Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala led the School of Nursing's 11th Annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture at the Union Theater Friday.
Shalala is currently the president of the University of Miami, Fla., and co-chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Institute of Medicine Initiative on the Future of Nursing.
Shalala was joined by a panel of other guest speakers, including Carolyn Krause, president of the Wisconsin Nurses Association; Katharyn May, dean of the School of Nursing; and Richard Sinaiko, founder and CEO of Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting.
The lecture focused on the importance of the need for more nurses around the country, more educational opportunities for nurses, and the expansion of changing technologies in nursing programs.
The Initiative Program, co-run by Shalala, also concentrates on a variety of recommendations for nursing, such as ways to educate and recruit nurses and designates nursing's position in the health-care workforce.
