By Celeste Rensi, BSN, RN, ONC
NAON Education Committee, Congress Unit
One of the greatest challenges of working on the Congress Unit is deciding what abstracts to choose for presentation and at the same time, providing the best possible educational topics that you request through your Congress evaluations. In response, the 2010 NAON Congress Unit is very pleased to announce that 67 percent of the 54 concurrent sessions are level 3 or 4 and 70 percent are Category A. Take a glance at these offerings below. Overall, Congress gives you an opportunity to achieve more than 30 contact hours by attending pre-Congress workshops, general sessions, concurrent sessions and poster presentations.
120-minute sessions:
• Orthopaedic Complications and Compartment Syndrome – level 2
• One Size Fits All: The Myth of Standardize Training Programs - level 1
• Physical Assessment Techniques for the Shoulder and Elbow for the Advanced Practice Nurse - level 4
• Pain Assessment: A Focus on Populations at Risk for Poor Pain Management - level 3
• Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma in the Pediatric and Adult Patient - level 4
• Scientific Abstracts – level 3
90-minute sessions:
• Care and Management of the Patient with an Open Pelvic Fracture from Emergency Department to Recovery – level 2
• Peripheral Nerve Blockade for Postoperative Pain Control – level 3
• Zero Defect Campaign: A Model to Improve Quality Indicators in Orthopaedics – level 3
• Problems For Case Managers: Those Unusual Cases - level 3
• Preventing Complications in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusions (ACDF) – level 2
• Limb Salvage versus Amputation – level 4
75-minute sessions:
• Variations on a Theme: Three Limb Reconstruction Techniques that Vary from the 'Norm' - level 3
• An Overview of Falls: Implications for Patient Care Management - level 2
• What Went Wrong? Legal Issues in Orthopaedics - level 3
• Low Dose Ketamine on the Ortho Unit: It's Role in Acute Pain Management - level 3
• Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB): The Ortho Neuro Experience – level 1
• Hip Arthroscopy: The Science Behind a Labral Tear, Treatment and Outcomes - level 3
• Injury in the Geritol Generation- level 3
• Delirium and the Post-Surgical Orthopaedic Patient - level 2
• Osteoporosis in Spine Care - level 3
• Difficult Cases in Pediatric Malignant Tumor Surgical Intervention: A Case Study Approach – level 3
• Nurses Eating Their Young: Horizontal Violence, Bullying, Conflict and Collaboration in Nursing – level 1
• Orthopaedic Trauma: the Mechanism of Mending - level 3
60-minute sessions:
• Clinical Case Studies in Orthopaedics – level 4
• Educate, Empower and Evalutate: Joint replacement Patient Education 2010 – level 3
• T.houghtfully U.tilizing R.esearch N.ow (TURN): Is Logrolling the Safest Way to move Spine Patients? – level 3
• Osteoporotic Risk, Factors in Patients with Surgically Treated Distal Radius Fractures – level 3
• Helping a Person Navigate the Healthcare System After Hearing “You Have a Tumor” – level 2
• Therapeutic Massage: An Amazing Modality! – level 1
• Diabetes and Bones: What Do We Need to Know? – level 2
• Quality Improvement: The Importance of Documentation Beyond Litigation – level 3
• Memories of Bygone Days in Orthopaedic Nursing: Looking Back as We Plan Ahead – level 3
• Taking Aim at a Moving Target: Improving TJR Patient Care and Outcomes with the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Measures – level 3
• Evaluation of an Orthopaedic Clinical Orientation Program for Nursing Students – level 2
• Outcomes Following Surgical Treatment of Displaced Acetabular Fractures – level 4
• Growing Pains: The Implications of Childhood Obesity in Orthopaedics – level 3
• Joint Replacement Process-focused Care – level 2
• Everyone in the Pool! Backs, Knees, Hips and Shoulders – level 3
• New Trends for Preventing Surgical Site Infection – level 1
• Patient Safety Issues for Nurses - level 3
• The VEPTR Treatment for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome – level 4
• Improved Outcomes with Shorter Hospital Stays After Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Coordinated Approach – level 3
• Good, Better, Best Performance Improvement: One Hospital’s Journey – level 3
• Be the Educational “Current” for Nursing Students’ “Light Bulbs” – level 1
• Oral VTE Prophylaxis: Is it the Future for Our Patients? – level 3
• Working Toward Zero Orthopaedic Surgical Site Infections – level 2
• A Review of Recertification Requirements, or How to Avoid Ever Taking that Test Again – level 2
• Disease-specific Certification and Recertification Process: A Quality Initiative – level 3
• Current Concepts and Surgical Techniques for Shoulders – level 3
• Pain Reassessment: Journey to 100% - level 3
• Using Capnography to Improve Safety in Post-operative Orthopaedic Patients on IV Opioids – level 2
• Current Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Idiopathic Scoliosis – level 4
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Serving NAON on the National Level – level 2
Note the highlights of what’s in store at the pre-Congress workshops:
Saturday, May 15, 2010
• Three Review Courses: Orthopaedic Nursing Review Course (7.0 CH), Orthopaedic CNS Review Course (5.5 CH), and Orthopaedic NP Review Course (5.5 CH). Each course enhances orthopaedic knowledge and prepares attendees to challenge their respective certification exam.
• Two hands-on workshops: “Learning About Orthopaedic Complications Through the Use of Simulation” (5.1 CH) and “Joint examination, Aspiration, and Injection” (4.6 CH)
Sunday, May 16, 2010
• “The Research Process: Building Knowledge to Support Culturally Competent Orthopaedic Nursing Care” (3.0 CH)
The Special Interest Group (SIG) sessions meet on Sunday from 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. These groups meet annually at Congress and provide presentation and networking opportunities to discuss issues and challenges that face orthopaedic nurses (1 CH for each session).
ONC, OCNS-C and ONP-C certification exams take place on Sunday, May 16, 2010 8 am – 12 p.m.
Congress can be hectic and exhilarating at the same time, but I look forward to going every year. I especially like to network with other orthopaedic nurses around the globe and am very grateful for the many opportunities NAON has presented to me for the past 20 years - mentoring me from novice to expert.