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Continuing Education
Events For 2009
CONFERENCES
6TH ANNUAL NURSING LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
SETTING A HIGHER STANDARD: IMPLEMENTING SHARED GOVERNANCE, AND ADVANCING
PRACTICE IN A FRAMEWORK FOR EXCELLENCE NO. HPR803
Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady, senior partner of an international
healthcare consulting firm, specializing in health futures, organizational
innovation, conflict and change, as well as health service delivery models,
has been involved in health care for 38 years and has held roles from
staff nurse to senior executive in a variety of health care settings.
This program will specifically focus on the transformation of the clinical
provider's role within an effective shared governance system. The focus
will reflect the introduction of health care transformation realities
confronting the clinical, professional, and support staff in health care.
Implications are included for the provider with regard to broadening shared
governance structures to support a decentralized environment. Tim will
move from the general to the specific, talking primarily about contextual
changes having an impact on making shared governance more effective. Discussion
will stay centered on the forces reflecting the kinds of changes leaders
can expect in their role in an integrated health care environment. This
conference is co-sponsored with the Indiana Organization of Nurse Executives
(IONE).
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 8, 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Location: University Center, Carter Hall
Registration Fee: $80; $60 for IONE Members; and $5 for
students if registering by March 25.
After March 25, $90; $75 for IONE members; $15 for students.
Contact Hours: 5.75 for nurses and health facility administrators
Registration
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13TH ANNUAL RESEARCH & EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE IN
HEALTH CARE NO. HPR801
Designed to explore health care issues through presentations related to
research and evidenced based practice, and utilization of both in health
care, this conference will include papers, posters, and symposium presentations.
The environment will foster networking among professionals who are interested
in implementing evidenced based practice and utilizing research.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 22
Location: University Center, Carter Hall
Registration Fee: $70
Contact Hours: 4.2
Registration
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15TH ANNUAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE NO. HPR895
This conference will bring national and local speakers to share their
expertise on national health care trends, answer questions about frequently
requested case management topics, as well as provide personal development
and networking opportunities. Editor In Chief of Case In Point
magazine, Anne Llewellyn, RN-BC, MS, BHSA, CCM, CRRN, will provide
a keynote address on Transitions of Care and. Other topics to be presented
include osteoporosis, guardianship, stress reduction, polypharmarcy, and
community care. Barb Bancroft, MSN, RN, a popular national
speaker will close the conference with the topic, “Live a Little,
Laugh a Lot” as well as present a concurrent session on polypharmacy.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 14, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: University Center, Carter Hall
Registration Fee: $80 until May 1; thereafter $95
Contact Hours: 6.1 for nurses, health facility administrators, CCM’s,
and social workers
Registration
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11TH ANNUAL ADVANCED NO. HPR809
PRACTICE NURSING SYMPOSIUM
This annual symposium for advanced practice nurses is designed to provide
current, practical information that will strengthen assessment skills
and expand knowledge of patient management strategies. This symposium
is applicable to those practicing in ambulatory as well as acute care
settings. Featured speaker, Carolyn Buppert, nurse and health
care attorney, has authored seven books on reimbursement and
legal issues concerning nurse practitioners. Her legal clients include
medical practices, institutions, non-profit organizations and individual
clinicians throughout the United States.
Carolyn will present sessions on Prescribing: Preventing Legal Pitfalls
and Avoiding Malpractice.
This program is co-provided with the Tri-State Association of Advanced
Practice Nurses.
Date & Time: Friday, May 15, 8:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Location: University Center, Carter Hall
Registration Fee: $55 until May 2, thereafter $70; Students $15 until
May 1, thereafter $25
Contact Hours: 5.2
Registration
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THE
HEART OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING
This conference will focus on Cardiovascular Care as it relates to acute
care settings as well as community and home health care settings. This
annual nursing seminar is co-provided by USI, Deaconess Hospital, and
the Greater Evansville Chapter of AACN.
Contact Deaconess Education Services at 812/450-7279 for further information
and registration.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 12, 7:50 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Health Professions Center, Mitchell Auditorium
Registration
information
LIVING WITH GRIEF: DIVERSITY & END-OF-LIFE CARE NO.SOC251
The Hospice Foundation of America’s 16th annual teleconference focuses
on how cultural, religious, ethnic, and other forms of diversity can both
complicate and facilitate end-of-life care. Participants will learn effective
strategies for working with populations including African-American, Latino,
Islamic, Asian, and more. A local practitioner panel will lead a 30–minute
discussion after the broadcast. More details, including a list of professions
for which continuing education hours approvals are pending, are available
at www.hospicefoundation.org.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 29, 12:30–3:30 p.m. CDT
Location: Health Professions Center, Room 1027
Registration Fee: There is no charge to attend. There is a charge for
those wishing three Continuing Education hours.
Registration
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7TH ANNUAL SPRING SOCIAL WORK FESTIVAL NO.SOC200
The Social Work Festival is presented by the USI Social Work Department
to celebrate National Professional Social Work Month. Recognition awards
will be presented by the NASW, Indiana Chapter (Region 8).
Date: Friday, March 6
Location: University Center, Carter Hall
Registration Fee: $60
Contact Hours: 5.5 for social workers
Registration
information
HOLISTIC CARE
PROVIDING SPIRITUAL
SUPPORT: A VITAL DIMENSION OF CARE
ADVANCED PARISH / FAITH COMMUNITY NURSE EDUCATION PROGRAM NO.HPR810
This program is an advanced learning opportunity for faith community nurses
who have completed the Basic Parish Nurse Preparation Curriculum. Concepts
to be addressed include: dimensions of the human spirit, spiritual well
being, spiritual support, and spiritual needs. Emphasis will be placed
upon developing the ability to identify and minister to individuals and
families who have spiritual needs or are in spiritual distress. This program
is co-provided with the Tri-State Faith Community Nurses Organization.
Instructor: Bonnie Johnson, MS, RN
Date and Time: Saturday, February 28, 9:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Deaconess Hospital, Johnson Hall
Registration Fee: $35 until February 14; $45 thereafter
Contact Hours: 4.75 for nurses
Registration
information
HEALING TOUCH
LEVEL 1 NO.HPR805
The Healing Touch Certificate Program is a multi-level course of study
in energy-based therapy that moves from beginning to advanced practitioner
and is complementary to heath care. This first course in the study toward
a certificate in Healing Touch is designed for nurses, physicians, health
care practitioners, and interested laypersons and includes the basics
of the Chakra and energy systems, centering, intervention techniques to
help with specific physical and emotional problems and the personal development
of the healer. This course is an approved course of study of the Healing
Touch International, Inc. Healing Touch Certificate Program. For more
information about Healing Touch, go to www.healingtouchinternational.org
Instructor: Victoria E. Slater, PhD, RN, CHTI, HNC
Date & Time: Saturday, March 14, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday, March 15, 9 a.m. -7 p.m.
Location: University Center
Registration Fee: $300 ($275 for AHNA or HTI member); $200 for full-time
students and repeaters of this level
Contact Hours: 17 for nurses
Registration
information
DENTAL
DRUGS PATIENTS TAKE: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS &
EVIDENCE BASED DECISION MAKING: IMPLICATIONS FOR DENTISTRY NO. HPR881
The most common drugs reported on health histories will be discussed with
emphasis on the pharmacological effects, significance of dosage, common
brand names and common side effects that have an impact on oral care.
Clinical management for clients due to drug effects or the indicated disease
condition will be provided, as well as the medical management of potential
medical emergency situations. Oral Health education consideration from
drug side effects will be identified. Antibiotic prophylaxis regimens
for selected conditions will be reviewed, as well as the practice recommendations
for prescribing antimicrobial therapy for orodental infection. Bisphosphonate-related
osteonecrosis of the jaw will be discussed. Evidence Based Decision Making
(EBDM) and the reasons why many practitioners find this method to be a
practical answer to the problem of information overload. Guidelines will
be given for practitioners on how to easily incorporate EBDM into practice
routines and how to locate publications & organizations that will
help them maximize the time they spend gathering new information. National
speaker, Frieda Pickett, RHD, MS, and co-author of Dental Drug Reference
with Oral Medicine Implications and the Medical History: Clinical Implications
is an approved provider for CE credits by the Indiana Health Professions
Bureau and the Illinois Board of Dentistry. Application has been made
for Kentucky and DANB continuing education credit.
Instructor: Frieda Pickett, RDH, MS
Dates & Time: Saturday, February 21, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Location: Forum I, Wright Administration Building
Registration Fee: $95 ($80 each for two or more from same office)
by February 7; thereafter $105
Contact Hours for Dental Professionals: 5
Registration
information
2009
Conferences and Workshops
Dental CE, February 21
Advanced Parish Nurse Workshop, February 28
Heart of Cardiovascular Nursing, March 12
Healing Touch Workshops, March 14-15
6th Annual Nursing Leadership Conference, April 8
13th Annual Research and Health Care Issues Conference, April 22
15th Annual Case Management Conference, May 14
11th Annual Advanced Practice Nursing Symposium, May 15
2nd Annual Mid-America Institute On Aging, August 12-13
Basic Parish Nurse Education Program, September 16-20
Nursing Clinical Practice, October 2
PEP Rally: A Perinatal Conference, October 14-15
Healing Touch Workshop, October 17-18
14th Annual Nursing and Health Professions Educator Conference, October
21
Advanced Parish Nurse Workshop, November 7
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