OCN Virtual Friday Huddle
2025-10-31 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-07 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-14 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-12-05 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-12-12 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-01-16 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-01-23 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 19 more dates | https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpceyopz0qGdwHHFjmmhzPtAUys4VsdA1E
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.

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.

Friday Huddle: Extended Cut - Oregon's Healthcare Workforce Index Explained
2025-12-12 09:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us for a focused Friday Huddle Extended Cut on December 12 @ 9 AM where we’ll explore our new report Oregon Healthcare Workforce Index: Understanding Nursing in the Broader Healthcare Labor Market. This session will dig into how nursing intersects with the broader healthcare workforce, and how roles like medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and advanced practitioners shape nursing dynamics in Oregon.
Read the full report here.
What to expect:

A short overview of key findings from the Index (growth, shortage, turnover, wages across 35 occupations)

Discussion of what these findings mean for nursing workforce planning in Oregon

Time for questions and discussion—bring your insights and questions

Why attend:

Get a clear, data-grounded view of how nursing doesn’t exist in a vacuum

Understand how pressure points elsewhere in the healthcare workforce ripple into nursing

Position your team or organization with clearer insights into workforce strategy

Who should attend:
Nursing workforce planners, healthcare leaders, HR and staffing professionals, educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in how the broader health labor market impacts nursing in Oregon.
We hope you’ll join us!
