AORN is offering a of recent origi...

AORN is offering a of recent origin Management Focus at Congress to provide education and networking opportunities designed specifically for perioperative managers. With the ever-increasing professional demands and expanding responsibilities that perioperative managers face, you ne the latest tools and skills to exceed in your role. Whether you are a team leader, coordinator, unit manager, or director with multiple units in a hospital or a freestanding ambulatory setting, Congres education sessions and ends are designed to keep you in succession top of the latest inclinations developments, and information. AORN has tailored the Management Focus to accommodate your busy schedule with a concentrated program and manager-focused events

Following is information upon exclusive events and education opportunities for managers. The AORN Management Focus requires special registration. Please call AORN's customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1 for an AORN Management Focus registration pamphlet or to register. Also, visit http://www .aorn.org/congress/managers.htm for the latest Congres updates.

NETWORKING EVENTS

Networking is an important way to learn from your colleagues and share your successe and this year there will be more opportunities than evermore to network with your colleagues!

* issue to a special networking reception onward Monday, April 22, from 3:30 to 5 PM This reception will allow you to adapted learn from, and develop solution contacts with your colleagues from around the region Representatives from exhibiting companies also will be invited, with equal reason you will have more time to earn information about the latest works and services available.

* forward Tuesday, April 23, from 11:45 AM to 1:45 PM join your colleagues for a management networking and discussion driver's seat luncheon. This unique experience will feature topics picked by way of you! This is the whole opportunity to form professional bondages discuss topics of mutual interest, and learn from your equal managers. After you register, AORN will cast you topic selection information in such a manner you can choose the issues that matter chiefly to you. Tables will be station up by discussion topics, and a facilitator will be seated at each table.

* Join us for private exhibit hours for managers upon Wednesday, April 24, from 8:30 to 10 AM. This is your opportunity to come up to face to face personally with exhibitors and behold product demonstrations in an informal, relaxed atmosphere. This exclusive opportunity will save you valuable time and help maximize your Congres experience.

LEADERSHIP RESOURCES

Take advantage of the Leadership Resources available at the AORN Booth forward Wednesday and Thursday and participate in short, "Ask the Expert" sessions that focus in succession hot topics for managers. You also will find more information about AORN's issues and services designed just for you! More information will be included in what may occur hereafter issues of the Journal.

EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT FOCUS EDUCATION SESSIONS

In addition to the Congres education sessions that focus forward leadership/management, professional development, informatics, restraint affairs, and clinical issues, the following additional management sessions are exhibited exclusively for managers on Tuesday, April 23 Contact hours are denoted from "CH."

8 to 9:15 AM, 15 CH Middle Power in Organizations, Nancy Aronson, PhD This interactive session will increase the depth of your understanding of being "in the middle," a position in which you are torn between the often-conflicting perspectives, priorities, indigences and demands of two or more individuals or assemblages Participants will develop specific strategies for empowering themselves and others in middle positions.

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9:30 to 10:30 AM, 12 CH Improving fester Job Satisfaction, speaker to be announced. Today, it is critical to retain succors employed at your facility. There are many component parts that go into ensuring an energizing and rewarding work setting. cash k, not the only way to improve retention--in fact, it often is one of the least important factors in providing a satisfying work environment. This session will explore a certain number of of the factors that have been identified as crucial to do job-work satisfaction.

10:30 to 11:30 AM, 12 CH Using Standards to interrupt Sentinel Events, Ann Kobs, RN M You will learn for what reason to use standards to obstruct sentinel events. Compliance with specific standards also will be explored. You will leave with vital information that can be used immediately to help your organization avoid sentinel events

11:45 AM to 1:45 PM Management Networking and Discussion case Luncheon.

Examples of networking/discussion topics include:

* middle power in organizations,

* practice models

* risk management,

* recruitment and retention,

* Joint Commission forward Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) accreditation for hospitals,

* JCAHO accreditation for ambulatory surgery centers

* Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,

* sentinel occurrences and

* management information systems

2 to 3 PM 12 CH terrorism and Natural Disaster: Firsthand Experience, speakers to be announced. Frontline managers will discuss their experiences, their written disaster plans, and minute-to-minute innovations used during modern terrorist acts and natural disasters. The impact of these experiences, upon the speakers and on staff members, also will be explored. You will leave this session with an appreciation of the successe emotional toll, and disappointments that occurr during late crises. Ultimately, this session will help you realistically consider in what manner your health care system should respond