TEPR Develops Program for Nurses

In an effort to tailor our conference programming to specific demographics, MRI has been working with industry organizations to develop parts of TEPR's 2008 educational program. In one such instance, we've been working with nursing consultants to create a comprehensive health IT program targeted at nurses. The program has become so expansive that we've given it its own track. Nurses attending TEPR will be able to easily locate sessions targeted at them by attending any of the presentations within the Nursing Track. View the complete nursing program.


TEPR 2008 for Nurses
21st Century Nursing: Innovations across the Care Continuum

What to Expect? The Best of Both Worlds

Nurses at TEPR will experience both:

• A unique program track specifically designed for nurses by nurses together with
• The rich collective wisdom and networking opportunities only available at a conference with over twenty additional patient-centric tracks

A dose of inspiration and a dose of “how to”; evidence-based practice and real-world scenarios, big-picture concepts and down-to-earth examples, visionary lessons and practical advice – There are many ways to say it, yet what you can expect from TEPR is wisdom, ingenuity, and leadership helping to illuminate for you what is possible. In summary, TEPR offers a unique top-down and bottom-up blending: the best of both worlds.

The challenge will be choosing between the multiple simultaneous sessions: if you work in a hospital setting, there is another entire track here, if you are an advance practice nurse practitioner, you will need to choose from great simultaneous sessions, for example, in pediatrics, or ambulatory care.

Who Should Attend?

There is something for all nurses at TEPR across multiple care settings and disciplines for nursing practice, to administration, research, and education. Nursing executives, managers, advance practice nurse practitioners, clinical specialists, educators, nurse informatics leaders, nurse project managers, nurse and clinical analysts, along with patient care teams and all the vendors, consultants and others who support nurses are all encouraged to participate. All are needed for EHRs to succeed and for strategic and the practical needs of nurses to be met.

Why Should Nurses go to TEPR?

Patient Care or Paperwork: You Choose

• Where should we allocate precious and limited nursing resources?
• A large 2007 survey revealed over 80% of nurses today spend between 25-50% or more of their day on patient care documentation.
• Meet and learn from leaders in the field who are demystifying technology and developing new, patient-centric, relevant, streamlined, non-redundant, and timesaving documentation approaches.

The 81 Billion-dollar a Year Question: Are you being asked to do more with less?

• Did you know that the Rand Corporation Study says broad adoption of computerizing medical records could save America's health care system more than 81 billion annually while improving the quality of care?
• With nurses representing over half of the health care work force, nursing involvement and leadership are critical each step of the way on this journey.
• Connect with nurse leader who are a part of the solution healing both patients and the health care systems as new models of practice are being re-invented and redefined to leverage the potential of today's technology. Effective care processes and work environments are key to recruiting and retaining nurses in the 21st century and providing the level of quality required for magnet recognition and other care initiatives.
  

The Power of Networks: Technology and People

• In today’s fast-moving world, where else can the answers be found yet through others who have traveled down the same path?
• While the Internet and technology are great, powerful networks often have nothing to do with technical routers and switches and everything to do with people. Vendors developing software and services will be at TEPR, executives will be at TEPR, physicians will be at TEPR, policy leaders and decision-makers will be at TEPR, and Nurses …need to be at TEPR.
• Enjoy both the multi-disciplinary collaboration opportunities that abound for nurses and meet nurses leading innovative initiatives across the globe.