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Mark Your Calendars!! April 13th - 16th, 2009!!
Who Should Attend?
This is a powerful, exciting conference designed to increase knowledge and expertise in the area of Critical Care and Emergency Care. Critical Care Professionals from all practice settings (Intensive or Coronary Care, Emergency Services, Telemetry, Step-down or Recovery Room), and nurses who wish to prepare for employment in the Critical Care Unit, will receive valuable, up-to-date information related to their areas of practice.
Program Objectives:
• To provide course content which demonstrates the multi-disciplinary approach to the care of the critically ill or injured.
• To enable the participant to relate to pathological concepts or critical illness and trauma, nursing observations, nursing diagnosis and anticipated interventions to be taken.
• To disseminate the newest concepts and trends, along with social implications related to nursing per se, and critical care nursing, specifically.
• To provide clinical care focus as well as content concerning ethics and administration
| Tuesday, March 25th | Wednesday, March 26th | Thursday, March 27th |
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8:00-9:00 Opening Keynote 400 Where is Marcus Welby? The Future of Healthcare and What to Expect 9:30-11:00 Concurrent Sessions 401 Ventilator Graphics: Understanding Respiratory Waveforms 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions 405 Fatal Fat: Novel Approaches to the Newest Endocrine Gland 1:30-2:30 Concurrent Sessions 409 Application of Pulmonary Physiology to Assessment of Ventilator Patients 2:45-4:00 Concurrent Sessions 413 Windows to the World of EKG Iterpretation |
8:00-9:15 General Session 417 How Nurses Think 9:30-11:00 Concurrent Sessions 418 Wide Complex Tachycardias: Stopping the Insanity! 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions 422 Gut Reactions 2008 1:30-2:30 Concurrent Sessions 426 Critically Thinking Through Hypotension in the Post Op Cardiac Surgical Patient: A Case Study Approach 2:45-4:00 Concurrent Sessions 430 From Aspirin to Morphine: Analgesia in ICU |
8:00-9:15 General Session 434 We’re Not Getting Any Younger: Bedside Implications of an Aging Nursing Profession 9:30-11:00 Concurrent Sessions 435 Hemodynamic Case Studies 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions 439 The Liver: What Do Liver Function Tests Tell Us? 1:30-2:30 Concurrent Sessions 443 Platelet Inhibitors in Acute Coronary Syndrome: How They Work and Why They Are So Important 2:45-4:00 Closing Keynote 447 A Dose of Healthcare Humor |
For more detailed information on our sessions, please download and view our brochure!
| Pre-Conference I | Pre-Conference II | Pre-Conference III |
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Finance Skills Needed for Effective Nursing Leadership The skills needed in nursing leadership have changed dramatically in the last few years. Just being able to cover the schedule and assure adequate orientations for new employees is not enough for the business of health care. Today's nursing leaders are faced with complex justifications, staffing predictions, hours/patient day, FTE calculations, and predicted cost savings, to list a few. This presentation will give step by step examples of how to calculate and justify the staff, equipment and supplies that you need to keep your department providing quality care. In addition, the participant will learn how to evaluate new service lines and how to market current programs offered. Spend a day learning finance in an interactive environment, providing you with useful tools for your department. If you're in leadership, knowing finance is essential! Please bring a calculator to this session. |
Managing Bedside Emergencies: Successful Rescue Responses! Cardiopulmonary arrest, the epitome of a bedside emergency, is well-addressed through the multitude of CPR and ACLS training courses available to health care providers. But what about all those emergencies that fall just short of an arrest? What about those potentially life-threatening situations that could result in a “code” if handled improperly? This program has been designed to answer these questions for nurses practicing in any adult, acute-care setting including medical-surgical, post-anesthesia recovery and critical care areas. We will begin with a commonsense approach to any emergency situation modeled after the primary and secondary surveys used in the emergency department and progress to a discussion of current concerns regarding “failure to rescue” situations. Strategies for successful communication with physicians including the SBAR method will be highlighted. After this, we will tackle a series of case studies of common crisis situations involving chest pain, dyspnea, hypotension, loss of consciousness, bleeding, wound dehiscence, diabetes, and others. Pertinent pathophysiology will be reviewed including myocardial infarction, pulmonary emboli and circulatory shock. Basic principles of oxygenation and hemodynamics will be emphasized as they are so often of prime concern in an emergency and a focal point for nursing intervention. Please join us for an exciting day of learning! |
A Special 2-Part Pre-Conference Putting Patients First: Resolving Ethical Issues in Healthcare Numerous, unresolved ethical issues cause nurses from all specialties, roles, and settings, frustration and compassion fatigue! In addition, unresolved ethical questions directly influence patient outcomes, the quality of care, and satisfaction with healthcare delivery! This pre-conference workshop will give you insight into the typical ethical issues that interfere with best practices, quality patient care, the patient's/client's best interest, and even retention! More importantly it will present evidence-based strategies for resolving repetitive ethical issues that interfere with the nurse's ability to meet the patient/client's needs! A Sabbatical for Your Soul: Re-Creational Strategies for Living Well Ever ask yourself why, even when you need it the most, you have the greatest trouble finding time to care for yourself? Does it ever seem
that adding even something that’s good for you is almost impossible in an already jammed schedule? Are you someone who relegates selfcare
to a distant second place in an attempt to get everything done? Then this session will be a sabbatical for your soul! It’s about “recreational”
strategies that focus on body-mind-spirit balance, common sense, time-outs and well-being. It’s an invitation to “be-friend” |