Featured Speakers at Stroke Conference
Wednesday, August 19 & Thursday, August 20
SCRN Review Course
This session takes place over two days on Wednesday, August 19 from 1-5:30 pm & Thursday, August 20 from 7-11:30 am. You must attend both portions of the course.
Speaker: Cynthia Bautista, PhD RN ACNS-BC CCNS CNRN SCRN FNCS
This Stroke Review Course will provide a comprehensive review for nurses preparing for the stroke certification exam, as well as nurses interested in updating, enhancing, and increasing their knowledge base in the stroke patient care settings.
Fee: $120
Thursday, August 20 from 1:30-5:30 pm
3D Stroke Anatomy and Assessment
Speaker: Linda Littlejohns, MSN RN CNRN SCRN FAAN
This session dives deeply into the vessels and structures in the brain using Anatomage 3D software, color coded vessels, and case studies. You will gain a better understanding of stroke assessment, potential deficits, and challenges as the patient moves from a stroke diagnosis to recovery expectations and rehab needs.
Fee: $60
Thursday, August 20 from 1:30-3:30 pm
Empowering Our Neuroscience Nurses
Speakers: Jamie Henderson, MSN SCNP-BC and Denice Green, MSN RN
This lecture will cover the development of our Neuroscience Fellowship curriculum, designed to meet the clinical demand of our neuroscience population and to provide evidence-based practices to meet the challenges of nurses serving this population. The fellowship is a two-year program, consisting of an integrated fundamental core curriculum to increase clinical competency and improve critical thinking capability across the neuroscience spectrum of care. Speakers will share results regarding nurse empowerment, retention and role satisfaction.
Fee: $30
Friday, August 21
Keynote Session
Young Stroke: Bridging the Continuum of Care
Speaker: Amy Edmunds
The increasing global prevalence of stroke among young adults transforms a once familiar diagnosis to a more perplexing trend across the continuum of stroke care. Neuroscience nurses are challenged to bridge public awareness to clinical response, and clinical response to rehabilitation to ensure community reintegration. From her unique patient perspective, combined with NIH award-winning expertise, Amy examines patient-centered practices for community hospitals, bedside care delivery, and rehabilitative services to raise awareness of unmet needs for this population.
 Remaining 2020 SCRN Exam Windows
Exam Window: May 1-31, 2020
Register by: April 9, 2020
Exam Window: September 1-30, 2020 Register by: August 6, 2020
Learn more and apply for the exam at ABNNcertification.org. |
Continuing Education Credit
The American Association of Neuroscience Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The American Association of Neuroscience Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP: 13331).
Successful completion: Participants must be registered for the conference and attend the sessions(s). Attendees can be awarded 1 nursing contact hour for every 60-minute educational session they attend and evaluate. Each participant will receive a username and password to complete an online evaluation. Participants must complete a form for each session they attend and an overall conference evaluation to receive contact hours.
Contact hours available for each component of the event are as follows:
• SCRN Review Course (extra-fee preconference workshop): 8 CE
• 3D Stroke Anatomy and Assessment (extra-fee preconference workshop): 4 CE
• Empowering Our Neuroscience Nurses (extra-fee preconference workshop): 2 CE
• AANN Advances in Stroke Care Conference*: 15.5 CE
*Full conference CE excluding preconference workshop credits