Professional Development

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A Positive Shift: Inspirational Stories of Compassion and Courage From an OR Near You #1060 (1.50 CH)

1060 - A Positive Shift: Inspirational Stories of Compassion and Courage From an OR Near You #1060 (1.50 CH)

Speaker(s)

• DM

  Darlene Murdock, BSN, BA, RN, CNOR

  Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
• NW

  Nakeisha Washington, BSN, RN, CNOR

  Clinical Manager DeBakey Heart & Vascular Cath Lab
  Methodist Hospital System
  Houston, TX
• 

  Kristy Simmons, MSN RN CNOR

  NICU OR Resource Nurse and Magnet Nurse Champion Chair
  Woman"s Hospital
  Greenwell Springs, Louisiana
• 

  Kristy Wheeler, BSN, RN, CNOR

  Service Line Coordinator of ACES (Acute Care Emergency Surgery)
  University of Maryland Medical Center
  Lutherville Timonium, Maryland
• EA

  Elizabeth Austin, DNP, RN, CNOR

  Clinical Nurse III
  Lucile Packard Children's Hospital @ Stanford University
  palo alto, California

Inspirational stories from perioperative nurses' practice of courage, leadership, compassion, commitment, and sacrifice will demonstrate our universal bond of caring hands and hearts. These real stories from the forefront of perioperative nursing will encourage hope and serve as reminders of why the choice of perioperative nursing is full of unexpected rewards and hope for the future.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the universal challenges of perioperative nursing and how their contribution is a positive factor in patient care.
• State how you are inspired to continue to practice as a perioperative nurse.
• Describe the universal challenges of perioperative nursing and how their contribution is a factor in the everyday miracles of patient care.
• Describe the universal challenges of perioperative nursing and how their courage is a major contribution in patient care.