18th Annual Conference for Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives New topics relevant to your practice

• 22.5 nursing contact hours total will be offered

• A minimum of 4.0 hours in Pharmacology may be earned

• Certified Nurse Midwifery - an application is being submitted to ACNM for ACNM approval of 1.1 CEU’s

• Call the hotel before Feb. 4th to receive the special rate of $92 for double occupancy (you must state you are attending this conf.)

Goal:
     Participants will gain knowledge and increase their ability to apply theoretical models to practical situations that will strengthen their proficiency in women’s health medical practice.

Pre-conference Presentation:
March 5, 9:30am - 5pm
     Diane Davalos is teaching a quick immersion Spanish language course for health care practitioners. Enrollment is limited to 50 people. Attendees will learn words and phrases to converse with patients. Each participant will receive a tape to reinforce his/her learning after the conference.

Keynote Speakers:

Pre-Conference Speaker

Diane Davalos, MA, PhD

is the President of Expanded Learning located in Denver, Colorado. Diane is a specialist in Spanish, English and the methodology of accelerative wholebrain learning. She has taught in seven countries and offers quick immersion language courses to diverse groups such as law enforcement officers, health care professionals, social service organizations, business, government agencies and educational institutions. She has written five texts, produced many tapes and authored teaching manuals. She is currently writing Learn a Language Lickety Split!

Opening Keynote Presenter

Wendy Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP

is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Merrimack Village Family Practice Center in Merrimack, New Hampshire. She is also a Senior Lecturer for Fitzgerald Health Education Associates. Wendy has produced video tapes on Physical Examination of the Adult and audio tape programs on diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hospital privileges, osteoporosis, allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, and arthritis. She is on the faculty of Medscapes’s Ask the Expert Nurse Practitioner, past president of NPACE and a NPACE Conference lecturer. Wendy has given clinical presentations in 30 states for various groups as well as the AANP International Conference.

General Session Presenter

Anne Moore, MSN, WHNP

is a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She has been published in journals such as Medical Economics and Medscape’s Ask the Expert Nurse Practitioner. Her most recent article is “Helping Women Lose Weight” published in Counseling.

Agenda: (Rx - sessions awarding pharmacology credit)

Wednesday, March 5 8am - 5:30pm Registration 9:30am – 5pm Espanol Rapido Speaker: Diane Davalos, MA, PhD Thursday March 6 7 - 8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:15 - 8:30am Opening Remarks 8:30 - 10am Rx Top New Medications in Primary Care Speaker: Wendy Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP Sponsored by: Pharmacia Corporation 10 - 10:30am Morning Break in Exhibit Area 10:30am-12noon Rx Weight Management: Using All the Tools Speaker: Anne Moore, MSN, WHNP 12noon - 1pm Lunch Provided and Exhibits 1 - 2:30pm Concurrent Session I Medical Malpractice in Indiana Speaker: Lorie A. Brown, RN, MN, JD Common Office Procedures (Hands on workshop limited to first 20 participants. Must attend both sessions.) Speaker: Wendy Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP Bioterrorism: Knowledge, Preparedness, Perspective Speaker: Jeannette Long, RN, MSN, FNP, BC 2:30 - 2:50pm Break in Exhibit Area 2:50 - 4:20pm Concurrent Session II Herbals Relating to Women’s Health/Pregnancy Speaker: Karen Senechal CNM Common Office Procedures (Hands on workshop limited to first 20 participants. Must have attended the 1:00-2:30 PM session.) Speaker: Wendy Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP Hepatitis C Sponsored by Roche Pharmaceuticals 4:20 - 4:30pm Break 4:30 – 5:30pm Rx Dealing with Sexual Dysfunction in Women Speaker: TBD Friday March 7 7 - 8am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8 - 9:30am Rx Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management Speaker: Steven Foley, MD 9:30 - 9:50am Break 9:50 - 11:20am Gynecologic Manifestations of HIV Speaker: Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH Sponsored by: MATEC 11:20 - 11:30am Hotel Checkout 11:30am - 1pm Luncheon with Speaker Spirituality in Health and Healing Speaker: Steven Foley, MD 1:15 - 2:45pm     Rx Concurrent Session III Preventing Perineal Trauma During the 2nd Stage of Labor Speaker: Joyce Roberts, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN Assessment and Management of Thyroid Disease Speaker: Lorri Calvert, RN, CNP, CDE Microbicide Development: Non-condom HIV Prevention Speaker: Grisel Robles and Leigh Johnston, RN 2:45 - 3pm Evaluation & Closing

Register On-line

• Fields in MAROON are required fields
• Registration deadline — February 24, 2003
• There is a $25 dollar administrative fee for all cancellations