LOCATION

Holiday Inn by the Bay88 Spring Street Portland, Maine 04101

PORTLAND, MAINE HOLIDAY INN BY THE BAY

Friday, April 25, 2014 Saturday, April 26, 2014

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REGISTRATION DEADLINE

All registration paperwork must be received at MSNA by April 1, 2014.

Mail to: Maine State Nurses Association 23 Water Street, Suite 301 Bangor, Maine 04401

Or register online: www.nationalnursesunited.org/maine

LODGING

Please do not call the hotel directly to book your room as you must complete this form for accommodations. Double occupancy rooms are provided Thursday and Friday nights. Single rooms are available; however, they are limited and you will pay the hotel directly. If you select this option, we will contact you with booking instructions.

FOR DIRECT- CARE AND STAFF RNS

Provider Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing.

Provider #000754 for 10 contact hours (CEHs)

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Maine State Nurses AssociationEducational Conference

FACULTY

HEDY DUMPEL, RNDirector of Nursing Practice, NNU

JUDY TUPPER, DHEd, CHES, CPPSManaging Director of Population Health and Health Policy Program at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014

8:00 a.m. Registration & Breakfast

8:45 a.m. Welcome

9:00 a.m. What Does the ACA Mean for RN Patient Advocacy? Speaker: Hedy Dumpel, RN

11:00 a.m. Collective Patient Advocacy (Pt. 1) Speaker: Judy Tupper, DHEd, CHES, CPPS

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Collective Patient Advocacy (Pt. 2)

1:00 p.m. The “New” Discipline of Patient Safety Speaker: Hedy Dumpel, RN

6:30 p.m. Dinner

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014

8:00 a.m. Registration & Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Narrative Documentation (Pt. 1) Speaker: Hedy Dumpel, RN

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Narrative Documentation (Pt. 2)

2:00 p.m. MSNA Meeting

❏ Please register me for the class indicated below. (A completed form is necessary to ensure registration. Please print legibly.)

Name:

RN#

Address:

City: Zip:

Phone: ( )

Personal Email:

Employer:

MSNA/NNOC Member? ❏ Yes ❏ No

I plan to attend: ❏ Fri ❏ Sat ❏ Both

I will attend Friday’s Dinner: ❏ Yes ❏ No

Meal Selection: ❏ Steak ❏ Chicken ❏ Fish ❏ Vegetarian

Hotel Reservations needed? ❏ Yes ❏ No

Arrival Date: ❏ Friday, April 25 ❏ Saturday, April 26

Other Arrival Date:

Departure Date: ❏ Friday, April 25 ❏ Saturday, April 26

Other Departure Date: Charges apply for extra nights at the hotel; please see section below

and sign.

I understand that if I reserve a hotel room or request travel before or after the event dates (April 25- April 26), I am fully responsible for all of my lodging arrangements, charges, and other arrangements.

Signature:

❏ Double OccupancyRoommate Name (optional) :

If no roommate is requested, one will be assigned to you. If for any reason your requested roommate cannot attend one will be assigned to you.

❏ Single OccupancyI understand I will be charged one-half the applicable room and tax for all nights of my stay upon checkout

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

COMPLETE REGISTRATION FORM AND RETURN TO:Maine State Nurses Association2013 Educational Conference 23 Water Street, Suite 301 Bangor, Maine 04401

Or register online: www.nationalnursesunited.org/maine

For more information, contact Vanessa Sylvester at 207-441-6762 or by email: vsylvester@nationalnursesunited.org

What Does the ACA Mean for RN Patient Advocacy? The Bedside From the Bottom Line (2 CEH)Even as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes into effect, a great deal of uncertainty remains about what the law means for nurses and healthcare. The ACA is part of a longer healthcare restructuring trend designed to reduce operating costs by using more technology and quantitative measures at the bedside. This course will evaluate how the healthcare industry stands to benefit from this restructuring and highlight how it undermines the ability of nurses to provide care and to advocate for their patients. Nurses’ intimate understanding of patient needs affords them an opportunity to address an unsettled question at the heart of healthcare restructuring: Should healthcare be treated as a human right?.

Narrative Documentation: Protecting Your Patients, Practice, and License in the Information Age (4 CEH)This course provides direct-care nurses with a review of the principles of accurate and responsible recordkeeping that facilitates and enhances interdisciplinary communication, whether the format for recording patient care data is paper based or computer based. Included is an overview of selected documentation systems currently in use, including the source-oriented record; the problem-oriented medical record; focus charting; charting by exception; and computerized/electronic medical record (EMR) templates. The Joint Commission’s (Hospital) National Patient Safety Goals and relevant federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations and payer policies for documentation will be outlined together with professional standards of documentation.

The course includes a discussion of the impact of EMRs on nursing practice and the rationale for pursuing individual and collective patient advocacy strategies, as circumstances require, to prevent override of the registered nurse’s independent professional clinical judgment by software systems, sequential decision-making formats, and proprietary automated documentation/clinical practice guidelines.

Collective Patient Advocacy: How to Promote Safe Patient Care Assignments, Making a Difference Through ADOs (2 CEH)This course provides direct-care nurses with strategies to secure safe staffing standards in their facility. By using mechanisms through which RNs can build stronger organizations to secure direct-care RN control over staffing and professional practice in acute-care settings, the focus will be on the use of the Assignment Despite Objection (ADO) form and how, along with the knowledge of nursing practice and relevant hospital regulation, RNs can utilize the ADO as a powerful tool to enforce the direct-care RN’s role in staffing decisions.

The “New” Discipline of Patient Safety: Engaging the Maine Healthcare Community (2 CEH)Since the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human in the year 2000, there has been an explosion of focus across all settings of healthcare on the subject of patient safety. In this session, we will review the major highlights of this attention on patient safety from the last fourteen years, covering some of the successes, as well as those areas that seem to be particularly recalcitrant to improvement. After a discussion of Maine patient safety improvement initiatives.