Dear Metro NY HPNA members,

Please join us at this very exciting event, worth 1 CE, where Diana Mason, RN, PhD, FAAN will be speaking with us about our very important role in health policy. The purpose of this presentation is to inspire nurses working in a palliative and hospice care system to take a leadership role in transforming care in the direction of the "Quadruple Aim" of:

1. Improving people's experience with care
2. Improving the health of the population
3. Reducing health care cost
4. Fostering job satisfaction among health care workers

Diana J. Mason is the Senior Policy Service Professor and Co-Director of a new Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing. She is Professor Emerita and Co-Director of the Center for Health, Media, and Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York, where she was the inaugural Rudin Professor of Nursing until 2016. Dr. Mason is the immediate past President of the American Academy of Nursing, former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing, and co-producer and moderator of a weekly radio program on health care issues since 1985. She is the lead editor of the award-winning book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, now in its 7th edition, and the author of over 200 publications. Her scholarship focuses on health policy and what can be learned from nurse-designed models of care. Dr. Mason is the Co-Principal Investigator for a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how nurses address building a culture of health in their innovative models of care; the study is a collaboration between the American Academy of Nursing and the RAND Corporation. She is a member of the board of directors for the Primary Care Development Corporation and the National Advisory Board for Kaiser Health News. She holds two honorary doctorates, as well as numerous awards for her teaching, policy leadership, publications, and journalism.

Please be sure to register and attend this event. We are looking forward to seeing you!

Kimberly Chow, ANP-BC, ACHPN
President, Metro NY HPNA Chapter