2024 Neuroscience Nursing Annual Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance
The 2024 Neuroscience Nursing Annual Conference will be held from March 17 – 19, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City in Salt Lake City, UT. View the schedule-at-a-glance below or download the detailed schedule which includes session descriptions and more.
An asterisk (*) next to a session notes that the session was only available live and was not recorded.
Sunday, March 17
Registration
7:30 am – 6:30 pm MDT
Pre-Conference Workshop
8:00 am – 12:00 pm MDT
*(001) Brain Anatomy With 3D Correlation to Trauma, Stroke, and Other Pathology
Linda Littlejohns, MSN RN SCRN CNRN FAAN
Room: Salt Lake D
Lunch with Exhibitors
12:00 – 1:00 pm MDT
Room: Regency AB
Non-CE Lunch Symposium
12:00 – 1:00 pm MDT
*Chorea in Huntington Disease
Whitney Tice, APRN FNP-C PhD Student; Jamie Hamill, DNP APRN PMHNP-BC
Sponsored by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
Room: Regency C
Pre-Conference Workshop
1:00 – 3:00 pm MDT
*(002) Spine Anatomy and 3D Correlation to Trauma and Degenerative Disease
Linda Littlejohns, MSN RN SCRN CNRN FAAN
Room: Salt Lake D
Concurrent Sessions (2 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
1:00 – 2:00 pm MDT
*(100) Long Term Outcomes of Endoscopic Craniosynostosis Surgery
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatric
Cathy Cartwright, DNP RN-BC PCNS FAAN
Room: Salt Lake B
(101) Fast Tracking Critical Neurosurgical Patients: Craniotomy and SEEG ICU Bypass
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality/Safety/Process Improvement
Laura Agueci, BSN RN CNRN CPN
Room: Salt Lake A
Concurrent Sessions (2 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
2:10 – 3:10 pm MDT
(102) Cerebrospinal Fluid: Function: Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Diversion
Level: Beginner
Track: Anatomy/Physiology/Neuroassessment
Patricia Blissitt, PhD ARNP-CNS CCRN CNRN SCRN CCNS CCM ACNS-BC
Room: Salt Lake B
(103) Navigating the Journey to Epilepsy Surgery: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Level: Beginner
Track: Pediatric
Amy Sullivan, BSN RN CNRN
Room: Salt Lake A
Break with Exhibitors & Posters
3:00 – 3:30 pm MDT
Room: Regency AB
Concurrent Sessions (2 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm MDT
*(104) Pharmacologic Reversal Agents for Acute Hemorrhagic Strokes
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Doanh Ly, DNP RN CNS CCRN SCRN
Pharmacology Hours: 0.7
Room: Salt Lake C
(105) Apheresis In The Neurological Patient: What Is It And Why Will Your Patient Need It?
Level: Beginner
Track: Movement Disorders/ Neuromuscular/ Neurodegenerative
Christine Conrad, RN CNRN CCRN
Room: Salt Lake A
Concurrent Sessions (2 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hour)
4:40 pm – 5:10 pm MDT
(106) Implementation of Extended Window IV Thrombolytics in a Large Integrated Healthcare System
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pharmacology
Patricia A. Zrelak, PhD RN NEA-BC ASC-BC CNRN SCRN CCRN-K FAHA
Pharmacology Hours: 0.25
Room: Salt Lake C
(107) Let's Talk Tumor: Brain Tumor 101
Level: Beginner
Track: Neuro-Oncology
Julie Pagel, DNP RN CCRN SCRN CNE-cl
Ashley Higgins, MSN APRN ACCNS-AG CCRN CNRN SCRN
Room: Salt Lake D
Newcomers Reception for First Time Attendees
5:30 – 6 pm MDT
Everyone who is attending their first AANN conference is invited to this session. Mingle with other first time attendees, the AANN Board of Directors, and committee volunteers.
Room: Regency AB
Opening Reception with Posters and Exhibitors
6:00 – 7:30 pm MDT
Attend the Opening Reception in the exhibit hall to view the posters and mingle with exhibitors. Have a free headshot taken in the back of AANN booth #201.
Room: Regency AB
*Product Showcase
6:15 – 6:45 pm MDT
*Power of Awareness
Megan Miller, Patient Education Manager, Alexion
Sponsored by Alexion
Room: Regency AB
Monday, March 18
Registration
6:30 am – 5 pm MDT
*Non-CE Breakfast Symposium
6:50 – 7:50 am MDT
*AbbVie Product Theater
Laurel Short, DNP, FNP-C, AQH
Sponsored by AbbVie
Room: Regency C
Opening Remarks, AANN/JNN/ABNN Awards, and Agnes M. Walker Keynote Address
8:00 – 9:30 am MDT
Train the Brain: Shifting Our Brains to Think Differently About Competency
Donna Wright, MS RN NPD-BC
The AANN, JNN, and ABNN awards will be presented followed by the Keynote Presentation from Donna Wright.
Room: Salt Lake C
Breakfast with Exhibits and Posters
9:30 – 10:15 am MDT
Room: Regency AB
*Product Showcase
9:40 – 10:10 am MDT
*Personalized Support from Alexion
Liz Michaels, Patient Education Manager, Alexion
Sponsored by Alexion
Room: Regency AB
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
10:15 – 11:15 am MDT
(200) Past President Session: Empowering Minds, Inspiring Change: What Every Neuroscience Nurse Needs to Know
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Patricia Lane, MBA BSN SCRN FAAN
Rachel Malloy, DNP RN CNRN SCRN
Room: Salt Lake C
(201) Understanding How Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries Occur in the Neuroscience Patient Population
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality/ Safety/ Process Improvement
Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN RN TCRN CEN
Diane Wagner, MSN RN CWON
Room: Salt Lake A
(202) The Good, the Bad and the Uncertain: Nursing implications in Caring for Adult Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR-T) Therapy Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme
Level: Expert
Track: Neurocritical Care
Amy Cheung-Taylor, BSN RN CCRN CNRN SCRN
Anastasia Tsiantoulas, BSN RN CNRN SCRN
Kelly Ann Wong, BSN RN CCRN SCRN
Nicolette Simpson, BSN RN SCRN
Maria Clarissa Manez, BSN RN CCRN SCRN
Room: Salt Lake B
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
11:25 – 11:55 am MDT
(203) Neurological Assessment of the Hospitalized Child
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatric
Cathy Cartwright, DNP RN-BC PCNS FAAN
Sarah Szego, MN-NP BScK RN
Kentlee Battick, MSN RN CCRN CNL
Room: Salt Lake D
(204) ¡que qué! : Increasing Cultural Inclusion and Scoring Accuracy through Successful Hospital-Wide Implementation of the Spanish NIHSS Tool
Level: Beginner
Track: Stroke
Nicole Burnham, MSN RN CCRN CNRN SCRN
Natalie Hsueh, MSN RN SCRN
Samantha Nguyen, BSN RN PCCN SCRN Caritas Nurse
Stacy Serber, PhD RN CNS SCRN
Room: Salt Lake C
(205) Nurturing New Neuroscience Brains: Navigating a Preceptor Shortage with Innovation
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Erin Tucker, BSN RN CNRN
Room: Salt Lake A
Lunch with Exhibits and Posters
12:00 – 1:00 pm MDT
Room: Regency AB
*Non-CE Lunch Symposium
12:00 – 1:00 pm MDT
*See Success Differently with EPIDIOLEX®
Patty McGoldrick
Sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Room: Regency C
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
1:00 – 1:30 pm MDT
(206) Bedside Clinical Neuro Assessment Practice Among Neuro Critical Care Professionals: A Triangulation Method (Research Proposal)
Level: Advanced
Track: Neurocritical Care
Della Mathew, PhD MSN RN
Room: Salt Lake A
(207) Hydrocephalus Association Session: Hydrocephalus Accross the Lifespan
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatrics
Cathy Cartwright, DNP RN-BC PCNS FAAN
Paula Peterson
Room: Salt Lake B
(208) Improving Emergent Treatment for Patients with Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Patricia Zrelak, PhD RN NEA-BC ASC-BC CNRN SCRN CCRN-K FAHA
Pharmacology Hours: 0.3
Room: Salt Lake C
Concurrent Sessions (4 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
1:40 – 2:40 pm MDT
(209) YOU Should be a JNN Peer-Reviewer
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
DaiWai Olson, PhD RN
Room: Salt Lake D
(210) Epilepsy Foundation Session: Seizure Recognition & First Aid Certification Training
Level: Intermediate
Track: Epilepsy
Anna Nielsen
Margo Thurman
Room: Salt Lake A
(211) A Patient’s Journey with Rare Peripheral Neuropathy: Learning About Guillain-Barre Syndrome and CIDP from Patients Themselves
Level: Intermediate
Moderator: Sandra Brettler, MSN RN CNRN
John Bennett
Jaswanth Madhavan
Kelly McCoy
Maureen Neville
Room: Salt Lake C
(212) Demystifying HINTS (Head Impulse, Nystagmus and Testing Skew Deviation) with Education, Research and Technology
Level: Advanced
Track: Special Topics
Cynthia Guede, MSN APRN CNRN
Room: Salt Lake B
Break with Exhibits and Posters
2:40 – 3:10 pm MDT
Room: Regency AB
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
3:10 – 3:40 pm MDT
(213) AANN Delphi Study: Expert Consensus on the Components of a Neuro Orientation
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Mary Guanci, MSN RN CNRN SCRN FNCS
Lori Rhudy, PhD RN ACNS-BC CNRN
Marianne Beare Vyas, PhD RN ANP-BC CNRN
Room: Salt Lake A
(214) Out of Bed Mobility with an External Ventricular Drain: A Descriptive Correlational Study
Level: Expert
Track: Neurocritical Care
Megan Moyer, PhD ACNP-BC CNRN
Room: Salt Lake D
(215) It's All Abstract to Me: How You Can Turn Your Ideas into Quality Abstract Submissions
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Holly Wirth, MSN RN SCRN NE-BC
Room: Salt Lake B
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
3:50 – 4:50 pm MDT
(216) Nurses in the Media: It's Our Time
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Rachel Malloy, DNP RN CNRN SCRN
Room: Salt Lake A
(217) Is This a Migraine? A Case Study Approach for Differentiating Migraine with Other Headaches and Review of Migraine Treatments
Level: Advanced
Track: Special Topics
Amy Larson, APRN CNP
Pharmacology Hours: 0.4
Room: Salt Lake B
(218) Paint Your Vision: A Guide to the Visual Pathway
Level: Intermediate
Track: Anatomy/Physiology/ Neuroassessment
Denelle Hebert, BSN RN SCRN
DaiWai Olson, PhD RN
Room: Regency C
Concurrent Sessions (4 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
5:00 – 5:30 pm MDT
(219) Reversing Blindness: Optic Neuritis and Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody Disease
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatric
Jenifer Sant, MS CPNP CNRN
Pharmacology Hours: 0.3
Room: Salt Lake D
(220) Laying the Foundation for Neuro Nursing Excellence: Improving Novice Neuroscience Nurses’ Knowledge through a Fundamentals of Neuroscience Nursing Curriculum
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality/Safety/Process Improvement
Salome Loera, DNP ACCNS-AG PCCN CCRN-CMC SCRN
Fadia Feghali, MS RN NE-BC
Katherine Brown, RN SCRN
Danielle Coffindaffer, BSN RN PCCN SCRN
Dawnielle Feucht, BSN RN-BC SCRN
Room: Salt Lake C
(221) Seizure Semiology: What Your Patient is Telling You
Level: Intermediate
Track: Seizure/Epilepsy
Eugena Bergvall, DNP APRN ACNP-BC CCNS-BC ACCNS-AG CCRN CNRN
Room: Salt Lake B
AMWF Green & Gold Glam Event
7 – 9:30 pm MDT
Join us for the Agnes Marshall Walker Foundation (AMWF) Event for desserts and dancing while supporting the foundation. It is sure to be a shamrockin’ good time. Dress in your favorite green or gold attire. The fee to attend this event is $50 (not included in the Annual Conference registration fee).
Room: Salt Lake Foyer
Tuesday, March 19
Registration
7:30 – 11:00 am MDT
AANN/ABNN/AMWF Update
8:00 – 8:30 am MDT
Hear an update on the accomplishments of AANN, ABNN, and AMWF over the past year. Learn more about AANN membership, CNRN and SCRN certification, and AMWF grants.
Room: Salt Lake C
*Networking
8:30 – 9:20 am MDT
Network with other attendees on different topics that apply to your role as a neuro nurse and make a new neuro nerd friend!
Room: Salt Lake C
Concurrent Sessions (4 sessions, 1 CE contact hour)
9:30 – 10:30 am MDT
*(300) Clinical Practice Guidelines Board 2024 Update: Evaluating the Literature & Spine CPG
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
Joan Censullo, PhD RN
Lauren M. Franker, DNP APRN ACNP-BC
Angela Starkweather, PhD RN ANCP-BC CNRN FAAN
Andrea Strayer, PhD AGPCNP-BC ARNP CNRN
Room: Salt Lake A
(301) Clinical Localization and Neuroimaging in Stroke Management
Level: Advanced
Track: Stroke
Fnu Alfandy, DNP APRN AGACNP-BC ANP-BC CNRN SCRN
Pharmacology hours: 0.25
Room: Salt Lake B
(302) Conquering the Complexities of Post-Operative Care in Pituitary Adenoma Patients
Level: Expert
Track: Special Topics
Alexandra Schaber, MSN APRN FNP-C
Pharmacology hours: 0.1
Room: Salt Lake D
(303) Race to the Thalamus (9:30 am – 11:30 am MDT)
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Linda Littlejohns, MSN RN SCRN CNRN FAAN
Room: Salt Lake C
Break with Posters
10:30 – 11:00 am MDT
Room: Salt Lake Foyer
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
11:00 – 11:30 am MDT
(304) Meaningful Mentorship: Growing and Sustaining Leadership Across the Multigenerational Neuroscience Workforce
Level: Expert
Track: Special Topics
Julieanne George, MSN MBA RN CNML NE-BC
Room: Salt Lake A
(305) Navigating the New Spinal Cord Injury Guidelines!
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurotrauma
Charlotte Davis CCRN, BSN, RN
Room: Salt Lake B
(306) Don't Forget to Remember Me: Vascular Dementia
Level: Beginner
Track: Movement Disorders/ Neuromuscular/ Neurodegenerative
Alyssa Broadwater, BSN RN
Room: Salt Lake D
Concurrent Sessions (3 sessions, 0.5 CE contact hours)
11:40 am – 12:10 pm MDT
(307) Brain Donation: Myths and Revelations
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Tish Hevel
Room: Salt Lake A
(308) Read My Lips: Enhancing Communication in the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Neuroscience Population
Level: Beginner
Track: Special Topics
Dawnielle Feucht, BSN RN-BC SCRN
Room: Salt Lake B
(309) Development of a Novel Nursing Simulation Program for an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in a Community Hospital
Level: Intermediate
Track: Seizure/Epilepsy
Karen L. Secore, MS APRN
Crystal C. Ledbetter, BSN RN SCRN
Morgan Cadena, BSN RN CNRN
Kathryn Loster, MSN RN NPD-BC CMSRN
Jennifer Granger Brown, MSN RN
Room: Salt Lake C