Total Credits: 1.0 Contact Hours
Join us for an enlightening Nurse Talks focused on fostering an inclusive culture within healthcare settings. This discussion will include innovative strategies used by a Texas hospital to support its diverse workforce, focusing on a robust onboarding program designed specifically for internationally educated nurses. Discover how the use of ambassadors in the onboarding process not only helps these nurses adjust to a new professional environment but also cultivates a climate of inclusivity and belonging.
I am an early career nurse researcher with a focus on work engagement, burnout, well-being, transition to practice and nursing professional development. I have worked in long term care, emergency department, and nursing professional development for critical care, progressive care, and emergency department settings. I have presented poster and podium presentations at local, national, and international conferences on topics as transition to practice, nursing professional development well-being, cultural competence, and evidence-based practices. I have published a literature review in examining personal resources that contribute to work engagement and implication to NPD and published the result of a research study examining work engagement, burnout, and wellbeing in the NPD practitioner. I am motivated to spark the spirit of inquiry in nurses to further contribute to nursing science, generating new knowledge, and implement evidence-based practices.
Kate Williams DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, Regional Director Nursing Professional Development and Practice at Baylor Scott and White Health – Central Texas Region, which includes Memorial Medical Center, McLane Children’s Hospital, the Continuing Care Hospital, Hospice, EMS, and over 100 ambulatory care clinics. Baylor Scott& White was named the #4 health system by Fortune/IBM Watson. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a 574-bed multi-specialty teaching hospital with a Level I Trauma designation. In 2021, the hospital was ranked as the #2 teaching hospital in the United States. The hospital has 31 accredited residency and fellowship programs.
Kate’s work over the last decade focuses on Policy/Procedures and Nursing Practice, Transition to Practice, Academic Partnership, Nursing Professional Development, Clinical Nurse Career Advancement, Leadership Development, Workforce Development and Building a Sustainable Healthy Work Environment. Kate has led several organizational strategies including transition of practices for newly acquired hospitals; staff training, cultural and leadership development for new hospital builds; international designation of system-wide Nurse Residency Program; Pathway to Excellence designations; development of Student Nurse Externship and RN Fellowship Programs; development & Implementation of Clinical Nurse Career Ladder Program; and workforce development programs for Patient Care Technicians and Certified Medical Assistants with Texas Workforce Commission grant funding of $408K in 2021-2023. She has presented at various national and international conferences; and represented her organization at Texas Nurse Day at the Capitol.
Her formative years in nursing includes working as a Staff Nurse with the Ministry of Health, Jamaica and Instructor at Northern Caribbean University.
Kate earned her Diploma in Nursing from Cornwall School of Nursing, Post-basic midwifery from the Kingston School of Nursing; MSN-Nursing Education with Distinction from The University of the West Indies, and DNP in Executive Leadership from the University of Texas, Austin. She is a member of Texas Nurse’s Association, and America Nurse’s Association
Kate is the proud mother of twin boys, Matthew, and Daniel. She spends her free time attending their sporting events or enjoying the outdoors.
Accreditation Statement:
Texas Nurses Association/Foundation Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual has an opportunity to affect or impact educational content with which he or she may have a commercial interest or a potentially biasing relationship of a financial nature. All activity planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers must disclose the presence or absence of a conflict of interest relative to this activity. All potential and actual conflicts are resolved prior to the planning, implementation, or evaluation of the continuing nursing education activity.
The activity’s Nurse Planner has determined that no one who has the ability to control the content of this CNE activity – planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers – has a conflict of interest.
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