UNAP Professional Issues Conference
Tuesday, June 10 • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
RI Convention Center

Registration:  UNAP members:  $60;  Non-members:  $75
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Members: $60

Non-Members: $75

CEUs:  This program is pending approval for 5.5 contact hours by RISNA/ANCC.

Registration........................8:00-8:30 AM
Welcome.............................8:30-8:45 AM
Plenary Session.................8:45-10:15 AM

How many hospitals does Rhode Island need?
Moderator:  Terrie Fox Wetle, Associate Dean of Medicine for Public Health, Brown University

Panelists:
Christine Ferguson, JD, Associate Research Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University
Louis Giancola, President & CEO, South County Hospital
David Gifford, MD, Director, RI Department of Health
James Purcell, President & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI

Morning Workshops..........10:35 AM-12:05 PM

Challenges and successes in reducing hospital-acquired infections
Julie Jefferson, RN, MPH, CIC, Director; Epidemiology and Infection Control, RI Hospital

The new truth about menopause in a “flash”
Michelle Cyr, MD, Internal Medicine; Brown University School of Medicine
Carol Landau, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine

Ethical issues in organ donation
Suzanne Duni Walker, Esq., RN, BSN; New England Organ Bank

Unnatural causes:  Is inequality making us sick? -- The Rhode Island story
Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH; Director, Transcultural Community Health Initiative, Brown University

Lunch.................................12:10-12:50 PM
Keynote Speaker.............12:50-1:50 PM

Safety in numbers:  Nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care
Suzanne Gordon; author, journalist

Afternoon Workshops........2:00-3:30 PM

Brave new world:  Health care in the electronic age
Laura Adams, President & CEO, Rhode Island Quality Institute

Integrating alternative medicine disciplines with conventional medicine
Sean Tuten, DA, DOM; Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Sheila Frodermann, ND, MA, FHANP; Naturopathic Medicine
Susan Cotta, PT, ATC; Cranio-Sacral Therapy

Lateral violence in the health care workplace
Celeste Warner, Trainer, Life Coach, Motivational Speaker

Advanced principles of pain management in terminally ill patients
Cathy Schutt, APRN-BC, CHPN, RN-BC; Pain Resources Network