Oregon Center for Nursing

OCN Virtual Friday Huddle
2025-06-27 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-07-04 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-07-11 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-07-18 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-07-25 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-08-01 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-08-08 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-08-15 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 11 more dates | https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dhB5d5c8RKKxx3LzzfHBpg
Convene. Connect. Collaborate.
Fridays at 8:00 a.m. PT | Free | Online via Zoom
The Friday Huddle is a weekly virtual gathering of Oregon nursing workforce leaders and stakeholders. Hosted by the Oregon Center for Nursing, this series offers a space for real-time updates, shared insights, and collaborative conversation.
Whether you're leading workforce strategy, navigating policy changes, or just looking to stay connected with peers across the state, Friday Huddles are your space to learn and share.
🟣 What to Expect:

Brief updates from OCN and special guests

Spotlights on current nursing workforce issues

Open space for questions, dialogue, and shared solutions

Each session is just one hour, held live via Zoom.
🔗 Want to Learn More?
Visit our Friday Huddle program page to explore FAQs, past topics, and how to participate.

The Courage to Care: Leadership, Advocacy, and the Nurse's Responsibility
2025-08-28 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
An interactive and reflective training designed to inspire and equip nurses to lead with compassion, advocate for justice, and embrace their professional responsibility to create positive change.
Whether you're at the bedside, in the boardroom, or out in the community, this training will strengthen your ability to lead with love, act with purpose, and uphold the call of nursing as a force for healing and equity.
Outcome 1: Define the principles of love-centered leadership in nursing and explore how compassion, empathy, and relational connection influence effective leadership and team dynamics.
Outcome 2: Examine the nurse’s role as an advocate for patients, communities, and the profession and identify strategies to promote equity, justice, and dignity in healthcare.
Outcome 3: Reflect on the ethical and professional responsibilities of nurses as leaders in shaping healthcare outcomes, policies, and social change.
Outcome 4: Develop practical tools to lead with authenticity and courage, integrating emotional intelligence, cultural humility, and a sense of shared humanity into everyday nursing practice.

Date and time: August 28, 2025, 5:00pm-7:00pm Pacific
In-person only: Location provided upon registration.
Facilitator: Angel Harris, MSN, RN, Faith Community Nurse
Cost: $30
Register: faithcommunityhealthnetwork.org/outreach-events/
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Approval valid through 08/28/2027 – OCEAN ID #2025-37. Due to ANCC requirements, students must attend the entire session. Because of the highly interactive nature of the offering, we will allow a student to miss no more than ten minutes. A course completion certificate cannot be granted unless the RN student meets these attendance requirements.

Friday Huddle: Extended Cut with Sen. Jeff Merkley
2025-09-16 13:30 - 14:30 UTC | https://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/event/friday-huddle-extended-cut-with-sen-jeff-merkley/
OCN is hosting a special Friday Huddle: Extended Cut — on a Tuesday! Join us on Tuesday, September 16 at 1:30 pm PT for a virtual nursing workforce discussion with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Oregon nurses.
During this event, Senator Merkley will participate in a 30-minute conversation focused on upcoming federal healthcare policy changes and what they mean for the nursing workforce. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from one of Oregon’s U.S. Senators about how policy decisions in Washington, D.C. shape nursing practice, staffing, and the future of healthcare delivery in our state.
We invite Oregon nurses to play an active role in this discussion. Participants are encouraged to submit questions or share stories in advance using this form. While we may not be able to include every submission, our goal is to reflect a wide range of nursing experiences and perspectives. The deadline to submit is Friday, September 12.
Senator Merkley has represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate since 2009, consistently engaging with healthcare professionals and advocating for policies that affect the well-being of both patients and providers. His participation in this Friday Huddle: Extended Cut underscores the importance of including nurses’ voices in shaping healthcare policy.
At OCN, our mission is to strengthen the nursing workforce and create spaces where nurses can connect, share, and influence change. This conversation with Senator Merkley highlights the vital role nurses play in policy discussions that impact staffing, workplace well-being, and patient care.
Don’t miss this Senator Jeff Merkley nursing workforce discussion. Register today to ensure your place in this important dialogue and join us in elevating the voice of Oregon nurses in federal healthcare policy.
To Register: Click Here

2025 Outstanding Nurse Preceptor Awards
2025-09-17 08:00 - 09:00 UTC | Zoom Webinar (link provided upon registration)
Join the Oregon Center for Nursing as we celebrate Oregon’s 2025 Outstanding Nurse Preceptors.
This 1-hour virtual event will recognize nurses who play a vital role in guiding colleagues through clinical transitions—whether they are entering the profession, changing specialties, or returning to practice. The event will include a welcome message, honoree highlights, and a reflection on the importance of preceptorship in Oregon’s healthcare system.

Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
2025-10-20 08:00 - 2025-11-18 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom Webinar (link provided upon registration)
Is a Faith Community Health Ministry in Your Future?
Did you know that 60% of faith community members surveyed in Linn County, Oregon would seek the advice of a faith community nurse if one were available? Are you called to this nursing practice specialty promoting health and wellness of the mind, body, and spirit?
The Foundations for Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministry Course is open to licensed registered nurses (RNs) and the parallel Health Ministry course is for nurses with inactive licenses and faith community lay members. The course is ten sessions held on Zoom from 8am – 12:30pm on the following dates: October 20, 21, 27, 28, November 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 2025. Cost for the course is $350 with limited scholarships available upon request. Course cost includes four books and 40+ nursing continuing education contact hours.

OCN Friday Huddle
2025-11-14 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-28 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-12-05 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-12-12 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dhB5d5c8RKKxx3LzzfHBpg

Friday Huddle: Extended Cut | RN Well-Being Webinar
2025-11-14 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Insight to Action in Oregon’s Nursing Workforce
Join us for the Oregon RN Well-Being Webinar, a free, online event exploring how statewide insight is transforming nurse well-being in Oregon’s healthcare workforce.
What happens when we stop asking nurses to be more resilient and start fixing the systems causing stress and fatigue?This RN well-being webinar offers real-world answers.
Hosted by the Oregon Center for Nursing, this 60-minute session dives into lessons learned from the two-year RN Well-Being Project — an initiative that redefined how Oregon addresses nurse mental health and workplace stress.
*You can Learn more about the Friday Huddle or the broader RN Well-Being initiative on our project page.
What to Expect from the RN Well-Being Webinar
This free webinar brings together statewide data, lessons from 18 pilot sites, and practical tools for improving nurse well-being through system-level change.
Topics include:

Why traditional self-care models fall short

What Oregon nurses told us about stress, burnout, and recovery

The difference between removable and manageable stressors

Lessons from successful pilot sites across the state

Tools and frameworks ready for use in your organization

Whether you're a leader, policymaker, or frontline nurse, this RN Well-being webinar will leave you with concrete steps to drive system-level change in your own setting.

🟣 WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Nursing leaders and administrators

Health system and public health professionals

Workforce planners and policymakers

Anyone invested in nurse well-being and workforce sustainability

🟣 REGISTRATION
This webinar will be hosted via Zoom immediately following the Friday Huddle on November 14. Registration to the event is required to attend.

Tying it all together and moving forward: A forum to explore faith community nursing in professional practice
2025-11-24 10:30 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom Webinar (link provided upon registration)
Using the evidence-based 2024 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing curriculum, this facilitated forum will engage Faith Community Nurse attendees in discussion to amplify practical actions necessary to develop a sustainable faith community nursing practice. Attendees will have an opportunity to create SMARTIE goals and review policy and procedure templates with input from seasoned peers. Professional involvement in policymaking and advocacy at the local, state, and national level will be discussed. This forum will create valuable networking opportunities for faith
community nurses who want to reenergize their practice as well as those starting out.
Outcome 1: Summarize start-up considerations for launching a faith community nursing practice.
Outcome 2: Describe two strategies for local FCN practice sustainability.
Outcome 3: Discuss how professional involvement and continuous improvement at the national level contributes to professional practice.
Date and time: November 24, 2025, 10:30am-1:00pm Pacific
Platform: Zoom
Facilitator: Marcy Shanks, MSN, MSEd, RN, Faith Community Nurse
Cost: $30*
Register: faithcommunityhealthnetwork.org/events
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval valid through 11/24/2027 – OCEAN ID #2025-32. An evaluation is required for successful course completion. Due to ANCC requirements, students must attend the entire session. Because of the highly interactive nature of the forum, we cannot excuse students except in the case of emergencies (illness, attendance at funerals for next of kin). In those cases, we will allow a student to miss no more than ten minutes. A course completion certificate cannot be granted unless the RN student meets these attendance requirements.
* There is no charge for this offering for graduates of the 2025 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course (FFCN); the cost of this nursing continuing professional development offering is included in the 2025 FFCN registration fee.
