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Education
ARN 2003 Annual Educational Conference
Friday, October 17
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Diversity in the Workplace
Helen Abdali-Soosan Fagan, BA
Creation of a culturally competent environment in the workplace is crucial for the well-being of both patients and caregivers. Investigate the four layers of the diversity model to gain an understanding of the overall diversity picture and use it to create an appropriate environment for patients.
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Bariatrics: Considering Mobility, Patient Safety, and Caregiver Injury (301)
Susan Gallagher, PhD RN WOCN
Explore the common immobility-related complications associated with obesity in the health care setting while identifying the specific risks of injury related to mobilizing the very dependent patient who is overweight. Identify strategies for reducing or preventing caregiver injury while promoting patient safety.
Sexual Education: A Hidden Face in Rehabilitation (302)
Susan Greco, MSN RN CRRN
Most people do it, but only the brave talk about it. Unmask this important topic for the sake of your patients. Learn educational strategies to help people with disabilities recognize the barriers to sexual function, the compensation strategies that can be implemented, and how medicine can enhance sexual performance and fertility treatment.
Transition Issues in Individuals with Spina Bifida: Moving Successfully Through the Lifespan (303)
Judith K. Otto, LOTR
Explore the emotional, physical, social and educational issues associated with the transition of persons with Sina Bifida through the lifespan. Gain practical suggestions for easing the process for clients of any age.
Nursing’s Role in Life Care Planning (304)
Terri Blackwelder, BSN CCM CRRN CLCP LNCC
Rehabilitation nurses are ideally suited to participate in the development of life care plans for their clients. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the skills needed to develop a customized blueprint for a person’s needs with associated costs over a life span. Explore case management and the nursing process as integral parts of the life care planning process while working with sample life care plans.
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Broaden your network of professional contacts while sharing ideas, questions, and experiences with fellow rehabilitation nursing professionals.
Fee: $30
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An Evidence-Based Approach to Managing the Nursing Shortage (401)
Holly DeGroot, PhD RN FAAN
With the current nursing shortage clearly worsening, the need for evidence-based staffing decisions has become more urgent than ever. Focus on specific ways to identify opportunities to redistribute workload, strengthen organizational support systems, and more effectively utilize the registered nurse. These proven methods of professional advancement provide both short-term and long-term strategies for managing the nursing shortage by improving recruitment and retention.
Medical and Nursing Management of Acquired Brain Injury (402)
Gary Glynn, MD
Draw from Dr. Glynn’s 25 years of experience as a physiatrist in brain injury rehabilitation to explore medical and nursing management of Acquired Brain Injury. Gain knowledge of pertinent interventions for any rehabilitation nurse caring for the brain injured population. Learn to identify problematic medication and destructive behaviors and how they affect the management of conditions common to the continuum of acute neurotrauma care and acute phase rehabilitation.
Interdisciplinary Approach to Multiple Sclerosis (403)
Jodi Haselkorn, MD
Discuss the interdisciplinary management of Multiple Sclerosis and apply this management within a model of care called population management. Dr. Haselkorn will provide examples from the VA MS Centers of Excellence and share how they may be used in your clinical practice. This discussion will be helpful to health professionals and administrators in Rehabilitation Medicine.
Advanced Wound Care (404)
Tim Mulloy, BSN RN CETN
Are you able to navigate your way through the myriad of treatments in the world of wound care? Join Tim Mulloy to discuss advanced treatment products for pressure wounds and review methods of prediction and prevention of pressure wounds; accurate assessment; and staging and wound bed preparation for existing pressure wounds. Information related to decision making for choosing the most appropriate products will be shared.
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Mid City Rock ‘N’ Bowl
New Orleans may be the birthplace of jazz, but the sound in town is "Rock 'N' Bowl." There are more than 100 clubs featuring live music in The Big Easy, but only one place to find Rock 'N' Bowl: the world-famous Mid City Bowling Lanes. Locals and tourists alike flock to this 18-lane center to dance until dawn, while the air fills with sounds of crashing drums, honking saxophones, rolling bowling balls and falling pins. It doesn't take long for a bowler to start doing the Twist on the approach. Enjoy great New Orleans food, bowl a few frames with your ARN friends, and drink in the atmosphere! Last bus leaves hotel at 6:45 pm.
Fee: $40 per person
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