
Welcome to the 2023 Nursing Knowledge Big Data Conference!
This year’s conference will bring together experts and participants who will challenge each other's thinking about the value of nursing and the ways informatics can help foster improvements in nursing practice, research, education, and leadership.
Pre-conference topics include nursing language and terminologies, interoperability, population health informatics, and education. An emphasis will be placed on how these concepts empower the work of the NKBDS Initiative, illustrated by real-world examples. The main conference will cover several aspects of the value of nursing and the potential for collaborations between informaticians, nurse leaders, and executives.
As in previous years, workgroups will have time to report their achievements and meet to plan their strategic goals for the year. New this year, time has been scheduled on Friday afternoon so that workgroups may meet in person to plan their work for the upcoming 2023-2024 year.
Keynote Speaker: Olga Yakusheva, PhD, MSE
Title: The Value of Nursing

Dr. Yakusheva’s talk will focus on the contribution of nursing practice and leadership to patient and organizational outcomes in the current era of value-based care and approaches to measuring value-informed nursing.
Dr. Olga Yakusheva is an economist and a Professor of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Michigan and an Associate Economics Editor for the International Journal of Nursing Studies. Her educational background is in mathematics and health economics, with a specific area of expertise in economic methods for causal analysis in non-randomized studies and big data analytics. Her research examines the work of nurses including efficiency, effectiveness, and the economic value of nursing practice and leadership. Dr. Yakusheva’s work has been published in top economics and medical journals including Review of Economics and Statistics and JAMA. Dr. Yakusheva’s research team has led studies quantifying the value-added contribution of nurses to patient outcomes and to organizational financial outcomes. Most of these studies involved big-data analytics: hundreds of thousands of patient hospitalizations individually linked to the patients’ direct care nurses, requiring expertise in structural modeling and hierarchical data groupings. Dr. Yakusheva has over 15 years of experience working with hospital electronic health records (including Epic, Allscripts, Cerner). She is currently a Principal Investigator of a federally funded 5 year study to create a clinical decision-support algorithm to guide interprofessional clinical team assignments in ICUs. Dr. Yakusheva is the lead author of a 6-part series on the Value of Nursing Practice recently published in Nursing Outlook.
Student |
Early |
Regular |
Late After June 1 |
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Pre-conference workshop only: Wednesday |
$200.00 | $275.00 | $375.00 | $400.00 |
Main conference only: Thursday - Friday |
$300.00 | $375.00 | $450.00 | $475.00 |
Full conference: Wednesday - Friday |
$500.00 | $650.00 | $825.00 | $875.00 |
Hotel
Graduate Hotel
$164/night
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Agenda
June 7 – Preconference
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome and Introduction for the day
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP
9:00 Break into Tracks
Track 1: Population and Public Health Informatics
Sripriya Rajamani, MBBS, PhD, MPH, FAMIA
Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC, FAMIA, FNAP
Track 2: TBD
10:30 Break
11:00 Resume Track Activities
12:00 Lunch provided
1:00 Break into Tracks
Track 3: Nursing Terminologies and/or Standards Applications to Improve Clinical Practice
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP
Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA
Track 4: TBD
2:30 Break
3:00 Resume Track Activities
4:00 Summary Remarks
4:30 Adjourn
June 8 – Conference – Day 1
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 Welcome to the 2023 Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Conference
8:30 Keynote: Olga Yakusheva, PhD, MSE, The Value of Nursing
9:30 Panel: Capturing and Leveraging the Value of Nursing
Moderator: Catherine H. Ivory, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN
Speakers: Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS (HIMSS)
Kathy Chappell, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN (ANAE)
Elizabeth A. Swanson, PhD, RN (Iowa CON)
10:30 Break
11:00 Workgroup Reports: Major Achievements 2022-2023
12:30 Lunch Provided
1:30 Workgroup Meetings and Planning – Breakouts
3:00 Break
3:30 Workgroup Meetings and Planning Continued - Breakouts
4:30 Panel: TBD
5:30 Welcome Reception
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Workgroup Reports: Top Priorities for 2023–2024
9:30 Break
10:00 Nurse Executives, Big Data, and Leading Healthcare Transformation
Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Chief Executive Officer, AONL; Chief Nursing Officer, SVP, AHA
10:45 Nurse Executive Panel
Moderator: Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP
Speakers: Rhonda Kazik, DNP, RN, CENP (Essentia)
Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN (AONL)
Ryannon K. Frederick, MS, RN (Mayo Clinic)
12:00 Lunch Provided
1:00 Break-out Meetings: Workgroup Strategic Planning for 2023–2024
2:00 Closing Remarks
2:30 Adjourn
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (OICPD). The National Center OICPD is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nurses: This activity is eligible for ANCC contact hours; the number of ANCC contact hours is pending.