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November 2006 NewsBytes
| Register Now: Leadership Conference 2007, February 22-25, Boston
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This year, John F. Kennedy’s famous quote takes front seat: "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." Leadership & Learning inform every aspect of ENA’s Leadership Conference 2007 for nurse managers and other nurse leaders. Attendees benefit from educational sessions, leadership tools and professional support vital to delivering best practices to patients, staff and employers. Presessions, February 21-22, include Key Concepts in Emergency Department Management™ (fall 2006 seminar SOLD OUT) and Injury Prevention instructor training. For full conference details, visit http://www.ena.org/conferences/leadership/2007/default.asp. |
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| View GENE’s New Face: We’re here... Get ready!
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| Log on to the Geriatric Emergency Nursing Education (GENE) course on ENA’s Web site at http://www.ena.org/education/GENE/default.asp and have a look-see. A strong new message, We’re here…Get ready!, will greet you. The newly updated site is going live this month, following the September 2006 launch of the GENE course online version that makes it more assessable to more emergency nurses. The visuals are more informative, and the content is easier to navigate. Icons for clicking to more detailed information about course content reflect the many new faces of this older adult patient group. |
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| Free Starbucks Coffee When You Post Your Resumé on Monster.com
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Be one of the first 1,000 people to post a resumé via ENA’s Web site and get a $5 Starbucks gift card. To post yours, go to www.ena.org and click on Career Center and then on Monster, or link directly to the Website via http://ena.monster.com/. Monster Healthcare will help you find the job that’s right for you. Get free information, tools and advice on how to job search in the electronic age. Gift cards will be mailed to the address on file for the first 1,000 resumés (one card per person/mailing address) posted to Monster via ena.monster.com. Offer expires December 31, 2006, or when 1.000 resumés (no person/address duplicates) are posted, whichever comes first. For questions, send an e-mail to healthcare@monster.com. |
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| ENA Benchmark Guide Delivers the Data
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Is your emergency department the best it can be? Compare your ED with similar institutions and identify your strengths and weaknesses. To preview the guide, log on to http://www.ena.org/research/benchmark/default.asp.
Discounts end December 31, 2006, for ED managers who completed the survey.
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| Help Prevent Falls With Stand Strong for Life Program
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| The Stand Strong for Life program, developed by the ENA Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE, provides health care professionals with information on preventing falls among older adults in their communities. This evidence-based program includes health care professional and community-based modules, two PowerPoint® presentations and four brochures. The health care professional module can be used as a self-study or group guide. The community-based module targets community-dwelling older adults who are at medium or high risk for falls. Modules, PowerPoint presentations, and brochures are included on a single CD-ROM. To order, contact the ENA Member Services Department at 800/243-8362. |
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| Call for Abstracts: 2007 Annual Conference
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| Abstracts submissions (poster & paper presentations) for the ENA Scientific Assembly, September 27-29, 2007, in Salt Lake City, Utah, must be received by January 15, 2007. Guidelines for abstract submissions for research, clinical and injury prevention abstracts are available at ENA’s Web site,www.ena.org/research/abstracts or by contacting the ENA Research Department, 915 Lee St., Des Plaines, IL 60016-6569, 800/900-9659, Ext. 4119, abstracts@ena.org. |
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| Call for Candidates: 2007 Academy of Emergency Nursing Fellows
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| Applications for 2007 Fellows are available online at: http://www.ena.org/academy/ (You must be an ENA member to apply.). Applications may be submitted between October 13, 2006, and January 15, 2007. Questions? Contact Ellen Siciliano, Research & Practice specialist, at esiciliano@ena.org. |
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| Call for Candidates: 2008 ENA Board of Directors
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| Take the plunge and seek a position as an ENA Board Member. For more information and a preliminary application, visit www.ena.org. The deadline for preliminary applications is December 1, 2006. The complete nomination packet must be submitted no later than January 8, 2007. |
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| Call for Candidates: 2007-2008 Nominations Committee
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| Candidate nominations are welcome for the election of four committee members to serve on the 2007-2008 Nominations Committee. Held in conjunction with the ENA Board election in May 2007, the Nominations Committee will fill one vacancy for two-year terms for the West, Central and East geographic regions, plus the position filled by a former Board director. Visit www.ena.org for more information, or contact Ginger Burns at gburns@ena.org or 847/460-4060. |
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| ENAF State Council Challenge Opens January 1, 2007
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| Take up the challenge to raise a minimum of $1 per member in your state and win the opportunity to name an ENA scholarship or create an ENAF Advanced Practice scholarship. Two winning categories will be announced: largest total contribution and largest per capita contribution. Each winning state will receive one free registration to ENA’s 2007 Annual Conference (September 26-29, 2007, Salt Lake City). The State Council Challenge begins January 1, 2007, and ends June 30, 2007. All proceeds will benefit the ENAF Scholarship Program. |
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| Read DMR for Social and Mental Health Needs Assessment of Katrina Evacuees
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Log on to www.ena.org/publications to view the current issue of ENA’s Disaster Management & Response, which includes a case report of 124 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston shelters from September 4-12, 2005. DMR is an online publication for ENA members. Each issue provides health care providers across specialties with timely, accurate information that can be taken to the front lines when dealing with mass casualties. |
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| SBIRT Educational Toolkit
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| ENA is developing a Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) educational toolkit in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The toolkit will include a tri-fold nursing folio explaining the goals and concepts of SBIRT, a cut-out pocket guide for quick reference to screening questions and patient assessment and an interactive training video on DVD. The toolkit is a self-learning or group interactive training guide and will be distributed free of charge to 5,000 emergency departments in the U.S. starting in early 2008. For more information, contact the ENA Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE at 847/460-4112. |
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