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Schedule of Events Pre Conference Schedule Wednesday, October 1
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Open
7:30 am – 8:00 apm
Board/ANCB Continental Breakfast
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
ANCB Meeting
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
IntNSA Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 am – 11:00 am
Pre-Conference Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshop #1
The Price of Ice
This session will address the methamphetamine problem including the effects on users, dangers to the environment, safety officials, health workers, and others in society.
Objectives:
• Identify the chemical and equipment used to manufacture methamphetamine
• Identify signs of methamphetamine use
• Identify the biological and other effects on users.
Harry Thornton is a twelve-year DEA employee who has addressed audiences throughout the Southeast regarding dangerous drugs and narcotics. He has trained the National Institute of Health, DEA, and other training specialists across the Southeast and Continental US.
Pre-Conference Workshop #2
The Challenge of Managing Pain with Co-occurring Chemical Dependency
This session will cover key expectations for acute and chronic pain management, key principles as stated by the American Pain Society, and suggestions on how to integrate these into caring for persons with chemical dependencies, active and inactive.
Objectives:
• Understand the key principles of analgesic use.
• Describe at least two short-acting and two long-acting opioid medications which might be used in pain management.
• Understand how to determine the treatment course for acute or chronic pain in chemical dependency, which is least likely to lead to relapse while most likely to be effective in pain management.
• Explain how non-pharmacological interventions can be used to improve pain management.
Fran Cordi, MSN, is a nurse practitioner that is certified in pain management nursing. She has developed a hospital-wide program of documentation monitoring and training. She is a member of the Pain Steering Committee and the Preventive Ethics Committee, among others. Cordi works in physical medicine and rehabilitations and works closely with veterans who have past or present substance use co-morbidities with chronic pain. She also works in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic. She developed the Pain Agreement, which is hospital-wide and available in the electronic chart.
Pre-Conference Workshop #3
The Goal of the Healthy Soul – Contentment
This session will seek to integrate theory and practice gained form working with clients in recovery.
Objectives:
• Participants will be able to define spirituality as it relates to self and recovery.
• Participants will be able to clearly articulate the relationship of spirituality and the 12 steps of AA.
• Participants will be able to investigate and discern the concept of contentment and the role of contentment on the health of individuals.
Chaplain Clyde Angel received his bachelor’s degree from Carson Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee in 1981. He completed a Masters of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He completed post-doctoral work in the area of counseling and mental health and is currently a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia, a Board Certified Chaplain with the National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains and a fellow with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is certified Alternative Dispute Resolutions mediator for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Break for Lunch
Lunch will be on your own and at your expense.
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Exhibit and Silent Auction Set-up
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Pre-Conference Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshop #4
Addiction is a Public Health Problem
This session will include a review of public health nursing concepts and strategies; Addiction from a public health nursing perspective and exemplar of conceptualizing addiction as a public health problem (methamphetamine production and use).
Objectives:
• Describe the Public Health Model.
• List three differences between Public Health and standard health and medical care.
• Describe the relationship of the components of the Public Health Model as it is used to conceptualize Substance Dependence.
• Compare the dynamics of the Public Health Model when used to compare three different case studies depicting dependence substance.
• Describe the impact on the host and family of specific substance (methamphetamine).
Elaine Feeney, PhD, RN, participated in an invitation-only conference where many of the nation’s nurse leaders in the field of addictions nursing met to evaluate and discuss educational curricula in 1994 while in her Master's in Nursing program at the University of Maryland. In the process, many of the participants expressed a desire and need to confer on a regular and more frequent basis. Dr. Feeney had some beginning experience with electronic communication and, under the auspices of the University of Maryland, created the Addictions Nursing Electronic Discussion List (ADDCTNSG). Dr. Feeney earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Maryland in 2000, and has continued as owner-manager of ADDCTNSG since its inception. She is current serving as the President of the Foundation for Addictions Nursing.
Pre-Conference Workshop #5
Eating Disorders: If it is Not About the Food, What is it All About?
Tammy Galderise, RN, is a program manager for the Ridgeview Institute.
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
CARN Review Course
This session will prepare individuals to take the CARN exam.
Al Rundio, PhD, DNP(c), RN, CARN-AP, is a clinical associate professor of Nursing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also practices part time, as a nurse practitioner in a residential treatment facility in southern New Jersey.
NOTE: The exam will not be offered as part of the annual conference; to view exam dates, locations, and to register, go to www.intnsa.org.
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
CARN-AP Review Course
This session will prepare individuals to take the CARN-AP exam.
Objectives:
• Describe at least two relapse prevention medications for alcoholism.
• Describe at least two detoxification medications used to treat alcoholism.
• Describe at least two detoxification medications used to treat opioid dependency.
Al Rundio, PhD, DNP(c), RN, CARN-AP, see above.
NOTE: The exam will not be offered as part of the annual conference; to view exam dates, locations, and to register go to www.intnsa.org.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Journal of Addictions Nursing Editorial Board Dinner and Meeting
Conference Schedule Thursday, October 2
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Open
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Exhibits/Silent Auction/Posters Open
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Opening Remarks
Carolyn Baird RN-BC, MBA, MEd, CARN-AP, CCDP-D
IntNSA 2006-2008 President
9:15 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Address
Alcohol Use in U.S. Women of Childrearing Age: Consequences and Prevention
This presentation will include an overview of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substance use in women of childbearing age including prevalence rates, risk factors, co-occurring condition, and disparities among rates by sociodemographic factors. The presentation will then highlight alcohol use in particular and review the life-long effects of prenatal alcohol exposure. We will review current evidence-based interventions targeting women in the preconception period who are at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancy. Also mentioned will be newer effective studies targeting pregnant women who consume alcohol. The important message of this session is that prenatal alcohol exposure is a significant public health problem; that it co-occurs with other harmful substances; and that there are effective interventions that can reduce risk for an alcohol-exposed pregnancy in women at risk before they become pregnant.
Objectives:
• State the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco use, and illicit drug use in pregnant and non-pregnant women in the US.
• Describe the adverse consequences of prenatal alcohol use on infants born to women who drink during pregnancy.
• Describe two interventions that can reduce alcohol-exposed pregnancies.
Louise Floyd, RN, DNS, is a supervisory behavioral scientist and team leader of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Prevention Team, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She received her B.S. in nursing from Berea College, a master's in nursing from Emory University where she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society in Nursing, and a Doctorate of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Alabama. Dr. Floyd is the CDC representative to the federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on FAS (ICCFAS) and oversaw the development of the National Task Force on FAS/FAE, serving as its first executive secretary.
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break/Exhibits/Silent Auction/Posters Open
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Plenary Session
Creating Healing from Addiction, 1968-2008, New Intersection Around Race, Class, and Sex
The parallel histories of addictive disease trends and changes in society since 1968 will be reviewed. Participants will examine how we can use increased individual consciousness to address addictive disorders in the areas of race, class and sex. The paradox of Oprah Winfrey’s ability to reach millions through broadcast media with such books as The Secret and The New Earth will be discussed. The power of the individual to impact millions through Facebook, You-Tube, and blogs will be illuminated. The unconscious has now become the collective consciousness. We are on the edge of a huge societal change similar to the 1960s. How we can use this to take a stand about preventions and treatment of addiction will be discussed.
Objectives:
• Describe the changes in society around race, class, and sex and our difficulties with addictive diseases since 1968.
• Illuminate the possibilities of celebrity and the private individual to impact millions through the Internet and mass media. Who is watching Intervention on Sunday nights?
• Demonstrate how the changes in the Green Movement and energy consciousness and the political process in America this year indicate we are in the process of huge societal change that can be piggybacked to prevent and treat the addictive diseases of our times through a different consciousness and compassion.
Claudia Crenshaw, RN, PhD, Mental Health CNS, has been in private practice in Decatur, Georgia for 20 years. She directed the alcohol, drug, and eating disorder program at Decatur Hospital from 1984-1989 and later from 1993-1994. She utilizes EDMR and brain spotting to work with the trauma that is at the core of most addiction, depression, and anxiety. Her work is greatly influenced by her studies as a postmodern radical feminist and her interest and work in Buddhism. She has taught at five Atlanta area nursing schools.
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Plenary Session
Integrative Medicine for Addiction: Acupuncture and Orthomolecular Nutritional Therapy; What Works and Why
Objectives:
• List five nutrients that influence addiction and recovery.
• List the principle alternative modality of craving reduction currently used in addiction medicine.
• Discuss the benefits of a mind body program in rehabilitation.
Christine Gustafson, MD, ABHM, practices Integrative Medicine in Alpharetta Georgia at Alpharetta Integrative Medicine. Her transition from traditional into integrative and holistic medicine is based on her own experience more than five years ago as a patient with a severe chronic illness. The healing process ultimately involved body, mind, and spirit, something traditional medicine did not seem to readily offer. Integrative Medicine combines traditional and alternative (also known as Holistic or Complimentary) medical therapies as well as investigating the complex effects of nutrition on disease and health. This is also known as Functional Medicine. Therapies consist of a combination of traditional therapies and Botanicals, Chinese Medicine, Arurvedic Medicine, Electro-acupressure, Energy Medicine, Functional Medicine Medical Meditation, Hypnotherapy, Nutritional Analysis, Orthomolecular Medicine, and Exercise therapy. Dr. Gustafson is one of only a few physicians in Georgia trained in Integrative Medicine by Dr. Andrew Weil.
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Break/Exhibits/Silent Auction/Posters Open
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Plenary Session
The Neurobiology of Addiction and the Hope of New Medications
This session will describe the three phases of the addiction experience, as proposed by George Koob, and describe the current understanding of the neural circuitry that subtends each phase. The session will then describe the science and the practical application of using the newer medications in addiction treatment – with the risks and benefits of each.
Objectives:
• Learn the phases of the addiction process as proposed by George Koob.
• Identify the neural circuitry and chemistry of each phase of the addiction process.
• Learn about the indications, efficacy, and potential complications of medications that interact with the neural circuits that drive addiction.
Paul Earley, MD, FASAM, has 20 years of experience treating addictive diseases and specializes in long-term therapy and advocacy for professionals who suffer from addictive diseases. Prior to joining the Talbott Recovery Campus, Dr. Earley was the medical director of the Impaired Professionals Program and Service Director of Adult Addiction Medicine at Ridgeview Institute in Atlanta. Dr. Earley is a Fellow of the American Society of Addictions Medicine (ASAM) and sat on the board of ASAM for more than 10 years in several capacities. In 1998, Dr. Earley’s work was featured in Bill Moyer’s special on addiction titled “Close to Home.”
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Awards Dinner/Banquet
Join us as the IntNSA award winners are announced. Over dinner, also enjoy the company of colleagues and celebrate the successes of the profession and association.
This event is included in your full conference registration fee.
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Support Group
Friday, October 3
6:00 am – 7:00 am
Second Annual IntNSA Walk 2008
The walk will depart from the hotel lobby at 6:00 am sharp.
NOTE: This event is included in your registration fee, but it is necessary for you to register if you would like to participate. T-shirts, for participants only, will be available to purchase on a first come first serve basis and must be ordered by September 15, 2008. The cost of the t-shirt is $20.00.
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Open
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Exhibits/Silent Auction/Posters Open
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Plenary Session
Managing Substance Abuse in Primary Care Settings
Objectives:
• Define substance abuse and addiction and how drugs change the chemistry in the brain to produce pleasure.
• Identify populations at risk such as adolescents, the mentally ill, and elderly patients. Describe the multiple medical consequences substance abuse can have such as liver damage, exposure to infections, cardiovascular, and neurological damage.
• Describe public health challenges such as accidents, death, and cost to society.
• Describe different screening tools available, how brief intervention can be done, and when to refer patients to mental health or other specialty services.
Yanire Nieves, MD, graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and came to Atlanta to further her studies in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Baptist School of Medicine. After graduating, she worked in private practice and subsequently went on to complete a Masters in Business Administration for Physician Executives at Kennesaw University. She has been the Director of the Mental Health-Primary Care Program at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center where she has been working for more than ten years. She chairs the hospital Pain Management Committee and Para Suicide RCA Committee. She also co-chairs the Performance Improvement and Safety Committee for the Mental Health Service Line. Over the years, she has provided primary care treatment to patients with mental illnesses and drug addiction and closely collaborated with the hospital substance abuse treatment program.
9:30 am – 9:45 am
Break/Exhibits/Silent Auction/Posters Open
9:45 am – 11:00 am
Plenary Session
Smoking Cessation in Patients with Addiction and Other Mental Illness
Karen Drexler, MD, is the director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Atlanta VA Medical Center, and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine.
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Poster Presentations
Helping Parents Pursuing Recovery from an Addiction Address Issues of Substance Use and Abuse With Their Children – A Review of the Literature
This poster will illustrate the need for research on this extremely significant and challenging issue.
Objectives:
• Identify the need for research on how parents recovering from an addiction should address issues of substance use with their own children.
• Analyze the implications on this study’s finding that extremely minimal evidenced based material has been published on the significant topic.
Janice Feigenbaum, RN, PhD, is a clinical professor of nursing at the University of Buffalo. Dr. Feigenbaum has been involved with caring for people with addiction in an in-patient addiction program, teaching nurses and other health care professions about caring for individuals within addiction, and/or doing research on issues related to the care of people with an addiction for over 30 years.
An Education Presentation on the 12-Steps
This poster will explain the use of an education group in use for veterans in a Substance Abuse Outpatient Program (SAOP).
Objectives:
• The learner will describe appropriate referral to this group.
• The learner will explain significant elements of each step.
• The learner will give examples to support the visual image introduced as part of the 12-step group.
Dennis Hagarty, BSW, RN, CARN, has been a nurse for 27 years and received a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Western Carolina University. While in attendance there, he was one of the founding members of the Student Emergency Care Team, one of the first student-operated ambulances in the US. His nursing career began in an SICU in a county hospital. In 1984 he began federal service in the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DVAMC), working in an intensive care unit. He went full time in a Detox unit in a private hospital. He worked in a cath and EP lab before transferring to his current substance abuse position, where he is the only RN in a Substance Abuse Outpatient Program. Hagarty worked with one other psychiatrist to establish the Buprenorphine program.
Creating Psychiatric Emergency Services: The Role in Addictions
This poster will educate clinicians on treatment options for clients with addictions in an emergency room setting.
Objectives:
• Describe the role of PES in serving addicted clients.
• Describe benefits of having a dedicated PES for staff and addicted clients.
• State treatment and disposition opportunities for clients presenting to PES.
• State how PES models reflect evidence-based practice.
Christy Somner, RN, BSN, has 12 years of experience working with addicted clients in a variety of nursing environments. Somner is enrolled full time in a Masters of Nursing Education program with an anticipated completion date at the end of 2008. Somner has worked closely with addicted patients in an emergency room setting since the opening of the Psychiatric Emergency Services unit at the University of Maryland one and a half years ago.
Leslie Poff, RN, MS, CNL, holds a BA in Biology from Hollins University. For 10 years she worked with teenagers who are at risk, both middle school children and teenage parents. In 2006 she obtained an MS from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, taking advantage of the new CNL degree offered there. Since that time, Leslie has been employed at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the Psychiatric Emergency Room. In addition, Poff works one day a week at the residential substance abuse treatment center, providing counseling services for their clients.
Connie Noll, MA, RN, is currently the manager of the Adult Psychiatry Service line at the University of Maryland Medical Center responsible for inpatient, outpatient, day hospital, and psychiatric emergency services. Her volunteer work includes the Mental Health Lead for the York County Chapter of the Red Cross, holding a management level in the National Disaster Services Response Team. With a background in both nursing and psychology, Noll has more than 30 years of experience in psychiatry and addictions, most of that time holding administrative/management level positions.
Buprenorphine Clinic: Program Description and Patient Satisfaction
This poster will describe an innovative, multidisciplinary buprenorphine clinic for outpatient opioid maintenance therapy, and results from a patient satisfaction survey at six months.
Objectives:
• Identify buprenorphine as a safe and effective medication in the treatment of opioid dependence.
• List three or more essential features of the Buprenorphine Clinic.
• Discuss one or more aspects of patient satisfaction as it relates to the Buprenorphine Clinic.
Stephen Strobbe, MS, RN, NP, CNS-BC, CARN, is the clinical director at the University of Michigan Addictions Treatment Services. He practices as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Michigan and is CARN certified.
Drug Abuse Policy Addressing the Problem of Substance Abuse in Children
This poster will enable you to comprehend the findings from the preliminary examination of the Baltimore City Public School Systems Drug Abuse Policy (BCPSS) as it relates to the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) among Baltimore city students.
Objectives:
• Learner will be able to state the mandates of the BCPS Drug Abuse Policy.
• Learner will be able to describe two of the three domains of Kingdon’s Policy Streams Model as they relate to the problem of substance use among Baltimore City students.
Sandra Jones, MSN, PMHCNS, BC, has practiced addiction nursing in an urban setting since 1976 in various positions: inpatient adult, adolescent, child psychiatry, OPD psychiatry, as a family therapist working with substance abusing families, and manager of a methadone maintenance clinic. In 1997, she completed a Masters in Nursing, which specialized in Community Addictions Nursing at the University of Maryland and is currently enrolled in the Drexel University Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP) program to continue her advanced practice studies.
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch and Annual Business Meeting
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Symposium Presentations
Concurrent Session
Neurobiology of the Developing Brain: Risk Factors for Substance Abuse and Consequences of Early Use
This session will address recent developments in the understanding of developmental structural and functional changes in the brain with a focus on adolescent neurobiology.
Objectives:
• Describe maturation and cognitive development of adolescent brain
• Apply process of maturation to behavioral aspects of adolescence
• Identify co-occurring brain and behavioral effects of early drug and alcohol use
• Describe neurologically based adolescent risk factors of substance abuse
• Analyze intervention to improve behavioral control.
Merry Armstrong, DNSc, ARNP, is an associate professor at Washington State University. She teaches in the PhD program, and graduate courses in the psychiatric-mental health practitioner program, including a course on addictions. She maintains a private practice in Spokane, Washington where she treats adults with mental health concerns including chemical and process disorders. She is active in the International Nurses Society on Addictions, and is president-elect of the Association for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses in Washington State.
Diane Snow, PhD, RN PMHNP-BC, CARN, is a clinical professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she is director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program and the co-director of the Center for Psychopharmacology Education and Research. She has taught at UTA for 29 years. She received her BSN from Duke University, her MSN from UTA, her PhD from Texas Woman’s University and her postmaster’s certificate as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from UTA. She is a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse (CARN) and ANCC certified as Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She works as a psych nurse practitioner in her own practice one day a week.
Concurrent Session
Health Promotion and Risk Reduction in Youth at Risk for Early Substance Use
This session will describe health promotion and risk reduction strategies for youth at risk for early substance use based on empirical data.
Objectives:
• Describe role of drinking possible self in early alcohol use.
• Distinguish drinking possible self from alcohol expectancies.
• Describe the evolution and implementation of the “Teen Club” and “Positive adolescent life skills” programs for high-risk teens.
• Provide data to support the continued development and testing of these two interventions.
• Discuss implications of positive youth development programs on teen resiliency.
• Describe the problem of methamphetamine use in Taiwanese adolescents and the significance of identifying high-risk situations of relapse.
• Describe the study design including qualitative and quantitative approaches and provide the psychometrics of the instrument.
• Discuss clinical implications of the instrument and address the necessity of tailoring individual interventions for high-risk youth.
Colleen Corte, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at the Chicago College of Nursing. Dr. Corte has expertise as a nursing researcher conducting studies of self-cognitions as vulnerability for early alcohol use and alcohol problems for the last 10 years.
Nancy Campbell-Heider, PhD, FNP, CARN-AP, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Buffalo. Dr. Campbell-Heider is CARN-AP certified and has 16 years of experience working with high-risk adolescents in a primary care practice for teens.
Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, RN, is a psychiatric nursing faculty and has been involved in several research projects related to substance abuse. Dr. Chang’s area of research focuses on substance use among adolescents and older adults as well as nurse’s attitudes and confidence in caring for people with substance use. He has conducted studies in understanding methamphetamine use and relapse among Taiwanese adolescents in terms of the identification of high-risk situations of methamphetamine reuse.
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Break/Exhibits/Silent Auction (Closes)/Posters Open
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Paper Presentations
Concurrent Session
Alabama’s Nurse Monitoring Programs: Evaluating the Experience
Objectives:
• Identify the monitoring programs’ benefit to both the recovering nurse and the public.
• Recognize barriers/risks nurses in recovery fact to remain clean and sober.
• Verbalize two monitoring criteria that support continued recovery.
Susanne Fogger, RN, DNP, PMHNP-BC, currently is faculty at the University of South Alabama. She is an assistant clinical professor instructing nursing students in the psychiatric nurse practitioner tract. Dr. Fogger completed her DNP working in collaboration with the staff of the Alabama Board of Nursing. Her practice project assisted the Board of Nursing to assess the monitoring process through an evaluation by the participants. Dr. Fogger has a strong background in both psychiatry and chemical dependency treatment.
Concurrent Session
Home Detox – Another Option
This session will make nurses and communities aware of another option for care.
Objectives:
• Be aware that In-Home Detox is a safe alternative to inpatient care.
• Home Detox reaches clients who have difficulty getting treatment.
• Process for In-Home Detox’s description of intervention.
• Clinical statistics Evaluation for Home Detox.
Norman Shewman, BSN, BS, RN, BC, CAP, ICADC, SAP, is the administrator for Home Detox, Inc., a licensed Home Health Agency specializing in alcohol detoxification and drug detoxification. He is responsible for the oversight of the operation of the office, marketing and evaluating and treating detox patients. He is also responsible for drug testing and drug screening of clients. He is a Certified Addiction Professional (CAP) and provides substance abuse counseling with families and clients.
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Break/Exhibits/Posters Open
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
FAN Silent Auction Winners Announced
The Foundation for Addictions Nursing will hold its second annual Silent Auction during the Conference. The Silent Auction will be open all day on Thursday and until 2:15 pm on Friday. You may pick your Silent Auction Items up after the Plenary Sessions at 5:45 pm.
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Plenary Session
Suicide Across the Life Cycle: Alcohol, Drugs, and Mood Disorders
Objectives:
• Understand the contribution of addiction to completed suicide
• Understand the contribution of acute intoxication to completing suicide
• Recognize that risk for completed suicide and the contribution of intoxicating substances to that risk differs by age, gender and race.
Steven Garlow, MD, PhD, practices as a psychiatrist in Atlanta, Georgia.
5:15 pm
Silent Auction Winners Pick up Items
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Addictions Nursing Certification Board (ANCB) Reception
Come meet the members of ANCB, learn about the CARN, CARN-AP, and the organization. Come and enjoy appetizers and conversation.
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Chapter Reception
The Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of IntNSA will be hosting a reception for all members who are affiliated with a local chapter or are interested in joining or starting a chapter. Come and enjoy appetizers along with great networking and a presentation on starting a chapter by our chapter co-directors, Dottie Shoemaker and Peg Salinger.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Support Group Meeting
Saturday, October 4
6:00 am – 7:00 am
Second Annual IntNSA Walk 2008
The walk will depart from the hotel lobby at 6:00 am sharp.
NOTE: This event is included in your registration fee but it is necessary for you to register if you would like to participate. T-shirts, for participants only, will be available to purchase on a first come first serve basis and must be ordered by September 15, 2008. The cost of the T-shirt is $20.00.
7:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration Open
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Meet the Professors Breakfast
Addictions Nursing – The Electronic Communication List for the Academic, Scholarly, and Clinical Discussions of Addictions Related Topics of Interest to Professional Nurses
This session will discuss how to add the tool of electronic communication to those tools already used by addiction nurses.
Objectives:
• Describe the two main structures in any electronic discussion list.
• List four advantages to professional electronic discussion lists.
• Describe steps to subscribe to ADDCTNSG.
• Describe the reason subscription to ADDCTNSG are “owner-controlled”.
Elaine Feeney, PhD, RN, see above.
Medication Assisted Treatment: the Positives and Negatives
This session will focus on the uses of medication-assisted treatment, the need for ongoing assessment, and the various medications utilized in a MAT program.
Objectives:
• List three reasons why MAT can be helpful to patients working on recovery.
• List three reasons how MAT can damage the goal of sustained recovery.
• Name at least three medications utilized in medication assisted treatment protocols.
William Lorman, PhD, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, possesses a master’s degree in Nursing from MCP-Hahnemann University as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and post-doctoral work at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis as a Freudian psychoanalyst. Dr. Lorman’s faculty appointments include the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis where he has taught Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology; Drexel University, Graduate Nursing Program in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner tract; and Rider University Department of Graduate Education in the Substance Abuse Counseling tract.
What is the Importance of Developing Genomics Competence in Addictions Nurses?
Objectives:
- Discuss the role of family history and risk profile in addictions treatment.
- Identify the genomics competencies for nurses.
- Discuss ways to implement genomics into nursing education about addictions.
Diane Snow, PhD, RN PMHNP-BC, CARN, see above.
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Symposium Presentations
Concurrent Session
Tailored Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders
This session will examine current evidence and novel treatments for individuals with co-occurring disorders.
Objectives:
• Evaluate the current state-of-the-science related to co-occurring disorders.
• Examine the feasibility of a novel program for promoting medication taking and reduction in substance use.
• Discuss implications for nursing practice, education, and research.
Deborah S. Finnell, DNS, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, holds a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University at Buffalo, School of Nursing. She is currently a VA Post-Doctoral Nurse Fellow and her mentors are Steven L. Batki, MD and Jill L. Bormann, RN, PhD. Dr. Finnell is board certified in addictions nursing and psychiatric mental health nursing at the advanced practice level. Her program of research is based on the Transtheoretical Model. Dr. Finnell has also been published on topics related to the neurobiological basis of addictions, co-occurring disorders, patient choice, and health diaries. She has received funding from Sigma Theta Tau International, the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Mental Health, and from the University at Buffalo.
Frederick Osborne, MS, PMHNP-BC, CARN, began his nursing career when he graduated from the University of Rochester with a BSN in 1984. He worked for several years in the Veteran Administration Hospitals to fulfill a scholarship obligation, beginning in Chicago and finishing in Hampton, Virginia. In 1987 Mr. Osborne moved overseas to Germany where he worked as a school nurse and also taught EMT classes through Central Texas College. Thirteen years later, he and his family moved back to upstate New York where Mr. Osborne had accepted a position at the Canandaigua VA. At the VA, he worked as a nurse educator and case manager in the substance abuse program. Under the direction of Dr. Finnell, Mr. Osborne participated in program development and evaluation. In 2005 Mr. Osborne received his Master’s degree as a Mental Health/Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner from the University of Rochester. He is currently employed as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at the Canandaigua VA.
Concurrent Session
Management of Opioid Addiction: Focus on Screening, Brief Intervention, Identifying, Brief Intervention, and Treatment
This session is designed to increase awareness and decrease the treatment gap of clients with Opioid addictions. In addition, the learner will gain knowledge about the pharmacology, application, and treatment strategies using buprenorphine products (Suboxone/Subutex).
Objectives:
• Identify clients with Opioid addiction.
• Provide appropriate referrals and resources for treatment to clients with Opioid addiction and outpatient buprenorphine treatment.
• Understand the pharmacology and treatment strategies when using buprenorphine products.
• Develop outpatients treatment protocols/programs based on TIP 40 and effective recovery monitoring strategies.
Tara Haskins, RN, MSN, graduated in PMHNP program with focus study in addictions and completion of Nurse Educator Certification. She functioned as Crisis Intervention in HCA Tarrant County evaluating suicide and substance abuse and as detox coordinator at Murray Hill Recovery in Dallas Texas, developing protocols and outpatient treatment program, inductions, and patient and family education utilizing Suboxone/Subutex. She attended the Train-the-Trainer session program in Baltimore Maryland for the development and delivery of educational programs with the use of Suboxone and Subutex.
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Break/Hotel Checkout
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Paper Presentations
Concurrent Session
A Historical Review of Perceptions of Caring For Individuals Withdrawing from Alcohol, Nicotine, and Other Substances within Nursing Literature
This session will discuss how to develop an accurate perception of how the topics of withdrawal from substances have been addressed within the nursing literature.
Objectives:
• Identify the need for nurses to publish case studies and pursue evidence-based research on caring for individuals withdrawing from the effects of alcohol and other substances.
• Identify the nurses who have published about caring for individuals withdrawing from substances.
• Analyze the implications of this study’s finding that extremely minimal evidence-based material has been published on this significant topic.
Janice Feigenbaum, RN, PhD, is a clinical professor of nursing at the University of Buffalo. Dr. Feigenbaum has been involved with caring for people with addiction in an inpatient addiction program, teaching nurses and other health care professions about caring for individuals within addiction and/or doing research on issues related to the care of people with an addiction for more than thirty years.
Concurrent Session
Spiritual Awakening Predicts Improved Drinking Outcomes in a Polish Treatment Sample
This session will describe spiritual awakening – and associated activities in Alcoholics Anonymous – as a predictor of improved drinking outcomes (i.e., abstinence, and no heavy drinking days in patients receiving treatment for alcohol dependence at a medical university in Warsaw, Poland.
Objectives:
• Describe the difference between Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting attendance and AA affiliation.
• Explain the basic relationships between AA meeting attendance, spiritual awakening, and drinking outcomes in the treatment sample.
• List three or more AA-related activities that were associated with having had a spiritual awakening.
Stephen Strobbe, MS, RN, NP, CNS-BC, CARN, see above.
11:30 am – 11:40 am
Break
11:40 am – 12:55 pm
Plenary Session
The NIAAA Nursing Education Model for the Preventions and Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
This session will introduce the audience to the curriculum, review the content area and provide guidance on the use of the curriculum. The underlying pedagogy of the curriculum will be discussed as well as uses for the curriculum in the practice arena. Finally, input from the audience will be sought in relations to the curriculum’s utility, and methods for incorporating its use in current BSN programs and practice settings.
Objectives:
• Identify ways to incorporate the curriculum into the practice arena.
• Discuss the different aspects of alcohol use and it impact on the health of individuals.
• Apply specific pedagogical methods when utilizing the curriculum.
Christine Savage, RN, PhD, CARN, is an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and director of the college’s masters program in public health nursing and on faculty for the University of Cincinnati masters in Public Health program. From 2001 to 2006 she served on the International Nurses Society on Addictions board, one year as a board member, one as vice president and three as president. She has conducted funded research related to vulnerable populations and substance use disorders with a current focus on homelessness. She has 50+ publications. She received her bachelor’s degree from Boston College and both her master’s and PhD degree from the University of Maryland.
12:55 pm – 1:00 pm
Closing Remarks
William J. Lorman, PhD, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP
2008-2010 IntNSA President
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Special/Optional Event
Georgia Aquarium and Lunch
www.georgiaaquarium.org
With more than eight million gallons of fresh and marine water and more aquatic life than found in any other aquarium, you are sure to see things you’ve never seen before! The Georgia Aquarium promises wonder and excitement around every corner including whale sharks, beluga whales, jellies, and much, much more. With the Premium Day Pass, you receive general admission to the Georgia Aquarium and a ticket to Deepo's Undersea 3D Wondershow. The theater is one of the most advanced in the world with HD 3D digital projection along with 4D special effects. You won't just see the creatures on film – you'll feel them! With so much to see and do, you’ll want to come back again and again. The Georgia Aquarium is within walking distance (approximately five blocks) from the hotel. As part of the fee, you will be given a gift certificate, which can be used for lunch in the Café Aquaria (or used anywhere in the Aquarium).
This is an optional event and not included in your conference registration fee. The discounted price is $45.
Contact IntNSA at intnsa@intnsa.org or (614) 221-9989 with questions.
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