Conference Site

Fantasyland HotelWest Edmonton MallEdmonton, Alberta, Canada

April 25 – 27, 2007

Pediatric Critical Care

Who should attend

This three-day conference will be of interest tonurses, nurse practitioners, physicians,respiratory therapists, social workers and otherallied health professionals currently working inthe pediatric intensive care environment (PICU)and general pediatrics. This conference isdesigned for those who seek an advanced levelof knowledge with respect to the variety ofissues experienced when working in PICU.

Conference Objectives

This three-day conference will:

• Provide a forum for exchange of knowledgeand practical strategies and techniquespertaining to working in PICU

• Provide practical approaches that participantscan adapt and apply to their work settings

• Promote awareness of information, resourcesand research

April 25, 2007, 1800 – 2100

Wine and Cheese with registration

at the Fantasyland Hotel,

West Edmonton Mall

2007

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Edmonton

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Transport Summary

The field of pediatric transport is a dynamic and challenging area ofpediatric critical care. The focus of the pre-conference workshop is toupdate health care professionals on transport related practice.Internationally reknowned physician, Dr. Allan de Caen, will bepresenting the most recent changes in PALS. Cases will be pre-sented as a review of trauma in the transport environment. Simulatorbased training is one of the most exciting new innovations in trainingand skill development and maintenance for pediatric critical caretransport specialists. This day is open to all professionals who areinterested in pediatric transport. There are a limited number ofpositions for simulation sessions, so register early!

Contacts

Karen Rouleau, Krouleau@cha.ab.ca or

Fern Nielsen, Fnielsen@cha.ab.ca or

Phone Fern at 780-407-1305 for further information

The Stollery Children’s Hospital

The Stollery Children’s Hospital is home to more than 200 physiciansand 1100 staff, all dedicated to providing children with the best healthcare in Canada.

Highly skilled child health professionals from around the world havemade this “hospital within a hospital” a well-recognized centre forcomplex and specialized services.

The Stollery Children’s Hospital is home base for the WesternCanadian Children’s Heart Network, making it the prairie provinces’referral centre for complex cardiac surgeries including open heartand transplant surgery. The Stollery performs the second highestnumber of pediatric cardiac surgery cases in Canada.

As Capital Health’s primary acute care centre for children theStollery is also home base for the Regional Child Health Program.Numerous pediatric specialty and sub-specialty services areprovided here, including pediatric and neonatal intensive careand pediatric emergency.

We care for children from Edmonton and Northern Alberta, aswell as parts of British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces, Yukon,Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.

The Stollery is an innovative centre of pediatric care, teaching andresearch. As a teaching facility, we are closely associated with theUniversity of Alberta and committed to furthering the education ofchild health care professionals.

Keynote Speakers

Wendy Austin

Wendy Austin RN, M.Ed. (Counselling), Ph.D. is a Full Professor atthe Faculty of Nursing, and a member of the John Dossetor HealthEthics Centre, University of Alberta. She holds a Canada ResearchChair in Relational Ethics in Health Care (July 2003- 2008). The aimsof this research program include identifying ethics issues related tothe care of persons who are especially vulnerable as members ofmarginalized populations, describing the presence or absence ofrelational ethics in particular practice settings and gaining furtherunderstanding of the environmental factors necessary to supportethical practice. Her current research projects include examining howmental health practitioners practice ethically in forensic psychiatricsettings, how to improve staff-family relationships in traditional long-term care facilities, what risks participants face in qualitative inter-views, and the influence of stigma of HIV/AIDS on access to healthservices. She is also a mentor for the International Institute ofQualitative Methodologyís EQUIPP program. Her clinical expertise isin psychiatric/mental health nursing and she was a founding Co-Director of the University of Alberta’s World Health OrganizationCollaborating Centre in Nursing and Mental Health. Dr. Austin hasbeen an advisor in mental health to the International Council ofNurses, and is a former President of the Canadian Federation ofMental Health Nurses. She is a member of the Canadian NursesEthics Committee, the Aboriginal Capacity and DevelopmentalResearch Environment Network (ACADRE) ethics committee, and amember of the board for the International Academy of Law andMental Health and the University of Albertaís Health Law Institute.

Barb Brady-Fryer

Barb Brady-Fryer RN, PhD is the Director for Pediatric Critical Careand Pediatric Cardiology for the regional (Capital Health) StolleryChildren’s Program. Barb also is an Assistant Clinical Professor in theFaculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta and recently completeddoctoral studies in Nursing at the University of Alberta. Her disserta-tion research focused on pain interventions for neonatal acuteprocedural pain, and has been published in the Cochrane Library.

Barb has published in the area of pediatric patient safety and is anactive member of the Canadian Association of Pediatric HealthCentres (CAPHC) Patient Safety Collaborative which has beensupported by Health Canada and the Canadian Medical ProtectiveAssociation to conduct research on development of a pediatric triggertool to detect the rate of adverse events for hospitalized pediatricpatients. Barb is also a member of PIPSQuC – the Pediatric Interna-tional Patient Safety (PS) and Quality Collaborative, an internationalgroup of health care professionals dedicated to improving patientsafety for children and youth.

Barb’s clinical background is pediatric/neonatal critical care and hasworked as a staff nurse, unit supervisor, clinical nurse specialist,University instructor and in corporate research administration, beforetaking her current role as Director of Critical Care.

Poster presentations are welcome

Please email krouleau@cha.ab.ca to submit your objectives forconsideration.

ProgramPre-Conference Symposium

April 25, 2007

Avant-Garde Practices in Pediatric Intensive Care Transport

0800 Registration and Breakfast

0850 Opening Statement – Dr. Allan de Caen, MD, FRCP(C)

0900 Resuscitation Guidelines and Changes to PALS Practices– Dr. Allan de Caen, MD, FRCP(C)

1030 Coffee and exhibits

1100 Terror Tales of Trauma Transport – Dr. Jon Duff, MD, FAAP,FRCP(C)

1200 Lunch and exhibits

1300 Group Sessions

Hands-on resuscitation using simulator models –facilitators: Dr. Bill Sevcik, MD, FRPCP; Dr. Jon Duff, MD,FAAP, FRCP(C)

Respiratory Skills station – Transport respiratory therapists

1600 Stollery Children’s Hospital PICU tour

1800 Wine and Cheese with Registration – Concert pianist,Dr. Gisele Rouleau

Day 2: Main Conference

April 26, 20070700 Registration and Breakfast

0800 Welcome by Dawn Wrightson, Senior Operating Officer,Stollery Children’s Hospital and Regional Child HealthProgram, and introduction of keynote

0810 Wendy Austin, RN, PhD – Elements of Ethical Care inPICU: Moral Distress and Compassion Fatigue

0900 Concurrent sessions

1 Bedside Dilemmas Surrounding Child Abuse Cases– Dr. Mel Lewis, BN, MD, FRCP(C)

2 The Ethics of Family Centered Care – WendyBeaudoin, RN, MN

3 Management Challenges and Issues – VanessaFrench, BScN, Graduate certificate; Kathy Danzinger,RN, CNCCP(c); Karen Rouleau, RN, BScN, CNCCP(c)and Roxanne Tyndle, BScN

1000 Coffee and Exhibits

1030 Non-Beating-Heart Donor Discussion – Dr. LauranceLequier, MD, FRCP(C); Dr. Ari Joffe, MD, FRCP(C); BrendanLeier, Ph.D and Lori Apostal, RN, BScN

1200 Lunch and Exhibits

1300 Bioterrorism: What you need to know – Dr. Ari Joffe, MD,FRCP(C)

1400 Artificial Feeding and Hydration: Myths, Morals andMedicine – Dr. Dawn Davies, MD, FRCP(C); Dr. Mia Lang,MD, PhD, FAAP, FRCPC; Dr. Daniel Garros, MD and GaryGoldsand, Clinical Ethicist

1500 Coffee

1530 The Last One to Leave, Turn Out the Lights! – MoralDistress in the PICU – Dr. Daniel Garros, MD

1630 Door prizes, closing remarks

Banquet will be from 1800 – 2100, April 26, with world famous

Wayne Lee entertaining, at the Fantasyland Hotel ballroom

Cost $60.00 per person

Wayne LeeWayne is a former Canadian amateur wrestlingchampion and school teacher, who has anunrelenting passion for entertaining people.He took a childhood interest in magic and afascination with visualization and transformedhimself from classroom instructor to popular

comedic hypnotist, finding a new stage to educate people about the powerof the mind and spread his philosophy that laughter is the best medicine.

He’s mesmerizing, charismatic and engagingly funny. Wayne has delightedcountless audiences around the world. He captivates and charms them,then envelops them in the magic of the moment... with outrageously funnyresults. He has acquired life long fans, individuals who became stars of theshows they came to see.

Wayne Lee is energetic and exciting... a ‘must see’ for anyone who enjoysthe art of laughter

Registration FeesDay 3: Main Conference

April 27, 20070700 Breakfast

0800 Welcome – Lori Apostal, RN, BScN

0810 Patient Safety in Pediatrics: a Primer for HealthProfessionals – Dr. Barb Brady-Fryer, RN, PhD

0900 Concurrent Sessions

4 The Last Frontier: Nutrition Support in PediatricIntensive Care – Bodil Larson, BsC, RD, PhD student

5 The Attitudes and Perceptions of Health CareProfessionals towards Family Presence DuringRounds – Shannon Duncan, RN, Mn(c) and KlaraVigen, RN, Mn(c)

6 Care for the Caregivers: Reflections with Ruth –Ruth Stevenson, BN, MTS (candidate)

1000 Coffee and exhibits

1030 Anticoagulation in Children: Evidence Based Guidelinesto Ensure Quality Control – Dr. Patti Massicotte, MD, MSc,FRCPC, MHSc

1115 The Use of Simulators for Resuscitation Education –Dr. Jon Duff, MD, FAAP, FRCP(C)

1230 Lunch and exhibits

1330 The Berlin Heart – Dr. Ivan Rebeyka, MD, FRCS

1430 Concurrent Sessions

7 Improving Quality: Working with the Canadian ICUCollaborative – Dr. Alf Conradi, MD, FRCPC

8 Can Front Line Staff Make a Difference? –Barb Neufeld, RN, BScN and a PICU staff member

9 Faces and Footprints: Long-Term Follow-UpExperiences – Gwen Alton, RN, BScN

1515 coffee

1545 Making a Difference in the Midst of Chaos – Dr. Bill Sevcik,MD, FRCPC

1645 Closing remarks and door prizes

Pending AACN approved education credits.

Early Bird: received on or before March 15, 2007

Early bird pre conference $175.00

Early bird main conference $375.00

Early bird pre and main conference $450.00

Regular: received after March 15, 2007

Regular pre conference $200.00

Regular main conference only $400.00

Regular pre and main conference $525.00

Banquet $60.00

Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks are provided.

Conference Location

Fantasyland Hotel, West Edmonton Mall

17700-87 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Accommodation choices at the Fantasyland Hotel

Superior Room $109Executive Room $129Theme Room $139

Rates are based on single or double occupancy and do notinclude 7% GST or 5% Alberta Room Tax. Rates are listed inCanadian Funds.

To book your accommodations at the Fantasyland Hotel, pleasechoose one of the following options:

• Visit www.fantastylandhotel.com to fill out a reservation form or;

• Call 1-800-RESERVE (737-3783) or 1-780-444-3000.

Concurrent SessionsIndicate your first, second and third choices for each time slot.

Day 2 – Main Conference

0900 Concurrent Sessions – Morning

�� 1 Bedside Dilemmas Surrounding Child Abuse Cases

�� 2 The Ethics of Family Centered Care

�� 3 Management Challenges and Issues

Day 3 – Main Conference

0900 Concurrent Sessions – Morning

�� 4 The Last Frontier: Nutrition Support in PediatricIntensive Care

�� 5 The Attitudes and Perceptions of Health Care Profes-sionals towards Family Presence During Rounds

�� 6 Care for the Caregivers: Reflections with Ruth

1430 Concurrent Sessions – Afternoon

�� 7 Improving Quality: Working with the Canadian ICUCollaborative

�� 8 Can Front Line Staff Make a Difference?

�� 9 Faces and Footprints: Long-Term Follow-UpExperiences

Early Bird: received on or before March 15, 2007Early bird pre conference �� $175.00Early bird main conference �� $375.00Early bird pre and main conference �� $450.00

Regular: received after March 15, 2007Regular pre conference �� $200.00Regular main conference only �� $400.00Regular pre and main conference �� $525.00

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Banquet: April 25, 6:00 p.m. Number attending _________Cost $60.00 each Total _________

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Stollery Children’s Hospital/University of Alberta Hospital8440 - 112 StreetEdmonton, Alberta, Canada T5G 2B7

Attention: PICU – Fern Nielsen, room 3A3.13

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