| 2000
MNA Annual Convention
Program Descriptions
Wednesday, November
8th
Labor Relations
Pre-Convention Program:
Nurses on the Edge: The Revolution Begins
9:00am-3:00pm
5.4 Contact Hours
Nurses have used
the media, taken to the streets, taken on legislators, and gone to the community
to claim their professional stake in the safe care of patients, wherever the
patient may be. Hear the staff nurses who have taken on these issues, our issues,
in their countries, their states, and their hospitals/agencies. They will share
with us their tribulations and triumphs, and their humor along the way. They
will identify the pivotal moments in their campaigns to insure safe care for
patients in all settings. Here are the Bold Moves some have made and we can
use to insure that our vision becomes real. We invite you to share the Vision
of our future as professional nurses and health care providers.
Thursday, November 9th
Keynote Presentation:
Ethics and Diversity: Creating a Respectful Work Environment
MNA Center for Ethics
8:00am-9:30am
1.2 Contact Hours
Using a speaker-panel
format, composed of the members of the MNA Center for Ethics and Human Rights,
this program will provide the participants with an opportunity to examine the
ethical dimensions of the work place environment. Using an ethical framework,
a case study will be presented and discussed through audience participation.
Plenary Session:
Restructuring in the Workplace May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Elizabeth Shogren, RN
9:45am-11:15am
1.8 Contact Hours
This plenary session
will identify health and safety issues such as OSHA regulations and CDC guidelines
that protect the nurse and other health care workers. The speaker will identify
related issues that support and enhance safe and healthy working conditions
such as: insurance coverage, leaves of absence and return to work agreements
with the intent to identify desirable outcomes.
Friday, November
10th
Keynote Presentation:
To Err is Human: Who is Responsible for Your Mistakes? Lucian
Leape, MD
8:00am-9:30am
• 1.8 Contact Hours
Lucian Leape, a
national expert on hospital errors and adverse drug events, will discuss the
factors inherent in error reduction. His research on systems and errors
concludes that systems, not individuals, are to blame for medical errors and
that instead of punishing for errors , health care facilities and regulators
should investigate what works to reduce and prevent errors.
Plenary Session:
The Politics of Health Care
Congressman James McGovern
10:00am-11:30am
1.8 Contact Hours
An ardent supporter
of nursing and a key figure in the resolution of the nurses strike at St. Vincent/Worcester
Medical Center, Jim will discuss the issues that nurses face in health care
from the national perspective.
Plenary Session:
Cultural Moments: Icons, Conflicts and Resolutions
Rachel Spector, PhD, RN, FAAN
11:30am-12:30pm
1.2 Contact Hours
This program will
analyze nursing’s history from a cultural perspective by exploring the sociocultural
images and events in medicine and public health that paralleled the development
of the labor movement in nursing. The speaker will present contemporary
philosophies on these events and cultural aspects of conflict resolution.
Closing Plenary
Session:
Single Payer: Canadian Nurse's Perspective: It Works
Vera Chernecki , RN
2:00pm-3:00pm
1.2 Contact Hours
This plenary session
provides an overview of the Canadian health care system; it’s history and principles.
Topics include a comparison between a single payer health care system and a
private payment system; how the single payer system works and how it is funded;
and a nurse’s perspective on the system. Additionally, the speaker will
discuss chronic health care problems and proposed solutions, and engage in audience
questions and answers.
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