2009 Pediatric Trends Conference

• June 5 & 6, 2009
• Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
  5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD 20852
• Contact hours (Day 1): 6.5
• Contact hours (Day 2): 6.0

The Eighth Annual Pediatric Trends conference provides the impetus in creating the environment for life-long learning.  The professional nurse must demonstrate ever increasingly complex competencies to ensure clinical safety and integrate current evidence and research while practicing in a complex healthcare environment. To this end, the conference will highlight contributions of Children’s National Medical Center’s (CNMC) nurses and other faculty in promoting excellence in clinical practice, education, research and leadership.   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 in achieving nursing excellence.

Day 1: Conference participants will be able to:

• Examine personal knowledge, skills, values, meanings and life experiences as framework for professional nursing practice.
• Develop pediatric clinical care initiatives, which demonstrate nursing research at the point of care.
• Develop strategies in promoting nursing excellence through nursing practice innovations, use of best practices, and promotion of life-long learning.
• Describe current pediatric nursing clinical trends.
• Describe how information presented about evidence-based practice and clinical safety will be used in one’s pediatric nursing practice.

Day 2: Pediatric Nursing Pharmacology Update. Conference participants will be able to:

• Describe how genetics influences individual’s reaction to specific drug on its efficacy and adverse reactions.
• Discuss the importance of pharmacogenetics in promoting successful patient care outcomes.
• Explain the need of consistent monitoring on the use of anticoagulants.
• Examine the pharmacology of different classes of anticoagulants.
• Describe the current psychotropic drugs used for treating psychiatric and/or behavioral disorders in children.
• Examine newer statistics and issues surrounding the rising trend of prescription and non-prescription drug abuse, particularly in adolescent populations

In order for participants to successfully complete the program, the participants will sign-in, attend the entire program, evaluate of sessions and program.  Upon completion, the participants will receive certificate of attendance with contact hours.

Children’s National Medical Center, Division of Nursing, Center for Continuing Education, is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Certificate of Attendance will be provided to non-RN participants.

Fee: There is a $150 conference fee for participants. Two or more participants from the same organization will receive a discounted rate of $125 per participant. The fee includes registration, program's planner, lunch, and contact hours.

**The fee is waived for all Children's National staff.  (Note: All participants will receive the program’s conference packet in place of a program book).

Attire: Business casual. It is recommended that you dress in layers to ensure comfort as room temperature may vary.

Parking: Free for all attendees to conference, attendees will receive parking ticket during registration. 

Hotel Accommodations: Special hotel rate ($129 per night), please call the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD, 20852 and mention "CNMC Conference."

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