Fall Conference

reboot • regroup • re-energize
Moving Beyond the Pandemic
2021 North Central Region WOCN Conference

2021 NCR Conference Poster

Purpose:

This conference is intended for healthcare professionals seeking knowledge in the most recent and more challenging topics related to wound, ostomy, and continence nursing, including how COVID-19 has affected our practice. Join us as we move beyond the pandemic, rebooting, regrouping, and re-energizing ourselves and our care.

Target Audience:

WOC Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses, Nurses, Physicians, Physical Therapists, Students and other Health Care Professionals.

Program Objectives:

At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

• Describe factors that promote and/or inhibit wound healing based on current evidence-based practice
• Articulate a spectrum of multidisciplinary factors that impact wound/ostomy management
• Report an increase in knowledge related to the subspecialties of the WOCN certification

Keynote Speaker:

Dale Smith Thomas is the President and Founder of Winners By Choice, Inc. and international motivational speaker and author. Dale’s empowering, enlightening, and entertaining message has challenged and inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world to choose success in all areas of their lives. https://www.winnersbychoice.com/

Questions about conference should be directed to the: registration@northcentralregion.org

Schedule

The 2019 North Central Region WOCN Fall Conference is intended for medical professionals, students, industry representatives, and public allies who are seeking to gain knowledge in the most recent and more challenging topics as relates to wound, ostomy, and continence care.

Join use as we bring together a diverse group of leaders to share their first hand insights, advice, and best practices.

Friday

1200–2000 Registration
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED “Kick-off to Conference”
1300-1345 Organogenesis-sponsored session – Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
1345-1430 Coloplast-Ostomy Sponsored Session
BREAK
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
1445-1500 Welcome/Introduction
1500-1600 COVID-19 Associated Skin Manifestations (W) Dr. Laura Swoboda, DNP, APNP, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP
1600-1700 Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement Workshop (W) Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON-AP, FACCWS
1700-2000 EXHIBITION HALL/APPETIZERS/CASH BAR

Saturday

0700-0900 Registration
0700-0845 EXHIBITION HALL/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
0845-0900 Welcome Address
0900-1000 Keynote Speaker: Dale Smith Thomas (P) The Power of Perspective – Keys to Win from Within
1000-1100 Reboot Your Certification with the Professional. Growth Program (PGP) (P) Linda McKenna, MSN, RN, CWOCN
1100-1200 LUNCH with NCR Member Meeting
BREAK
1215-1315 A Reboot on Skin Assessment to Approach Equity, Inclusivity, & Accuracy (W) Dr. Ruth Bryant, PhD, MS, RN, CWOCN
1315-1415 Peri-stomal Wounds Can’t Wait: Care of the Ostomate with PPG (O) Dr. Janice Erbe, DNP, APNP, FNP-BC, CWON
BREAK
1430-1530 Rewind, Re-evaluate, & Review When Your Patient Doesn’t Quite Fit the Mold (W) Sandra Oehlke, APRN, AGNP-C, CPNP-PC, DCNP, CWOCN
1530-1630 Innovation by Necessity: Telemedicine in Wound Care (W) Dr. Christina Megal, DNP, APNP, FNP-C, CWON-AP
1630-1645 Closing Remarks

Continuing Education Credits:

This activity has been submitted to WNA CEAP for approval to award contact hours. The Wisconsin Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This conference awards up to 8 nursing contact hours for attendance of all presentations and upon completion of individual presentation evaluation forms.

Speaker handouts will not be available at the conference. An email will be sent a few weeks prior to the conference with information about downloading the handouts.

Cost:
Early Bird through August 27th, 2021
Member – $125
Non-Member – $150
Starting August 28th, 2021
Member – $150
Non-Member – $175

There is an option to pay by check through the registration site. We ask everyone register online regardless of payment type.

Hotel Accommodations

Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

Address: 5601 W 78th St. Bloomington, MN, 55439

Phone: (952) 835–1900

Room reservations are made by Individual attendee. Discounted room rate is: $109/night for Guest Room: 1 King or 2 Double Beds. Must Book by 8/27/21.

If registering by phone, please mention “WOCN North Central Region Conference”.