Conference Overview
and Objectives

Conference Overview

Enhance your knowledge on health care reform and a variety of clinical topics that impact patient care in both the inpatient and outpatient setting and enjoy the ocean breeze on Monday, June 6th at “Current Tides and Future Waves in Nursing Practice”.

National experts on the impact of health care reform on the practice of nursing, Al Rundio, PhD, RN, APRN, CARN-AP, NEA-BC and Virginia (Ginny) Wilson, PhD (c), MSN, RN, NE, NEA-BC, will discuss and share why now is the time for nursing to seize a vast majority of health care in our nation and how this piece of legislation may just support such innovation.

Clinical topics presented by interdisciplinary colleagues on:

• advances in electrophysiology
• women’s health
• pharmacology
• the first new anticoagulants in over 50 years

Caring for the patient with substance abuse is very challenging. Dr. Rundio, President Elect International Nurses Society on Addictions, returns in the afternoon to provide us with information regarding the major classifications of substances, including

• club drugs
• the clinical and social effects of abusing such substances, and
• recommended current treatment and prevention strategies

The final presentation of the day from Catherine Harris, MSN, MBA, PhD (c), APN, Nurse Practitioner for Jefferson Neurosurgery at AtlantiCare will provide updates on the advances in the endovascular treatment of stroke.

Conference Objectives

• Discuss two major provisions of the Title 1 Quality Affordable Health Care Bill and the Title 1 Amendments.

• Identify three opportunities for nursing in the USA as a result of Health Care Reform.

• Discuss advances in electrophysiology including implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy and loop recorders.

• Summarize and describe the stages of menopause transition as hormone levels change and the treatment options.

• Examine the direct thrombin inhibitor that was approved for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

• Discuss the anticipated approval of Xa inhibitors for chronic anticoagulation.

• Summarize why treatment modalities have to differ based on substances abused and two relapse prevention strategies.

• Discuss advances and latest research in the endovascular treatment of stroke.

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