Innovations and Advanced Practices in Nursing & Challenges to Provide Health Care
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Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Israeli
Dr. Orly Toren, was born in Israel . She is a Registered Nurse, assistant director of patient safety and risk management unit, at the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center. Dr. Toren has a graduate degree (MSc) in management from the Tel Aviv University (cum laude) and a doctoral degree (PhD) in nursing from Pittsburgh University, USA (cum laude). She is an expert in nursing management and hold a professional degree as a nurse practitioner in nursing policy and management from the Israeli Ministry of Health.
Dr. Toren has thirty five years of experience in nursing, in different managerial roles, academic activities and research. In her current position, she is responsible for promoting patient safety in the hospital. In her former roles, she was the Director of Nursing and Paramedical Professions at the Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel (1700 beds). A major part of this role was to promote the hospital nursing professionals, including 2500 workers; to establish a working system that fit the internal and external demands of the organization, and to strive to reach a level of excellence in all aspects of care.Dr. Toren is also holding a certificate of expert nurse in the field Nursing Policy and Administration, and currently serves as a consultant to the Academic College of Kiriat Ono to establish a new nursing school within the faculty of Health professions.
As a faculty member at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ,she teaches at the School of Nursing and the School of Public health. Her main research focus is on management, manpower and healthcare policy. She has published her work both in scientific conferences and journals. Orly has written a book on nursing Management (Hebrew), and several chapters on the Israeli Health Care System in International books. Her research is published both in national and international literature, and her books are included in syllabuses of nursing education related to nursing management and health policy. In her hospital she is holding the position for many years as a chair of the internal IRB committee.
She is involved in different committees in the national level appointed by the General Director of the Ministry of Health, or the Civil Servant Commission, the nursing Ethics bureau, and the Council for Higher Education. To name only few of the committees: the Committee for Evaluation of Nursing Manpower Characteristics in Israel; several committees to evaluate risk management in hospitals; a committee to plan nursing roles for the future; A quality assurance committee, and a committee for improving activities and services of hospitals. She is also involved in leading National projects. She is also a guest lecturer for graduate students in the school of Nursing and the School of Public health, giving courses in her areas of expertise.
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1990 -1995 |
Sheba Nursing Academic School, teacher |
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1999-2003 |
Haifa University, Faculty of Welfare and Health, School of Nursing, Outside Lecturer and Faculty Member. |
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2004-2008 |
Tel Aviv University, School of Nursing, Instructor and Faculty Member |
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2007 – present |
The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Grants proposals reader/reviewer |
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2009 – present |
Hebrew University School of Nursing, GuestLecturer
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2008- present2011-present
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Faculty of Public Health (MPH) , Guest Lecturer |
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2009 – 2013
2009 – present |
Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon Tal, Academic School of Nursing, Health economics and the Israeli health care system (Guest lecturer) "Malag", member of the academic review board for new academic programs |
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1982 – Woolf Foundation, excellent student award
1984 – Sheba Award, Sheba Medical Center, award to excellent nursing team, Heart
Surgery Unit
1988 – Nursing Division, Sheba Medical Center Tel-Hashomer, scholarship for
Excellent Registered Nurse
1990 – Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Business Administration. Diploma for
excellent achievements and for graduation of master studies with honors
1991 – Ruth Ron Fund, honor diploma for improvement of nursing clinical
leadership
1995 – RachelaPribas Fund, Ben-Gurion University. Sscholarship for excellent
achievements in studies and continuation of studies towards Ph.D studies
1996 – Pittsburgh University (Eta branch) Ruth Perkins award, Sigma Theta Tau.
2011 – American Biographical Institute, Medical Science Award of Excellence 2011
for professional contribution to the well-being society.
Toren, O., Picker, O. (2009). Nursing leadership and management in Israeli
hospitals (eds). Jerusalem:Magnes.
Nirel, N., Riba S., Reicher, S., Toren, O. (2010). Registered nurses in Israel:
Workforce Supply – Patterns and Trends.. Jerusalem: Myers - JDC - Brookdale
Institute , Research report.
Toren, O., Nirel, N., Tzur, Y., Toker, A. (2013). Professional Boundaries
between Physicians and Nurses: Neonatology – a Case Study. Jerusalem: Myers
- JDC - Brookdale Institute , Research report.
Toren, O., Picker, O. (2009). Nursing management in hospitals.In O. Toren & O.
Picker (Eds.), Nursing leadership and management in Israeli hospitals (pp 5-27).
Jerusalem: Magnes Press.
Picker, O., Toren, O. (2009).Nursing professional policy in Israel. In O. Toren &
O. Picker (Eds.), Nursing leadership and management in Israeli hospitals (pp 27-
41). Jerusalem: Magnes Press.
Toren, O.,Balaban,R. (2009). Staff development. In O. Toren & O. Picker (Eds.),
Nursing leadership and management in Israeli hospitals (pp 151-208). Jerusalem:
Magnes Press.
Balaban,R., Toren, O. (2009). Staff assessment. In O. Toren & O. Picker (Eds.),
Nursing leadership and management in Israeli hospitals (pp 208-237). Jerusalem:
Magnes Press.
Toren O. (2013). Health and Healthcare in Israel. In the Global Health, Issues and Policies (pp 547-561). C. Holtz Eds.Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Boston, MA.
Toren O, Lipseuwitz, M.(2017).Health and Healthcare in Israel.In the Global Health, Issues and Policies.C. Holtz Eds.Jones and Bartlett Publishers.Boston, MA.
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