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| Barbara J. Bowers, PhD,
RN, FAAN, associate dean for research and Helen Denne
Schulte Professor of Nursing, is pictured next to a photo
of Edith Morgan, senior activist who championed the rights
of women and older adults in Australia. |
Friday, September 22, 2006, marks the date for the seventh
annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture, titled Innovations
in Health Care for Older Persons, to be held in Alumni
Hall of the Health Sciences Learning Center from 9:00 a.m.
to noon.
Barbara J. Bowers, PhD, RN, FAAN, will deliver the keynote
leadership lecture. She is the director of the Center for
Excellence in Long-Term Care, a collaboration between the
School of Nursing and the Department of Health and Family
Services. She has devoted much of her career to exploring
long-term care environments, the relationship between public
policy and long-term care practice, the impact of new models
of long-term care on both care quality and work life, and
strategies used by government and industry to enhance quality
of care and quality of life in long-term care.
Bowers is currently collaborating with researchers from Australia,
New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom to create more
person-centered long-term care environments. She is concurrently
directing an Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ)
evaluation on how well a federally mandated resident-assessment
protocol system guides the development of care planning for
long-term care residents.
Her leadership lecture, titled "Innovative Models in
Long-Term Care," will be followed by lectures by Marquis
Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN, titled "Innovations in Caring
for Hospitalized Elders," and by Michael Hunt, ArchD,
titled "Can Environmental Design Be Therapeutic for Older
Adults?"
The Littlefield Leadership Lecture is named for Vivian Littlefield,
PhD, RN, FAAN, who served as dean of the School of Nursing
from 1984 to 1999. The lectureship honors Littlefield’s
vision for health professions curricula to focus on interdisciplinary
education.
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For questions about the Littlefield Leadership
Lecture, please contact Lisa Simonds (e-mail: lsimonds@wisc.edu;
phone: 608-265-2936) at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Pre-registration
is not required.
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