2009 Hot Issues Conference
Technology: Transforming Nursing Education

April 23-25, 2009
Salt Lake City Marriott City Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Conference Highlights
Nursing students and faculty increasingly are exposed to technology, both as a means to care for patients in the clinical setting and as a method to convey and learn new information in the classroom. Explore the use of patient care technology for which we must prepare students, including health care informatics, the electronic health record, and telenursing. Discuss what’s new in instructional technology, including the use of clinical simulation and the importance of information literacy. Join colleagues for stimulating discussions about the effects of technology on academic dishonesty and faculty resources. Posters and abstract presentations offer opportunities for participants to investigate topics of particular interest and applicability. Bring a team of faculty and your family to an invigorating educational event in this beautiful, safe, and vibrant city.

Conference Schedule

Thursday, April 23

11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Registration

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Program Session
Nursing and Health Care Informatics – The Broad View
What is informatics and what competencies do nursing students and their faculty need to know about it? How does it impact the nursing curriculum and clinical experiences? Learn more about the increasing use of clinical information and decision support systems and their links to outcomes, quality improvement, and research. Consider how aspects of informatics are incorporated into standards such as AACN’s The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Discover the role that simulation can play in the informatics agenda, including high fidelity simulators as well as the virtual reality world of Second Life.
Speaker: Elizabeth E. Weiner, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Senior Associate Dean for Informatics, Centennial Independence Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

3:00-3:30 p.m.
Stretch Break

3:30-5:00 p.m.
Program Session
Information Literacy: An Essential Foundation for Using Any Technology
Have you wondered why your attempts to integrate instructional technology or teach students about patient care systems technology sometimes meet with resistance and limited success? Using or teaching about technology hinges on information-literate faculty and students. Learn more about information literacy; its critical role in seeking and applying information and using technology for evidence-based nursing; and strategies you can apply to lessen frustrations and improve outcomes.
Speaker: Cynthia K. Russell, PhD, RN, ANP, Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

5:00-6:30 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
Poster Presentations

Friday, April 24

7:15-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

7:30-8:20 a.m.
Optional Breakfast Discussion
Academic Dishonesty and the Use of Technology
Bring your breakfast and join colleagues to discuss concerns about student cheating, plagiarism, and challenges to test security that can result from the use of technology. Share observations and ideas that work.
Facilitated by members of the Hot Issues Conference Subcommittee

8:30-9:45 a.m.
Program Session
Advancing Critical Thinking with the Electronic Health Record
The electronic health record (EHR) is growing in popularity, and is not without controversy. What are the academic issues concerning the EHR, especially its impact on clinical decision making? What can nursing do to maximize quality and effectiveness of the EHR and how do we teach students about it? Explore the use of this valuable tool in clinical practice, and issues of particular interest to nursing educators.
Speaker: Judith J. Warren, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACMI, Christine A. Hartley Centennial Professor; Coordinator, graduate healthcare informatics specialty track; and Director of Nursing Informatics, University of Kansas Center for Healthcare Informatics, School of Nursing, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS

9:45-10:15 a.m.
Break

10:15-11:30 a.m.
Program Session
Replicating Reality for Learners: Innovations in Teaching With Simulation
Many schools have invested in and are using sophisticated simulation equipment, and others are investigating this approach to teaching. Learn more about creative teaching strategies that can be used with and without simulators, and consider other teaching strategies that simulate reality and offer students the opportunity to “think like a nurse” in patient care applications, many of which require nothing more than faculty imagination.
Speaker: Judy Herrman, PhD, RN, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, School of Nursing, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

11:30-1:00 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Program Session
Clinical Simulation: How Much? Too Much?
Nurse educators are increasingly enthusiastic about the utility of simulation in clinical education, particularly as faculty resources are stretched to the limit. However, resource and regulatory limitations impose particular challenges to the full potential of this instructional method. Gain advice and hear successful strategies of colleagues from three schools who have had noteworthy successes in implementing simulation in their schools.
Speakers: Judith F. Karshmer, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Lori B. Schumacher, PhD, RN, CCRN, Associate Dean and Director, Interdisciplinary Simulation Center, School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; and Sharon Decker, PhD, RN, CS, CCRN, Professor and Director of Clinical Simulations, School of Nursing, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

2:30-2:45 p.m.
Stretch Break

2:45-6:00 p.m.
Abstract Presentations

Saturday, April 25

7:30-9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

7:45-8:45 a.m.
Optional Breakfast Discussion
Workload and Resource Issues in Using Technology
Bring your breakfast to this collegial discussion about the many resource issues that impact the use of instructional technology, including initial and ongoing financial support and faculty preparation, workload, and rewards. Gain practical ideas and share successful strategies.
Facilitated by members of the Hot Issues Conference Subcommittee

9:00-10:15 a.m.
Program Session
Telehealth and Telenursing: Looking Toward the Future
At its most basic application, every nurse who has assessed a patient over the phone is a telenurse. Learn more about this approach to patient care that is rapidly expanding in the U.S. and abroad and how nurses at all educational levels are becoming increasingly active in it. Hear surprising findings from the 2005 survey on telenursing roles, and learn about new telehealth applications of particular relevance to nurse educators. Gather resources and tools that will enable you to prepare students for telenursing practice.
Speaker: Loretta M. Schlachta-Fairchild, PhD, RN, FACHE, President and CEO of iTelehealth Inc, Frederick, MD

10:15-10:45 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Closing Program Session
Emerging Perspectives on Technology for Teaching and Learning
Nurse educators typically have been enthusiastic about and active in using educational innovations, including the use of instructional technology. What current and emerging approaches are considered cutting-edge? What might the future hold for users of instructional technology? How do nurse educators continue to prepare to teach students of the future? Learn from a non-nursing colleague who has particular expertise in these subjects, and be better prepared to face the future.
Speaker: Michael A. Orey, EdD, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

General Information

Join AACN in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Hot Issues Conference.

Registration
The registration fee for the 2009 Hot Issues Conference is $389 for members/ $489 for non-members. The deadline for early registration is April 3, 2009. The registration fee after April 3 is $459 for members/ $559 for non-members. For AACN member schools, there is a $30 discount for each additional registrant from the same school. E-mail messages confirming registration will be sent to all participants.

You may register online at https://www.aacn.nche.edu/Registration.

Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Salt Lake City Marriott City Center, 220 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. The room rate is $149 single/double and the cutoff date for hotel reservations is March 27, 2009. To make reservations, please call the hotel directly at 1-800-266-9432, or you can make reservations online at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/aacn. Reservations made after March 27, 2009 will be on a space and rate available basis only.

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Continuing Education
Continuing Education contact hours will be provided by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to all conference participants at no additional cost. CE certificates will be provided in your conference packet.

Refund and Cancellation Policy
Registrations that are canceled up to one week before the meeting will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee. Cancellations received with less than one week’s notice will be refunded minus a $150 administrative fee. There will be no refunds for no-shows.

AACN reserves the right to cancel this conference and any group activity that does not meet minimal group requirements. Non-refundable airline tickets are the responsibility of the registran

Additional Information
For more information, contact AACN, One Dupont Circle, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 463-6930. If you require any special access in order to take part in this meeting, please contact Erica Turner at AACN or by email at eturner@aacn.nche.edu. The Salt Lake City Marriott City Center is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Information about this and other AACN conferences is available at the AACN Web site: www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences




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