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AORN Center for Perioperative Education
SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL 66, NO 3 EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIEB
AORN Center for
Perioperative Education NOTICE
1997 SPECIALTY CONFERENCES To ensure that you are registering for an AORN event, look for the AORN name and logo. If you are unclear whether the event is sponsored by AORN, call AORN customer service at (800) 7552676 x 1. Remember, AORN is the premier provider of perioperative continuing education.
Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Conference: Dimensions of Practice D Philadelphia - Oct 7-1 1 Rural/Small Hospitals Specialty Conference Denver - Oct 10-11
1997 SPECIALTY CONFERENCES
Management Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25
Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Conference: Dimensions of Practice. High-
Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25
lights from this specialty conference will include designing high quality inservice programs, working with education committees in multifacility systems, designing tests for licensed and unlicensed staff members, and dealing with stress and burnout. Philadelphia -Douhletree Hotel
RuraVSmall Hospitals Specialty Conference. Denver- AORN Headquarters
CHICAGO MUL TISPECIALTY CONFERENCE Registrants may attend sessions from all listed specialty conferences in Chicago. Business meetings will be held for each of the four specialty assemblies. General sessions presented in Chicago will include expanding the perioperative role and creating your own report card, benchmarking in clinical practice, marketing your ambulatory surgery center on
Advanced Technology Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25 Nurses in Business, Industry 8~ Consulting Specialty Conference W Chicago - Oct 24-25 Orthopedic Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 Pediatric Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 RN First Assistant Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 CardlothoracicSpecialty Conference W Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2
OTHER 1997 CONFERENCES Philadelphia Quest fur Knowledge Philadelphia - Sept 26-27 Conference on Infectious Diseases Roswell. Gn - Oct 28-29 511 AORN JOURNAL
the Internet, and a Pew Commission update.
Management Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include benchmarking for financial success, information technology for surgical services, addressing and managing conflict, managing working capital, and the impact of Medicaid risk contracting. Chicago-Palmer House
Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include hot topics in ambulatory perioperative safety, monitoring ambulatory patients after discharge, considerations for geriatric patients receiving IV conscious sedation, importing the culture of the ambulatory surgery center into a hospital-based surgery service, and streamlining the admission process. Chicago -Palmer House
Advanced Technology Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include cost analysis and advanced technology, blending high technology and alternative and complementary therapies, medical-legal aspects of technology, and hot topics in laparoscopy and lasers. Chicago-Palmer House Nurses in Business, Industry &
Consulting Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include competencies for effective consultants, computer tools for consultants, and the impact of managed care on consultants. Chicago-Palmer House
SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL 66, NO 3
PHILADELPHIA MULTISPECIALTY CONFERENCE Registrants may attend sessions from all listed specialty conferences in Philadelphia. Bwiness meetings will be held for each of the four specialty assemblies. General sessions presented in Philadelphia will include cardiac and great vessel trauma, hazards of smoke in the OR, emerging infectious di4ease threats, ways to address and manage conflict, and patient education across the continuum.
Onhopedic Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include new techniques in biologic plating, positioning the orthopedic patient, orthopedic trauma and the perioperative nurse, managed care and orthopedics, pain management for the orthopedic patient, and updates on antibiotic therapies, Hands-on laboratories will include dynamic compression plating and anterior cruciate ligament arthroscopy. Philadelphia -Corn*ention Center
Pediatric Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include perioperative safety, pediatric pain management, advances in fetal surgery, endoscopy in pediatric patients, and overseas missions. Philadelphia -Conivntion Center RN First Assistant Specialty COnfe~enCe.Highlights from this specialty conference will include cardiac physical assessment; legislative issues and RN first assistants (RNFAs); the fine points of writing histories, physicals, progress notes, and summaries; the role of the RNFA in gynecologic laparoscopy; and coronary artery bypass grafting. Philadelphia -Coniwition Center
Cardiothoracic Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include anatomy and physiology of ventricular function, transesophageal echocardiography, interdepartmental integration, chest and aortic reconstruction, minimally invasive procedures, and interventiona1 bronchoscopy. Philadelphia -Convention Center
OTHER 1997 CONFERENCES Philadelphia Quest for Knowledge. Highlights of this two-day conference to be held in conjunction with AORN of Philadelphia will include updates on infectious diseases, pharmacology, professional liability issues, and documentation and computers. Philadelphia -Radisson Hotel P hiladelphin Airport
Conference on Infectious Diseases. The third annual Conference on Infectious Diseases is sponsored by the AORN Center for Perioperative Education, the AORN Foundation, and the Georgia State Council, in conjunction with an education grant from Kimberly-Clark Corp. It is endorsed by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Romdl. Ga -Kimberly-Clark Corpfacilifi CHAPTER ACTIVITIES
Omaha Area Sept 20,1997. AORN of Omaha Area offering. “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Fairy Tales,” Clarkson Hospital, Storz Pavilion, 4350 Dewey Ave. Omaha (Pending approval of 7.2 contact hours). Write: Cathy Capazo, c/o Uni512 AORN JOURNAL
versity of Nebraska Surgical Center, 600 S 42nd St, Omaha, NE 68 198-4210. Greater Cincinnati & Hamilton Sept 27,1997. AORN of Greater Cincinnati & Hamilton offering. “Future of Nursing: The Trauma of Transformation in the 90s” (speaker: Leah L. Curtin, RN, MS, M, DSc, FAAN), The Christ Hospital, 2 139 Auburn Ave, Cincinnati (Pending approval of 7.2 contact hours). Write: Nelda Chandler, 11409 Geneva Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45240-241 1.
Youngstown Oct 18,1997. AORN of Youngstown offering. “Saw Bones Workshop,” Avalon Inn, 9515 E Market St, Warren, Ohio (Pending approval of 7. I contact hours). Write: Gwen Montgomery, 384 Lourdes Lane, Campbell, OH 44405.
Chesmont Nov 1,1997. AQFW of Chebmont offering. “The Fourth Annual All-Day Workshop: Stress Management Strategies,” Sunny Brook Ballroom, East High St, Pottstown, Pa. Write: Joan Stafy, PO Box 431, Gilbertsville, PA 19525.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT HOURS Perioperative nurses can earn continuing education contact hours by purchasing videotapes and audiotapes and completing study guide posttests. These tapes are from sessions at the 1995 and 1997 Congresses; the 1996 and 1997 pre-Congresses; and from the second annual infectious diseases conference. For information, call AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1. You also may call this number to order a
SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL 66, NO 3
1997 AORN perioperative nursing videotape catalog. Also available for contact-hour application is the independent study program based on AORN’s Standards, Recommended Practices, and Guidelines. A minimum score of 80% is necessary to earn 25 contact hours. The deadline for submitting this study is March 31, 1998. Contact hours for the following 1995 Infectious Disease Conference videotape independent studies have been extended to June 30, 1998: “Surgical Site hfectionsImplications for Perioperative Nurses,” “Infectious Disease Outbreaks in the OR,” “Event-Related Sterility Management,” and “CDC Infection Control Update.” Contact hours for the following education modules also have been extended to June 30.1998: “Care
of the Elderly Patient,” “Care of the Pediatric Patient,” and “Positioning the Surgical Patient.”
tion, visit the Center for Perioperative Education’s calendar on the Internet at http:/lwww.aom.org/.
GENERAL INFORMATION
ACCREDITATlON AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. AORN recognizes these activities as continuing education for RNs. This recognition does not imply that AORN or the ANCC Commission on Accreditation approves or endorses products mentioned in the activity. AORN has provider numbers for Alabama (ABNP0075), Califomia (BRN00667), Florida (27F0177), Iowa (103), and Kansas (LT0114-0316). A
REGISTRA TlON Single-day, single-session attendance is possible at most activities. Fees vary, and details of refunds and substitutions are specific to each event. Brochures are mailed for each activity. To receive a brochure, call AORN customer service. AORN wishes to ensure that no individual with a mobility, visual, or hearing disability is excluded, denied services, or otherwise treated differently from other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids or services. For up-to-the-minute informa-
AORN’s Education Programs Offer the Best The AORN Center for Perioperative Education is offering two new specialty conferences in the fall. One will be held Oct 22 to 25 at the Palmer House in Chicago (Management; Ambulatory; Advanced Technology; Business, Industry & Consulting), and the other will be held Oct 29 to Nov 1 at the Marriott Hotel at the Philadelphia Convention Center (RN First Assistant, Cardiothoracic, Orthopedic, Pediatric). In response to competition from other education providers, AORN’s Center for Perioperative Education reminds nurses why they should choose AORN education programs over that of competitors. AORN is your organization and the source that provides standards, representation, and education services to ensure quality patient care. AORN programs incorporate the hottest topics pertinent to your practices. With four nursing spe-
cialties at each conference and a total of 125 faculty members, each conference is designed to meet your education needs. We have quality, not just quantity of, faculty. In addition, our education offerings average a 4.5 approval rating on a 5.0 scale. AORN conferences focus on creating the ideal environment for learning and networking, including providing expert speakers, comfortable conference logistics, and forums for industry partners to present their wares and concerns. You optimize the value of your education dollar because you select and pay only for the sessions that are important to you. Our cost per contact hour is less than the other offerings you may be considering. For more information, contact the AORN Center for Perioperative Education at (800) 755-2676 x 8247.
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AORN Center for
Perioperative Education NOTICE
1997 SPECIALTY CONFERENCES To ensure that you are registering for an AORN event, look for the AORN name and logo. If you are unclear whether the event is sponsored by AORN, call AORN customer service at (800) 7552676 x 1. Remember, AORN is the premier provider of perioperative continuing education.
Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Conference: Dimensions of Practice D Philadelphia - Oct 7-1 1 Rural/Small Hospitals Specialty Conference Denver - Oct 10-11
1997 SPECIALTY CONFERENCES
Management Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25
Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Conference: Dimensions of Practice. High-
Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25
lights from this specialty conference will include designing high quality inservice programs, working with education committees in multifacility systems, designing tests for licensed and unlicensed staff members, and dealing with stress and burnout. Philadelphia -Douhletree Hotel
RuraVSmall Hospitals Specialty Conference. Denver- AORN Headquarters
CHICAGO MUL TISPECIALTY CONFERENCE Registrants may attend sessions from all listed specialty conferences in Chicago. Business meetings will be held for each of the four specialty assemblies. General sessions presented in Chicago will include expanding the perioperative role and creating your own report card, benchmarking in clinical practice, marketing your ambulatory surgery center on
Advanced Technology Specialty Conference Chicago - Oct 22-25 Nurses in Business, Industry 8~ Consulting Specialty Conference W Chicago - Oct 24-25 Orthopedic Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 Pediatric Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 RN First Assistant Specialty Conference Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2 CardlothoracicSpecialty Conference W Philadelphia - Oct 29-Nov 2
OTHER 1997 CONFERENCES Philadelphia Quest fur Knowledge Philadelphia - Sept 26-27 Conference on Infectious Diseases Roswell. Gn - Oct 28-29 511 AORN JOURNAL
the Internet, and a Pew Commission update.
Management Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include benchmarking for financial success, information technology for surgical services, addressing and managing conflict, managing working capital, and the impact of Medicaid risk contracting. Chicago-Palmer House
Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include hot topics in ambulatory perioperative safety, monitoring ambulatory patients after discharge, considerations for geriatric patients receiving IV conscious sedation, importing the culture of the ambulatory surgery center into a hospital-based surgery service, and streamlining the admission process. Chicago -Palmer House
Advanced Technology Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include cost analysis and advanced technology, blending high technology and alternative and complementary therapies, medical-legal aspects of technology, and hot topics in laparoscopy and lasers. Chicago-Palmer House Nurses in Business, Industry &
Consulting Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include competencies for effective consultants, computer tools for consultants, and the impact of managed care on consultants. Chicago-Palmer House
SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL 66, NO 3
PHILADELPHIA MULTISPECIALTY CONFERENCE Registrants may attend sessions from all listed specialty conferences in Philadelphia. Bwiness meetings will be held for each of the four specialty assemblies. General sessions presented in Philadelphia will include cardiac and great vessel trauma, hazards of smoke in the OR, emerging infectious di4ease threats, ways to address and manage conflict, and patient education across the continuum.
Onhopedic Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include new techniques in biologic plating, positioning the orthopedic patient, orthopedic trauma and the perioperative nurse, managed care and orthopedics, pain management for the orthopedic patient, and updates on antibiotic therapies, Hands-on laboratories will include dynamic compression plating and anterior cruciate ligament arthroscopy. Philadelphia -Corn*ention Center
Pediatric Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include perioperative safety, pediatric pain management, advances in fetal surgery, endoscopy in pediatric patients, and overseas missions. Philadelphia -Conivntion Center RN First Assistant Specialty COnfe~enCe.Highlights from this specialty conference will include cardiac physical assessment; legislative issues and RN first assistants (RNFAs); the fine points of writing histories, physicals, progress notes, and summaries; the role of the RNFA in gynecologic laparoscopy; and coronary artery bypass grafting. Philadelphia -Coniwition Center
Cardiothoracic Specialty Conference. Highlights from this specialty conference will include anatomy and physiology of ventricular function, transesophageal echocardiography, interdepartmental integration, chest and aortic reconstruction, minimally invasive procedures, and interventiona1 bronchoscopy. Philadelphia -Convention Center
OTHER 1997 CONFERENCES Philadelphia Quest for Knowledge. Highlights of this two-day conference to be held in conjunction with AORN of Philadelphia will include updates on infectious diseases, pharmacology, professional liability issues, and documentation and computers. Philadelphia -Radisson Hotel P hiladelphin Airport
Conference on Infectious Diseases. The third annual Conference on Infectious Diseases is sponsored by the AORN Center for Perioperative Education, the AORN Foundation, and the Georgia State Council, in conjunction with an education grant from Kimberly-Clark Corp. It is endorsed by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Romdl. Ga -Kimberly-Clark Corpfacilifi CHAPTER ACTIVITIES
Omaha Area Sept 20,1997. AORN of Omaha Area offering. “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Fairy Tales,” Clarkson Hospital, Storz Pavilion, 4350 Dewey Ave. Omaha (Pending approval of 7.2 contact hours). Write: Cathy Capazo, c/o Uni512 AORN JOURNAL
versity of Nebraska Surgical Center, 600 S 42nd St, Omaha, NE 68 198-4210. Greater Cincinnati & Hamilton Sept 27,1997. AORN of Greater Cincinnati & Hamilton offering. “Future of Nursing: The Trauma of Transformation in the 90s” (speaker: Leah L. Curtin, RN, MS, M, DSc, FAAN), The Christ Hospital, 2 139 Auburn Ave, Cincinnati (Pending approval of 7.2 contact hours). Write: Nelda Chandler, 11409 Geneva Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45240-241 1.
Youngstown Oct 18,1997. AORN of Youngstown offering. “Saw Bones Workshop,” Avalon Inn, 9515 E Market St, Warren, Ohio (Pending approval of 7. I contact hours). Write: Gwen Montgomery, 384 Lourdes Lane, Campbell, OH 44405.
Chesmont Nov 1,1997. AQFW of Chebmont offering. “The Fourth Annual All-Day Workshop: Stress Management Strategies,” Sunny Brook Ballroom, East High St, Pottstown, Pa. Write: Joan Stafy, PO Box 431, Gilbertsville, PA 19525.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT HOURS Perioperative nurses can earn continuing education contact hours by purchasing videotapes and audiotapes and completing study guide posttests. These tapes are from sessions at the 1995 and 1997 Congresses; the 1996 and 1997 pre-Congresses; and from the second annual infectious diseases conference. For information, call AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1. You also may call this number to order a
SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL 66, NO 3
1997 AORN perioperative nursing videotape catalog. Also available for contact-hour application is the independent study program based on AORN’s Standards, Recommended Practices, and Guidelines. A minimum score of 80% is necessary to earn 25 contact hours. The deadline for submitting this study is March 31, 1998. Contact hours for the following 1995 Infectious Disease Conference videotape independent studies have been extended to June 30, 1998: “Surgical Site hfectionsImplications for Perioperative Nurses,” “Infectious Disease Outbreaks in the OR,” “Event-Related Sterility Management,” and “CDC Infection Control Update.” Contact hours for the following education modules also have been extended to June 30.1998: “Care
of the Elderly Patient,” “Care of the Pediatric Patient,” and “Positioning the Surgical Patient.”
tion, visit the Center for Perioperative Education’s calendar on the Internet at http:/lwww.aom.org/.
GENERAL INFORMATION
ACCREDITATlON AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. AORN recognizes these activities as continuing education for RNs. This recognition does not imply that AORN or the ANCC Commission on Accreditation approves or endorses products mentioned in the activity. AORN has provider numbers for Alabama (ABNP0075), Califomia (BRN00667), Florida (27F0177), Iowa (103), and Kansas (LT0114-0316). A
REGISTRA TlON Single-day, single-session attendance is possible at most activities. Fees vary, and details of refunds and substitutions are specific to each event. Brochures are mailed for each activity. To receive a brochure, call AORN customer service. AORN wishes to ensure that no individual with a mobility, visual, or hearing disability is excluded, denied services, or otherwise treated differently from other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids or services. For up-to-the-minute informa-
AORN’s Education Programs Offer the Best The AORN Center for Perioperative Education is offering two new specialty conferences in the fall. One will be held Oct 22 to 25 at the Palmer House in Chicago (Management; Ambulatory; Advanced Technology; Business, Industry & Consulting), and the other will be held Oct 29 to Nov 1 at the Marriott Hotel at the Philadelphia Convention Center (RN First Assistant, Cardiothoracic, Orthopedic, Pediatric). In response to competition from other education providers, AORN’s Center for Perioperative Education reminds nurses why they should choose AORN education programs over that of competitors. AORN is your organization and the source that provides standards, representation, and education services to ensure quality patient care. AORN programs incorporate the hottest topics pertinent to your practices. With four nursing spe-
cialties at each conference and a total of 125 faculty members, each conference is designed to meet your education needs. We have quality, not just quantity of, faculty. In addition, our education offerings average a 4.5 approval rating on a 5.0 scale. AORN conferences focus on creating the ideal environment for learning and networking, including providing expert speakers, comfortable conference logistics, and forums for industry partners to present their wares and concerns. You optimize the value of your education dollar because you select and pay only for the sessions that are important to you. Our cost per contact hour is less than the other offerings you may be considering. For more information, contact the AORN Center for Perioperative Education at (800) 755-2676 x 8247.
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