Philadelphia, PA (January 10, 2012) – Education is the most important way for today’s nurses to keep them current on new technologies, treatments and health care policies. Nursing2012 Symposium: The Conference for Clinical Excellence, will feature the latest information from the industry’s leading experts held April 25 – 28, 2012, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The conference is sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, publisher of Nursing2012, and part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
The 2012 symposium has several new clinical features and a broadened slate of courses designed for nurses who provide care directly to patients, as well as those who are managers and leaders.
The symposium is consistently one of the best-attended nursing education events each year based on the relevancy of core topics such as heart failure, trauma, pain management, assessment skills, healthy work environments, and more. Attendees also earn contact hours, network with colleagues, attend special events and meet with vendors and industry representatives in the exhibit hall.
“According to recent Gallup Polls, Americans continually vote for nurses as their most trusted professionals,” said Nursing2012 Editor-in-Chief Linda Laskowski-Jones, RN, MS, ACNS-BC, CEN, FAWM. “Nurses are extremely dedicated to learning how to provide safe and effective patient care. The symposium provides the courses they need and want most, and that translates directly to better outcomes.”
Program Highlights
Wednesday, April 25:
Five preconference workshops will be offered:
- The Med-Surg Certification Review Course will help nurses prepare for the Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN®) Certification Exam offered at the close of the symposium.
- A Critical Care Certification Review Course (new this year) is an in-depth, comprehensive review that will help nurses prepare for CCRN certification or a change in specialty practice.
- Let’s Get Messy…Hands-On Anatomy, Airway, and Resuscitation Review (new this year)
- Personal Survival Strategies for When You’re Out of Your Element
- Weaning Patients: Ventilator Management
On April 25th, the symposium will officially begin with the Opening Address by Barb Bancroft, RN, PNP, MSN, Executive Director and President CPP Associates, Inc., Chicago IL. Bancroft will take her audience on a winding, humorous trip through the last 30 years of nursing and medicine during her session, Livin’, Laughin’, and Learnin’ through the Years.
Thursday, April 26:
Steve L. Robbins, PhD, Chief “What If?” Officer, S.L. Robbins & Associations, Grand Rapids, MI, will present the Keynote Session, Unintentional Intolerance. Robbins will deconstruct the personal biases that guide decision-making and behaviors at a subconscious level, unlocking nurses’ self-awareness and personal potential.
Friday, April 27:
A General Session, Bad Boys, Bad Boys…Whatcha Gonna Do, by Laskowski-Jones, who is an ED nurse leader, and Captain Jeffrey Evens, BS, NREMT-P, Troop Commander, Delaware State Police, will teach nurses how to recognize high-risk situations in the health care setting that require police involvement, as well as how to respond.
Breakout Sessions, April 26 – Friday, April 27:
Breakout sessions will be presented April 26 and 27th, including new “Advanced Track” courses for advanced level practitioners.
Breakout session topics include:
- A Primary Approach to Depression (Advanced Track)
- Dermatology Across a Lifespan
- Understanding Nurse Malpractice Exposure
- Resilience and Renewal for Nurses
- Faculty-Guided Poster Tour: Ask the Experts (new this year)
- Diabetes Update: What’s New in the Management of the World’s Sweetest People?
- What You Eat Can Kill You: Food-Borne Illness
- Pain Management in the Addicted Patient
Saturday, April 28:
There will be two General Sessions before the closing remarks:
· The first session will be presented as a moderated expert panel discussion, a new format for 2012. The panel will explore hospital readiness in a session entitled Preparing for Disasters at Every Level: Decision Points and Lessons Learned.
· In the second session, entitled Health Literacy: When You Speak What Does the Patient Hear?, Jeff Doucette, RN, MS, CEN, FACHE, NEA-BC, Vice President of Emergency Services, Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, Suffolk, VA, will examine effective provider–patient communication.
· The symposium’s Closing Session will be presented by Faith Bresnan Roberts, RN, BSN, FCN, Director Magnet, Parish Nursing and OB Services, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL. Roberts will use a folktale about a crab bucket to explore the evolutionary process of student nurse to practitioner to leader in her session, The Crab Bucket…The Way We Do the Things We Do.
Registration Information
Complete information and online registration is available at www.nursingsymposium.com. For additional information, contact Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc., Nursing2012 Symposium, East Holly Avenue Box 56, Pitman, NJ 08071-005 or call 1-800-346-7844, ext. 7798 or 7750.
Continuing Nursing Education
Participants who attend the full conference, including preconference workshops and poster sessions, will earn up to 25.5 contact hours of continuing nursing education. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Centers Commission on Accreditation.
Members of the press are invited to attend the conference and interview speakers and exhibitors. A complimentary one-day pass will be granted and an editorial production timeline will be requested. For more information, contact Karyn Cousart at (800) 346-7844, ext. 7750 or via e-mail at karyn.cousart@wolterskluwer.com.
About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services.
LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2010 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion).
About Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc.
Conference management services are provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc., a healthcare management, marketing, and publishing corporation located in Pitman, NJ (www.ajj.com).