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September 2011
2011 Littlefield Lecture Underscores Future of Nursing in Redesigned Health Care System

Listen to Connie Curran, EdD, RN, FAAN, deliver this year’s Littlefield lecture: Assuming Your Place at the Table. Her lecture underscores the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report to engage nurses as full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in a redesigned U.S. health care system. Curran notes, "Nursing in and of itself is not sacred. What's sacred is what nurses can do for patients and health care—what nurses can do for the health of the country. We are a vehicle that can do great things."

Dr. Curran is the founder and CEO of Best on Board, a firm that provides education, testing, and certification services for health care trustees and executive leaders. She recently co-authored books on hospital-physician integration and hospital redesign and optimized home care integration and has served as the editor of Nursing Economics for eighteen years.

To view the lecture, visit: 2011 Littlefield Leadership Lecture (IME Video, 1:19 hrs)