ENA Convention

Anyone going?

You gave me a quick laugh when you typed "convention"...hahahah!

Just seemed odd that's all; not diss-ing you or anything.

Yep, I'll be there! I'm bringing some "freebie" "giveaways" for people. I'm gonna post here during the "convention" how people can find me to get some free stuff!

I have been to a state ENA conference, but sadly can't go to this one. I'm a sad panda

I'm going. First time, too - looking forward to it. :)

You gave me a quick laugh when you typed "convention"...hahahah!

Just seemed odd that's all; not diss-ing you or anything.

I keep calling it that for some reason. Maybe because I think we're superheroes like in the comic books. Hahaha

for those who are going - if you've looked at the advance program, what presentation seems the most interesting to you?

Mark Boswell

FNP-BC, MSN, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CPEN, NREMT-P

(And YES, I take the CEN exam every year!)

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...So now that we're all home from sunny (and occasionally stormy) Tampa, how about a bit of a debrief? Tell us what your favorite and least favorite sessions were, and why!

My faves:

• Beyond Breathing Easy: Advancing Ventilations. So many of our docs put our newly tubed and vented patients on the same canned settings (ACMV/volume control, 500 mL TV, RR 18, 12 over 5 cmH2O pressure assist) regardless of why the patient got intubated. We could do so much better by tailoring the vent to the patient's actual condition...
  
• Triaging Neurological Emergencies. So easy to get burned by these patients - they were fine five minutes ago and now they're unresponsive. Lots of good information on sorting out who's emergent and who isn't.
  
• HELLP Me, She's Pregnant and Seizing! How many of us try to punt pregnant patients to Labor & Delivery the millisecond we see them coming? Well-presented lecture on how to manage the various "eclamptic spectrum disorders" (pre-eclampsia, severe pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, gestational hypertension and others) without going too far into OB Land. She even managed to pull it all off as a "fast track" lecture, too!
  
• End-Stage Renal Disease in the ED. I don't know about your department, but we see scads of CRF/ESRD/dialysis-dependent patients in our department, and most of us live in terror of what we can and can't do with them. Yes, this lecture was very advanced, but the presenter did an awesome job with the material.
  

...And my not-so-faves:

• Above All Else. There was a good take-away lesson here, but it probably wasn't what the presenter meant it to be. Suffice to say that I was much more interested in the team dynamics on display than the comedy sketches and the feats of mountaineering derring-do.
  
• Assessing Your Assessments. Basically a rehash of the Clinical Documentation Pitfalls lecture, and not a whole lot on how to actually improve your assessment skills. Pity, it sounded awesome in the advance program.
  

And finally, a shout-out to all who went to "Howl at the Moon" Saturday night, including the contingents from Beaumont, New Hampshire, Boston, North Dakota, the US Army, Texas, and NY Trauma, whose pride messages on the big mirror inspired this post:

ALL E.R. Nurses ROCK! :rckn:

($25 to change this message...)

...So now that we're all home from sunny (and occasionally stormy) Tampa, how about a bit of a debrief? Tell us what your favorite and least favorite sessions were, and why!

My faves:

• Beyond Breathing Easy: Advancing Ventilations. So many of our docs put our newly tubed and vented patients on the same canned settings (ACMV/volume control, 500 mL TV, RR 18, 12 over 5 cmH2O pressure assist) regardless of why the patient got intubated. We could do so much better by tailoring the vent to the patient's actual condition...
  
• Triaging Neurological Emergencies. So easy to get burned by these patients - they were fine five minutes ago and now they're unresponsive. Lots of good information on sorting out who's emergent and who isn't.
  
• HELLP Me, She's Pregnant and Seizing! How many of us try to punt pregnant patients to Labor & Delivery the millisecond we see them coming? Well-presented lecture on how to manage the various "eclamptic spectrum disorders" (pre-eclampsia, severe pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, gestational hypertension and others) without going too far into OB Land. She even managed to pull it all off as a "fast track" lecture, too!
  
• End-Stage Renal Disease in the ED. I don't know about your department, but we see scads of CRF/ESRD/dialysis-dependent patients in our department, and most of us live in terror of what we can and can't do with them. Yes, this lecture was very advanced, but the presenter did an awesome job with the material.
  

...And my not-so-faves:

• Above All Else. There was a good take-away lesson here, but it probably wasn't what the presenter meant it to be. Suffice to say that I was much more interested in the team dynamics on display than the comedy sketches and the feats of mountaineering derring-do.
  
• Assessing Your Assessments. Basically a rehash of the Clinical Documentation Pitfalls lecture, and not a whole lot on how to actually improve your assessment skills. Pity, it sounded awesome in the advance program.
  

And finally, a shout-out to all who went to "Howl at the Moon" Saturday night, including the contingents from Beaumont, New Hampshire, Boston, North Dakota, the US Army, Texas, and NY Trauma, whose pride messages on the big mirror inspired this post:

ALL E.R. Nurses ROCK! :rckn:

($25 to change this message...)

You should have looked me up! I had a bag overflowing with swag for give aways!

You may have seen me and not known it. What booth were you running?

You may have seen me and not known it. What booth were you running?

No booth, just an attendee trying to get some CEUs