AI Empowerment in Nursing

Betty Jo Rocchio, DNP, R.N., CRNA, CENP, EBT-C, has a passion and drive toward technology and analytics to assist nursing and clinical teams in patient care to drive optimal outcomes. She understands that collaboration in the industry, often outside of health care, produces unrivaled impact. Clinical innovation produces results when applied to solving health care’s biggest problems.

In her tenure at Mercy, she has worked with a software company to co-develop an automated inventory management system to reduce nurse workload while adopting scanning technology to improve efficiency in an operating room. She also has collaborated to achieve HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model Stage 7 status with the development of a perioperative dashboard driving reduction in variation in the surgical patient with Epic datasets.

Rocchio has launched a nursing workforce strategy that includes matching patient demand and a “GIG” nursing workforce with a modern-nurse focused company that has the platform to support efficient and effective deployment for the flexible needs of a multigenerational workforce. Most recently, she has focused on AI to support the changing needs of the clinical workforce in her top initiatives: workforce, workflows and work environment.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and an associate in business administration from the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. She started her career in direct patient care as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit. She returned to school to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist and at the same time earned her master’s degree in health sciences at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Rocchio holds certifications in executive nurse practice from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and evidence-based practice from the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute of Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Most currently, she obtained a doctor in nursing practice in the nurse executive track at The Ohio State University. Rocchio is an accomplished speaker and has written publications in support of nursing practice and operations, technology, supply chain and analytics.

Accredited Continuing Education

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and the MHA Health Institute. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.

Credit Designation
Nursing — AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 1.0 contact hour each.
Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

All Other Participants — A certificate of attendance for 1.0 clock hour each will be provided.

Requirements for Credit:

• Attend/participate in the educational activity and review all course materials.
• Complete the CE Declaration form online by 11:59 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Instructions will be provided. If you do not enter the online portal by the above date, you will not be able to retrieve your statement of participation.
• Upon successful completion of the online form, your statement of completion will be presented to you to print.

AXIS Contact Information
For information about the accreditation of this program, please contact AXIS at info@axismeded.org.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, peer reviewers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all personal financial relationships they may have in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling or distributing health care products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity.

AXIS has mitigated and disclosed to learners all relevant financial relationships disclosed by staff, planners, faculty/authors, peer reviewers or others in control of content for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation or activity. Disclosure information for faculty, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers and/or relevant staff is provided with this activity.

The faculty, Betty Jo Rocchio, DNP, R.N., CRNA, CENP, EBT-C, reported no relevant financial relationships or relationships they have with ineligible companies of any amount during the past 24 months.

The directors, planners, managers, peer reviewers and relevant staff reported the following financial relationships they have with any ineligible company of any amount during the past 24 months:

Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

For More Information

Contact Peggy Taylor at ptaylor@mhanet.com or 573-893-3700, ext. 1370, with questions.

Please note that your registration request will be submitted to the organizer for approval. Upon approval, instructional materials will be sent to the email address indicated on the registration form.

If you have special needs addressed by the Americans With Disabilities Act, please contact the Missouri Hospital Association.

MHA Health Institute
P.O. Box 60
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: 573-893-3700
Fax: 573-893-2809