This award acknowledges the work done over the past year of a nurse educator in Academia or Practice who has amplified the critical importance of the CCNW mission which is to foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse, and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of Connecticut residents.
 
Selection Criteria: A nursing education professional who has:

• Demonstrated commitment to the mission of CCNW and support of the CCNW staff
• Displays innovative leadership characteristics which have made a positive impact on the nursing workforce development in Connecticut
• Acts as a role model and/or mentor to Connecticut’s future nursing and healthcare leaders
• Inspires and engages others to become active participants in CCNW programs and services

The CCNW Nurse Workforce Development Award. Presented to Dr. Maria Krol

​​Dr. Krol is Chair and Associate Professor of Southern CT State University’s School of Nursing.  Her innovative leadership resulted in many positive outcomes for CT’s nursing workforce. Her recent initiatives include:  implementing a new BSN pathway for students, A second cohort of Accelerated/second Degree BSN students, and a Summer Nursing Symposia for high school students.  The latter initiative will create a pipeline into healthcare careers and provide CNA training leading to state certification.  These initiatives offer diversity-enhancing opportunities via a student mentorship program, and moreover minimize barriers to progression to post-secondary education. Her efforts are making a difference for all.

The Jane E. Murdock "Life-Long" Learning Award was established in 2011, and acknowledges the work done over the past year by a nurse educator in Academia or Practice who has demonstrated knowledge as an Exemplar Nurse Educator who uses best-practices in teaching and learning, incorporated an evidence-based approach to teaching, earned the respect of students and colleagues, and is certified as a Nurse Educator or Professional Development Educator.

 Selection Criteria: A nursing education professional who has:

• Developed innovative and successful programs to address the identified need(s) of students, faculty, and practicing nurses.  
  
• Demonstrates a commitment to teaching. 
•  Inspires novice and seasoned nurses to pursue additional degrees/continuing education.

The CCNW Annual Excellence Award.  Presented to Dr. Marie M. Spivey
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​Marie Spivey is a Principal/Consultant with the System for Education, Equity & Transition, LLC (SEET Consultants, LLC).  She is a Registered Nurse who holds EdD and MPA degrees, both from the University of Hartford, and a BS Degree in Human Service from Southern New Hampshire University.  She is a recognized a healthcare & nursing leader who has dedicated her career to developing and building a div​erse, well-educated, compassionate, and robust nursing workforce in CT! 
 
Currently, Dr. Spivey utilizes her knowledge and skills surrounding community health and the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion education into her role as an active Board member of several organizations – among them are:

•        Duncaster CCRC planned retirement organization and the Duncaster Foundation on the Board of Trustees,
•        The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Board of Directors, and
•        Both Goodwin University and Capital State Community College Nursing Advisory Boards.

 
She serves as a Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Standards consultant for the CT Department of Children and Families, the Carelon Behavioral Health CT, a 15-member non-profit organizational cohort supported by the YWCA of New Britain and the New Britain Community Foundation, and other community-based, academic, and health organizations in and outside of the CT region.
 
During Dr. Spivey’s tenure at Hartford Hospital, she was responsible for the organization’s expanded participation into the Greater Hartford communities through its Community Benefit Program, and its community mobile van Health Star.  She was asked to serve as the hospital’s Loaned Executive to become the CEO of the Learning Corridor – and as such launched Hartford’s first 16-acre campus of four magnet schools and a Performing Arts Theater, bringing with her a fleet of security guards and her administrative support from the hospital.  
 
Dr. Spivey chaired Connecticut’s first Commission on Health Equity signed by Governor Jodi Rell to examine the state’s complex health system and acquire key findings intended to deliver a health care equity agenda for all.  She also became the Co-Chair of the New England Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC) which was the first of ten such Councils across the country created by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health.
 
In 2019, Marie retired from the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) where she had served for several years as Vice President of Health Equity working with the state’s (then) 28 hospitals to enhance their efforts to form Diversity Collaborative Teams to better address health equity policies and opportunities to better serve their constituents. 

On-Demand | Aired October 26, 2023
Hosted by the Faculty Leadership Network

Learn more about population health initiatives deployed across the state of Connecticut from 2021-2023 in the areas of practice, academia, and the nursing workforce. Discover programs and strategies that can help to accelerate local efforts to meet population health needs.

Objectives:

• Identify statewide initiatives launched by the Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce to support population health competencies.
• Explain the components of population health education at a nursing residency program at a Connecticut hospital.
• Summarize the impact of the population health course at a state college in Connecticut.
• Describe how the AACN Population Health Domain is integrated across initiatives.

Speakers

• Marcia B. Proto, MEd, CAS
  Executive Director
  Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc.
• Catherine E. Johnson, PhD, RN, CNE, APHN-BC, RA, CPH
  Assistant Professor in Nursing
  Pacific College of Health and Sciences