Nursing events

RCN Bulletin Jobs Fair 2010

The UK's most important recruitment fair for nurses is back!
Wednesday 15th - Thursday 16th September 2010, Business Design Centre, London

Look no further if you are searching for a new job, a change in your career or advice on how to develop your career. At the RCN Bulleton Jobs Fair you will meet over sixty exhibitors from primary care trusts, NHS trusts, charities, leading recruitment agencies, armed forces, hospices and international companies. You can recieve free personal career advice in our career counselling sessions, as well as be able to attend free seminars on a range of topics.

Web: www.rcnbulletinjobsfair.co.uk

The RCN Fellows 'Facing the Care Challenge' conference

If you care about care, be there!
Wednesday 17th November 2010, Cavendish Conference Centre, London

The RCN Fellows 'Facing the Care Challenge' conference in November is for nurses, carers and patients who are interested in safe, quality care.

Web: www.facingthecarechallenge.com

SEPTEMBER 2010

Afternoon Seminar on "Whistleblowing"
Monday 6th September, The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, St. Asaph, Denbighshire
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Morning Seminar entitled "Saying NO"
Tuesday 7th September, The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, St. Asaph, Denbighshire
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Non-Medical Prescribing: Policy, Practice and Research
Thursday 9th September, Austin Pearce, Stag Hill, University of Surrey
This lively conference programme has been designed to meet the continuing professional development needs of non medical prescribers (NMPs). Chaired by Dr June Crown (CBE), presentations will include updates on NMP policy, practice and research. There will also be a number of workshops including: Patient safety; Prescribing in mental health; Prescribing for pain; Prescribing in diabetes, and Prescribing in dermatology. There will be plenty of time to network and share your views and experiences of NMP.
Cost: £25.00 (to include registration and all refreshments)
Further details: Click here

Taking Pride in Practice, Celebrating 25 Years
Monday 13th - Tuesday 14th September, Merseyside, Southport
The British Association of Critical Care Nurses is one of the largest Critical Care organisations in the UK. Its annual conference now has a reputation for delivering imaginative conference programmes that are educationally stimulating and informative. The Conference welcomes all professionals within the Critical Care field regardless of level or grade. The Conference will cover a wide range of International current topics including Patient & Carers Experience of Critical Care; Education; Research & Development; Excellence in Practice, and Staffing and The Critical Care Team.
Further details: www.baccnconference.org.uk

RCN Wales Independent Sector Conference
Tuesday 14th September, The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, St. Asaph.
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

How to talk so children will listen and communicate so children will learn and thrive
Part of a series of one day modules on Emotional Literacy
Tuesday 14 September, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This Workshop covers the essential 'Emotional Literacy Toolkit' to enable children and young people to flourish and develop good relationships. It is packed with practical tools and tips to encourage children to become well adjusted and independent learners and thinkers, using key listening, communication and relationship building skills. This course is highly suitable for anyone working with or caring for children. This course is recognised for Continuous Professional Development.
Workshop Cost - £75 to include refreshments and lunch.
Days run from 0930 - 1600 hrs.
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

RCN Bulletin Jobs Fair 2010
Wednesday 15th - Thursday 16th September 2010, Business Design Centre, London
Look no further if you are searching for a new job, a change in your career or advice on how to develop your career. At the RCN Bulleton Jobs Fair you will meet over sixty exhibitors from primary care trusts, NHS trusts, charities, leading recruitment agencies, armed forces, hospices and international companies. You can recieve free personal career advice in our career counselling sessions, as well as be able to attend free seminars on a range of topics.
Web: www.rcnbulletinjobsfair.co.uk

Evening Seminar "Parkinson's Disease -- an Update"
Thursday 16th September, RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, Cardiff
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Promotion of Continence
Thursday 16 September, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This day will look at the promotion of continence in the elderly and dying; prevention and management of constipation, and caring for the patient with diarrhoea.
Cost: £50 to include refreshments and lunch
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

An Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming
Friday 17 September, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a really useful tool for everyone and especially for those of us who work as care and service providers. The benefits of knowing how best to communicate with people, and how to improve rapport can seriously improve your ability to communicate! The day will consist of teaching, discussion, experiential exercises and the chance to reflect on what you have learned. If there is enough interest, we hope to run a 4 day Diploma course in the New Year.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Course fee: £50 to include refreshments, lunch and all course materials
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.nrglearning.co.uk

Know Yourself - Understand Others
Monday 20th September, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This session is essential for greater awareness of team working and is especially useful if you are a leader of a team. By having an awareness of Carl Jung's theory of personality type, and the subsequent research and development Myers and Briggs carried out, we can use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to value those differences, enhance our self awareness and focus on our undeveloped potential. Awareness of this can be applied in work to get the best from yourself and from others:- better meetings, tolerance and understanding of others - especially clients, influencing and negotiating skills, powerful presentations and increased team performance. This session is also helpful for team members as well as the leaders, for individual personal development.
Course fee: £65 to include all materials, lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Association for Nurse Prescribing: 'Planning Prescribing into 2012' - 12th Annual Conference & Exhibitions
Tuesday 28th September, Holiday Inn, Birmingham
Thursday 25th November, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
The Olympics are coming to London in 2012 and this provides an ideal opportunity for the nation to get fit. In order to be fit we must prescribe appropriately. Our lively conference programme will be around continuing professional development on top to toe conditions for adults and children. Our workshops will focus on sexual health, prescribing antimicrobials (a public health perspective), prescribing for soft tissue injuries and inspired nursing leadership creating a happy work/life balance. Come and join us and hear all about the impact nurse prescribing has had on service delivery. Whether you are a member of the Association or not, if you are a non medical prescriber or have an interest in prescribing, this conference is for you.
Cost: ANP member £145, Non member £190 (Non members will receive 1 years free membership to the ANP as soon as payment is received). The conference fee includes VAT, entrance to the conference, lunch and refreshments, delegate pack, certificate of attendance and exhibitions.
Further details: Jo Stuttle
Tel: 01245 327763
Email: admin@anp.org.uk
Book online at: www.anp.org.uk

Hand and Foot Massage and Creative Relaxation
Wednesday 29th September, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Massaging hands and feet takes very little time, however it can provide enormous comfort and feelings of wellbeing. Teaching relatives and friends this simple technique can bring an extra dimension to their relationship with the people they care for at the end of their life.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Fee: £50 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Improving Patient Safety Conference
Thursday 30th September, London
Capita's 2nd National Improving Patient Safety Conference examines how to tackle one of the most important challenges facing health care today; making patient care safer. The new Coalition Government has promised to revamp the health service in a bid to drive up standards. Reporting incidents and being open and honest with patients remains key to improving services. This conference provides the opportunity to share best practice on developing patient safety and embedding a reporting culture. Speakers include Rose Gallagher, Nurse Advisor Infection Prevention and Control at the RCN.
Further details: Click here

Palliative Care into the next decade: Advances and Challenges
Thursday 30th September, Chichester Yacht Club, Chichester Marina, Birdham, Chichester
Those who should attend include GPs, Specialist Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Staff, Senior Care Home Staff and the day will be split into two sessions. The morning will consist of: End of Life Care and Cardiac Failure; Neurodegenerative Disease; Dementia - speakers include Sandra Vargeson, Caroline Gorst-Unsworth, and Melissa Foster. There will be a choice of workshops in the afternoon: Dementia and Managing Death in Care Homes; Pain; End of Life Care Medications; Facing Death: When Words Are Hard to Find. The day will finish with an opportunity to question a panel of professionals within their field.
Fee: £50 to include lunch and refreshments with opportunity to try a hand or foot massage during lunchtime break (£40 fee if booking before Friday 20 August 2010 - please quote Early Bird Discount)
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

OCTOBER 2010

Afternoon Seminar "Dealing with Lack of Competence"
Monday 4th October, The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, St. Asaph.
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Reiki Second Degree *FHT Accredited*
Monday 4 October, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Reiki is a simple Japanese energy balancing technique and spiritual system that can be used for your own self healing and also for the benefit of others. The course content includes: General overview which covers information in the course manual; Learning how to work with energy using simple exercises to feel energy; Self treatments; Learn a Japanese meditation technique; Three Empowerments. Connecting to the Universal Energy; Treating other people, and Experience a treatment yourself.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Fee: £80 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Study Day "Preparing for Interview"
Tuesday 5th October, The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, St. Asaph
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Infection Control - working together to fight infection
Wednesday 6th October, The Barbican, London
The focus of work in infection prevention and control has traditionally been on acute hospitals, but many infectious diseases can spread in other care settings within the wider community. The latest in Public Service Events' series of Infection Control conferences, this event will broaden the perspective to look at the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections (HCAI), not just in hospitals, but across care homes, ambulances, and primary medical care. Featuring several key case studies from across the health and social care sector, providing delegates with practical advice on processes, techniques and technologies that have been effective, Infection Control: working together to fight infection will give delegates with the opportunity to hear about the need for the application of standards in infection control across all care settings, and the continued need for innovative technology in fighting infection. This event is CPD certified.
Further details: www.publicserviceevents.co.uk

Morning Seminar on "Whistleblowing"
Thursday 14th October, The Grape and Olive, Wedal Road, Cardiff (200mtrs from RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, Cardiff).
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Afternoon Seminar "Saying NO"
Thursday 14th October, The Grape and Olive, Wedal Road, Cardiff (200mtrs from RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, Cardiff).
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

The Seven Emotional Hungers
Part of a series of one day modules on Emotional Literacy
Tuesday 19 October, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This course explains emotional hungers: what they are, the impact they can have on our lives and the research behind the theory. It also looks at why children can get locked in a cycle of unconscious conflict; identifying the extent of emotional hunger(s) - the more destructive the behaviour, the higher the level of emotional hunger; the link between Emotional hungers and teenage pregnancies, and diagnostic tools to assist in recognising children and young people's emotional needs and empowering them to get these hungers met in healthier ways. This course is recognised for Continuous Professional Development.
Workshop Cost - £75 to include refreshments and lunch.
Days run from 0930 - 1600 hrs.
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Coming of Age: Dementia in the 21st Century
Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st October, ExCel Centre, London
The DSDC's 4th International Conference is aimed at all those who support people with dementia and their carers, whether their background is in social care, planning, commissioning, research, healthcare or social service provision. The content will be of interest to people in the statutory, independent and third sectors, as well as community representatives such as police, faith leaders and elected representatives. People with dementia and their carers are also welcomed. Keynote speakers include Professor Stephen G. Post, USA, Professor Henry Brodaty, Australia, Professor Sandrine Andrieu, France, Professor Emma Reynish, UK. The conference will address many of the crucial issues raised by the National Dementia Strategy.
Further details: Click here

Medicine and Me: Prostate disease
Wednesday 20th October, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Medicine and Me: Prostate disease aims to provide an interactive forum in which the patient's voice is given top priority. The meeting provides an opportunity for healthcare professionals to hear first hand from patients and their families about their experiences and concerns and for patients to hear about the latest treatment and research by questioning the experts in an informal environment. It is organised by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with Prostate UK and the Prostate Centre, and the Patient speaker will be Ronnie Corbett.
Further details: Click here

Morning Seminar "Whistleblowing"
Friday 22nd October, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire.
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Afternoon Seminar "Dealing with Lack of Competence"
Friday 22nd October, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire.
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

NOVEMBER 2010

Reiki First Degree *FHT Accredited*
Friday 5 November, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Please note: This course is only open to those who have already undertaken Reiki First Degree training. Reiki is a simple Japanese energy balancing technique and spiritual system that can be used for your own self healing and also for the benefit of others. The course content includes: General overview-what has happened since Reiki 1; Learn a Japanese meditation technique; Three Second Degree Empowerments; Use of and information about Second Degree Symbols; Distant Healing-method and practice, and Practice using symbols - treating each other.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Fee: £80 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Multi-Disciplinary Day for Nurses Caring for Older People
Friday 5 November 2010, Brighton
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) is holding its first truly multi-disciplinary day at its annual autumn conference. There will be multi-disciplinary sessions covering the following key topics: Achieving Quality Care; Aggression and Challenging Behaviour; Alcohol; Epilepsy in the Older Adult; and Care Homes including Innovation and Research and Policy and Practice. The sessions will include therapy, nursing and medical perspectives and will facilitate discussion between multi-disciplinary team members. A special discount registration fee of £65 + VAT is available for nurses. Physiotherapists are also invited to submit short films of less than seven minutes for a 'Video Box' session on the Friday. This is an innovative part of the day, when short video clips which have an educational purpose will be played and accompanied by a brief explanation followed by questions from the audience. There will be a nominal prize for the best three submissions. The deadline for submitting a film is 1 August 2010.
To register for the event please email bgs@hamptonmedical.com
For further information about the event and the opportunity to submit a film presentation visit www.bgs.org.uk (Select Autumn Meeting).

Finding Resilience Together
Monday 8 November 2010, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
All staff interested in helping people with coping mechanisms and also supporting patient groups should attend. A challenge for health professionals is to learn from, and support, individuals as they use their inner resources to develop strategies for coping - in other words, nurturing resilience. This day will look at: The concept of resilience; The heart of 'holism'; Mind/body medicine; Elements of successful groups (including patient groups); Some insights into managing patient groups, and How to gently explore patient experience and use this at the bedside.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Course fee: £50 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Morning Seminar "Saying NO"
Tuesday 16th November, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

RCN Fellows Facing the Care Challenge Conference 2010
Wednesday 17th November, Cavendish Conference Centre, London
With increasing incidences of dementia, an ageing population living with chronic diseases and a fast moving finance-driven healthcare environment, nurses have been challenged to prove that they can still deliver high quality, fundamental nursing care with empathy and skill. This one-day conference will face these challenges, examining and debating the issues of nurse education, leadership and practice using case studies to seek solutions supporting the delivery of care in all settings. Speakers and delegates will come from all care settings: acute, primary and voluntary sector, and from all levels 'ward to board' to share and discuss.
If you care about care, be there.
Further details: www.facingthecarechallenge.com

Study Day "Pressure ulcer management for health care staff"
Friday 19th November, The Grape & Olive, Wedal Road, Cardiff (200 mtrs from RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, Cardiff)
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Male Catheterisation (Trained Nurses Only)
Monday 22 November, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
An opportunity to update the skill, but please keep in mind this is a predominantly theoretical session - we are not able to assess competence in practice.
Cost: £25
Time: 0930 - 1230 hrs
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Emotional Literacy Tools for Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Strategies for working with Children and Young People
Part of a series of one day modules on Emotional Literacy
Tuesday 23 November, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This Workshop will enable participants to know how to help children and young people who may use anger as a cover up of sadness, hurt or fear, to be able to talk to children and young people about what anger is, what it is for and how it can be used well or badly. This workshop will aim to help professionals who may work with children or young people who bully, who damage things or property, who hurt others, who are developmentally stuck in temper tantrums, children who regularly defy authority, or who may self-harm or have hardened their hearts in self-protection. This course is recognised for Continuous Professional Development.
Workshop Cost - £75 to include refreshments and lunch.
Days run from 0930 - 1600 hrs.
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Association for Nurse Prescribing: 'Planning Prescribing into 2012' - 12th Annual Conference & Exhibitions
Thursday 25th November, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
The Olympics are coming to London in 2012 and this provides an ideal opportunity for the nation to get fit. In order to be fit we must prescribe appropriately. Our lively conference programme will be around continuing professional development on top to toe conditions for adults and children. Our workshops will focus on sexual health, prescribing antimicrobials (a public health perspective), prescribing for soft tissue injuries and inspired nursing leadership creating a happy work/life balance. Come and join us and hear all about the impact nurse prescribing has had on service delivery. Whether you are a member of the Association or not, if you are a non medical prescriber or have an interest in prescribing, this conference is for you.
Cost: ANP member £145, Non member £190 (Non members will receive 1 years free membership to the ANP as soon as payment is received). The conference fee includes VAT, entrance to the conference, lunch and refreshments, delegate pack, certificate of attendance and exhibitions.
Further details: Jo Stuttle
Tel: 01245 327763
Email: admin@anp.org.uk
Book online at: www.anp.org.uk

DECEMBER 2010

Study Day "Preparing for Interview"
Wednesday 1st December, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Study day "Preparing for Interview"
Friday 3rd December, The Grape & Olive, Wedal Road, Cardiff (200 mtrs from RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, Cardiff)
Further details: Rhona Workman
Tel: 029 2075 1373 or 0345 456 7875
Email: rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Reiki Refresher Workshop
Friday 3 December, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Are you a Reiki practitioner who would like to refresh and revive your Reiki skills? Open to all Reiki practitioners at Level 1 and Level 2. The course includes: General overview and discussion; What do you want to get from today?; Using Reiki in every day life; Three empowerments-enhance your connection; Learn a Japanese meditation technique; Sharing of treatments and techniques on each other; Certificate of Attendance for CPD points.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Fee: £50 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

The Anxious Child - Empowering and enabling children to "look into the face of their fear" and overcome it
Part of a series of one day modules on Emotional Literacy
Tuesday 7 December, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
This Workshop has been specifically designed to help children and young people, who are anxious, chronically shy or withdrawn and full of worries and fears that stop them living a full and happy life. Rather than become a passive victim to their fears, children who can get support with something too frightening to tackle alone, begin to find resources to develop resilience, to "feel the fear and do it anyway" and to thrive.
Workshop Cost - £75 to include refreshments and lunch.
Days run from 0930 - 1600 hrs.
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk

Drugs used in Palliative Care
Wednesday 8 December, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
Contents will include: Analgesics and co-analgesics; Anti-emetics; Laxatives; Antisecretory drugs, and Steroids.
Time: 0930 - 1530 hrs
Cost: £50 to include refreshments and lunch
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

Relaxation, meditation and visualisation
Using Chi Kung and Guided Imagery and Meditations for Yourself and your Clients
Wednesday 15 December, St Wilfrid's Hospice, Grosvenor Road, Chichester, West Sussex
As human beings our minds and bodies are totally interrelated so that in order to relax the body we need also to relax the mind and vice versa. In this workshop we will practice various mental and physical techniques from simple moving Chi Kung (qigong) sets, to guided meditations and visualisations. We will explore the effects of mental image on physical sensation and try to find techniques which will be useful to each of us in our day-to-day lives. Guidelines will also be given for adapting standing exercises to a chair and sharing appropriate techniques with your clients or patients in Day Hospice and other settings.
Time: 0930 - 1600 hrs
Fee: £50 to include lunch and refreshments
Tel: 01243 755812
Email: education@stwh.co.uk
Web: www.stwh.co.uk

INTERNATIONAL 2010

In the Steps of Florence Nightingale in Istanbul
Thursday 7th - Sunday 10th October
Alex Attewell, former director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, leads this tour to Istanbul with specialist visits and talks in Florence Nightingale's centenary year. Visit Scutari Barracks where she tended the British Crimean War wounded, and explore the magnificent sites of this fascinating city. The escorted tour includes a number of specialist visits and talks from Alex and local speakers on Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Scutari and 19th century nursing.
For further details please contact Jon Baines Tours.
Tel: 020 7223 9485
Email: info@jonbainestours.co.uk
Write: Jon Baines Tours, 1A Salcott Road, London SW11 6DQ
Web: www.jonbainestours.co.uk/fn

Simulation and Beyond: Creative teaching approaches for improving patient safety
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th November, Mercure Resort, Hunter Valley Gardens, Pokolbin NSW Australia
If you share our commitment to patient safety, view simulation as an under-estimated teaching resource, and think clinical decision making may be the 'elephant in the room' in terms of adverse patient outcomes, then this symposium is for you. The symposium program is replete with topics that will challenge and inspire you. We have brought a diverse range of presenters and a mixture of sessions that focus on practical application; pedagogical imperatives and research based initiatives ... all are relevant to the teaching of health professions and to clinical practice. We hope you will join us in the beautiful Hunter Valley as we learn from each other, explore the 'Christmas Lights Spectacular' in the gardens and perhaps even enjoy the surrounding wineries.
Conveners: School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle; Australian Learning and Teaching Council, University of Western Sydney
Registration: Early Bird AU$450 Full Registration $550
Keynote Address: John M. O'Donnell DrPH, MSN, CRNA Director, University of Pittsburgh Nurse Anesthesia Program, Associate Director, WISER
Website: www.nursingone.com