CONTINUING EDUCATION

July 30-31

A CCRN exam review, sponsored by the Central Savannah River Area (Augusta) chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, will be at the Belair Conference Center in Augusta. The featured speaker will be nurse, instructor and author Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio. Registration is $125 before July 30 and $150 at the door. For information, contact Madeline Moyer at 706-829-3613 or mmoyer@mail.mcg.edu.

Sept. 21

"An Evidence-Based Practice Toolkit for Bedside Nurses," a nursing research conference, is jointly sponsored by WellStar Healthcare, Emory Healthcare and St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta. The event will be held at the WellStar Development Center in Atlanta from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Conference keynote speakers will include nurse researchers and authors Bernadette Melnyk and Tim Porter-O'Grady. The conference will engage direct-care nurses as well as nurse administrators, nurse managers, clinical nurse specialists, nurse educators and nurse researchers who are interested in conducting research and embracing evidence-based practice in clinical health care environments. An application for contact hours has been submitted. The conference registration fee is $75 and includes conference materials, breakfast and lunch. For information, call 770-956-7827 or go to www.wellstar.org/nursingresearchconference.

Oct. 6

The Annual Educational Conference of the Case Management Society of America-Atlanta Chapter will be from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Georgia International Conference Center in College Park. The theme of the conference will be "Solving the Puzzle: Components of Case Management." The keynote speakers will be Connie Commander, president of the Case Management Society of America, and ethicist and columnist John Banja. Six contact hours will be offered. For information, call 770-997-3566 or go to www.cmsa-atlanta.com.

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