Wake Up Healthcare: Pursuing Greatness
The workforce is a healthcare system’s most valuable asset. The COVID-19 pandemic both amplified and exposed longstanding workforce issues. Moving forward, innovative approaches to recruitment and retention are essential, along with care models that optimize a safe work environment. Together we can make the innovative changes necessary to improve recruitment and retention, improve workforce agility, foster resiliency, and drive quality patient outcomes.
Wolters Kluwer and UKG are proud to announce a new series:
Wake Up Healthcare: Pursuing Greatness! Hosts Nanne Finis, Chief Nurse Executive for UKG, and Anne Dabrow Woods, Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer, Health, Learning, Research and Practice, will be interviewing special guests to share their expertise on data and trends happening in nursing and healthcare.
Watch the first episode of Wake Up Healthcare: Pursuing Greatness! Industry leaders, Anne Dabrow Woods, Nanne Finis, and Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work®, Inc have a one-hour open and honest conversation addressing the challenges currently facing the healthcare industry as well as the innovative work that is happening across the country in great healthcare organizations. This series will highlight how organizations are improving operations and the ways those improvements are sustained over time. It will also be future-focused — examining anticipated challenges and ways the best organizations are innovating and adapting to position themselves for success.
The Panelists
Michael Bush is the CEO of Great Place to Work®, Inc., the global authority on workplace culture.
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Mr. Bush is an expert in developing organizations that value the importance of employee empowerment at all levels and a culture that supports trust and communication. Mr. Bush has also prioritized the global mission of Great Place to Work to build a better world by helping organizations create Great Places to Work for all; under his leadership, the firm has developed a higher standard of greatness that accounts for fair and equitable treatment of employees across demographic groups, as well as executive leader effectiveness, innovation, and financial sustainability.
Nanne M. Finis, RN, MS, is the chief nurse executive for UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), a global provider of HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions.
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At UKG, Finis applies her strong foundational knowledge of the global healthcare system to advance the application of innovative technology to create more meaningful and connected work experiences for all healthcare employees. A forty-year industry executive consistently focused on nursing and patient care delivery, Finis is passionate about building and leading a culture of innovation and collaboration across clinical, operational, and administrative environments, and has committed her career to driving improvements in the healthcare system. Nanne earned her master's degree in nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana. She also spent five years in Tokyo, Japan, attending the International School of the Sacred Heart (ISSH). Currently, she serves on the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL) Foundation Corporate Advisory Council and the Nursing Administration Scope and Standards Revision Workgroup sponsored by the American Nurses Association (ANA) and AONL.
Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, is the Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer, Health, Learning, Research and Practice, a global healthcare information company where she is responsible for leading the nursing strategy.
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A nurse for over 39 years, and an NP since 1998, she practices as an acute care/critical care nurse practitioner for Penn Medicine. Anne is also adjunct faculty in the graduate nursing programs at Drexel and Neumann Universities and she precepts NP and DNP students. Anne received her BSN from West Chester University, an MSN from LaSalle University, a post-master’s certificate from Drexel University and a DNP from Texas Christian University. She was awarded the Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award from Sigma Theta Tau International Kappa Delta Chapter in 2018 and she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2016. She is a representative of the HIMSS CNO/CNIO Industry Partner Work Group and the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.