Conferences

UAB Hospital is committed to providing the nursing community opportunities for professional growth and development through creating and hosting innovative conferences pertinent to today's healthcare environment.

2010 UAB Comprehensive Nursing Conference
Register now for UAB's upcoming Comprehensive Nursing Conference! The Conference will be held on April 8th and 9th at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Alabama. One can earn up to 12.8 contact hours for a 2 day registration. The Conference offers participants a chance to explore opportunities for optimizing patient‐care delivery, identify interventions and treatments supported by evidence‐based practice for selected acute‐care patient populations, and examine the characteristics of leadership excellence, values, and current issues in health care delivery.

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Opening Session

• Art of Exceptional Professional Performer

Closing Session

• Making the Most of It

Critical Care Sessions

• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Decision Making
• Delerious
• Heart Failure with Medical Devices
• Hypothermia
• Insulin Therapy
• Psychiatric Issues
• Septic Patient

General Sessions

• Top 10 - A Patients Perspective
• Nurses as Policy Advocates

Leadership Sessions

• Beyond Please and Thank You
• Boards of Nursing
• Corporate Compliance
• Making Difficult Decisions
• What did you not get about what I just said?
• Evidence Based Nursing
• Informatics for Nurse Leaders
• Leadership in the 21st Century

Med Surg Sessions

• Breaking Bad News
• Care of the Dying Patient
• Assessment Treatments and Transport Considerations
• Getting it Right
• Interpreting Lab Values
• Robotic Surgery
• What is Pain
• Graying of America

Self Care Sessions

• A Womans Odyssey
• A Womans Heart
• Me First
• Taking Charge of Health - Exercise Tips
• Using Positive Assertiveness
• Weight Loss Options in 2010
• Compassion Fatigue
• Swish Do Not Swallow