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IMAGINE Nurse Quality and Innovation Symposium: Innovating the Fearless Future of Nursing
IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE ONLY
Welcome to the 2025 IMAGINE Nurse Quality and Innovation Symposium! Together, we’ll embark on a transformative journey to reshape the future of nursing with bold ideas, innovative strategies, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. This year’s theme, "Innovating the Fearless Future of Nursing," reflects our focus on embracing challenges, leveraging cutting-edge technology, and fostering a culture of evidence-based practice to advance patient care and empower nursing professionals.
Join us as we reimagine what’s possible through dynamic presentations, interactive skill-building sessions, and inspiring discussions designed to ignite meaningful change in the nursing profession.
At this conference, we aim to inspire action and innovation at every level of nursing practice. Attendees will gain insights into:
• Driving evidence-based quality improvements.
• Embracing cultural and organizational innovation.
• Transforming education and training with emerging technologies.
• Exploring the rise of autonomous systems in healthcare.
• Developing skills to advance competency and compliance in the modern nursing workforce.
Through engaging sessions and expert-led discussions, participants will leave with a renewed vision and actionable strategies to implement transformative changes in their practice and organizations.
Program Highlights
The program covers a wide array of topics under five core themes:
1. The Future of Data-Driven Care
2. Cultural and Organizational Innovation
3. Innovating Education: Transforming Patient Care with Technology
4. The Rise of Autonomous Systems
5. The Future of Learning: Leveraging EdTech
Participants will have the opportunity to attend keynote addresses, breakout sessions, poster presentations, and hands-on skills stations.
Target Audience
Nurse practitioners, nurses, and other allied health personnel
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this conference, at least 60% of attendees, as indicated by the post-evaluation survey, will report an increased knowledge of how to conceptualize and implement innovative nursing strategies at the bedside.
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John F. Bookout Auditorium - 2nd Floor
Travel
Houston Methodist Way Finder Map
Direction from nearest parking garages:
From Garage 1:
- Take parking garage elevator to 3rd floor.
- Exit and turn left and enter doors into the hospital on the right.
- Take stairs down to ground level, walk straight past the Information Desk. This is the Crain Garden. Continue straight toward the Weiss Chapel, turn right and continue past the Gift Shop.
- Turn right before the Dunn Tower Elevator bank and then a quick left (Starbucks will be on the right). Proceed down this hall toward the Market Café.
- Turn Right, then a quick left to leave Dunn Tower and enter into the Research Institute.
- Continue straight toward exit doors.
- Turn right at the RI Information Desk. Proceed up the staircase and the John F. Bookout Auditorium will be on the right side.
- Elevators to the second floor are also available, pass the staircase and proceed to end. Elevators will be on the right.
From Garage 7:
- Take parking garage elevator to ground floor, exit and turn left to outer walkway.
- Turn left and proceed to glass double doors on left, enter Walter Tower.
- Proceed straight down hallway past the Fondren/Alkek elevators, then past the Dunn elevator bank.
- Take a left (Starbucks will be on the right) and follow the directions from above to the Research Institute.
From Garage 15 (McGovern Commons):
- located directly across the street from the Houston Methodist Research Institute
Parking will not be validated. Valet is not available at the Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Event Summary: |
Houston Methodist Imagine Conference |
Start Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
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The activity's Nurse Planner has determined that no one who has the ability to control the content of this CNE activity - planning committee members and presenters/authors/content reviewers - has a conflict of interest. Please send any questions to HMHNursePlanners@HoustonMethodist.org
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
To be awarded 7.00 continuing professional development hours, the participant must attend the program in its entirety and complete the evaluation tool.
Available Credit
- 7.00 Attendance
- 7.00 Nursing Contact Hours
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Houston Methodist will award 7.00 Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours for this activity. Participants must attend the activity in its entirety and complete the continuing education evaluation.