ESNA Conference 2016 Evaluation Summary
ESNA conference 2016 evaluation summary
How did you find out about the conference?
- 21% colleague, 45% ESNA website
Were you happy with a two day conference?
- Yes 90%
Were you happy with the cost?
- Yes 88%
Was the venue easy to locate? (1 = poor, 4 = excellent)
- Average 3.65
Was the conference room suitable for learning?
- Average 3.77
Were the venue staff helpful?
- Average 3.97
How far were your expectations met?
- Exceeded 17%, fully met 69%
- Generally a good conference
- Networking as always is great
- Excellent conference sessions delivered by knowledgeable speakers
- Food was excellent
- Very informative, thank you
- Would have liked some examples around ESN role in the medico legal
- This has been an excellent course with really interesting speakers
- Very well organised, thank you!
- Revalidation and pregnancy were interesting
- Very good meeting
- All topics very relevant to my practice
- Interesting and informative content over the two days
- Very good overall
- Felt the need for time for further discussion re impact tools and nursing issues ?focus groups on particular subjects
- Excellent conference, thoroughly enjoyed it all, thank you
- Some excellent presentations, very informative
What aspects of the conference did you find most useful?
- All presentations very useful-as a nurse need to consider all topics presented
- Thoroughly enjoyed it all x3
- I thought the choice of topics were very appropriate and were all very relevant to current practice
- Impact tool/checklist/revalidation/networks/genetics
- Impact tool/SUDEP/revalidation
- Pregnancy (case studies interesting), genetics (SKYPE fantastic!), revalidation (excellent and reassuring)
- Revalidation/pregnancy
- Genetics x4
- Impact tool
- Medico-legal/cannaboids
- Pregnancy
- Genetics/SUDEP
- NMC/genetics/ESN impact tool
- Good to learn about applying tools for assessment, management and treatment on practice/networking
- Genetics/SUDEP/women’s issues
- EpSMON, genetics (confusing but interesting)
- SUDEP/ESN impact tool/medico legal/revalidation/pregnancy
- Revalidation
- Concordance/revalidation
- All the sessions were really good even given the difficulties the presenters encountered!! Well done!!
- All of it-Skype was very good
- Networking/exhibitors/range of speakers/venue
- Networking/case studies/cannabis/genetics
- Cannabis/genetics x2
- Reassurance on what we are doing
- All very useful
- NMC/cannabis/genetics
- NMC
- Women’s issues/genetics
- Opportunity for discussion/genetics/revalidation/cannabis
- Genetics/driving/women’s issues
- NMC/pregnancy
- Networking, great mix of subjects and knowledgeable speakers
What aspects of the conference did you find least useful?
- None / Blank for half of delegates responding
- All useful
- All excellent
- No negative aspects, enjoyable and informative conference with a wide range of topics
- Time keeping/disorganisation
- Sound system, some speakers moved out of range so it made it difficult to hear
- Pace of day 2 seemed faster and deeper, needed more time to understand information
- Revalidation as i have already been done
- Lack of focused topic discussion time
Do you have any further comments?
- Venue good, two day conference good for networking
- Very little for Paeds or LD
- This is my first ESNA conference but definitely won’t be my last. It was brilliant and a great way to network and raise awareness of the importance and value of ESNA. Thank you
- Microphones worn on the presenter, break out groups, research/transition/how we can effect care in primary and secondary care/innovation in epilepsy. That said i have really enjoyed a fab conference, thank you
- Like overnight, better half day than full
- I enjoyed the presentations/conference room, accommodation was suitable and comfortable, facilities very appropriate
- Two day conference best value for those of us travelling from Ireland
- Like two day conference/venue was fine but a bit north!
- The venue was very good and the food excellent, would have liked a decent tea (drink), bed very hard so didn’t sleep well, overall good location
- Venue ok but lights in conference room too bright and lots of people had headaches and migraines, conference chairs very uncomfortable
- Extending to full two days, delegate list of attendees/additional paper for notes/workshops specific to paediatrics/adult/LD in concurrent sessions
- Conference lighting combined with pattern on walls gave me a migraine
- Like the two days
- Would prefer 1 day/more pharmacists/more Skype
- Time keeping could have been better, could have got more into the programme without it feeling crowded/no paediatrics
- Review location as long journey and got lost in city centre
- Unable to attend two days but feel this is a good idea for networking
- Might have benefitted from name badges, thank you for a great conference
- Microphone on speakers
- Venue excellent, two day conference good for us travelling from Ireland
- Skype-could we do that again? Stands good for information
- Conference centre good
- There is a significant group of ESN’s absent, why is that? Break out groups helpful to meet the different needs of specialties
- Level of noise and lack of use of microphone
- Two day conference provides opportunity to network and share practice and experience with colleagues
- Look forwards to hearing about the next event
Suggestions for future topics
- Topic-pharmacology/interactions/yellow card scheme
- NEAD
- Effects of epilepsy relating to LD and differences from general population/feedback from national studies currently in progress/consider future project liaising with ESN for additional resources to complete the daily role
- Paediatric speaker/VNS or ketogenic presentation
- More focus on future developments e.g. non-medical devices, surgery, electronic monitors, psychiatric co-morbidities would be interesting
- paediatrics session would be useful