6th Annual Polk County APN Symposium

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Symposium Description: 

• This symposium will strengthen the practitioner’s knowledge base, assessment skills, and assist in further development of dynamic practice strategies for diagnosis and management. 

Target Audience:

• This program is designed to meet the needs of advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and other health care professionals. 

Objectives:

Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to: 

• Understand the difference between DNP and PhD. 
• Verbalize latest diabetes trends 
• Understand the intricacies of coding and billing 
• Discuss how the IOM report affects nursing 
• Define storytelling and how it can help your patients 
• Identify legislative changes 
• Summarize the history of Neurology 
• Verbalize management of pain and dyspnea 
• Discuss how to triage an acute pediatric abdomen 
• Understand polypharmacy in the Elderly 
• Define the different stages of wounds 
• Identify who is a candidate for the new TAVI procedure 
• Discuss ovarian cancer signs and symptoms 
• Understand the meaning of brain fitness 
• Verbalize stress reduction techniques 

Agenda:

Friday September 21st

• 1:30p-2:00p - Registration 
• 2:00p-2:15p - Welcome 
• 2:15p-3:15p - APN Billing Issues 
• 3:25p-4:25p - 2A-Sweet Success! A Diabetes Update  | 2B-DNP, Is it for Me? 
• 4:35p-5:35p - 3A-How Will the IOM reports affect APN’s | 3B-Lost Art of Storytelling in Nursing 
• 5:35p-6:00p - Dinner during legislative update 
• 6:00p-7:30p - Update on National and State Healthcare Legislation 
• 7:40p-8:40p - Impact of History on Neurology 
• 8:40p-9:00p - Wrap up 

Saturday September 22nd 

• 7:30a-8:00a - Registration, Welcome and Breakfast 
• 8:00a-9:00a - Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation 
• 9:10a-10:10a - 7A-Symptom Management at End of Life | 7B-Triage of the Pediatric Acute Abdomen 
• 10:10a-10:30a - Break with Exhibitors 
• 10:30a-11:30a - 8A-When to Spare Some Pharmaceutical Care | 8B-Wound care Management: A Crash Course 
• 11:30a-11:50a - Lunch 
• 11:50a-12:50p - The Use of Adjuvants in Pain Management 
• 1:00p-2:00p - 10A-Ovarian Cancer: Screening and Early Detection | 10B-What is Brain Fitness 
• 2:00p-2:20p - Break with Exhibitors 
• 2:20p-3:50p - Using Humor to Survive the Day to Day Grind 
• 3:50p-4:00p - Closing 

Hotel Accommodations: 

• A block of rooms has been reserved for September 21st- 22nd 2012 at the Hilton Garden Inn. Our symposium guests will receive a special group rate of $89/nt. To make reservations, please call ( 863) 647-0066. Request the group rate for SOCIAL. The cut off date for the group rate is August 24th. 
   
• PCAPNA will not be responsible for travel expenses incurred by the participant in the unlikely event that the program is cancelled. Events, activities, and facilities of Hilton Garden Inn are available without regards to race, color, sex, nationality, disability or veteran status and in regards with the hotels respect for personal dignity. 

Accommodations for Disabilities: 

• Please notify the PCAPNA office, PO Box 93055, Lakeland, FL 33804 or e-mail at www.pcapna.org before September 4th if reasonable accommodation is needed 

Directions to Hilton Garden Inn: 

• From Orlando or Tampa take I-4 to exit 27 (570, Polk Parkway (TOLL ROAD), Exit at 3, Airport Road stay right, then turn left on Dranefield Road, Hilton is located about 0.2 miles on the right. (863) 647-0066