AANN Annual Educational Meeting Schedule
The AANN Annual Educational Meeting, preconference workshops, and special events include an array of educational and networking opportunities for neuroscience nurses at all stages of their career. Attendees can visit the exhibit hall to learn more from vendors and institutions, and earn CE from educational programming.
Saturday, April 18
Registration
6:30 am – 6:00 pm
Pre-Conference Workshops
8:00 am - 5:00 pm (8 hours)
(001) CNRN Review Course
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Course Director: Erin Fecske, DNP APRN CNRN CPNP
(002) Overview of Treatment and Care for Parkinson’s Disease for the Advanced Nursing Professional
Level: Intermediate
Track: Movement Disorders
Course Director: Lawrence Elmer, MD PhD
8:00 am - 10:00 am (2 hours)
(003) Basic Neuroimaging: More Than Fifty Shades of Grey
Level: Beginner
Track: Special Topics
Cathy Cartwright, MSN RN-BC FAAN
Rachel Malloy, MSN RN CNRN SCRN
(004) Usual and Unusual Neurological Syndromes--and Ones that Make You Go Hmmmm?
Level: Beginner
Track: Movement Disorders
Kathryn Funk, MSN-RN SCRN CNRN
8:00 am - 12:00 pm (4 hours)
(005) 3D Brain and Spine Anatomy and Pathology
Linda Littlejohns, MSN RN SCRN CNRN FAAN
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (4 hours)
(006) Anesthesia 101 for the Neuroscience Nurse: Understanding Its Role and Use in the Neuroscience Patient Population Along the Continuum of Care
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN RN TCRN CEN
Caleb Rogovin, MS CRNA CCRN TCRN CEN
(007) Spinal Cord Injury: From Roadside to Rehab and Beyond
Level: Intermediate
Track: Spine
Course Director: Dea Mahanes, DNP RN CCNS CNRN FNCS
This session is supported by Grant #854 from the Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation
Innovation Corner (in the exhibit hall)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Join Greenwich Biosciences and Neurelis
Newcomers Reception
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Opening Reception with Posters and Exhibits
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 19
Registration
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Agnes M. Marshall Keynote Address
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Finding Florence: Resilience and Compassion in the Crevices of Care
Tim Cunningham, DrPH MSN RN FAAN
Breakfast with Exhibits and Posters
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Bite Size Session, Exhibit Hall
9:45 am – 10:15 am (0.5 hours)
(100) Making the Change: TNK for Acute Ischemic Stroke
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Noah Jacobson, MN RN CCRN-K SCRN
Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am – 11:30 am (1 hour)
(101) Being A Change Agent
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuro-Leadership
Susan B. Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Ebonye Green, MNSc APRN ACNPC-AG CNRN
Noah Jacobson, MN RN CCRN-K SCRN
(102) Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Neuroscience Patients
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality
Patricia Blissitt, PhD ARNP-CNS CCRN CNRN SCRN CCNS CCM ACNS-BC
(103) Illuminating a Path of Survivorship for Children Whose Parents are Undergoing Treatment for Brain Tumors or Cancer
Level: Beginner
Track: Special Topics
Marilyn Reed, BSN RN CNRN
(104) Brightening the Pathway to Pediatric Acute Stroke Treatment: Best Practices from a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Children's Hospital Partnership
Level: Expert
Track: Pediatrics
Sarah Langston, BSN RN CCRN SCRN
Lindsey Peters, MSN APRN FNP-C CNRN
Rebecca Kahler, MSN APRN FNP-BC OCN
(105) Help! My Neurosurgery Patient is Awake!
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuro-oncology
Daphny Grace Masocol Peneza, MSN RN CNOR CSSM TNCC
(106) Getting Nursing to Drive the VAN...Next Stop Thrombectomy
Level: Expert
Track: Stroke
Morgan Boyer, MPH RN SCRN CNRN CTC
Box Lunch with Exhibits and Posters
11:40 am – 1:15 pm
Corporate Showcase, Exhibit Hall
12:15 - 12:45 pm
Cannabis: Where are we Now?
Supported by Greenwich Biosciences
Bite Size Session, Exhibit Hall
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm (0.5 hours)
(107) P2Y12 Responsiveness in African Americans Undergoing a Neurovascular Procedure: A Pilot Study
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Nancy Villanueva, PhD CRNP AGACNP-BC ANP-BC CNRN
Concurrent Sessions
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm (0.5 hours)
(108) Mental Status Changes in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Level: Intermediate
Track: Craniocerebral Trauma
Cynthia Batutista, PhD RN CCNR SCRN CCNS ACNS-BC FNCS
(109) Read My Brain - RNS Therapy in the Pediatric Population
Level: Intermediate
Track: Epilepsy
Wynne Bird, BSN RN CNRN CNP
(110) Enhance Transition Care for Medically Complex Adolescents
Level: Intermediate
Track: Anatomy
Lauren Mitchell, MSN APRN FNP-C CPN
(111) Application of the ext-NIHSS at a Tertiary Care Stroke Center: Experience and Results
Level: Expert
Track: Stroke
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Kylie Floyd, BSN RN
(112) Why EEG Might Be a Better Alternative to Delirium Monitoring
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Malissa Mulkey, MSN APRN CCNS CCRN CNRN
(113) Special Focus Group: Neurotrauma 1 of 2 - The Dilemma of Surviving a Brain Injury: Severe Disorders of Consciousness
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurotrauma
Concurrent Sessions
1:55 pm – 2:55 pm (1 hour)
(114) American Stroke Association Update
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Rebecca Kahler, MSN APRN FNP-BC OCN
Melissa Meighan, DNP NEA-BC RN CNRN SCRN
Patricia Zrelak, PhD RN NEA-BC CNRN
(115) The Batten Disease Symphony: Orchestrating Treatment of a Rare Pediatric Neurologic Disease
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality
Susan See, MSN RN CPHON
Melissa Rodriguez, BSN RN CPN
Allison Cubacub, MSN RN
(116) Myasthenia Gravis: Treatment - It's All About the Junction
Level: Beginner
Track: Movement Disorders
Joyce Kern, BSN RN-BC
Viola Monmany, BSN RN-BC
Erieka Peyton, BSN RN SCRN
(117) Time to Change Our Approach to Death and Dying in the Neuro ICU
Level: Beginner
Track: Neurocritical Care
Mary Jane Bijelic, MSN CRNP AGACNP-BC SCRN CCRN
(118) If Agnes Could Tweet: Social Media in Nursing Leadership
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuro-Leadership
Michelle VanDemark, MSN RN ANP-BC CNRN FNCS
(119) Migraine Headache: New Drugs, Old Drugs, How to Choose and Use
Level: APNU
Track: Special Topics
Amy Larson, APRN RN CNRN
Break with Exhibits and Posters
2:55 pm – 3:45 pm
Bite Size Session, Exhibit Hall
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm (0.5 hours)
(120) Safety of Low-Intensity Monitoring After Thrombolysis: Optimal Post Tpa-Iv Monitoring in Ischemic Stroke (OPTIMIST)
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Elizabeth Zink, MS RN CCNS CNRN
Lisa Klein, MSN RN AGCNS-BC CNRN
Concurrent Sessions
3:50 pm – 4:50 pm (1 hour)
(121) Utilizing Big Data to Evaluate the Incidence of Concussion and Post Concussion Syndrome: Identifying Disparities in Healthcare Access and Diagnosis
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Jeanette Green, PhD APRN CPNP-PC PMHS
(122) Lessons Learned in Creating an Advanced Practice Provider-Led Inpatient Teleneurology Consult Service
Level: APNU
Track: Advanced Practice
Michelle Post, MS APRN AGCNS-BC SCRN
(123) Under Pressure: Personalizing the Treatment of SCI During the Critical Phase of Injury Using Spinal Cord Perfusion Pressure
Level: Intermediate
Track: Spine
Lawrence Chyall, MS RN CNS CNRN
(124) Purple & Green: What Does it Mean?
Level: Expert
Track: Stroke
Maria Helms, MSN RN SCRN CCRN-E
Emily Snider, BSN RN SCRN
(125) When Moments Matter - Advances in Epilepsy Care: Updates from the National Epilepsy Education and Awareness Collaborative
Level: Intermediate
Track: Epilepsy
(126) Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Management Consensus Algorithm
Level: Intermediate
Track: Craniocerebral Trauma
Karen March, MN RN CNRN
Concurrent Sessions
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (0.5 hours)
(127) The Unbefriended Patient: Ethical and Legal Considerations for the Neuroscience Nurse
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Carey Heck, PhD CRNP AGACNP-BC CCRN CNRN
(128) Chapter Session
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
(129) Caring for Our Cryptogenic Stroke Patients Through the Implantation of Loop Recorders
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Kathryn Funk, MSN-RN SCRN CNRN
(130) Special Focus Group: Neurotrauma 2 of 2 - TBI Fatigue: Will We Ever Win This War?
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurotrauma
(131) Presentation on the Critical Need for Brain Donation
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Tish Hevel
Monday, April 20
Registration
6:30 am – 6:00 pm
(SY1) Breakfast Symposium CE or Non-CE
6:30 am – 8:30 am
Concurrent Sessions
7:00 am – 8:00 am (1 hour)
(200) Special Focus Group: Stroke - Using the IMPRV Process to Better Door to Needle Times in the ED
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
(201) Special Focus Group: Epilepsy - Cannabinoids and Epilepsy, the Real Deal
Level: Intermediate
Track: Epilepsy
(202) Concussion Connections: Adolescent Athletes Seek Novel Education Strategies for Concussion Symptom Recognition
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Jeanette Green, PhD APRN CPNP-PC PMHS
(203) Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Correcting Coagulopathies
Level: Advanced
Track: Pharmacology
Mary Amatangelo, DNP RN ACNP-BC CCRN CNRN SCRN FAHA
(204) Abstract Submission 101: From Idea to Acceptance
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
Erin Fecske, DNP APRN CNRN CPNP
Dea Mahanes, DNP RN CCNS CNRN FNCS
Special Lecture
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Booze, Drugs, and My Brain: From Hopeless to Healthy
Laurie Dhue
Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am – 11:30 am (1 hour)
(205) How to Self-Educate in Real-Time to Support Stroke Clinical Decision-Making, from Novice to Expert
Level: Beginner
Track: Special Topics
Carol Long, PhD RN-BC SCRN
(206) Wake Me Up So I Can Go Go: Neurostimulation in the ICU
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurocritical Care
Kimberly Meyer, PhD ACNP-BC CNRN
(207) Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (JNN) Session: How to Become a Peer Reviewer
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
DaiWai Olson, PhD RN CCRN FNCS
(208) Illuminating Stroke Care with Telemedicine
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Jennifer Jones, BSN RN CNRN
(209) The Changing Landscape of Neurostimulation in the Treatment of Epilepsy
Level: Intermediate
Track: Epilepsy
Stephanie Chen, MSN MPH-C FNP-C CNRN
Natalya Kan, BSN RN CNRN
(210) Myasthenia Gravis: A Clinical Update
Level: Intermediate
Track: Movement Disorders
Jennifer Woods, MSN CCNS CNRN SCRN
Concurrent Sessions
11:40 am – 12:10 pm (0.5 hours)
(211) Scope of Advanced Practice Providers in Transition to Adulthood Care
Level: Intermediate
Track: Advanced Practice
Cathy Cartwright, MSN RN-BC FAAN
(212) Inpatient Depression Screening Pilot in the Neuro ICU
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality
Jamie Jones, BSN RN CCRN CNRN
(214) Neuro Fluorescence: Taking a Second Look at High Grade Glioma Resection
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuro-oncology
Phyllis Dubendorf, MSN RN CNRN CCNS ACNP-BC
Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, MSN RN ACNP-BC
Kristin Rupich, MSN RN
(215) Neurocritical Care Nurses Lead as Stat/Stroke Responders to Impact Quality Stroke Care 2017-2019
Level: Expert
Track: Stroke
Christine Wallis, MS RN ACNS-BC CCRN-K
Emily Cherney, BSN RN
(SY2) Non CE Lunch Symposium
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Non-CE Symposium – Not all OFFs are the Same: A Discussion on Parkinson's Disease and OFF Episodes
Supported by Sunovion – Seating is limited to the first 300 attendees.
Please register by calling 888.557.2266 | 847.375.4733
Concurrent Sessions
1:20 pm – 1:50 pm (0.5 hours)
(216) An Educational Module to Improve Pre-Hospital Stroke Assessment: Stroke Mimics and the Field Assessment Stroke Triage for Emergency Destination (FAST-ED) Scale
Level: Advanced
Track: Stroke
Susan Hunt, DNP CNP AGACNP-BC CNRN
(217) Teaching with a Twist: Escape Rooms and Mock Stroke Codes
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality
Alexa Collins, BSN RN SCRN
Guilla Santos, BSN RN CCRN
Lisa Smith, BSN RN CCRN
(218) Seize the Day: The Nursing Care and Considerations for the Management of Patients with Grids/Strips and Depth Electrodes
Level: Beginner
Track: Epilepsy
Mary Mullin, MS RN AGCNS-BC CNRN
(219) Through the Eye of the Beholder: Collaborative Development of a Nurse Driven Pupillometry Guideline
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurocritical Care
Caroline Laverty, BSN RN CCRN
Jessica Brousseau, BSN RN
Lori Squires, BSN RN
Alicia Mansolillo, BSN RN
Victoria Varone, BSN RN
(220) Headache Medicine in the Era of the Anti-CGRP's
Level: Advanced
Track: Special Topics
Jessica Glassman, MSN RN NP-c AQH
Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (1 hour)
(221) Clinical Practice Guidelines
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
(222) Special Focus Group: Neuromuscular & Movement Disorders
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuromuscular/ Movement Disorders
(223) Special Focus Group: Neuro-oncology - Common Patient Care Issues in Neuro-oncology
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neuro-oncology
(224) Outstanding Chapter and Panel Discussion
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
(225) "Why Am I in a Car-Wash?" and Other Dilemmas of Delirium, Delusions, and Hallucinations
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Mary King, MSN RN CNRN CCRN ACNS-BC
(226) Rethinking the Impossible: Aligning Current Research, Rehabilitation Therapies and Recovery Expectations to Create a New Post-Acute Standard of Care for Patients with Severe Spinal Cord Injury
Level: Advanced
Track: Spine
Rebecca Baker, BSN BS-Ed RN
Concurrent Sessions
3:10 pm – 4:10 pm (1 hour)
(227) The Aging Spine
Level: Beginner
Track: Spine
Andrea Strayer, MS NP-C CNRN
(228) Illuminating Challenges in Pediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatrics
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Kristina Watterson, BSN RN CPN
Lauren Swinford, BSN RN
(229) Utilizing Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocols: What It Means to Neurosurgical Patients
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN RN TCRN CEN
(230) Increasing Patient Mobility on a Neuroscience Unit Through an Individualized Goal-Centered Mobility Program
Level: Beginner
Track: Quality
Lisa Klein, MSN RN AGCNS-BC CNRN
(231) Advanced Anatomy and Physiology of the Cranial Nerves
Level: Expert
Track: Anatomy
DaiWai Olson, PhD RN CCRN FNCS
(232) Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS): Unique Patient Perspective-Illuminating the Path from Diagnosis to Normalcy
Level: Intermediate
Track: Movement Disorders
Christine Conrad, ADN RN CCRN CNRN
Katherine Titus-Wells, MSN CRNA
Concurrent Sessions
4:20 pm – 4:50 pm (0.5 hours)
(233) Illuminating Sleep Disordered Breathing in Stroke
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Jennifer Jones, BSN RN CNRN
(234) The Stroke Poster Challenge: A Novel Strategy to Promote Learning, Professional Development, and Staff Engagement
Level: Intermediate
Track: Quality
Valerie Lyttle, MSN BSN RN CEN CNRN SCRN
(235) Detangling the Mystery of Shunts
Level: Beginner
Track: Craniocerebral Trauma
Nancy Villanueva, PhD CRNP AGACNP-BC ANP-BC CNRN
(236) Postoperative Bowel and Bladder Management in the Neurosurgery Patient
Level: Beginner
Track: Spine
Andrea Strayer, MS NP-C CNRN
(237) Optimizing Family Education in a Disorders of Consciousness Rehabilitation Program
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Diane Mortimer, MD MSN
(238) Delirium in the Neuro ICU
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurocritical Care
Caitlyn Dicola, BS BSN RN CCRN SCRN
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
AMWF Light Up Luau
Additional $30 fee applies.
Tuesday, April 21
Registration
6:30 am – 1:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
7:00 am – 7:30 am (0.5 hours)
(300) Sex, Drugs, and...Stroke?
Level: Beginner
Track: Stroke
Lauren Macko, MSN RN ACCNS-AG CCRN SCRN
(301) Electronic Cigarettes: What Do You Need to Know?
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Mary Willard, PhD (c) MBA MA BSN RNP CNRN CCRN
(302) A New Twist on Diaries in the Hospital Setting
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurocritical Care
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Suzanne Ashworth, MSN APRN CCRN CCNS
Light Breakfast
7:30 am
Special Lecture
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Evidence-Based Practice and Clinician Well-Being: Two Essential Strategies to Reach the Quadruple Aim in Healthcare
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD APRN-CNP FAANP FNAP FAAN
Concurrent Sessions
9:55 am – 10:55 am (1 hour)
(303) Special Focus Group: Pediatrics - Adult Diseases, No Longer Just for Adults
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatrics
(304) Priority Nursing Interventions Caring for the Acute Stroke Patient
Level: Beginner
Track: Stroke
Sarah Beth Thomas, MSN RN CCRN ENLS
(305) Is Inclusion an Illusion? Challenging Ourselves to Lead
Panel moderator: Mary McKenna Guanci, MSN RN CNRN SCRN
Panelists: Lawrence Chyall, MS RN CNS CNRN, Katelyn Bushey, MSN RN ACNS-BC, and Susanna Schwiesow, BSN RN
(306) Staff Nurses: Energized to Advance the Art and Science of Nursing Through Scholarship
Level: Advanced
Track: Special Topics
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
(307) Agnes Marshall Walker Foundation (AMWF) Research Panel
Level: Intermediate
Track: Professional Development
(308) Infectious Complications Following Head Injuries
Level: Beginner
Track: Craniocerebral Trauma
Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN RN TCRN CEN
Concurrent Sessions
11:05 am – 11:35 am (0.5 hours)
(309) Psychosocial Sequelae of Stroke in Working Age Adults
Level: Intermediate
Track: Stroke
Lori Rhudy, PhD RN ACNS-BC CNRN
(310) More Nurses at the Bedside: A Manager's Strategy to Lobby for Higher Staffing Ratios
Level: Intermediate
Track: Special Topics
Byron Carlisle, BSN RN CCRN
(311) Demystifying New and Existing Neuronal Targets for Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders
Level: Intermediate
Track: Movement Disorders
Kimberly Farley, MSN AGPCNP-BC
(312) The Opioid Epidemic: An Emerging Neuroscience Population
Level: Intermediate
Track: Neurocritical Care
Leeanne Likens, ADN RN
Molly O'Malley, BSN RN
Bethany Stemen, BSN RN ACLS ENLS
Concurrent Sessions
11:45 am – 12:45 pm (1 hour)
(313) Special Focus Group: Spine
Level: Intermediate
Track: Spine
(314) Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge: Managing a Behaviorally Challenged Patient (BCP) with a Neurological Disorder
Level: Beginner
Track: Special Topics
Kyndra Alspaugh, MSN-RN CNRN SCRN
Morgan Cadena, BSN RN CNRN
Alma Patino, MSN RN CNRN SCRN
Christina Balster, BSN RN SCRN
(315) Illuminating Care Challenges in Hospitalized Adolescents with Multiple Sclerosis
Level: Intermediate
Track: Pediatrics
Susan Fowler, PhD RN CNRN FAHA
Shannon Melville, BSN RN CNP
Taylor Moore, BSN RN