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Conferences and Continuing Education Programs

The Florida Nurses Association is committed to providing quality educational opportunities for the nurses of Florida. Our programs are designed for and often by the members of the association to meet the needs of a variety of practitioners. In addition, the programs provide an opportunity for networking with colleagues as well as professional growth by attending or participating in the programs as a presenter. These programs are offered to members at a discounted rate, but non-members are encouraged to get to know us by attending some of our programs.


FNA Membership Assembly
Hilton Orlando
When: September 24-25 Contact: conferences@floridanurse.org
Phone: 407.896.3261
The FNA Membership Assembly will be held September 24-25 at the Hilton Orlando.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE

Click here for a registration form that can be emailed, faxed or mailed to FNA Headquarters.

The FNA Membership Assembly is an opportunity for nurses to network, earn CH for continuing education and learn about nursing issues that affect your industry. For members, it is the opportunity to have your voice heard on assocation business. Don't forget, each vote counts.

REGISTRATION FEES
Membership Assembly Package, Before August 4. Membership Assembly Package includes all CE offereings, convention materials and (1) admission to the Awards Dinner.
FNA Member: $225
Non-Member: $325
Student (generic): $200
Retired Member: $200

Daily Rates, before August 4
(Daily rates includes CE offerings, convention materials, forums and meetings.)

Friday, September 24
FNA Member: $150
Non-Member: $250
Student (generic): $125
Retired Member: $125

Saturday, September 25
FNA Member: $175
Non-Member: $275
Student (generic): $125
Retired Member: $125

Optional Events
FNPAC Luncheon
Friday, September 24
$55

Guest Registration, Awards Dinner
Friday, September 24
$75

Advocacy Breakfast
Saturday, September 25
$40

Foundation Luncheon
Saturday, Septmeber 25
$55

LOCATION: Hilton Orlando
Click here for more information on the Hilton Orlando. Please click here or call 407.313.4300 to make a reservation and use code FLN. FNA room rates are $129 nightly (not including fees and taxes). Book early to reserve your room! Complimentary wireless internet will be provided. Daily parking rates are $6 to self park and $10 for valet services.

SPONSOR and EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES
If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at the FNA Annual Membership Assembly, please click here for more information or contact conferences@floridanurse.org today.

AGENDA
FRIDAY, 9/24—TRADITIONAL STUDENT DAY
Students may attend for free.

7:30 am—4 pm: Registration

8—9 am: Orientation to Membership Assembly Review/Discussion of Proposed Bylaw Changes and Proposals

10 am—Noon: Opening Session/Business Meeting and Keynote Session
Keynote Session: “Nurse”opause – the change of life for professional nursing (1 CH)
This session provides a humorous look at nursing’s challenges to change, adapt, and grow in the next 100 years. A comparison will be made between menopause (change of life) and “nurse”opause (change of professional life) in response to scientific discoveries, globalization and a long tradition of current healthcare practices. Both conditions are a natural phase of life, have key timelines, create drastic changes, have uncomfortable side effects and require intervention.
Speaker: Pegge Bell, RN

12:15—1:30 pm: FNPAC Lunch (1 CH) (optional)
Anna Small, CNM, JD, will speak about the importance of nurse participation from a legislative perspective and talk about 2011 FNA legislative priorities. This is an optional lunch for an additional fee.

1:45—4:45 pm: Business Meeting Resumes

BREAK

2—3 pm: Breakouts

Mentoring in Nursing (1 CH)
The intent of this presentation is to provide the audience with a greater understanding of the roles and functions of a mentor in the nursing workplace. Considerations for selecting a mentor, delineating the role of a preceptor from a mentor and desired outcomes of a mentoring relationship will be discussed.
Speaker: Patricia Posey-Goodwin, RN

Or

Vaccine Update (1 CH)
Information on vaccines impacts our nurse members' clinical work and supports the ANA program on vaccine awareness in nurses.
Speaker: Deborah Hogan, RN

5—6 pm: Open Forum Transition Discussion

7-9 pm: Awards Dinner Celebration

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th
8—9:15 am: Advocacy Breakfast (1 CH) (optional)
FNA’s new Director of Professional Practice Advocacy, Jeanie Demshar, Esq. will address issues affecting nurses in the workplace. This is an optional breakfast for an additional fee.

9:30—10:30 am: Breakouts

Developing a Collaborative Work Environment in a Culture of Generational Diversity (1 CH)
One of the issues identified throughout the literature on workplace satisfaction relates to issues involving relationships with coworkers. To preserve the current and future workforce of novice and experienced RNs, there is a need to identify, develop and implement strategies that will encourage nurses to remain in active practice.
Speaker: Patricia Posey-Goodwin, RN

Or

Empowerment of Nursing Staff as a Factor in Performance in Healthcare Organizations (1 CH)
This presentation is evidence based and is derived from a comprehensive review of the literature on nursing empowerment in the workplace. It addresses the nurse’s perception of his/her psychological empowerment and the impact this has on patient care and outcomes. The presenter will demonstrate how using professional development seminars for nurses can improve the nurse’s perception of his/her empowerment in the workplace.
Speaker: Denise McNulty, ARNP

10:30—11:45 am: Transition Round Tables

Noon—1:30 pm: Foundation Lunch (1 CH) (optional)
Florida Nurses Foundation Trustees will speak on the history of the Foundation, as well as distribute 2010 scholarship and research grant awards. This is an optional lunch for an additional fee.

1:30—2:30 pm: Breakouts
Florida Center for Nursing Update (1 CH)
This presentation will provide the latest data available regarding the nursing shortage in Florida. Forecasts will enable the participants to understand how great the demand for nurses will be in the future. Discussion will include review of current activities to address the shortage and suggestions for future approaches.
Speaker: Mary Lou Brunell, RN

Or

The Front-Line Nurse and Job Satisfaction Over Three Decades: What Does Research Reveal? (1 CH)
This presentation provides information about the background and significance of nurse satisfaction over three decades including the cost of dissatisfaction in the workforce, benefits of satisfaction, the reasons for differences over the decades and the future of nursing satisfaction. Workforce changes between the decades will be discussed, as well as societal, generational and workforce population differences.

2:30—3:30 pm: Endnote Address (TBA) (1 CH)

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FNA Webinars
Online
When: Throughout 2010 Contact: conferences@floridanurse.org
Phone: 407.896.3261
Join FNA for the 2010 Webinar Education Series. It’s simple and easy… learning and earning credit hours in the convenience and luxury of wherever your computer is!

The cost of each webinar is $20 for FNA members and $35 for non-members, unless otherwise indicated. Email conferences@floridanurse.org with inquiries.

Upon receipt of your purchase, you will be emailed with webinar and phone login instructions. Your certificate of completion will be emailed to you upon completion of an evaluation and submittal of your license number.

Legal Issues for Public Health Nurses in Schools and Elsewhere
1CH
Cynthia Mikos, RN, JD
September 29th
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Participants will review delegation and supervision issues especially in school health clinics or other settings where the RN is not on-site with those supervised. Special topics regarding diabetic care in schools, medication issuance, and other unique situations found in public health settings will be discussed. Scope of practice issues will be considered.
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2011 Lobby Days Conference
Residence Inn by Marriott - Tallahassee Universities at the Capitol
When: March 15 & 16, 2011 Contact: conferences@floridanurse.org
Phone: 407.896.3261
Click on the image below to see photos from the 2010 Lobby Days Conference.


Ingeborg Mauksch Clinical Excellence Conference
TBD
When: TBD Contact: conferences@floridanurse.org
Phone: 407.896.3261

Click on the photo above to view a gallery of conference photos.

With a focus on clinical practice, this one day event is based on Dr. Patricia Benner’s work related to the journey of nurses from the levels of novice to expert. Through exemplars, nurses share their experiences and demonstrate evidence of their effect on the course of their patient’s experience in the healthcare arena under their care. The exemplars also demonstrate the expertise of these nurses based on the. clinical decisions they made and the care they gave. These nurses were nominated by FNA members as experts in clinical practice. They will share what they thought and felt about the clinical situation.

Congratulations to these outstanding nurses who have been invited to present their exemplars at this conference:

-Dawn Boughton – Morton Plant Mease Health Care, Dunedin
-Paul Busi – Moffit Cancer Center, Tampa
-Julie Chatfield – H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa
-Mary Cousins – Holtz Children’s Hospital, Miami
-Barbara Davis-Sears – Holts Children’s Hospital, Miami
-Erika Fenimore – Orlando Health, Orlando
-Renee Galik – Lee Memorial Health System – Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
-Norma Gonzalez – Morton Plant Mease Health Care, Dunedin
-Teresita Hardin – St. Joseph’s Hostpital, Tampa
-Susan Hinds – Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Lakeland
-Maggie Leavitt – Moffit Center Nursing, Tampa
-Lissette Levine – Holtz Children’s Hospital, Miami
-Judy Miller – Lee Memorial Health System – HealthPark Medical Center, Fort Myers
-Charles Nimer – Baptist Health of Miami, Miami
-Debbie Price – Santa Rosa County School Health Department, Gulf Breeze
-Susan Ratterree – Hope Healthcare Services – Hope Hospice, Cape Coral
-Aileen Staller – Moffitt Nursing, Tampa
-Deon Wolliston – Holtz Children’s Hospital, Miami

Congratulations to Tampa General Hospital, 2010 recipient of the FNA Frances Smith Clinical Excellence Awards for workplace initiatives.


Professional Meetings (non-FNA)
Throughout Florida
When: Throughout 2010 Contact: info@floridanurse.org
Phone: 407.896.3261
Please see below for a list of statewide professional nursing meetings. Email the contact for each meeting for inquiries or visit the organization's website.

Visit the FNA Local Leadership page by clicking here.

If you would like to add a meeting to this calendar, please email your meeting date and information to conferences@floridanurse.org.

FNA District 9 Meetings
August 4th
September 1st
October 6th
November 3rd
December 1st
Meetings are at 5:30pm at Panera Bread on PGA Blvd. Need more info? Call 840-4222.

Florida Public Health Association (FPHA) Regional Meeting
August 12
Hyatt Regency Sarasota
Visit fpha.org for more information.

FNA District 1 Meeting
August 31
Applebee's on 9th Avenue, Pensacola
Email janice.hoff@yahoo.com to RSVP

First Coast Black Nurses Association
10th Anniversary Gala
September 18; 6 pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Jacksonville
Call Janneice Moore at 904.563.4645 for more information.

FNSA Pre-Convention
September 25, 2010
Orlando Hilton
Visit fnsa.net for more information.

Florida State Council of the Emergency Nurses Association Meeting
October 7, 2010 from 10 am - 3 pm
Location: Hilton Ft. Lauderdale Airport, 1870 Griffin Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33004-2214

Interested students may RSVP to mhoovermcgarry@floridaena.org. 10 spots are available for students. Visit floridaena.org for more information.

FNSA Convention
October 27-30, 2010
Hilton in Daytona Beach
Visit fnsa.net for more information.

FANA’s 2010 Annual Meeting
October 29-31, 2010
Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa
Orlando, Florida
Visit fana.org for more information.


For information related to conferences, contact conferences@floridanurse.org.