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NURSING OUTLOOK NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2000 319

ST PAUL, MINN

The Omaha System: A Key to Practice, Documentation andInformation Management

Dates: March 23-24, 2001. Place: Bethel College, St Paul, Minn.Contact: Karen Martin, RN, MSN, FAAN, Martin Associates, (402)333-1962, or Connie Dreyer, RN, MSN, Bethel College, (651) 635-8534, e-mail drecon@bethel.edu.

MILWAUKEE, WIS

4th International Symposium on Functional GastrointestinalDisorders

Dates: Mar 30-Apr 2, 2001. Place: Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis.Sponsor: International Foundation for Functional GastrointestinalDisorders and the Functional Brain-Gut Group. Contact: Cathy Means,CME, 2715 Marshall Court, Madison, WI 53701, (608) 263-6637, fax(608) 262-8421.

TAMPA, FLA

Managed Care Nursing Certification Course

Dates: Dec 1-2, 2000. Places: Tampa, Fla. Sponsor: AmericanAssociation of Managed Care Nurses. Contact: Sloane J. Reed, (804)747-9698, fax (804) 747-5316, e-mail sreed@aamcn.org.

LAS VEGAS, NEV

Mosby’s Faculty Development Institute 2001

Dates: January 3-6, 2001. Place: Caesars Palace Hotel. Sponsor: Mosby.Contact: Mosby Continuing Education and Training, (888) 299-3617,Internet www.mosby.com/Faculty.

CLEVELAND, OHIO

Midwest Nursing Research Society 25th Annual ResearchConference: Building the Future of Evidence Based PracticeThrough Research

Dates: March 2-5, 2001. Place: Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio.Contact: Midwest Nursing Research Society Member Services, (847)375-4711, Internet http://www.mnrs.org/.

Names in the News

• Gerry Lynam, an association director with 16 years of legislative and govern-ment relations experience, has been appointed director of government affairs forthe American Association of Colleges of Nursing.• Jeffery M. Beutler, CRNA, MS, has joined the American Association of NurseAnesthetists as the association’s executive director.• Jackie Campbell was appointed by the US Congress to the 3-year Departmentof Defense Task Force onDomestic Violence. She also has been appointed to aNRC/IOM Committee on Family Violence.• John F. Garde, executive director of the American Association of NurseAnesthetists for the past 17 years, has received the Agatha Hodgins Award forOutstanding Accomplishment in the Field of Nurse Anesthesia from theAssociation.

News/Announcements

Guidelines Define Core Competencies for Geriatric Nursing Care

Nurses who graduate from bachelor’s degree programs should have the skill torecognize the complex interactions of acute and chronic conditions common inthe elderly, use technology to enhance older adults’ independence and safety,and assess older adults’ physical, cognitive, psychologic, social, and spiritualstatus, according to new guidelines issued by the American Association ofColleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for GeriatricNursing.Moreover, because adequate content on the care of older adults is dependent ona “curriculum infusion” and sufficient numbers of prepared faculty, competen-

cies and teaching strategies in geriatric care should be incorporated into separatecourses and integrated throughout baccalaureate nursing curricula, the twogroups urge in their new joint publication, “Older Adults: RecommendedBaccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for Geriatric NursingCare.”

Nursing and Health Policy Review Call for Papers

A new peer-reviewed journal, Nursing and Health Policy Review, is seeking papers.The journal, which will be published quarterly starting in Spring 2001, is aforum for promoting nursing’s contribution to health policy on an institutional,local, national, and international level. It addresses the critical question: How cannursing enter the mainstream of the ongoing health policy debate? Originalmanuscripts should be submitted to the editors, Barbara K. Redman, PhD, RN,FAAN, and Ada Jacox, PhD, RN, FAAN, Wayne State University College ofNursing, 5557 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202.

Resources

Web Site Is Devoted to End-of-Life Care

End-of-life care services have one basic common denominator: providing increasedpersonal communications and as-needed solace for persons who are leaving us.“Tomorrow’s Tools,” one part of Last Acts (www.lastacts.org), the Web site spon-sored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is devoted to end-of-life careissues, introduces tools, services, and care extenders that can be used successfully atthat time in patients’ lives.

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