OCNE Conference - May 8 and 9, 2025
Pendleton Convention Center, Pendleton, Oregon
The May Conference is OCNE’s premier event of the year! Our Louise Shores Lecture Series in 2025 is highlighted by a presentation Jeremy Hutson, PhD(c), RN. Jeremy serves as adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University.
Presentation title: Cognitive Load Research in Simulation and its Implications for Novice Nurses’ Competences.
The OCNE conference brings nurse faculty together from 15 different nursing programs, for a day focused on education, scholarship, networking, and fun. General public attendees are welcome to join us with successful registration. Space is limited and registration will end if we exceed our registration limits.
Conference events includes the Louise Shores Lecture Series keynote presentation, poster and exhibitor viewing opportunities, and breakout presentation sessions. All activities are related to best practice and innovations in nursing education.
A special event for Nurse Faculty of OCNE Schools
Registration is free for OCNE faculty. OCNE Faculty should follow the registration instructions posted to the OCNE Basecamp
General Admission is available.
Register here to attend 2025
General Public Admission Options:
$200 registration fee to attend the conference on Friday, May 9, 2025.
$400 registration fee to attend the conference on Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9, 2025.
Louise Shores Lecture Series Speaker
Jeremy Hutson, PhD, RN serves as adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University where he facilitates dedicated simulation coursework with junior-level pre-licensure nursing students. He previously taught at Clackamas Community College across simulation, clinical, and didactic courses. Jeremy holds an AAS in Nursing from Clackamas Community College, a BSN from Oregon Health & Science University, and an MSN focused on executive leadership from St. Xavier University. Jeremy completed his PhD in Health Sciences at Texas Christian University in April 2025. Jeremy’s teaching and research experiences highlight the influence of learners’ background and individual characteristics on learning outcomes. Jeremy aims to raise nurse educators’ awareness of the intersection between teaching strategies, learners’ background and individual characteristics, and learning outcomes to empower nurses to reach their full potential. He will provide examples of learners’ cognitive load in routine and non-routine patient care experiences to help OCNE educators use teaching strategies that positively influence both learning and performance.
OCNE - The Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education - May Conference
Teaching Excellence
OCNE Nursing Programs have exceeded the National Pass Rate over the last five years. OCNE is proud to have educated over 6000 nursing students.
Clear Focus
OCNE is committed to educating nurses with the competencies necessary to provide high quality, compassionate health care to all.
Competency-Based Curriculum
OCNE’s curriculum is “spiraled,” referring to the intentional revisiting of major topics throughout the curriculum at increasing levels of complexity, so that new is related to previous learning.
2025 Conference Exhibitors
2024 OCNE Nursing Education Conference
Exploring Pathways
Our theme for 2024, Exploring Pathways, focuses on best practice techniques and tools that are applicable to nurse educators and nursing educational programs. OCNE is optimistic in its anticipation of offering multiple completion pathways as a strategy to meet, not only the needs of our nursing students, but also the needs of our practice partners.
Michele Deck has been presenting nationally and internationally on innovative teaching methods in the field of health care education and training for over 36 years. She is the recipient of many honors and awards for her creativity, innovation, productivity, and exemplary leadership qualities. Honors include Association of Nurses in Professional Development (ANPD) prestigious Belinda E. Puetz Award, election to Sigma (formerly called Sigma Theta Tau) National Nursing Honor Society, and Business Woman of the Year by the National Business Council.
Michele is co-founder and chief executive officer of G.A.M.E.S., a company that specializes in seminars on adult learning and interactive training methods, and Tool Thyme for Trainers, a company which supplies innovative and creative presentation tools for educators worldwide. She has authored twelve books on creative and involving ways to teach adults. She is a past president of Lamaze International and past Accreditation Chair. She served on ANPD’s Education committee and was a member of the Editorial board of the Journal For Nurses in Professional Development for 8 years.
NCPD Provider Unit Statement:
OHSU is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Participants can earn 5.0 nursing continuing professional development contact hours.
All presenters for this activity have attested that they will provide the best available evidence for this content and present information fairly and without bias.
2023 OCNE Nursing Education Conference
Kim Leighton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Executive Director
ITQAN Clinical Simulation & Innovation
Center | Hamad Medical Corporation
Keynote Speaker:
Kim Leighton, PhD, RN, FAAN
May 4 and 5, 2023
Seaside Convention Center, Seaside, Oregon
Dr. Kim Leighton is Executive Director of Itqan Clinical Simulation and Innovation Center at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, serving the multidisciplinary clinical practitioner community. She moved from emergency nursing to education and simulation over 20 years ago, and enjoys facilitating learning with simulation, consulting, and mentoring others. Dr. Leighton is a past president of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, where she led development of the first standards of best practice for simulation. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Leighton’s research focuses on development and psychometric analysis of evaluation tools for simulation education, which have been disseminated through her website to simulationists in 85 countries. Her current work explores the effectiveness of various clinical education environments. Dr. Leighton is co-editor of the award-winning book Simulation Champions: Fostering Courage, Caring, and Connection.
Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) – 4.5 contact hours
To receive the continuing education credits, attendees must participate in all conference activities and submit an electronic evaluation. Participants who successfully complete the above requirements will receive a Certificate of Completion with the documented contact hours.
OHSU is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation #4003172.
2022 OCNE Conference
Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education
Nursing Education Conference
Oregon’s Nurse Educators:
Leading a Pathway Forward
May 13, 2022
Bend, Oregon
Keynote Speaker
Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
Sue Hassmiller serves as the senior adviser for nursing for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a 50 state effort to implement the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report on the Future of Nursing. She is the recipient of a number of awards, three honorary doctorates and most notably the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international honor given to nursing professionals by the International Committee of the Red Cross. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
2021 OCNE Virtual Conference
Keynote Speaker
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN
Health care leader. Accomplished innovator. Nursing champion. Under Dr. Beverly Malone’s leadership, the National League for Nursing (NLN) has advanced the science of nursing education through enhancing stakeholder collaboration, increasing diversity in nursing scholarship, and championing evidence-based practice. Dr. Malone’s distinguished career has blended policy, education, administration, and clinical practice, including as Federal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health under President Bill Clinton.
As a reviewer, she contributed to the groundbreaking IOM report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” and served on the Minority Health Federal Advisory Committee. Dr. Malone has been awarded more than 20 honorary doctorates. Presently, Dr. Malone serves as vice chair at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Board of Directors, co-leads the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Health Professional Education and Communication Working Group, and serves on NAM’s Steering Committee. She is also a member of ecoAmerica’s Leadership Circle Executive Committee.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) named Dr. Malone as their 2024 Hall of Fame Award recipient. The American Academy of Nursing honored Dr. Malone with their 2024 Mary Elizabeth Carnegie Leadership in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) Award. The National Black Nurses Association recognized Dr. Malone as a 2024 inaugural Fellow in the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing (FADLN). In a remarkable recognition of her contributions to global health care, Dr. Malone was profiled by The Lancet (2024), one of the most prestigious and influential medical journals in the world. This honor underscores the significance of her work and places her among an elite group of leaders shaping the future of health care.
The year prior, Modern Healthcare, a leading publication in the health care field, honored Dr. Malone as one of the nation’s leading health care executives by naming her to the 2023 list of the Top 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives in Healthcare. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) presented Dr. Malone with the prestigious 2023 HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein Award for her commitment to advancing the nursing profession and excellence in nursing professional practice across international borders, and Dr. Malone was listed in Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Health Care for the fourth consecutive year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). That same year, she was honored by the American Nurses Association with the prestigious President’s Award and was selected for the M. Louise Fitzpatrick Award for Transformative Leadership by Villanova University. Dr. Malone was also featured as one of 25 Outstanding Women during Women’s History Month by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
Modern Healthcare also has honored her with a Top 25 Women Leaders’ Luminary Award in 2021 and named her to the inaugural list of five Minority Healthcare Luminaries. She was previously honored on their list of Top 25 Women in Healthcare. The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) honored her with the Living Legend Award.
In 2020, Dr. Malone was given the University of Cincinnati’s Linda Bates Parker Legend Award, named an Honorary Member of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, and presented with an Award of Distinction by the NLN Board of Governors. Also, she was bestowed the Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership and conferred by the American Academy of Nursing with their Highest Nursing Honor, “Living Legend.”
The Alpha Omega Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau and the College of Nursing of Adelphi University, Long Island, honored Dr. Malone with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. She was presented with a citation from the American Psychological Association for her outstanding leadership in advancing excellence in health care for the nation and global community, was named one of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare, and accepted the Nursing Outlook Excellence in Research Award in 2018.
Dr. Malone was elected to two terms as president of the American Nurses Association (ANA) representing 180,000 nurses and served as the first African American general secretary of the United Kingdom (UK) Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing 400,000 nurses. A member of the UK as well as US delegation to the World Health Assembly, she was also vice chair of the Brussels-based European Federation of Nurses Association. Furthermore, she has the distinguished honor of her portrait being displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
*The OCNE May Conference is planned to be a face-to-face event and guidelines and recommendations related to group gatherings will be closely monitored and observed.