4th International Experts Meeting on
Nursing

Dr. Kaye Herth, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. is Dean Emerita, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Herth has extensive clinical, teaching, and administrative experience at several universities and in hospitals, hospices, and community health settings. She is a highly respected international scholar on hope and has garnered more than 2 million dollars in grant funding. Her pioneering research has focused on hope in those individuals with a chronic or terminal illness and the impact on their family/significant others, as well as on homeless families and children. Recently her work has focused on leadership from a Hope Paradigm. Her instruments to measure hope are used throughout the world and have been translated into 28 foreign languages and included in eight major instrument textbooks. She has over 68 publications in refereed professional journals and over 250 presentations at regional, national, and international professional conferences.

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Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, ANP is the Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northeastern School of Nursing and an experienced Nurse Entrepreneur, founding HireNurses.com in 2013. Rebecca is passionate about empowering nurses and helping nurses innovate, create and collaborate to start businesses to transform healthcare. Northeastern School of Nursing’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative is to inspire nurses to be transformative leaders in healthcare. Through innovative events, programs, and new educational pathways, Northeastern School of Nursing is transforming traditional nursing education to incorporate innovation, entrepreneurship and business foundations to position nurses as the leaders in healthcare. Rebecca’s community involvement includes serving on the board of NextGenVentures, the Regional Dir. for Show Me Your Stethoscope Foundation, ACLU Dinner & Host Committee, Charlestown Mothers Assoc., Harvard Kent Advisory Board, and the St. John School. Rebecca holds a M.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University and a B.A. in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University

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Dr. Al-Rashoud currently works as Director of Nursing, Nursing Patient Relations, Ancillary & Support Services at the King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia and continues his passion for supporting and promoting quality patient care improvement processes through mentorship, coaching and training programs. He is an accomplished writer and keynote speaker at various national seminars, symposium, and international nursing and healthcare conferences.

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Anna Kolcz PhD, assistant Professor at the Department of Physiotherapy at the Medical University of Wrocław, trainer of ergonomics, founder of the Ergonomics and Biomedical Monitoring Laboratory

Health care sector

Magfiret Kara obtained her Ph.D. from the University of ?stanbul. Currently, she is a Professor at the Faculty of Nursing University of Atatürk. Her research interests include care of chronic illness, nursing education, nursing ethics and nursing theories. She has published numerous publications in reputed journals as well as national and international presentations. She is involved in several research projects and a reviewer in many nursing journals.

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