Women@NCSA presents "Female, Black, and Fat...the Challenges and Joys of Navigating through Life with Labels"
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- Women@NCSA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Speaker
- Ramona Cheek, Senior Consultant MSL Healthcare
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Join Women@NCSA on November 19 on Zoom at 2 p.m. for "Female, Black, and Fat...the Challenges and Joys of Navigating through Life with Labels" with Ramona Cheek, Senior Consultant, MSL Healthcare.
This talk was created as part of a celebration of self-presentation and provides a brief glance into the life of an African American Healthcare Executive. Throughout this presentation, participants will be able to:
Discuss the impact of the labels Fat, Black, and Female on the life of a Nurse Executive
Identify labels that have impacted the participant's own growth and development
Recognize the importance of writing and ultimately sharing a “Celebration of Self” document
This event is open to all NCSA and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign affiliates. Please feel free to share information about this event with colleagues, peers, family, and friends. We look forward to seeing you there!
About our Speaker: Ramona Cheek (she, her, hers)
Ramona Cheek has worked in the healthcare industry for over 40 years. Her background includes quality management and performance improvement, Regulatory compliance and accreditation survey readiness, diabetes education, wound and ostomy management, and patient safety.
Most recently, Ramona was the Vice President of Nursing Transformation and Innovation for Bon Secours Mercy Health. She led the Way We Work initiative, a multi-year project developed to reimagine the way caregivers give and patients receive care. Other positions Ramona has held through the years include Chief Nursing Officer, Director of Quality, Vice President of Patient Care and Quality, Medical Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist, nurse manager, and nurse educator.
Ramona had also been a Principal/Director at Premier Inc, a North Carolina based healthcare performance improvement alliance, primarily responsible for assisting health care organizations. She consulted with hospitals and clinics nationwide in the areas of quality, patient safety, performance improvement, regulatory and accreditation preparedness, and nurse leadership development.
Ramona received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master of Science in Adult Health Nursing from the University of Illinois Chicago.