2008 Pediatric Trends Conference

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The current complexities in health care provide challenging “landscapes” for professional pediatric nurses. Navigating health care demands a well-prepared, competent, safe practitioner at the bedside. However, the environment, the uniqueness of educational preparation and variety of skill level continue to present challenging and complex environments in an already highly acute, patient-care population and systems.

This year’s conference theme is “Leading and Managing the Complexities of Pediatric Nursing Care.” The conference features notable speakers who are distinguished in their own fields of practice. They provide frameworks, strategies, personal and professional attributes, clinical expertise, and competencies necessary to lead and manage the complexities in pediatric nursing.

1. Downloadable Conference Brochure
2. Pediatric Trends Conference Objectives 

The Day 1 conference is designed for beginner to expert pediatric nurses. This conference provides opportunities for innovation and application through various presentations with an emphasis on clinical practice, leadership, education and research.
In addition to the conference, a poster session will further demonstrate evidence-based- practices, innovations in pediatric nursing practice, education and nursing research.

Keynote Address
Nursing’s Moment for Advancing Quality Caring Practice: The Time is Now
Carol Picard, PhD, APRN-BC
Professor, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts

A.Child and Adolescent Suicide: The Mythical Truth
Reginald E. Bannerman, MSN, MBA, RN
Clinical Manager, Inpatient Psychiatry,
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Leilanie Rayala, MAN, RN-BC
Advanced Practice Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatry
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Jiyon Nam, MSN, RN
Staff Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatry
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

B. Compassion Fatigue ... A Cry for Hope, Humor & Healing
Debra Townsend, RN
CEO/President, CONCEPTS OF CARE, Inc. and TM The National Center for Compassionate Care Chief Synergy Officer, The CARE CONSORTIUM, Florida & Washington, DC

C. Following the Map to VAP (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia)
Prevention in Children: Evidence-Based Practices
Marisa Mize, MSN, CPNP-AC, PC, CCRN
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

D. Childhood Obesity: The New Pediatric Epidemic-Are We on Board Yet
Nazrat Mirza, MD, ScD,
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Andrea Ewing-Thomas, BSN, RN
RN II, Perioperative Services
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Breakout Session II

A. Change One Thing, Change Everything: The Power of ONE
Victoria Nahum
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Safe Care Campaign, Atlanta, GA

B. Building Confidence, Ensuring Competence The Evidence for Pediatric Resuscitation or is it another Flavor of the Month?
Dusty Lynn RN III, CCRN
Outreach Coordinator
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

C. The Art and Complexity of Pediatric Sedation : A Nurse Practitioner/RN Model Team Approach

Selanie Leavitt, MSN, APRN, C-FNP
Primary Children's Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Lori Eskelson, BSN, RN
Primary Children's Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT

D. Complex Care Program: Tapestry of Care of Medically Complex Children

Miriam Bloom, MD
Director, Complex Care Program
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Brenda McRavin, BSN, RN,
Clinical Coordinator, Complex Referral
Children’s National Medical Center’s Washington, DC

Breakout Session III

A. To Sleep or Not to Sleep: Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Learning in School Age Children

Daniel S. Lewin, PhD, D, ABSM
Associate Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Program
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Folasade Ogunlesi, MD, Associate Professor
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

B. The New Super Nurse: Leading at the Bedside in a Complex Healthcare Environment

Pamela N. Petto BSN, RN, CPON
Clinical Coordinator
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

C. The Story behind the Headlines: MRSA and other Multi Drug Resistant Organisms?

Joyce Campbell, MSN, RN
Clinical Project Manager
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

D. The Wall of Silence: Reinforcing Patient Safety
Rosemary Gibson, MSN, RN
Arlington, VA

Closing Session
CELEBRATE … You Are EXCEPTIONAL!
Debra Townsend, RN
CEO/President, CONCEPTS OF CARE, Inc. and TM The National Center for Compassionate Care Chief Synergy Officer, The CARE CONSORTIUM, Florida & Washington, DC

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PEDIATRIC NURSING PHARMACOLOGY UPDATE
The 2008 Pediatric Trends Conference PEDIATRIC NURSING PHARMACOLOGY UPDATE: Pediatric Drug Use and Abuse, Risks and Misuse is designed primarily for the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) and other interested health care professionals. The focus of the presentations will be on the commonly used pediatric drugs, misuse of those drugs to the point of drug abuse, and risks for the pediatric population. The presentations will highlight the role of the APN in pharmacological management in a variety of health care delivery settings as a provider-advocate in the safe use of most commonly prescribed pediatric drugs.

SPECIAL SESSION ON ETHICS
Moral Distress: Defining Boundaries and Making a Difference
During this session, we will learn how to recognize moral distress in yourself and your colleagues. Current evidence regarding common sources of moral distress, the crescendo effect, and suggestions for resolving moral distress will be described. This session will include case studies and active discussion.

MRSA: It’s Not Just In Hospitals Anymore

Alan Agins, PhD
President, PRN Associates, Ltd
Continuing Education in Pharmacology, Tucson, Arizona

Understanding HIV/AIDS: A Primer on the Virus, the Infection, and the Medications
Alan Agins, PhD
President, PRN Associates, Ltd
Continuing Education in Pharmacology, Tucson, Arizona

Special Session on Ethics

Moral Distress: Defining Boundaries and Making a Difference
Elizabeth Gingell Epstein, PhD, RN
Associate Professor School Of Nursing
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

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