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2007 Conference Abstracts

Thursday, March 1, 2007

	A	B	C	D	E
Session 1: 11:30 a.m .-12:30p.m.	Weighing in to Increase Heart Failure Compliance	A Curricular Strategy: CNS Students Implement VAP Best Practice in a Rural Hospital Setting	The Most Effective Screening Question for Intimate Partner Violence	Empowering Excellence: Strategies to Support Nursing Specialty Certification	Improving Hand Hygiene Adherence Among Healthcare Proiders
Session 1: 11:30 a.m .-12:30p.m.	Debra Pound	Anna Marie Edwards, Kathleen Farrell & Nancy France	Marni Robbins ENP, CNS	Heather Craven	Kimberly A. Fowler & Sarah Harne-Britner
Session 2: 1:45 p.m .- 2:45 p.m.	Using Unit Based Research to Improve Patient Safety	The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Actualizing the Best Quality Cost Effective Health Care in the Acute Care Setting	Collaborative Intervention Improves Adherence in Cardiac Elders	Financial Outcomes: Show Me the Money!	Cost Benefit Analysis in CNS Education: An Opportunity For Demonstrating Value
Session 2: 1:45 p.m .- 2:45 p.m.	Salomeja Garolis	Deborah Mangan	Diane L. Caroll	Kay Knox Greenlee	Melanie Kalman
Session 3: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	A Evidence Based Practice: Combining Passion and Curiosity	Utilizing and Developing Evidence: Central Line Infection Reduction in a Critical Care Environment	The Effect of Post Fall Assessment by an Advance Practice Nurse on Inpatient Repeat Fall Rates	Teacdhing Spirituality Content to Staff Nurses	Puzzled about PhD Prgrams? Practical Advice for Prospective Students
Session 3: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Valerie Hart	Ann Earhart & Jeanneatte Meyer	Barbara Hatfield	Rachel Girard	Pamela J McCabe

Friday, March 2, 2007

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Session 4: 10:45 a.m . - 11:45 a..m.	CNS Leadership: Saving Lives with a Rapid Response Team	Ethics, Nurses and the ICU: A CNS-led Intervention to Change the Status Quo	Clinical Nurse Specialists: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Practice Using Evidence Based Fact Sheets	Using the CNS Role to Promote Safety and Quality in Long Term Care	The CNS Education Synergy Model
Session 4: 10:45 a.m . - 11:45 a..m.	Peggy Curl & Mary Oberg	Kathleen M. Hill	Sherry Atherton & Christy Locke	Joanne Alderman & Wanda J. Borges	Rose Brault
Session 5: 2:15 p.m .- 3:15 p.m.	Violent Workplaces: Recongnizing the Risk	Panel #1 Improving Patient Safety by Standardizing Hand-Off Communications	Oncology Collaborative Practice Model	Redesign of the CNS Role: Ensuring Competent Practice & Measurable Outcomes within a Large Health Care System	Translating Social Justice into Public / Community Health CNS Practice
	Gerry Ehrmann & Patti Rager Zuzelo	Gwen Klinkner	Denise Gibson & Andy Szetela	Sharon Dickinson, Kimberly Hickey, Denise O'Brien & Kathleen Vollman	Sue Ellen Bell
		Panel #2 Patient Handoffs: More than a Buzz Word: Changing a Culture
		Ruthie R. Mangino
		Panel #3 Standardizing Hand-Off Communication Using Voice Technology
		Kathy Mikos

Saturday, March 3, 2007

	A	B	C	D	E
Session 6: 9:00 a.m . - 10:00 a.m.	Relationship-Based Care: Purpose and Passion Come to Life	Using a Human Facotrs Process Analysis to Reduce Medication Error	Safe Patient Handling of Immobile Medical Bariatric Patients	ABC Codes: Documenting CNS Productivity and Billing Fees	Newborn Scale of Sepsis (SOS)
Session 6: 9:00 a.m . - 10:00 a.m.	Laurel Courtney	Carol S. Manchester	Debra Topham	Nancy E. Dayhoff & Patricia S. Moore	Lori Rubarth

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