Join us on October 2 for WABON's 2024 Conference
Voice and Vision: The Possibilities
- A conference encouraging nurses to think differently about their impact in nursing.
- Learn how to promote motivation and nursing empowerment by fostering a foundation of purpose and fulfillment.
- We'll explore attributes and possibilities within, and beyond, the bedside.
- Earn 5.25 hours of Continuing Education Credits!
Featuring keynote speaker Donna Cardillo.
Donna is a nurse and author known for elevating nurses to work at their highest potential. She uplifts, energizes and motivates teams to be ready to handle whatever comes their way.
- Donna Cardillo, MA, RN, CSP, FAAN, The Inspiration Nurse
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She is a powerhouse of energy, wisdom, and humor who has been referred to as a positive force of nature who lights a path for others to follow. She is the original “Dear Donna” columnist at Nurse.com. Her accomplished career combines over 35 years of clinical, managerial, and business experience, not to mention her stint as a professional singer. Donna is author of four books including the award-winning Falling Together: How to Find Balance, Joy, and Meaningful Change When Your Life Seems to be Falling Apart. She is a certified meditation teacher and chair yoga instructor, labyrinth facilitator, Reiki Master, and Certified Forest Therapy Guide. Donna is a life-long Jersey Girl with attitude and chutzpah to spare!
Other speakers
- Melissa Fraser BA, CDP; Case Manager
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Melissa Fraser has worked as a Case Manager for the Washington Health Professional Services (WHPS) program since 2015 providing primary case management and regulatory monitoring of nurses with a Substance Use Disorder. Melissa is a Substance Use Disorder Professional and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Evergreen State College and Associates in Applied Science degree from Tacoma Community College. Prior to coming to WHPS Melissa worked in various Substance Use disorder programs and Medically Assisted treatment programs. She worked in the forefront of Medication Assisted Treatment approaches in Washington state and has a vast knowledge of integrated approaches to the treatment of Substance Use Disorder. She also worked as a Peer Support Group Facilitator for WHPS before joining its staff so is able to provide a multifaceted perspective of Substance Use Disorder among health professionals.
- The Possibilities Panel
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- Penny Parrao-Tovar, Nursing & Social Media
- Quiana Daniels, Nursing Entrepreneur
- Lisa Summers, Co-Founder and President, Healing Politics: Healing Politics - Healing Politics is an educational, non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)3 organization. We are on a mission to inspire, motivate, recruit, & train nurses & midwives to run for elected office up & down the ballot while building a culture of civic engagement within the professions.
- Jeremy Aaron, Nurse Delegation and Education in Assisted Living. Founder ANDS Nurse Consulting dba ANDS
- Sarah Jane Devoe
- Robert Browning, PhD (h.c)
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Robert Browning, PhD (h.c.) is HeartMath's Co-Director of Healthcare, Director for Health Partnerships and Senior Master Trainer. For over 28 years with HeartMath, he’s trained more than 30,000 individuals in heart-based living and helps lead programs at: Kaiser Permanente, Stanford, Ascension, Dignity and the VA. He helps oversees HeartMath’s healthcare alliances focused on self-care, human caring and wholeness healing.
Robert received an Honorary Doctorate in Human Caring and Caring Science from Dr. Jean Watson, Founder and Director, Watson Caring Science Institute and Dean Emerita-University of Colorado, Denver, College of Nursing. He serves as Vice President of the Fyera Foundation and Co-Vice President of Pathways to Peace, a non-profit serving as official Peace Messenger to the United Nations with Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In these roles he co-presented HeartMath at the High Level Political Forum as a peace initiative, and co-curating the series "You Are the UN" accessible to UN Staff, hosted by the General Secretary of FICSA.
He holds a faculty position with the Watson Caring Science Institute and adjunct faculty with the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, College of Nursing. Robert graduated from U.C.L.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and is an Eagle Scout. His passion and 27+ year focused inquiry on the power of the heart, care and healing has informed the depth of his work, practice and message.
- Sheva Carr, MA, L.Ac., RPP, BCPP, RPE
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Sheva Carr is Co-Director at HeartMath Healthcare, architect and director of HeartMath's HeartMastery Program, CEO of Heart Ambassadors, Executive Director of The Fyera Foundation, and Co-Vice President and UN delegate for UN Peace Messenger organization Pathways To Peace. She is a doctor of Oriental Medicine, Master HeartMath trainer, coach and author, including co-authoring HeartMath's Stopping Emotional Eating Program. She’s trained and mentored nurses, medical staff and executives at medical centers including Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cedars Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, and more. She also founded the first HeartMath hospital patient education program with Cleveland Clinic's Heart-Brain Institute at North Hawaii Community Hospital. She as a coach and advisor to the World Health Organization, members of the US Military and Homeland Security, the United Nations, cardiologists, heart-brain researchers, and physicists, and is published in journals such as Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and The UN Special. She speaks to people all over the world on how to access heart intelligence and inner peace, in order to receive the benefits of the heart’s impact on their relationships, health, performance, creativity, contribution, legacy, social change, and the building of a global culture of health and peace.
- Jackie Levin, MS, RN, HWNC-BC
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Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse Jackie Levin is the author of Room to Breathe: Rewiring for Ease, the 7-week online mindfulness course for nurses, and several chapters in the award-winning Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice textbook. She also co-curates brave conversations with nurses on racial justice, supremacy culture, and liberatory practices. In all aspects of her 30 years in nursing and as a health and career coach, she champions and amplifies the voices of nurses to find their professional passions and personal well-being. At her hospital, she chairs the LGBTQIA+ Task Force, is a member of the Health Equity Committee, and leads the Patient Liaison and Community Advocacy Office. She lives near the wilderness of the Olympic Peninsula with her spouse and their English Shepherd and spends lots of time walking in the forest and by the Salish Sea. She is currently writing her first memoir.