World Nursing and Medicare Summit

Greg Gurican is the Principal Consultant and founder of GMG & Associates LLP, a HealthCare Quality Consulting firm. After 25 years in the Power industry as a Sr. Nuclear Safety & Licensing Engineer, Technical Consultant, and Project Mgr. Greg has added nearly 20 years of experience in HealthCare as a Registered Nurse in PA & NJ, and as the former Manager of Nursing Quality Mgmt. & Innovation for Wellspan Health at York Hospital. Greg has been certified by HQCC as a Certified Professional of HealthCare Quality (CPHQ) and is both an ASQ Sr. Member for more than 10 years and has held both current and past officer-ships in the ASQ Section 503 and membership since 2002. He is also a member of the National Association of HealthCare Quality (NAHQ) specialists, and long-term member of the PA Organization of Nurse Leaders (PONL) and its affiliate the South-central Organization of Nurse Leaders (SCONL).

Healthcare

Kate ONeill, DNP, RN has over 25 years’ experience in the healthcare industry and is Sr. Advisor Practice, Education and Innovation at iCareQuality.us. Over the past 6 years she has served as a Subject Matter Clinical Expert collaborating with engineers and informatics teams with practice innovation, project development, and system implementation at the learning labs in Philadelphia and Toronto. As an healthcare leader, Dr. ONeill works with key industry stakeholders to develop evidence-based solutions to improve provider engagement with focus on reducing ALL CAUSE HARM. Dr. ONeill also has deep expertise in frontline clinical practice with over 20 years in emergency medicine where she was awarded textbook of the year for Pediatric Triage Guidelines; served as ER Staff Development Educator; and developed the first clinical ladder program to measure skills, competencies and nursing performance. She served as the Senior Nursing Editor for PEMSoft and the journal Pediatric Emergency Care. Kate received a US patent for designing a medical device bite block for cervical spine radiography; and in 2009, she received the Bayaida Business Award at Drexel University for new technology development. Additionally, while at Drexel, she collaborated with nursing faculty and led the simulation team to develop an online platform for evidence-based practice to measure competencies in the student practice setting. Kate has other advanced skills and capabilities including hospital compliance, patient safety, risk management, quality improvement, LEAN and health information technology (HIT).

Nursing Education,Patient safety, Healthcare,Clinical Research

Dr. Majid is a nurse leader, educator with many years of experience in research, nursing practice, education and policymaking. He has earned both his Bachelors of Nursing and Master’s degree from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA and his Doctoral Degree from University of Phoenix in Arizona, USA. He is currently the Chief Nursing Officer in Oman, and has worked, and contributed in various activities at the national and global level in the development of nursing practice and education which include continuing education, curriculum development for nurses, and professional regulations and code of conducts. Dr. Majid leads an experienced team of senior nurse leaders at the Ministry of Health vested with the task of providing strategic and professional direction for national nursing services as well as healthcare management and health policy. He sustained a substantive contribution to nursing and it has been his campaign to raise the standing of the nursing profession in Oman and utilised a number of leadership approaches to achieve this goal. His work context involves engagement internationally, not only with Chief Nursing Officers from around the world, but also with international organizations such as the World Health Organization, the International Council of Nurses, and the American Academy of Nursing. He has worked collaboratively for project initiatives with fellow Deans of Colleges of Nursing and Chief Nursing Officers in the GCC (Gulf Corporation Council) countries and have acted as a consultant and advisor for countries planning to introduce Advanced Nursing Practice. He is a member of the Global Advisory Panel: Future of Nursing and Midwifery (GAPFON), the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a representative of Oman for Nursing in the World Health Organization (WHO) East Mediterranean Region and a new fellow at American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Majid has been invited to speak in various conferences across the world and was the recipient of “2014 United Public Service Award for Category 4: Promoting gender-responsive delivery of public services”, United Nation, South Korea (2014). Dr. Majid is also the author of a Doctoral Dissertation on Perceptions of ICU stakeholders toward nursing staff levels in Omani hospitals: A qualitative case study (2013) which is available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database, and co-authored Shame and blame: An analysis of nurses’ concerns about the communication skills of their managers (2013) and Disability-related content in nursing textbooks. Nursing Education Perspectives (2010). In addition to that, Dr. Majid is a visiting leactures at the College of Economics and Political Sciences and at the College of Nursing in Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.

Human resources in health,Leadership,Fundamentals of care

Bassem Salah Saleh has completed his PhD Health Care Administration at the age of 46 years from Bellevue, USA. Completed Master Degree Health Care administration 2005 from Bellevue University. USA. Completed BS in Nursing 1991 Clarkson College. USA. He is the Executive Director of Nursing Affair at Security Forces Hospital Makka, Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 5 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of 2 journals.

Nursing Management, Nursing Education, Emergency Medicine, Healthcare, Patient safety

Dr. Sumaya Mohammed Abbas Mohammed Al- Bloushi is currently holding her office as Director of Nursing, Ministry of Health and Prevention since 2015. She has a rich nursing education background and has a specialization Critical care nursing and has earned a PhD in Nursing Philosophy from Jordan University. In addition to her qualification in Nursing she has earned Master Degrees in Quality Management and in Public Health from Wollongong University and Harvard T.H. Chan University respectively. She has also completed Nursing and Health Care Leadership and Management Program under McMaster University. As like her vast educational qualification, she also has many years of professional experience as staff nurse, nurse supervisor, Department in-charge and Director of nursing in Kuwaiti hospital. She has sound knowledge and expertise in nursing administration, education and research. She is an Awardee of Emirates Pride Medal for Mohammed Bin Rashid Government Award 2017, Member in GCC technical committee, Member in EMRO for nursing and midwives situation and Member in nursing Specialized (Arabic Board) committee. She also rendered her service as a member in developing the Strategic plan for MoH in 2005. Since January 2015, she is leading the taskforce committee for Cabinet initiative (Attractiveness of Nursing Profession).

Healthcare Management,Nursing administration, Education and Research