The Organization of Nurse Leaders New Jersey (ONLNJ) is pleased to announce the 2025 Annual Meeting and Conference “Limitless Transformational Leadership” scheduled on April 10 & 11, 2025 at the Princeton Marriot at Forrestal, 100 College Road East, Princeton NJ 08540.
Limitless Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership in nursing is a management style that motivates nurses to take ownership of their roles and perform beyond minimum expectations. This style motivates team members by appealing to their desire to demonstrate higher moral values and integrity in practice. Transformational leadership in nursing encourages teams to work toward the greater good of an organization and its people instead of considering self-serving interests.
Transformational Nurse Leaders can significantly impact professional relationships and promote positive patient and organizational outcomes. These nurse leaders possess four key elements that separate them as transformational from others in nursing leadership roles.
Four Key Elements of Transformational Leadership include.
- Inspirational Motivation: Effective transformational nurse leaders believe in themselves and others to do their best, articulate a clear vision and communicate with a sense of commitment and passion.
- Individual Consideration: Transformational nurse leaders take the time to know each team member, learn their strengths, weaknesses, and motivations and dedicate themselves as mentors and leaders to those in their charge.
- Intellectual Stimulation: Transformational nurse leaders value the idea of team members who think outside the box and search for better ways of accomplishing things. They encourage creativity, welcoming new ideas and input.
- Idealized Influence: Transformational leadership in nursing includes the act of idealized influence, setting a good example for others to follow and doing so in a manner that makes them want to be better.
Join ONLNJ in hearing from many talented speakers including Keynote Presenter, Penny Zenker, author of “Reset the Mindset” who will explore how to maintain focus and clarity in the face of rapid change in healthcare. Steve Miller, Entrepreneur and author, will deliver an inspiring discussion on how to become a leader whom others will follow. Dr. Michael Arcaro will discuss the challenges of AI in healthcare.
Please join ONLNJ at this year’s Annual Meeting and Conference, “Limitless Transformational Leadership” and leave with the tools and strategies to develop yourself into the best transformational nurse leader you can be!
Target Audience: Nurse managers, nursing coordinators, assistant nurse managers, clinical nurses, chief nursing officers, vice presidents of patient care, assistant vice presidents of nursing, administrative directors, directors of nursing, aspiring nurse leaders, new ONLNJ mentors and mentees, Nursing Workplace Environment Staffing Council members, university deans, nurse educators, nurse researchers and scientists, post-acute leaders and nursing home administrators.
Learner Outcome: At the conclusion of this educational event, the learner will gain knowledge on becoming a transformational leader in challenging times and will self-report on a Likert Scale of (1-5) an increase in knowledge and self confidence in adopting at least two key strategies to becoming a transformational leader in challenging times, which may be transferable to their practice and/or organization.
Eighty percent of the leaders will report that they have gained knowledge and self-confidence on Likert Scale (1-5), in implementing at least two key strategies to becoming a transformational leader in challenging times, which may be transferable to their practice and/or organization.
Successful completion of the course is defined as in-person attendance for 100 percent of the didactic learning session and a completed course evaluation.
Continuing Nurse Education Credits: This activity has been submitted to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses for approval to award contact hours. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Day 1 – Agenda
7:30 a.m. Check-in, Breakfast, Poster Session, Vendor Exhibits
8:55 a.m. President’s Welcome
Mary Jo Loughlin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer & SVP, Patient Care Services
Hunterdon Healthcare
President, ONLNJ
9:00 a.m. The Reset Mindset
Keynote – Penny Zenker, Focusologist
10:15 a.m. President’s Report
Mary Jo Loughlin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer & SVP Patient Care Services
Hunterdon Healthcare
President, ONLNJ
10:30 a.m. Break, Book Signing Posters & Vendor Exhibits
10:45 a.m. Mentoring Program Presentation
Danielle Marcello, MSN, RN-BC
Nurse Manager
Atlantic Health System
Ruth DiLeo, MSN, RN, NE-BC, RNC-OB
Assistant Vice President, Patient Care Services
Virtua Health
11:00 a.m. Transforming Outcomes Through Data
Stephanie Chiu, MPH, MS
Biostatistician
Morristown Medical Center
12 p.m. Lunch, Poster Session, Vendor Exhibits
1:15 p.m. Workshop – How to Become a Leader Others will Follow
Steve Miller
Leadership Development Group
3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Mary Jo Loughlin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer & SVN, Patient Care Services
Hunterdon Healthcare
President, ONLNJ
4:00 p.m. Electronic Evaluations
4:15 p.m. Adjournment
Day 2 – Agenda
8:00 a.m. Check-in, Breakfast, Poster Session & Vendor Exhibits
8:45 a.m. President’s Welcome
Mary Jo Loughlin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer & SVP, Patient Care Services
Hunterdon Healthcare
President, ONLNJ
8:50 a.m. New Jersey Collaborating Center Report
Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Executive Director
NJCC at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Daria Waszak, DNP, RN, CNE, COHN-S
Assistant Director & Clinical Associate Professor
NJCC at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:10 a.m. 2024-2025 New Jersey Legislative Session Update
Gene Mulroy
President, Public Affairs
Capital Impact Group
Eash Haughton
Director, Public Affairs
Capital Impact Group
9:25 a.m. Artificial Intelligence
Michael Arcaro, MD MHI
Medical Director of Clinical Informatics
Capital Health
10:25 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. Bicycles, Brain Surgery, & Breakthroughs: Transformational Leadership Introspection
Mark McLaughlin, MD, FACS, FAANS
Neurosurgeon, Coach, Author, Speaker
11:40 a.m. Resilience
Jennifer Sternbach, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Assistant Vice President of Clinical Pharmacy Services, Corporate Pharmacy, RWJ Barnabas Health
12:40 p.m. Closing Remarks
Mary Jo Loughlin, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer & SVP, Patient Care Services
Hunterdon Healthcare
President, ONLNJ
12:45 p.m. Electronic Evaluations
1:00 p.m. Adjournment