2016 Annual Conference

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Schedule of Events
Handouts are available to conference attendees. Please call 215-320-3881 or send an email to info@nacns.org if you are a registered attendee and you do not have the UserID and password.

Wednesday  •  Thursday  •  Friday  •  Saturday  •  Posters

7:30 am – 11:30 amRegistration
8:00 am – 9:00 amBreakfast in Exhibit Hall
8:00 am – 9:00 amAffiliate Breakfast / Meeting
9:15 am – 10:30 amConcurrent Session G
G1: Clinical Management Lecture
Providing Expert Analgesia to the Patient with a Subtance Use DisorderHandout
Patricia Rosier
G2: Symposium
Transition from a Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship to an Interprofessional ApproachHandout
Patricia Finch Guthrie, Sue Sendelbach& Sharon Wahl
G3: HAC 3
Lowering Falls by Heightening Awareness in the EDHandout
Amanda Shrout & Mary Kay StaufferA CNS-Led Fall Team: An Innovative and Interprofessional Approach to Achieve Reduction in Inpatient FallsHandout
Erin MarinchakOrganizational Learning through Post Fall EscalationHandout
Alyson Keen & Nancy Verwers
G4: Policy, State
What’s in a Name? Aftermath and Recovery from Title Protection LegislationHandout
Erica Fischer-Cartlidge & Elisabeth WallFull Practice Authority (FPA) for CNSs/APRNs:What You Need to Know
Lydia Booher & Yvonne SmithWithdrawn: The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in an Alternative to Discipline Program
Barbara Chamberlain, Judith Schmidt & Jillian Scott
G5: Ebola, Hospital System
CNS Led Ebola Preparedness in a Community HospitalHandout
Margaret McNeill, Sharon Chilton & Michelle Milly RodriguezDeveloping and Sustaining an Ebola Readiness PlanHandout
Sharon Vanairsdale & Sharlene ToneyCreation and Implementation of the Clinical Coordinator Role within the Medical Surgical Care TeamHandout
Deborah Francis, Kimberly Brown & Jacalyn Buck
G6: Hospital Systems
“Who Moved our Trauma Center?” The CNS Leading through Unprecedented Change!Handout
Maria Carpenter, John Gallagher, Gerald Stoudt, Kathy Farrel, Kirsten Smith &
Karrima Owens
Standardizing Nursing Practice to Improve Care Across a Multi-Hospital SystemHandout
Annette Ouellette & Marie SullivanClinical Nurse Specialist led Project to Increase New Graduate Nurse Retention and Decrease Preceptor Burnout in an Intensive Care Unit Handout 1Handout 2Handout 3Handout 4Handout 5
Mary Lawanson-Nichols & Imelda Albania-Zaragoza
G7:Potpurri
Novelties and Innovations in Assessing Competency in Psychiatric Mental Health Staff NursesHandout
Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky & Nellie Sun‘CNS Cell’ Pilot Project: A New U.S. Air Force Model for Highly-Reliable Advanced Nursing Practice – 12 Month StudyHandout
Jared MortDeveloping a Multidisciplinary Team to Deal with “Exceptional” Patients and FamiliesHandout
Patricia Sheehan, Hazel Lao, Neal Ketchum & Jason Kulangara
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Closing General Session: Building a Culture of Health in America
Michelle Larkin, JD, MS, RN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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