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NENA Hosts Free Continuing Education Programs
Cutting Edge Programs to Sharpen Nurses' Skills

In the Aftermath of Rape:
Considerations for Nurses* **
Cardiac Pharmacology* **
Description This program will facilitate the provision of optimal care to adult/ adolescent victims of sexual assault by increasing the nurse’s awareness of the incidence of sexual assault and patient choices relative to care.   Description This program will provide nurses, from all clinical practice settings, with a better understanding of how cardiac medications work. The actions, indications and nursing considerations will be discussed for each of the major categories of cardiac medications.
Speaker

Mary Sue Howlett, RN, CEN, SANE

  Speaker Carol Mallia, RN, MSN
Contact Hours 2.0   Contact Hours 2.5
Date September 27, 2007
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Register by September 18
Hilton Garden Inn
100 High Street
Portsmouth, NH and
October 18, 2007
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Register by October 9, 2007
Holiday Inn
201 Washington Street
North Haven, CT
  Date September 25, 2007
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Register by September 16
Trumbull Marriott Merritt Parkway
180 Hawley Lane
Trumbull, CT
Managing Cardiac Emergencies* **
  Description This program is designed for nurses in acute, sub-acute and long-term care settings to learn the clinical management of cardiac emergencies. The clinical management of chest pain and brief EKG interpretation will be discussed. The latest ACLS guidelines will be discussed for all of the cardiac emergencies.   
  Speaker Carol Mallia, RN, MSN  
  Contact Hours 2.5  
  Date September 19, 2007, 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Register by September 10
Hilton Garden Inn Glastonbury
85 Glastonbury Boulevard
Glastonbury, CT
 
 
*Contact Hours will be provided. Continuing Education Contact Hours are provided for all programs by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. To successfully complete a program and receive contact hours you must: 1) sign in, 2) be present for the entire time period of the session and 3) complete and submit the evaluation.

**Beverage and Snacks will be provided.
 You must preregister for the above listed continuing education courses
by calling NENA at 877.637.6276

 

 

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