Best Practices in a Challenging Environment

Cancer Update 2008

4th Annual
Best Practices in a Challenging Environment

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Harrison Room • Southeast Missouri Hospital

Click on the date below to register online

A Seminar for Registered Professional Nurses, Student Nurses & Others Interested in Meeting the ANCC Standards of Best Practices

Registration
$50 for nurses.
Free for nursing students.
Registration fee includes breaks, materials and lunch.
Registration closes on April 25, 2008.

Upon completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:

Discuss the ACE Star Model as it relates to Evidence Based Practice and Research.
Define palliative care and its impact in today’s healthcare market.
Describe one effective implementation technique for a successful nurse home visitation program.
Compare Lidocaine to normal saline for local anesthesia for IV insertion.

This program has been approved for 6.4 contact hours. Southeast Missouri Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Missouri Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Agenda

7:30 a.m.		Registration and Poster Presentations (Senior Management Students from Southeast Missouri State University)
7:50 a.m.		Welcome
8:00 a.m.		Keynote Presentation – Practice Grounded in Evidence: Improving Healthcare with the ACE Star Model Paula Cooper Clutter, PhD, RN, CNS-BC
9:30 a.m.		Break and Poster Presentations
10:00 a.m.		Keynote Presentation (continued)
11:30 a.m.		Lunch with Poster Award Presentation and Door Prizes
12:15 p.m.		Palliative Care: Why Is It Needed in Today's Healthcare Market? Vickie Schnurbusch, MSN, RN, CHPN
1:00 p.m.		Nurse Home Visitation to Vulnerable Rural Families Sheila Beussink, MSN, RN, CNA, BC
1:45 p.m.		Break
2:00 p.m.		A Comparison of Lidocaine Versus Normal Saline for Local Anesthesia Before Intravenous Cannula Insertion Vera Campbell-Jones, MSN, RN, RNC
2:45 p.m.		Strategies for Promoting Evidence-based Practice/Best Practices Kimra Beckett, MSN, RN, CNA, BC
3:30 p.m.		Evaluation

For questions, call Educational Services at 573-651-5547

Click here for a link to a printer-friendly PDF of the program brochure

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paula Cooper Clutter, PhD, RN, CNS-BC

Paula Cooper Clutter is Assistant Professor Clinical for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. She is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Kathleen Stevens/Director of University of Texas UTHSCSA Health Sciences Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice. Dr. Clutter has been a principle investigator and project team leader for research projects involving the ACE Star Model.

SPEAKERS

Kimra Beckett, MSN, RN, CNA, BCD
Home Health Patient Care Manager
Southeast Missouri Hospital

Sheila Beussink, MSN, RN, CNA, BC
Home Care Administrator
Southeast Missouri Hospital

Vera Campbell-Jones, MSN, RN, RNC
Radiology Charge Nurse
Southeast Missouri Hospital

Vickie Schnurbusch, MSN, RN, CHPN
Hospice Patient Care Coordinator
Southeast Missouri Hospital

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Christine Byrd, MSN, RN, CNRN, CS-ANP, CS-ACNP
Neurosciences Nurse Practitioner

Karen Hendrickson, EdD, RN, CNAA, BC
Vice President/CNO

Sharon Stinson, MSA, BSN, RN, CNA, BC
Director of Patient Care Services

Gwen Thoma, EdD, RN, CNA, BC
Director of Educational Services

Myrna Ward, MSN, RN
Director of Patient Care Services

Cheryl Wormington, BSN, RN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant, Obstetrics

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