Wednesday 1st November 2017
Optional Workshops:
Writing for Publication / Indirect Care / 2.0
Novice Presenters / Indirect Care / 2.0
Thursday 2nd November 2017
Session One:
Opening Keynote: Tides of Change: An Exciting Future for PeriAnaesthesia Nursing, Let’s Make it Happen / Indirect Care / 1.0
Session Two:
Experience in Teaching a Recovery Room Course to Nurses in Cameroon, Africa / Indirect Care / .75
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) / Direct Care / .75
Sessions Three/Four: Concurrent
Track 1: Advocacy, Innovation
Anaesthetic Nursing: Keep in touch, watch over, and be one step ahead / Direct Care / .5
What do I say? Standardizing postoperative follow up phone calls / Direct Care / .5
Advance care planning in the perianaesthesia environment / Direct Care / .5
Identifying paediatric preoperative risk factors that link to PACU complications / Direct Care / .5
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Implementation of a safe protocol for perioperative patients / Direct Care / .5
Perianaesthesia care for insulin dependent diabetics and hypo/hyperglycemia management / Direct Care / .5
Track 2: Education
Paediatric PACU Nursing: are you competent? / Direct Care / .5
Focus Group summary: A new ‘external’ airway management strategy for patients in the perioperative environment / Direct Care / .5
A foundation of learning – the mentor / Indirect Care / .5
The Autonomic Nervous System: Fine-tuning physiology with pharmacology / Direct Care / .5
Climbing PICOT mountain: Enhancing nursing inquiry at the bedside / Direct Care / .5
Optimizing the anaesthesia induction experience for paediatric patients / Direct Care / .5
Track 3: Research
The effect of non-pharmacologic distraction forms in reducing postoperative pain in children / Direct Care / .5
In retrospect – perianaesthesia nursing practice in the Philippines: Onwards to a model and standards / Direct Care / .5
Decreasing postoperative urgency following ureteroscopy: A randomized controlled trial / Direct Care / .5
Cost-effectiveness of a systematic e-assessed follow up of postoperative recovery after day surgery: a multicenter randomized controlled trial / Direct Care / .5
Model of care for a multibed bay post anaesthetic recovery unit in a new major South Australian hospital / Direct Care / .5
Comparative study of Cortisol/ACTH and Neuropeptide Y levels in Hepatectomized or Pancreatectomized cancer patients following Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) versus conventional postoperative care / Direct Care / .5
Friday 3rd November 2017
Session Five:
Opening Keynote:Videolaryngoscopy: A Master Piece for Total Airway Management / Direct Care / .75
Session Six:
Gathering of Nations: Quantitative and Qualitative Results from the 2015 Delegate Forum in Copenhagen
Breakout group discussions: Collaborative Research and EBP Opportunities and Mentor Match; Specialised Practice Interest Groups / Indirect Care / 2.5
Sessions Seven/Eight Concurrent
Track 1:Advocacy, Innovation
Infection control: It is your problem / Direct Care / .5
Current Management of Peri-Procedural Anticoagulation Reversal / Direct Care / .5
Creating a blended unit to improve patient throughput / Direct Care / .5
A journey into the operating room / Direct Care / .5
Role cards for Mass Transfusion Protocol (MTP) / Direct Care / .5
Track 2:Education
Understanding Adrenal Insufficiency and its significance in the perioperative setting / Direct Care / .5
PACU demystified: Revealing ourselves to foster collaboration / Direct Care / .5
Ceasing the routine commencement of Oxygen Therapy in a recovery unit / Direct Care / .5
Your patient’s temperature: What are you really measuring? / Direct Care / .5
Track 3: Research
“How are you?” – A systematic e-assessment of postoperative recovery / Direct Care / .5
Interdisciplinary obstructive sleep apnea protocol: All hands on deck / Direct Care / .5
Linking patient safety to clinical practice: What do our new grads know? / Direct Care / .5
Deterioration and Response Activation Post Elective Surgery (DRAPES) Study / Direct Care / .5
The impact of anxiety on anaesthesia: Evidence-based strategies to allay our patients concerns / Direct Care / .5
Saturday 4th November 2017
Session Nine:
Global Outreach to Promote Patient Safety: The Checklist Effect / Direct Care / .75
Session Ten:
Keynote Address: Home Recovery of Ambulatory Surgery Patients: What Perianesthesia Nursed Need to Know / Direct Care / .5
Session Eleven Concurrent
Track 1:Advocacy, Innovation
.25
.25
Track 2: Education
.25
.25
Track 3: Research
.25
.25
Session Twelve: Nursing Advocacy / Global Implications / Direct Care / .5
Total Direct Care Units
Total Indirect Care Units
Total Educational Units
For those CPAN® and/or CAPA® certified nurses attending this conference, the American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification, Inc. (ABPANC) will honor ICPAN education sessions as part of its recertification Continual Learning Program, which encompasses a wide spectrum of activities that ABPANC believes reflect continual learning. Each session contains a corresponding Direct Care (DC) or Indirect Care (IC) classification, indicating the number of educational units earned based on actual classroom instruction time. These international education sessions were not submitted for approval by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.