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NTI 2012 Program Schedule

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Title	Day/Time	Level
Identifying Clinical Emergencies in the Early Stages: Critical Thinking Checkpoints for Anticipating Needed Intervention	M 8:00AM	I
Back to the Basics: Assessing Your Patient’s Cardiovascular Status Without All the Bells and Whistles	M 8:00AM	B
Tissue Oxygenation and Hemodynamic Monitoring: It's All About the O's	M 8:00AM	I
Incorporating Active Learning Strategies into Critical Care Education	M 8:00AM	I
Pediatric Delirium Awareness Program in Your PICU: What We Have Learned, What We Changed and How We Are Progressing	M 8:00AM	I
Circle of Life: Building a Successful Palliative Care Program from Concept to Bedside	M 8:00AM	I
Simulation: More Than Manikins and Mega Codes	M 8:00AM	I
Being Beacon: How to Write it and Maintain it: Being the First Pediatric ICU Awarded the Beacon for Excellence in 2011	M 8:00AM	B
Acute Kidney Injury Treatment Guidelines: A Bold Global Initiative	M 8:00AM	B
Poisoning, Overdose and Aggressive, Collaborative Care	M 8:00AM	E
Haiti, On the Edge of the ICU: Case Studies from Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Students	M 8:00AM	B
Symptoms and Seizures, Surgery and Survival: The Anatomy of Acute Traumatic Brain Injury	M 8:00AM	I
Champion the Skin and Win: Eliminating Pressure and Moisture Risk Factors to Reduce Skin Injury in the ICU Patient	M 8:00AM	B
Neonatal Perioperative Hypothermia: The Journey from Problem Identification to Translating Evidence into Best Practice	M 8:00AM	I
My Career Map: Where Do I Go From Here	M 8:00AM	B
Bring Out Your Dead: Plagues Past, Present and Future	M 8:00AM	I
What’s in a Name, Systolic vs Diastolic Heart Failure: Definitions, Prevalence, Treatments and Nursing Consideration	M 8:00AM	B
Stronger, Bolder Chapter Websites	M 8:00AM	B
Not So Sweet: Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia in the Setting of Critical Illness	M 8:00AM	E
Sacral Skin Breakdown in the ICU: But How Can It Be Prevented with High Risk Populations	M 8:00AM	I
Crucial Balance in the Internal Milieu: Water and Sodium Balance and Disorders in Acute Care Patients	M 8:00AM	I
Nursing Research: From an Idea to the IRB	M 8:00AM	B
Trauma in the Golden Years: Challenges in Geriatric Trauma	M 8:00AM	B
Cold Case Files: Multidisciplinary Case Studies in Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest	M 8:00AM	I
Writing for Publication: I'd Rather Have a Root Canal	M 8:00AM	I
Undifferentiated Shock: A Systematic Diagnostic Approach	M 8:00AM	I
Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV): What is APRV and Why is the Nurse so Important for This Mode	M 8:00AM	I
Why Can’t We Wake Our Patients: The Unintended Consequences of Sedation Protocols and Guidelines	M 8:00AM	E
Bundle of Kindness: End of Life in a Trauma ICU	M 8:00AM	I
Heart Sounds: The Basics	M 8:00AM	B
Heart Sounds: The Basics	M 12:30PM	B
Adam’s Fall: The First 365 Days after a Traumatic Brain Injury	M 12:30PM	I
There's a Pediatric Patient in My ICU: What's the Plan	M 12:30PM	B
Liberating Our Patients from Restraints: Strategies Developed to Minimize Restraint Use in ICU	M 12:30PM	I
Blood, Guts and Gore: GI Bleeds	M 12:30PM	B
Get Involved in this Presentation and See What Happens: Simulation Training Using Continuous ScvO2 in PICU	M 12:30PM	B
Break the Readmission Cycle by Integrating Palliative Care with Life-Saving Therapies: Together. Bolder. Stronger.	M 12:30PM	E
Beyond Gray's Anatomy: A Visual Tour of Procedural Anatomy	M 12:30PM	B
Procedural Sedation: Performing Sedation Safely in Any Practice Arena	M 12:30PM	I
Teaching Critical Thinking: The Preceptor’s Challenge	M 12:30PM	B
Update on Critical Care Billing	M 12:30PM	B
Meaningful Recognition Has Power: Together. Stronger. Bolder.	M 12:30PM	A
Expertise and Innovation for the Unique Population of a Pediatric Progressive Care Unit	M 12:30PM	I
Heart of the Matter: Postoperative Complications in the Pediatric Congenital Heart Patient	M 12:30PM	I
Boldly Working Toward Stronger Documentation: A Mock Trial	M 12:30PM	B
What Would I Do Without My Tele-ICU	M 12:30PM	B
Advancing Our Practice: Evidenced-Based Strategies to Promote Nursing Specialty Certification	M 12:30PM	B
Chapter Strategic Planning: A How-To Workshop	M 12:30PM	B
Demystifying the Coagulation Cascade	M 12:30PM	B
Our Journey to Family Presence During Rounds	M 12:30PM	I
Tissue Oxygenation and Hemodynamic Monitoring: It's All About the O's	M 12:30PM	I
Supporting Effective, Lasting Change During Policy, Project or Information Roll-Outs	M 12:30PM	B
Bath Salts: Done on the Street but Felt in the Emergency Room and ICU	M 12:30PM	A
Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections: HHS-CCSC Awardees’ Best Practices & Benchmarks in Eliminating VAP & CLABSI	M 12:30PM	A
How to Manage Common Pleural Problems	M 2:15PM	A
Beyond the Basic Pacing Functions: What Else Does That Thing Do	M 2:15PM	I
Clinical Triggers for Ethics in the Neonatal and Pediatric ICUs: When is Enough Really Enough	M 2:15PM	B
Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy	M 2:15PM	I
Incorporating Active Learning Strategies into Critical Care Education	M 2:15PM	I
Help, My Patient is on Five Drips: Administering Inotropes and Vasoactive Agents with Confidence	M 2:15PM	B
Thar She Blows: Intra-Abdominal Hypertension (IAH) and Intra-Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (IACS) in PICU Patients	M 2:15PM	B
Critical Care Studies You Should Know About	M 2:15PM	I
One a Day for Nurses: Vitamins to Nourish Your Spirit	M 2:15PM	B
Heart of the Matter: Postoperative Complications in the Pediatric Congenital Heart Patient	M 2:15PM	I
Safe Harbor: How AACN Practice Alerts Protect Patients and Nurses from Medical Errors	M 2:15PM	B
My Belly Hurts: Managing Abdominal Trauma	M 2:15PM	B
Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Report, Now What?	M 2:15PM	B
Clinical Research: Together, Stronger, Bolder	M 2:15PM	A
But This Is Progressive Care: Managing Lines and Vents Outside the ICU	M 2:15PM	I
Radiology 101: For the Bedside Nurse	M 2:15PM	I
Cardiovascular Pharmacology Throughout the Continuum of Care	M 2:15PM	I
Assisting Colleagues with Ethics: Become the ACE in the Hole to Combat Moral Distress	M 2:15PM	I
Chapter Financial Reporting as Easy as 1 + 1	M 2:15PM	B
Let's All Get Certified: Best Practices for Creating a Culture of Certification	M 2:15PM	B
Nurse Palliative Care Champions: Creating a Successful End-of-Life Program	M 2:15PM	I
Heart Sounds: Pediatric Auscultation	M 2:15PM	E
Heart Sounds: Pediatric Auscultation	M 4:00PM	E
Bedside Nursing Management of Intra-abdominal Hypertension	M 4:00PM	I
Postoperative Pulmonary Complications: What Happens to Their Lungs in the Surgical Unit	M 4:00PM	I
Moving Beyond Implementing the Evidence to Actually Creating It	M 4:00PM	E
Together. Stronger. Bolder. Stopping the Revolving Door of Heart Failure Readmissions	M 4:00PM	I
Cold Case Files: Multidisciplinary Case Studies in Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest	M 4:00PM	I
Think Bigger: The Impact of Inflammation on Cardiac Risk Factors	M 4:00PM	E
Monsters Inc.: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy	M 4:00PM	I
Glycemic Control Conundrum: First Tight Control Saves Lives, Now Hypoglycemia Takes Lives, Where Do We Go from Here	M 4:00PM	I
Monoclonal Antibodies: Case Studies in Acute and Critical Care	M 4:00PM	I
Neonatal Perioperative Hypothermia: The Journey from Problem Identification to Translating Evidence into Best Practice	M 4:00PM	I
Create Stronger, Bolder and Financially Successful Chapter Programs Together	M 4:00PM	B
Mechanical Ventilation Management for Pediatric Critical Care Practitioners	M 4:00PM	I
Case Studies in Hemodynamics	M 4:00PM	E
Demystifying the Coagulation Cascade	M 4:00PM	B
Acute Kidney Injury Treatment Guidelines: A Bold Global Initiative	M 4:00PM	B
Managing the Transplant Recipient: Postoperative Care, Pharmacokinetics and Immune Modulation	M 4:00PM	E
pCAM and tiCAM: Pediatric Delirium Screening Tools for Bedside Assessment	M 4:00PM	I
Gut Wrenching and Stomach Churning: Gastrointestinal Emergencies in Critical Care	M 4:00PM	I
Chill Out: Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest: What We Have Learned and Where We Are Going	M 4:00PM	I
Prepared, Poised and Polished: Positioning Yourself for a Prime Presentation	M 4:00PM	I
Beacon Journey LIVE!	M 4:00PM	A
Chapters Best Practices	M 4:00PM	A
APRN Consensus Model and Your Practice	Tu 1:15PM	A
Assessing the Impact of Telemedicine on ICU Nursing Care	Tu 1:15PM	I
ePortfolio: Portal to Professional Success	Tu 1:15PM	B
Research Poster Award: Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Non-Surgical Elderly with Aortic Stenosis	Tu 1:15PM	A
Family Presence: How, Not If	Tu 1:15PM	A
Silent Treatment	Tu 1:15PM	A
Keeping the Bugs Out: Preventing Surgical Infections	Tu 1:15PM	B
Impact of Canine-Assisted Ambulation on Congestive Heart Failure Patients: Ambulation Outcomes and Satisfaction	Tu 1:15PM	I
Beyond the Basic Pacing Functions: What Else Does That Thing Do	Tu 1:15PM	I
Exploring Unusual Cardiovascular Case Studies for Clinical Insights and Lessons Learned	Tu 1:15PM	I
Earning Our Keep: Strategies to Optimize and Articulate Outcomes of CNS Practice	Tu 1:15PM	A
Back to the Future: Chapter Succession Planning	Tu 1:15PM	B
Now I Know My ABCs: Implementing the ABCDE Bundle to Improve Ventilator Weaning, Delirium, and Mobility in the ICU	Tu 1:15PM	I
It's Not Real, It's Simulation: Hands-On Practice for the Novice Critical Care Nurse	Tu 1:15PM	I
Acute Thiamine Deficiency: Assessment, Diagnosis and Management	Tu 1:15PM	I
Endpoints of Resuscitation: Meeting the Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of Shock	Tu 1:15PM	I
Merging Cultures in Today's Workplace	Tu 1:15PM	I
Cardiac Medications and the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System	Tu 1:15PM	I
When the Lung Fails: ALI/ARDS in Children	Tu 1:15PM	I
Sedation, Analgesia and Physiologic Stress: Triple Threat Match in ICU Care	Tu 1:15PM	E
Providing Care in Rural America: The Future of Telemedicine	Tu 1:15PM	I
From Battlefield to Trauma Center: New Advances in Trauma Resuscitation	Tu 1:15PM	I
Actually There Is Something Else We Can Do: Aggressive, Comfort-Directed Care after Withdrawal of Artificial Support	Tu 1:15PM	B
Necrotizing Fasciitis: The Battle with Bacteria Begins	Tu 1:15PM	I
Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Report, Now What?	Tu 1:15PM	B
P, QRS, and Ts of Neonatal Care	Tu 1:15PM	B
Gastric Residual Volumes May Be Misleading: Get with the Evidence on Enteral Feeding	Tu 1:15PM	B
Heart Sounds: Adult Cardiac Abnormalities	Tu 1:15PM	E
Preventing Errors in ICU: Catch Me if You Can	Tu 1:15PM	I
Research Poster Award: Sedation as a Mediator of the Stress Response During Mechanical Ventilation	Tu 2:00PM	A
Synergy in Critical Care: ABCDE Interdisciplinary Bundle	Tu 3:00PM	B
Nurse-Driven Morbidity and Mortality Rounds: Learning from Mistakes	Tu 3:00PM	B
Cardiomyopathy: How Can One Name Mean So Many Things	Tu 3:00PM	B
Microbiology Laboratories and Antimicrobials: The Perfect Pair	Tu 3:00PM	I
Why Isn’t the Evidence Enough? Process Management for Creating a Successful Hospital-Wide Sepsis Initiative	Tu 3:00PM	I
Research Refresher: Study Design and Statistics	Tu 3:00PM	E
Real Thing, An Anatomical Approach to Understanding Congenital Heart Defects Part 1: Septal Defects	Tu 3:00PM	I
Bioethical Influence on Staff RN's & Role of APRN	Tu 3:30PM	I
Success for the Clinical Nurse Specialist: Together. Stronger. Bolder.	Tu 3:30PM	I
New Program Approval for Chapters Policy	Tu 3:30PM	I
Time Management: Making the Most of Your Nursing Minutes	Tu 3:30PM	B
What's a Twitter: E-Professionalism and Boundary Setting in the Social Media Age	Tu 3:30PM	B
Resistance is Futile: Ethical Case Studies in Critical Care	Tu 3:30PM	I
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Case Studies: Highlighting Strategies to Optimize Patient Safety	Tu 3:30PM	I
All Creatures Great and Small	Tu 3:30PM	I
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome	Tu 3:30PM	B
Bull's Eye: Meeting the National Patient Safety Goals in the ICU and PCU	Tu 3:30PM	I
Three Rs of Family Presence: Report, Rounds and Resuscitation	Tu 3:30PM	B
Expert Nurses Armed with Real-Time Data: Knock Out Sepsis	Tu 3:30PM	I
Roses Are Red, But Patients Turn Blue, Methemoglobinemia Leaves You Gasping for O2	Tu 3:30PM	B
Evaluating Hemodynamic Changes without Elaborate Equipment	Tu 3:30PM	I
Neurologic Emergencies for Nonneurologic Nurses	Tu 3:30PM	B
Final Hours of Life: Caring for the Imminently Dying Patient	Tu 3:30PM	B
Obtaining Valid Pressure Measurements: Do You Practice According to the Evidence	Tu 3:30PM	B
Oh Geeze, It’s a Sneeze, It’s a Wheeze, Help Me Please: Pediatric Status Asthmaticus	Tu 3:30PM	I
Research Poster Award: Multidisciplinary Blood Conservation Program Among Coronary Artery Bypass Patients *CANCELLED	Tu 3:30PM	A
Change Anything	Tu 4:45PM	A
It’s All About Perfusion: Case Studies in Acid-Base Physiology, ABG Interpretation and Interventional Strategies	Tu 4:45PM	B
Communicating Necessary Concerns and Evidence from RNs (CONCERN)	Tu 4:45PM	A
Heart Sounds: Adult Cardiac Abnormalities	Tu 4:45PM	E
New Pressure Modes: The Good, Bad and the Ugly	Tu 4:45PM	I
Top Ten Tactics for Writing a Great Abstract	Tu 4:45PM	I
Pain Management in Critical Illness: Pharmacotherapy Review, Updates and Progress	Tu 4:45PM	A
Bath Salts: Done on the Street but Felt in the Emergency Room and ICU	Tu 4:45PM	A
Nutritional Therapy In The Critical Care Setting	Tu 4:45PM	A
What Do You See When You Look in the Eyes of a Child	Tu 4:45PM	I
Shock Resuscitation: Where Are We Now? Current Trends and Controversies	Tu 4:45PM	I
Sedation and Paralytic Therapy Used in Critical Care	Tu 4:45PM	I
CAB Is Not as Easy as ABC: The Whys Behind the New AHA Changes to BLS, ACLS, PALS, and Implications for Practice	Tu 4:45PM	I
New Frontier in Metabolic Medicine: Exploring the Entero-Endocrine-Brain Axis	Tu 4:45PM	I
To Clot or Not to Clot: An Evidence-Based Approach to the Acutely Hemorrhaging Patient	Tu 4:45PM	I
That Was Then, This Is Now: Change in Practice with Advanced Technology products, What Happened to Our MacGyver Days *CANCELLED	Tu 4:45PM	B
Rapid Response: Early Resuscitation in Preventing Chapter Death	Tu 4:45PM	B
Broken Spirits, Broken Bones: Improving Identification Indicators of Elder Mistreatment	Tu 4:45PM	I
Older, Wiser and Worn Out: Keeping Aging Nurses in the Acute Care Workplace	Tu 4:45PM	I
Identification and Management of Inflicted Trauma in the Pediatric Population	W 1:15PM	I
Withdrawal of Life Support: Family Experiences	W 1:15PM	B
Guidelines in Action: Care and Management of the Patient in Atrial Fibrillation	W 1:15PM	I
Too Much Of a Good Thing: The Fine Line Between Therapy and Toxicity	W 1:15PM	I
Neurogenic Stress Cardiomyopathy After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Manifestations, Complications and Clinical Challenges	W 1:15PM	B
Be the Ultimate Detective: Why Kids Get Hurt and How We Can Help Them	W 1:15PM	B
Legal Issues in Professional Nursing	W 1:15PM	B
Anticoagulant Therapy: The Old, the New, the Tried and True	W 1:15PM	I
Expect the Unexpected: A Lived Experience Of Virtual Triage and Decision Support Using TeleICU During A Disaster	W 1:15PM	I
Critical Care Immunology	W 1:15PM	I
Implementing Practice Changes as a Staff Nurse: Becoming Your Own Catalyst for Change	W 1:15PM	B
ARDS/ALI: Partnering with Multidisciplinary Evidence-Based Care Practices to Affect Patient Outcomes	W 1:15PM	I
Optimize APN Professional Growth with an Effective Performance Evaluation Program	W 1:15PM	I
Pediatric Brain Death: Updated Guidelines	W 1:15PM	I
It's the Preceptor, Everyone: The Importance of Preceptors in the Recruitment and Retention of Critical Care Nursing	W 1:15PM	I
Subarachnoid and Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Aneurysm, AVM and Best Practices	W 1:15PM	E
Road to Certification: Together Chapters Can Be Stronger and Bolder	W 1:15PM	B
Deadly EF-4 Tornados, How Our Hospital Emerged from the Eye of the Storm: Together. Stronger. Bolder.	W 1:15PM	E
Searching for the Holy Grail: Assessing Tissue Perfusion in 2012	W 1:15PM	I
MARS and the Failing Liver: Sending Help from Planet Earth	W 1:15PM	I
Sepsis Puzzle: Identification, Monitoring, and Early Goal-Directed Therapy	W 1:15PM	I
Caring Practices: Providing Comfort to Critically Ill Infants and Children	W 1:15PM	I
Get a Grip: Common Intravenous Infusions in Progressive Care Units	W 1:15PM	B
DIC: Death Is Coming and Other Life-Threatening Hematologic Crises	W 1:15PM	I
Heart Sounds: Murmurs, Clicks and Rubs	W 1:15PM	I
Beacon Journey LIVE!	W 1:15PM	A
Becoming the Highest Version of Yourself	W 3:00PM	A
Case Approach: Changing Culture and Improving Patient and Staff Satisfaction Note: printed Program Schedule shows incorrect time.	W 3:00PM	A
Real Thing, An Anatomical Approach to Understanding Congenital Heart Defects Part 2: Complex Defects	W 3:00PM	I
Unwrapping the Black Box Warnings Relevant to Critical Care Pharmacology	W 3:00PM	I
Billing and Coding: The Basics	W 3:00PM	A
Update in Sepsis Management	W 3:00PM	I
Radiology in Critical Care: Plain Radiography, CT Scan and MRI, Which to Choose and What Does it Tell Me	W 3:00PM	I
Critical Patients, Complex Data, Concise Care	W 3:00PM	I
Acute Care Case Studies: Manage These Cases	W 3:00PM	E
All Evidence is Not Created Equally: How to Critique a Clinical Trial	W 3:00PM	B
How Sweet It Is: Managing Hyperglycemic Emergencies	W 3:30PM	B
Doctor of Nursing Practice: Why Another Degree?	W 3:30PM	I
Critical Care Cyber Cafe: Let’s Offer a Journal Club a Different Way	W 3:30PM	I
And You Thought You Worked in a Challenging Environment: Nurses on Medical Missions in a Third-World Country	W 3:30PM	B
What Is Effective in Preventing the Perfect Storm: Teens, Alcohol and Cars *CANCELLED	W 3:30PM	I
Too Tired to Be Safe: Fatigue, Nurses and Errors	W 3:30PM	B
Social Media: Know What You’re Dealing With	W 3:30PM	I
90 Is the New 60: Geriatric Cardiovascular Case Studies	W 3:30PM	I
Minding Your Ps and Qs with Ethical Dilemmas: A Practical and Quick Approach	W 3:30PM	I
Massive Pulmonary Embolism: A Story of Survival	W 3:30PM	I
Wet Nose in the ICU: The Presence of Animals in the Critical Care Setting	W 3:30PM	E
Ambassador Orientation	W 3:30PM	A
Nuts and Bolts of Creating a Professional Poster Presentation	W 3:30PM	B
Pressors, Preload Reducers and Pumping Agents: Vasoactive Drip Titration Made Easy	W 3:30PM	I
Bariatric Issues in Acutely Ill Adult Patients	W 3:30PM	I
Infections in the ICU: The Weird and Wicked	W 3:30PM	I
Assaulted in the ICU, What's Happening: How to Prevent Workplace Violence	W 3:30PM	I
Burn Notice: Caring for the Thermally Injured Patient	W 3:30PM	I
I Am a Critical Care Nurse: A celebration of the Joys of Caring for Critically Ill Patients and Their Families	W 3:30PM	I
Renal Replacement Therapies, More than Just CRRT: SLED is an Effective Alternative	W 3:30PM	I
Improving Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events	W 3:30PM	A
Publishing in AACN Critical Care Journals	W 4:45PM	A
Heart Sounds: Murmurs, Clicks and Rubs	W 4:45PM	I
Ethics in Practice: Easing Moral Distress	W 4:45PM	I
Clock Is Ticking: The Neonatal “Golden Hour”	W 4:45PM	I
Walk in My Shoes: Patient's Perspectives	W 4:45PM	I
Chapter and Ambassador Collaboration	W 4:45PM	A
Creating a Culture of Certification: Certification Best Practices	W 4:45PM	A
When Bad Things Happen to Good Patients: Managing the Complications of Trauma	W 4:45PM	B
Endocrine Emergencies: Dysfunction at Thyroid and Parathyroid Central	W 4:45PM	B
Silent Hospital Help Healing (SHHH Campaign) Changes Nursing Care and Outcomes on the Frontline Nursing	W 4:45PM	I
Rhabdomyolysis: Crushing and Flushing	W 4:45PM	I
Swimming in Quality Soup: What Every Staff Nurse Must Know about Quality and Safety	W 4:45PM	B
ABCs of AEDs: Pharmacology of Antiepileptic Drugs	W 4:45PM	B
Simulated Hemodynamic Scenarios: Everyone Has Fun Nobody Gets Hurt	W 4:45PM	I
Mediator Showers	W 4:45PM	I
Art and Science of Volume Resuscitation: What to Give, How Much and What Are the Endpoints of Resuscitation in Shock	W 4:45PM	I
Two Heads are Better than One: Team-Based Learning	W 4:45PM	I
Managing Increased Intracranial Pressure with Confidence	W 4:45PM	B
What Went Wrong: Examining the What, How, and Why of Medication Errors	W 4:45PM	I
Empowering Bold Voices Through Ethical Confidence: Developing a Continuing Interdisciplinary Ethics Education Program	W 4:45PM	I
Adrenal Insufficiency in the Acutely Ill Child: Recognition and Response	W 4:45PM	I
360-Degree Approach to Orientation Performance Appraisal	W 4:45PM	I
Silent Killer: The Misunderstood Consequences of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy	Th 8:15AM	I
Ready to Explode: Understanding Hypertensive Crisis	Th 8:15AM	B
Wet Nose in the ICU: The Presence of Animals in the Critical Care Setting	Th 8:15AM	E
Blowing in the Wind: Nurses Together when the Disaster Exceeds the Plan	Th 8:15AM	I
Intuition Plus an Early Warning Scoring System: Determining Patients at Risk Before You Need the Rapid Response Team	Th 8:15AM	I
Bedtime Stories for the Night Nurse: Planning Successful In-service Education for the Night Shift	Th 8:15AM	I
What Is Effective in Preventing the Perfect Storm: Teens, Alcohol and Cars *CANCELLED	Th 8:15AM	I
It’s a Small World After All: Using Nanotechnology in Nursing and Medicine	Th 8:15AM	I
Going to Extremes: A Discussion of Ethics at the End-of-Life in Pediatrics	Th 8:15AM	I
Hold on, I’m Coming to the Rescue: Rescue Methods for Improved Oxygenation in ARDS	Th 8:15AM	I
How Sweet It Is: Managing Hyperglycemic Emergencies	Th 8:15AM	B
Post Intensive Care Syndrome: Recognition, Prevention and Treatment Across the Continuum	Th 8:15AM	I
Continuing the Care: How to Facilitate Your Patient's Successful Transition to Extended Acute Care	Th 8:15AM	I
Americas Got Talent: Recruiting and Hiring the Right Professionals	Th 8:15AM	B
Stayin’ Alive: Nursing Care of the Electrophysiology Patient	Th 8:15AM	I
Diagnosis and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes	Th 8:15AM	I
Renal Replacement Therapies, More than Just CRRT: SLED is an Effective Alternative	Th 8:15AM	I
Burn Notice: Caring for the Thermally Injured Patient	Th 8:15AM	I
Assaulted in the ICU, What's Happening: How to Prevent Workplace Violence	Th 8:15AM	I
Intellectual Property Law and Education: Avoiding Copyright Violations	Th 8:15AM	B
Recipes for Cooking Up a Healthy Work Environment	Th 8:15AM	B
Patient/Family Centered Care and Beyond in the PICU: Finding the Balance/Boundries Between Patient, Family and Self	Th 8:15AM	B
Infections in the ICU: The Weird and Wicked	Th 8:15AM	I
Chapter Collaboration with Industry: Navigating Between the Lines of Rules and Regulations	Th 8:15AM	I
Everyone Out of the Pool: The Pediatric Drowning Epidemic	Th 8:15AM	I
Recognizing and Preventing Drug Diversion in the ICU	Th 8:15AM	I
Do You Know Where Your Line Is: Maintaining Professional Boundaries	Th 8:15AM	B
Bug Bytes News Brief: Does Hand Hygiene Really Matter	Th 8:15AM	I
Heart Sounds: Geriatric Auscultation	Th 10:00AM	E
Learning from Lincoln: Leadership Lessons	Th 10:00AM	I
Critical Patients, Complex Data, Concise Care	Th 10:00AM	I
Emergence of Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in 2012: What’s New	Th 10:00AM	E
Performing Common Invasive Procedures in the ICU	Th 10:00AM	E
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Critical Care Nurses: Buzz Words or the Real Deal?	Th 10:00AM	B
Update in Sepsis Management	Th 10:00AM	I
Stroke Genius: What the NIH Stroke Scale Tells You About Your Patient’s Brain	Th 10:00AM	B
Writing for Publication: Demystifying the Publishing Process	Th 10:00AM	I
Endocrine Pathophysiology Made Incredibly Easy	Th 10:00AM	B
Ambassador Strategies for Member Engagement	Th 10:00AM	A
Real Thing, An Anatomical Approach to Understanding Congenital Heart Defects Part 3: Univentricular Defects	Th 10:00AM	I
Diagnosis and Management of Intra-abdominal Hypertension by the Advanced Practice Nurse	Th 10:00AM	E
Fetal Trauma: Caring for Our Littlest Patients	Th 10:00AM	B
Trauma and the Substance Abuse Patient: A Deadly Combination	Th 10:00AM	I
Not All VADs Are Created Equal: Understanding the Care and Management of Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices	Th 10:00AM	I
Best Practices: Improving Outcomes of Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation	Th 10:00AM	B
Oncologic Emergencies: Emergent Only if You Are Not Armed and Ready	Th 10:00AM	B
Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation	Th 10:00AM	B
Taking a Walk Through the Brain: Neuro Assessment for the Non-Neuro Nurse	Th 10:00AM	B
What Every Nurse Should Know About Healthcare Finance and Reform	Th 10:00AM	B
Reading a Research Article: It’s Not Greek to Me Anymore	Th 10:00AM	I
ABG Interpretation if Progressive Care: Easy as 1,2,3	Th 10:00AM	B
Gather the Facts: Understanding the Road Map and Assessment Pieces of the Patient with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome	Th 10:00AM	I
Embedding Certification: Transferring Certification Culture from Formal Leaders to Certified Nurses via Synergy CERPs	Th 10:00AM	B
Volume Resuscitation in Sepsis: Using Stroke Volume Optimization to Get It Just Right	Th 10:00AM	I
GI Surgical Patient in the ICU: What Do We Do with All These Tubes and Drains	Th 10:00AM	I
Annual Membership Open Forum	Th 10:00AM	A
Building a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Intensivist Program – Part I of a 3-Part Series	Th 10:00AM	I
Exhibiting Synergy: Role of an ACNP in a Neuroscience Critical Care Unit – Part 2 of 3-Part Series	Th 11:00AM	B
Research Poster Award: Delirium in Trauma Patients: Prevalence and Predictors	Th 11:45AM	A
Trimming the Fat: Dyslipidemia Management, ATP III and Beyond	Th 11:45AM	I
NICOs and MICOs and Swans, Oh My: Navigating Hemodynamic Monitoring Options	Th 11:45AM	I
Caring for Critically Ill Patients with Life-Threatening Obstetric Conditions	Th 11:45AM	I
Acute Aortic Dissections: Dissecting Through the Facts	Th 11:45AM	I
Bloody Battle: Early Detection and Management of Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury	Th 11:45AM	I
Donation after Cardiac Death: From Beginning to End to Beginning Again, the Ups and Downs of a Successful DCD	Th 11:45AM	I
Swimming in Quality Soup: What Every Staff Nurse Must Know about Quality and Safety	Th 11:45AM	B
Certification Trends and Patient Outcomes: Findings from NDNQI®	Th 11:45AM	I
Heart Sounds: Geriatric Auscultation	Th 11:45AM	E
Write it Right, Nursing Law and Order: Documenting with Legal in Mind	Th 11:45AM	I
Together. Stronger. Bolder. Start Your Local Chapter	Th 11:45AM	B
Partners in Healing: Involving the Significant Other for Optimal Patient Care	Th 11:45AM	B
Changing a Unit's Culture: Confessions of a Bully	Th 11:45AM	B
Transitional Care: Improving Outcomes and Controlling Costs. The Time Has Come – Part 3	Th 12:00PM	I
Research Poster Award: Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Protocol to Reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus	Th 12:30PM	A