Texas Nurses Association 2024 Conference: Gaining Traction - Nurses Driving Change

Rebecca Love, MSN, BS, RN, FIEL Related Seminars and Products

IntelyCare

Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL  is an experienced nurse executive and first nurse featured on Ted.com, and recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's most influential people in healthcare in 2022.  By day, Rebecca serves as Chief Clinical Officer at IntelyCare, a leading app-enabled workforce management platform helping solve the nursing crisis.

IntelyCare’s solution gives nurses the ability to find the right shifts at the right facilities, while giving facilities access to trained, top-quality nurses. Rebecca, was the first Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the United States at Northeastern School of Nursing – the founding initiative in the Country designed to empower nurses as innovators and entrepreneurs, where she founded the Nurse Hackathon, the movement has led to transformational change in the Nursing Profession. In early 2019, Rebecca, along with a group of leading nurses in the world, founded and is President of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders, a non-profit that quickly attained recognition by the United Nations as an Affiliate Member to the UN. Rebecca is an experienced Nurse Entrepreneur, founding HireNurses.com in 2013 which was acquired in 2018 by Ryalto, LTD UK, where she served as the Managing Director of US Markets, until it’s acquisition in 2019. 

Currently, Rebecca serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of IntelyCare, Inc.  Rebecca is passionate about empowering nurses and creating communities to help nurses innovate, create and collaborate to start businesses and inventions to transform healthcare. In 2023, she is now Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Commission for Nursing Reimbursement working to respond to the nationwide concerns of nursing staffing shortages. Rebecca holds an M.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University, B.A. in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University, and, sits on the board of NextGen Ventures, Health Science Entrepreneurs at Northeastern University & the Host Committee for the Massachusetts ACLU. She currently lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her husband and 3 children.

Kim Carpenter Related Seminars and Products

Founder

People at the Center

Kim Carpenter is a global speaker, trainer and the founder of People at the Center, an Executive Coaching and Talent Development Firm leading the movement to bring more humanity into the workplace. Kim specializes in working with leaders and their teams to hone communication skills, make difficult but empowered changes, and develop thriving company cultures that honor the human and boost the bottom line. In the past 20 years, Kim and her team have trained over 3000 professionals, and coached top executive leaders from companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, AT&T, PBS and more. Clients report that they become better leaders, communicators and change agents, with an emphasis on transforming the workplace into an empowering space for all.

Kim is the Founder and CEO of People at the Center©, a talent development firm dedicated to amplifying human-centric business practices while increasing revenue. She is also the creator of World Changing Women©, providing transformational development programs for professional women to enhance their personal power, increase their pay and visibility, elevate their careers, and leave their world-changing legacy. She is a PCC - Professional Certified Coach through ICF, Certified Talent Development Expert, Certified Predictive Index Partner, and member of ATD and SHRM.

When she’s not working, you might find Kim hiking, stand-up paddleboarding, watercolor painting or wine tasting in the Texas Hill Country. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her family and Cosmos the Wondercat.

Dr. Kellie Bryant, DNP, WHNP, CHSE Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs and Simulation

Columbia University School of Nursing

 Dr. Kellie Bryant is currently the Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs and Simulation and Associate Professor position at Columbia School of Nursing. Dr. Bryant has garnered expertise in her field with a teaching career spanning over two decades and 15 years of specialized simulation experience. Within her current role, Dr. Bryant oversees the day-to-day operations and execution of simulation-based education for both prelicensure and advanced practice nursing students at Columbia’s accredited Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center. Her responsibilities include implementing initiatives within the institution and the broader community aimed at fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In addition, she also serves as a consultant for Dr. Uché Blackstock’s Advancing Health Equity and is an Associate Director for AARP’s Center for Health Equity.

Dr. Bryant's research pursuits include leveraging simulation to enhance patient safety, prevent opioid overdoses, and create nursing pathway programs to inspire historically marginalized students to pursue a nursing career. Her scholarly accomplishments include publication of over 30 articles and book chapters. She also is pivotal as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in five ongoing research projects, including a prestigious NIH R01 grant. Her dedication to sharing knowledge is evident in her extensive dissemination efforts, which include over 100 presentations.

In leadership and service, Dr. Bryant actively engages with numerous national and international committees. Her contributions at Columbia University include co-chairing the campus-wide antiracism task force for community service. She holds the vice chair position for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s DEI committee. Furthermore, she is an elected board member of the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation Learning and is a member of the editorial board of the Clinical Simulation in Nursing journal. Lastly, she is the second vice president of the Greater NYC Black Nurses Association.

Dr. Bryant's educational journey commenced with an Associate degree in nursing from Hudson Valley Community College. She received her Bachelor’s in Nursing and a Master’s Degree as a Women’s Health Nursing Practitioner from Stony Brook University. Lastly, she obtained her Doctorate in Nursing Education from Case Western Reserve University.

Sarah DiGregorio, MA Related Seminars and Products

Sarah DiGregorio is the critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change Our World. She is a journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Insider, among others. She has been a keynote speaker for many universities, corporations, and professional organizations. lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter and husband. For more information please visit her website. 

RaDonda Vaught, BSN Related Seminars and Products

Former Nurse

Hidden Holler Farms

RaDonda Vaught was the subject of one of the highest-profile healthcare criminal cases in recent years. She holds a BSN and a Certificate in Leadership from Western Kentucky University. While working as a BSN prepared registered nurse, Mrs. Vaught committed a medication error that ended the life of a patient in 2017. She was charged under administrative law by the Tennessee Department of Health, leading to the revocation of her nursing license by the Tennessee Board of Nursing in a July 2021 hearing. Additionally, she was charged under criminal law and found guilty by jury trial of two felony charges in March of 2022: Negligent Homicide, and Abuse of an Impaired Adult, with placement on an Elder Abuse registry in the state of Tennessee. Mrs. Vaught is uniquely qualified to speak firsthand on the impact this sentinel event has had on her life and her profession, along with the implications of the legal actions that followed. A passionate advocate for safety and improvement, her story will be one that is not easily forgotten.