Congress education program updates

AORN Journal, Feb, 2006

Sunday, March 19, to Thursday, March 23, 2006

The 2005 Congress Education Planning Committee, whose members are appointed by AORN President Sharon McNamara, RN, MS, CNOR, reviewed more than 225 Congress proposal and identified the programs that best reflect various needs assessments, recent regulatory issues, and trends in perioperative nursing. The committee also reviewed and evaluated more than 120 Clinical Improvement/ Innovation abstract submissions and developed a tool to evaluate the posters 2at Congress to select the top 10 Clinical Improvement / Innovation posters.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal for Congress 2007, be sure to attend the program that the committee has planned for Wednesday, March 22, from 7 to 7:50 AM to discuss helpful hints for submitting a proposal. See the Congress Program onsite for this session's room location. Members of the Congress Education Planning Committee are

* Mary Agnes "Mike" Barnes, RN, MS, CNOR;

* Patsy Davis, RN, CNOR;

* Donna Ford, RN, BSN, CNOR;

* Paula R. Graling, RN, MSN, CNS, CNOR;

* Lynn Gentz, RN, BSN, CNOR;

* Peter Graves, RN, BSN, CNOR; and

* Trudy Kenyon, RN, CNOR.

PRE-CONGRESS PATIENT SAFETY-NURSE SAFETY SUMMIT OFFERED

AORN is offering a Pre-Congress Safety Summit on March 18. Attendance is worth 7.7 contact hours (CH) for the full day. Attendance for the morning session is worth a total of 4.2 CH. Attendance for the afternoon session is worth 3.5 CH. The agenda is as follows.

8 TO 8:05 AM

Introduction

8:05 TO 9 AM (1.1 CH)

9585 Initiatives to Improve Quality and Safety in Health Care--Mary Clancy, MD, director, Agency for Health Research and Quality (invited)

9:05 TO 10 AM (1.1 CH)

9589 Essential Components for an Effective Patient Safety Strategy--Allen Frankel, MD, director of patient safety, faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

10:10 TO 11 AM (1 CH)

Concurrent sessions

Patient Safety Track

9590 Medication Error Prevention--Shawn Coniff Becker, MSN, RN, education coordinator, cardiovascular OR, USP Center for the Advancement of Patient Safety

Workplace Safety Track

9591 Coping with Caregiver Stress--Patricia Seifert, RN, MSN, CRNFA, FAAN, director, patient safety initiatives, Inova Fairfax Hospital

11:10 AM TO NOON (1 CH)

Concurrent sessions

9592 Fire Prevention--Scott Aronson, consultant, Russell Phillips and Associates

9593 Sharp Safety--Mark Davis, MD, FACOG; Pat Hickey, RN, BSN, MS, DrPH, CNOR

NOON TO 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 TO 2:20 PM (1 CH)

9587 Human Factors and Team Training for the OR: What's the Proof To Date--Bill Taggert, executive vice president, Human Performance Training Institute

2:30 TO 3:20 PM (1 CH)

Concurrent sessions

Patient Safety Track

9594 Human Factors Training Demonstration Project: An Update--Peggy Cain Price, president, Safer Healthcare

Workplace Safety Track

9595 Bloodborne Pathogens--Dionne Williams, senior industrial hygienist

3:30 TO 4:30 PM (1.2 CH)

9596 Safety in Action--Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNAA, FAAN, chief operating officer, Kaiser Foundation Hospital; Elena G. Canacari, RN, CNOR, director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center West

4:30 TO 4:45 PM (0.3 CH)

Questions

CRNFA CONTACT HOURS

Contact hours for the following programs have been approved for CRNFA recertification. An (R) denotes a repeat session.

SUNDAY, MARCH 19

C 9210 Perioperative Nursing in Operation Iraqi Freedom--Maj Patricia A. Fortner, RN, MSN, MEd, CNOR

C 9212 The Surgical Liaison Nurse: Keeping Families Connected--Lorraine Osborne, RN, BN, CPN(C)

C 9213 Pediatric Medication Errors in the OR--Maj Laura Elizabeth Newkirk, RN, BSN, CNOR; Rodney W. Hicks, ARNP, MPA, MSN; Maj Kelly C. Nader, RN, CNOR

L/M 9214 Tissue Banking: Diversity, Differentiation, Standardization--Judith A. Torgerson, RN, CTBS; Victoria Steelman, RN, PhD, CNOR

P 9218 The Dark Side of Surgery: Mistake, Misconduct, Disaster--Col Keith Essen, RN, BSN, MSN, MSS, CNOR

M/L 9223 Mission OR: Teamwork at its Best--Nancy Gillard, RN

C 9225 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Brain: Past, Present, and Future--Elizabeth Gasson, RN, MSN, CNOR; Angela Kanan, RN, BSN, CNOR

C 9227 Plastic Surgery Update--Tracey A. Hotta, RN, BScN, CPSN

C 9228 (R) Pediatric Medication Errors in the OR--Rodney W. Hicks, ARNP, MPA, MSN; Maj Christopher H. Payne, BSN, MPA, CNOR; Lt Comm Christopher Rondall Smith, RN, MHR

C 9232 (R) Perioperative Nursing in Operation Iraqi Freedom--Maj Patricia A. Fortner, RN, MSN, MEd, CNOR

L/M 9234 (R) Tissue Banking: Diversity, Differentiation, Standardization--Judith A. Torgerson, RN, CTBS; Victoria Steelman, RN, PhD, CNOR

C 9235 (R) The Surgical Liaison Nurse: Keeping Families Connected--Lorraine Osborne, RN, BN, CPN(C)

C 9236 (R) Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Brain: Past, Present and Future--Elizabeth Gasson, RN, MSN, CNOR; Angela Kanan, RN, BSN, CNOR

M/L 9237 (R) Mission OR: Teamwork at its Best--Nancy Gillard, RN

C 9238 (R) Plastic Surgery Update--Tracey A. Hotta, RN, BScN, CPSN

P 9239 (R) The Dark Side of Surgery: Mistake, Misconduct, Disaster--Col Keith Essen, RN, BSN, MSN, MSS, CNOR

MONDAY, MARCH 20

A 9245 Infection Control: It Depends on All of Us--Ann Geier, RN, MS, CNOR, CASC