image in their hometowns. Then after dinner we'll hear Kathleen Bartholomew talk with us about working relationships and how we can improve them.

Saturday is a day for empowerment, learning how to change relationships, the media, and the world. Followed by a fun evening on a Riverboat Jazz Dinner Cruise on the Missisippi River where you can meet the speakers and leaders of the Truth.

Sunday morning we'll cap it off with learning how to educate decision makers and physicians at our institutions. Then Donna Cardillo will lead us out with clear steps to achieving our empowerment.

The conference will go from Friday April 15 at 3 pm, until April 17, 2011 at 11:45 am (Palm Sunday).
  
We will serve:

Friday night: Afternoon snack; Cocktails / Dinner

Saturday: Breakfast and Afternoon snack (Jazz Riverboat Dinner Cruise optional)

Sunday: Breakfast
 

Dietary Concerns

Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or allergies at conference@truthaboutnursing.org. All event foods will be nut-free. There will be at least one heart-healthy / vegan option and also one gluten-free option at each meal.

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