Continuing education on the exhibit floor: Tuesday, March 13, to Thursday, March 15, 2007

AORN Journal,  Jan, 2007  

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For the past 11 years, HealthStream, Inc, in collaboration with AORN and Congress exhibitors, has provided continuing education (CE) opportunities on the exhibit floor. These educational activities, which are focused specifically on perioperative patient care, provide information that will enhance the knowledge and expertise of Congress attendees. This information will be highly sought after, especially by nurses who are seeking recertification in perioperative professional nursing, because of recertification requirements from the Competency & Credentialing Institute.

As the exclusive provider of education on the exhibit floor in 2006, HealthStream offered CE to AORN members and attendees, who completed more than 35,000 activities during the 2006 Congress. In 2007, live 30-minute workshops, which are accompanied by a self-study review, as well as print independent study guides will be offered. Each activity (ie, workshop, study guide) offers one continuing education contact hour of credit (Table 1). Exhibitors providing CE activities will be highlighted on the 2007 Exhibit Guide map to enable attendees to easily find participating booths on the exhibit floor. As a convenient alternative to dealing with printed posttests and evaluation and registration forms, attendees will have the opportunity to register online for all activities at the HealthStream-sponsored computer kiosks on the exhibit floor or at any other web-enabled computer.

For the second year at Congress, HealthStream will offer the Education Achievement Recognition Network (EARN), a program that recognizes attendees who support their own development and improve patient care by participating in CE activities offered on the exhibit floor. For more information about the EARN program, visit http://www.aorn.org/congress/2007/exhib its/default.asp#education or come to the HealthStream booth (ie, booth 2570) at Congress.

TABLE 1
Exhibitors Offering Continuing Education

Company          Booth        Title                   Type

Advanced         1611         Reprocessing of         Study Guide
Sterilization                 Rigid and Flexible
Products                      Endoscopes

AORN             Bookstore,   Reducing Radiological   Study Guide
                 Room 208     Exposure in the
                              Perioperative
                              Practice Setting

Cardinal         2344         JCAHO Impact on         Study Guide
Health, Inc                   Medication Security
                              and Tissue Tracking
                              Workflow

Cryolife, Inc    345          Adhesives, Sealants,    Workshop
                              and Hemostats
                              in Today's OR

Cryolife, Inc    345          Allograft Tissue        Workshop

Getinge          1319         Applied Ergonomics      Study Guide
                              for Perioperative and
                              Postoperative Staff

Healthpoint,     538          Advanced                Study Guide
Ltd                           Antimicrobials for
                              Surgical Hand
                              Antisepsis

HealthStream     2570         Prevent Ventilator-     Study Guide
                              Associated Pneumonia

HealthStream     2570         Anesthesia Awareness:   Study Guide
                              Unintended--Patient
                              Consciousness
                              in the OR

Integrated       514          Instrument              Workshop
Medical                       Readiness in the OR
Systems
International,
Inc

Kimberly-Clark   1365         Guess Who's             Workshop
                              Coming To Surgery

MicroAire        714          Powered Surgical        Study Guide
                              Instruments

MoInlycke        801          MRSA (Methicillin-      Study Guide
Health Care                   Resistant
US, LLC                       Staphylococcus
                              Aureus)

Stryker          2744         The Operating Room      Workshop
Endoscopy                     of the Future:
                              Operating Today

Syneture, a      1443         Safer Wound Closure     Study Guide
division                      Through Advances
of Tyco                       in Technology
Healthcare

Synthes          3048         What Position Are       Workshop
                              You In? Avoiding
                              Patient Positioning
                              Risks

US Army          2089         Mass Casualty           Study Guide
Nurse Corps                   Disaster Planning

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