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3rd Annual
Critical Care Conference
Critical Care: Strategies
Today and Tomorrow
Date and Time:
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
7:30 am - 4 pm
Apple Mountain Conference Center
Freeland, Michigan
Audience:
Physicians, nurses and other health care professionals who wish to increase their knowledge of critical care, improve skills in patient monitoring and management
Topic:
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Improving the ICU experience for patients and families |
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Management controversies and patient monitoring |
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Paralysis and sedation strategies for mechanically-vented patients
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Implementing protocols in the ICU to improve patient outcomes
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Explore the future of critical care
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Program Goal:
To enhance and improve the ICU experience for patients and families by evaluating current practices and incorporating new strategies for family-centered care and improved patient outcomes and earn educational contact hours.
Program Objectives:
After completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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Examine current controversies in patient monitoring and management |
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Review new strategies for paralysis and sedation in the mechanically ventilated patient |
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Improve patient outcomes through the implementation of ICU protocols |
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Enhance the ICU experience for patients and their families while fostering more humane care |
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Explore Critical Care in 2010 what does the future hold? |
Program Presenters:
Maurene A. Harvey, RN, MPH, CCRN, FCCM
Maurene Harvey has had 35 years of critical care nursing experience, half clinical and half teaching. In 2002, she became the first nurse to become President of the SCCM whose membership consists of 80% physicians. She has been a CCRN since 1976, an FCCM since 1989, and on the governing board of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) since 1992. She has taught over 400 CCRN review courses, has spoken at 24 of the last 25 National Teaching Institutes (NTIs), and has taught in 47 states and 20 countries. Maurene also has more than 20 publications in critical care, including one book. She was awarded the SCCMs NJ Shoemaker Award for Nursing Excellence in 1998, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses’ Lifetime Member Award in 1999.
John P. Kress, MD, FCCP
John Kress, a board certified intensivist, is the Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Procedure Service at the University of Chicago. He is also the attending physician at Vencor Hospital Central in Chicago. An instructor for over 7 years, in 2001 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has lectured on physical diagnosis, clinical pathophysiology, clinical medicine and critical care for several years in the US and overseas. John has been published in, among others, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Registration:
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Cost for Covenant employees and students: $45; All others: $60
(Program materials, breaks and lunch are included in the registration fee) |
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You must be registered by February 20, 2003 |
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For more information, contact Kathy O’Toole at 989.583.6031 |
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