Translating RESEARCH
to INNOVATIONS
in Practice 2020
FOURTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“Integrating age friendly care
in delirium assessment and prevention: A
person-centered
approach to care”
Dr. Donna Marie Fick is a Distinguished Professor at The
Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing, Elouise Ross
Eberly Endowed Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Penn
State Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Her area of
research has focused on two critical issues in the care of older
adults: medication use in older adults and delirium superimposed
on dementia (DSD). She is a member of the interdisciplinary panel
for the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria (AGS) for
inappropriate medication use in older adults, and serves on the
American Geriatrics Society Board. She also serves as an expert
faculty member and coach on Creating an Age Friendly Health
System Initiative funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and
led by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Fick was a past
member of the NAS/IOM Committee on the Public Health
Dimensions of Cognitive Aging, which released a report in 2015 on
Cognitive Aging, and she currently serves on the National Academy
of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability
and Independence.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Thursday, May 14, 2020
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
HERSHEY COUNTRY CLUB
1000 East Derry Road,
Hershey, PA 17033
ABSTRACT UPLOAD DEADLINE
December 15, 2019
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REGISTRATION
Opening late January 2020
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Clinical nurses in all practice environments, nurse
scientists and administrators, graduate level
nursing students, and all healthcare professionals
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Penn State College of Nursing is an approved
provider of continuing nursing education by the
Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an
accredited approver by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center's Commission on
Accreditation. Projected for 6.5 contact hours
for Registered Nurses.
QUESTIONS?
814-863-2239
[email protected]
Kim Kopenhaver Doheny, PhD, CRNP,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Neural and Behavioral Sciences,
Penn State College of Medicine
Joseph C. Hess, PhD, MHA, MS, RN,
Pediatric Trauma Quality & Performance Improvement,
Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital
HOSTED Sheridan
BY:
Miyamoto, PhD, FNP, RN,
Assistant Professor,
Penn State College of Nursing
Presentation topics include:
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examinations
• Age and Dementia Friendly Health Care
• Pediatric Trauma: Preparing the nurse to care for a
diverse and complex population
• Biobehavioral Measures of Stress and Coping in the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Mitigating Workplace Violence
• Nurses Making a Difference
Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age,
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. U.Ed. NUR 19-46
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