International Expert on Patient Safety Keynotes Annual Event
Sean P. Clarke, RN, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, will be the distinguished lecturer at the Eighth Annual Sonna Ehrlich Merk Distinguished Lectureship on Friday, March 7, 2008. A luncheon and lecture, hosted jointly by the state's largest nursing school, IU School of Nursing and Indiana's largest healthcare network, Clarian Health, Inc. will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Ballroom of the University Place Conference Center & Hotel on the IUPUI campus. Dr. Clarke's presentation is entitled "Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing in the Pay-for-Performance Movement." I
Clarke is the Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's widely-regarded Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, who began his career as a staff nurse in coronary care in Montreal, Canada and a faculty member in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Following the receipt of a doctoral degree in nursing from McGill University in Montreal in 1998, he completed three years of postgraduate clinical and research training at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the standing faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 2001 and, at that time, became the Associate Director of the internationally-recognized Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research that was established in 1989 as a research and research training enterprise focusing on the outcomes of health care and health workforce policy.
Clarke is particularly interested in the impact of nurse staffing and organizational climate in hospitals on mortality and other adverse events in patients, and on occupational health issues (such as sharps injuries) in nurses. His current projects involve the relationship of organizational climate to safety issues in Pennsylvania hospitals, how nurse staffing and work environments in hospitals affect patient outcomes when patient volume is taken into consideration, and differences in access to and quality of hospital care for different racial and ethnic groups.
A Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a Fellow of the Population Studies Center at Penn, Clarke also serves on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's National Nursing Advisory Council. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Université de Montréal, the largest university school of nursing in the French-speaking world.
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The Sonna Ehrlich Merk Distinguished Lectureship was established in 2001 in honor of Sonna Ehrlich Merk, DNS, RN, who throughout her career created successful partnerships between clinical sites and academia. In 1997, she became the first senior vice president for nursing and patient care serves and chief nurse executive for Clarian Health, retiring in 2000 after a 30-year professional career in nursing. Since her retirement, Dr. Merk has branched out as an entrepreneur and consults with clients on projects related to nursing administration and operating room nursing.
To learn more about the IU School of Nursing, visit http://nursing.iupui.edu/.
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