These workshops are created to meet the needs of your staff, and can be designed as one or two-day retreat experiences for the staff at your facility. Retreat goals include improving connection, developing leadership qualities for the future of healthcare, and creating dynamic, creative healthcare teams. If you would like to host a workshop at your facility or plan a leadership/team-building conference at a meeting center, contact Lori Lind or Kathy Swarts at info@heartworknursingseminars.com.
Accreditation: Both classes offer CEUs through the California Board of Nursing, Provider #14015 for 6 or 12 contact hours, respectively. CEUs are awarded at the close of the retreats.
Retreat cost varies,depending on days selected, learning needs assessment, and workshop design tailored for your group. Cost can be paid by check, or be charged on your credit card. The price includes: seminar cost, workbook and materials. Service contract provided upon request.
For further workshop information, click on "Current Class Offerings" or email Heartwork Productions at info@heartworknursingseminars.com.
OTHER HEARTWORK EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS
-Creative collaboration engages the talents and skills of the entire nursing staff. It builds a cohesive nursing unit in which individual nurses take responsibility for lifelong learning, maintaining excellent patient care, and managing cost. Does your organization have a educational or team-building need? We provide educational and retreat experiences for your staff, and tailor these experiences to meet your needs. Contact the educators at Heartwork Productions at: info@heartworknursingseminars.com.
The deadline for completion of the 7-CEU Pain Management requirement is approaching! All Oregon healthcare providers must complete this educational update by January, 2009. If audited, nurses will be expected to provide proof of the required education. A variety of venues are available for meeting the requirement. Online courses, continuing education through nursing journals, classes by mail, and on-site workshops offer learning experiences to fit your personal preferences.
Heartwork Productions' Pain Management Seminars for 2008 are coming to an end. The one remaining Saturday class will be October 4, 2008 at the Smullin Center on the Rogue Valley Medical Center campus, in Medford, Oregon.
Heartwork Productions' Pain Management workshop provides an opportunity for participants to explore personal and professional experiences with pain management and share expertise from individual areas of practice. The class fulfills 6 of the 7 CEUs required by the state of Oregon. The Oregon Pain Commission mandates an additional 1 CEU program, offered without cost online at www.oregon.gov/DHS/pain/training.shtml.
The OSBN (http://www.osbn.state.or.us/) mandates the following topics be covered to meet the educational update: general overview of pain and its management; psycho-social aspects of the pain experience; care provider fears/concerns in pain management; legal concerns for licensed care-givers; intractable pain, terminal care, end of life issues (hospice, dying patients); palliative care, pharmacologic interventions: opiod and non-opiod, non- pharmacologic interventions (guided imagery, meditation, prayer, therapeutic touch, and relaxation techniques); pain management related to special populations (e.g.pediatric, geriatric, obstetric, patients with disabilities). Visit the OSBN web site for related information.
For more complete information and a 2008 workshop brochure, click the Current Class Offerings button on our home page, or email us at: info@heartworknursingseminars.com.
WE CAN BRING THE PAIN MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP TO YOUR FACILITY! Contact us at our business address, or call for information.
The positive responses to the pain management class have been exciting. Nurses report that they find the workshop a valuable learning experience, and are integrating their new pain management knowledge into their nursing practice. It is gratifying to know that as individual nurses, we can make a difference in the outcomes for our patients who are experiencing pain.
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