NICHE is going Green!
In an effort to reduce the amount of paper-based conference handouts, we’re making them available for download on this site. You may review them prior to the conference at your home or work place. NICHE will not have ANY handouts onsite for the Annual Conference Sessions (Note: Pre-Conference Session Handouts WILL be provided on site).
Thursday, April 22, 2010
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM: Opening Greetings
Dr. Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, NICHE Faculty Director (NYU College of Nursing)
8:10 AM – 9:00 AM: Keynote – “NICHE Nurses Starting the Process: Optimizing Function in Acute Care”
Dr. Barbara Resnick, Ph.D., CRNP, FAAN, FAANP (University of Maryland School of Nursing)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Function Panel Discussion, Part 1
“Bed rest and Low Mobility: Necessary Evils during Hospitalization?” – Cynthia Brown, MD, MSPH (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
PANEL:
- “Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Training the CNA by Rehabilitation Services and a GCNS to Improve Patient Outcomes” – Robert Bouffard, PT (The Miriam Hospital)
- “Education for Pre-op Hips & Knees Improves Outcomes” – Trish Walsh, RN, BScN, GNC & Mark LeCouter, BScN, BBA (Cape Breton District Health Authority)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Functional Panel Discussion, Part 2
“Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Influencing Change in Physical Function in the Hospitalized Older Adult” – Dr. Marie Boltz, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, NICHE Practice Director (NYU College of Nursing)
PANEL:
- “Bringing All our Disciplines Together to Prevent Functional Decline in Hospitalized Elderly Patients” – Jackie Close, RN, MSN, GCNS-BC (Palomar Pomerado Health)
- “Incorporation of Interdisciplinary Rounds & Patient Restorative Liaison” Sherry Piasecki, RN-BC, MSN & Lisette Cintron, RN, MSN, CHCQM, CNL (Jupiter Medical Center)
- “Health Care Partners: an interdisciplinary approach to improving or maintaining function and self care in medically complex older adults” – Cindy Nigoilian, RN, MS, CS- Gerontology (Crouse Hospital)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Poster Session
2:30 PM – 4:05 PM: Hospital Environment Panel Discussion
- “Hospital Designs to Support the Older Patient” – Maggie Calkins, PhD (IDEAS Inc./ IDEAS Institute)
- “Hospital Room Design and Health Outcomes of the Aging Adult” – Susan Lorenz, DrNP, NEA-BC (Princeton Healthcare System)
Approved for 6.7 Contact Hours
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM : Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:50 AM: Keynote – Hospital Patients with Dementia: Numbers, Adverse Health Events, and Emerging Best Practices
Katie Maslow, MSW (Alzheimer’s Association)
8:50 AM – 9:10 AM: Poster Award Ceremony
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM: Break
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM :Dementia & Delirium Panel Discussion
- “Dementia Friendly Hospitals- Care not Crisis” – Janis McGillick, MSW, LNHA & Maggie Murphy-White, MA (Alzheimer’s Association)
- “Palliative Care and Dementia: Achieving the best quality of life for patients and families” – Diane Wilson, RN, CHPN (Lakeland Regional Medical Center)
- “Building and evaluating geriatric evidence-based best practices to improve hospital delirium outcomes” – Sue Nickoley, MS, RN, GCNS-BC & Judy Lawson, BN, RN-BC (Rochester General Hospital)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: ED Panel Discussion
- “The GREAT KIT: Enhancing Geriatric Resources, Education, and Tools in the Emergency Department of Meridian Health” – Linda Hassler, RN, MS (Meridian Health)
- “Creating a Continuum of Care for Older Adults: Senior Emergency Center” – Bonnie Mahon, RN, BSN, MSM, CMSRN, CNA-BC & Smith, & Marcella Smith, MSW, LGSW (Holy Cross Hospital)
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM : Lunch
12:45 AM – 2:45 PM: Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Education Discussion Panel
- “Collaborating to Provide a Best Friends™ Approach to Hospitalized Patients” – Rita LaReau, MSN, GNP, BC (Bronson Methodist)
- “Developing a Geriatric Pain Management Resource Nurse Curriculum” – Ann Schreier, PhD, RN (East Carolina University College of Nursing)
- “Geriatric Simulations in Second Life: Virtual Reality for Interdisciplinary Collaboration” – Sally Miller, MS, RN & Maria Overstreet, PhD, RN, CCNS (Vanderbilt University School of Nursing)
- “Top Lessons Learned in Interdisciplinary Geriatric Program Development” – Kellie Flood, MD (University of Alabama Birmingham)
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Break
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: NICHE Research – Updates & Future Directions
- CAUTI study, University of Colorado Denver –
Dr. Heidi Wald, Dr. Regina Fink (University of Colorado Denver) & Dr. Marie Boltz, Dr. Liz Capezuti (NYU College of Nursing)
- NDNQI Study – Dr. Liz Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, NICHE Faculty Director (NYU College of Nursing)
- Future Directions & Closing remarks – Dr. Marie Boltz, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, NICHE Practice Director (NYU College of Nursing)
Approved for 6.3 Contact Hours
New York University College of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
