Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Review Course is organized by the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN), Baptist Health. This Onsite Medical conference will be held from Sep 03 - 04, 2020 at Baptist Health Barrow Road Training Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 14 CNE Contact Hours. Description: This two-day course is an overview of interventions that medical-surgical nurses use to promote quality of life for their clients. Using the nursing process to enhance physical and psychological wellbeing in clients and their significant others is inherent in the role of the medicalsurgical nurse. Topics Covered Include: • Cardiovascular System & Shock • Endocrine System • Diabetes • Renal System • Genitourinary Systems & Cancer • Musculoskeletal Systems • Neurologic Systems • Pain, Post-Op, Nutrition • Nursing Practice Issues Learning Outcomes: At the end of this program, participants will have validated basic foundational knowledge and concepts of medicalsurgical nursing and improved preparedness for the CMSRN exam. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available. 

Treating Balance and Preventing Falls in Neuro, Vestibular, Geriatric and Medically Complex Clients is organized by Education Resources, Inc. (ERI) and will be held from Sep 26 - 27, 2020 at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America.  Accreditation: • This course meets the criteria for 14.5 contact hours (1.45 CEUs). • Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy #3043, for 14.5 contact hours - Intermediate Level Occupational therapy Process: assessment, intervention. • The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA. Description: Engaging, hands-on labs will teach participants screening tools, balance/ocularmotor testing, vestibular screening, progressive balance exercises and safe falling techniques to minimize the risk of injury. Home modifications, specific setting variations to techniques and cheap treatment equipment will be discussed. This course is highly informative and will get you thinking about balance in a whole new light to make balance training effective and fun for you and your patients! You will learn how to isolate balance deficits in processing and motor output, screen for basic vestibular involvement, including BPPV, objectively identify fall risk, implement modifications to reduce fall risk, discover your creative side to developing effective treatment strategies, tailor exercises to meet the needs of your patients physical abilities in any setting and understand how to teach safe falling techniques, to name a few. You will also learn about frequently missed components to a successful treatment program. Course Objectives: Upon completion of the seminar the participants will be able to: • Discuss balance processing and strategies of recovery. • Analyze new treatment techniques and how to create new exercises to isolate and challenge all sensory systems, all 4 balance reactions as well as reaction time. • Identify and reduce fall risk. • Design safe falling techniques to minimize the risk of an injury.

The fifth annual Otology Fellows Congress and Advanced Course in Ear & Skull Base Surgery at the Yasargil Surgical Skills Laboratory & Education Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR is scheduled for October 23-25, 2020. This course will be a unique and outstanding opportunity for 24 otology/neurotology fellows-in-training to focus on advanced surgical techniques that are well beyond the scope of a typical temporal bone course while networking alongside other otology/neurotology fellows from all around the world. Lead by program chairs Michael Gluth, MD, John Dornhoffer, MD, Walter Kutz, MD, and Brandon Isaacson, MD, this course will include lectures and extensive laboratory dissections covering topics such as advanced soft tissue techniques/local flaps, malleostapedotomy, endoscopic ear surgery, complex ossiculoplasty, mastoid cavity obliteration, difficult cochlear implant cases , as well as broad dissection sessions on a variety of lateral skull base approaches including infratemporal fossa, extended middle cranial fossa, translabyrinthine, jugular foramen, and retrosigmoid/retrolabyrinthine. Priority registration is given those currently participating in dedicated subspecialty surgical fellowship training in otology/neurotology and it is expected that attendees will subspecialize in otology/neurotology during their careers. As a prerequisite, applicants must have completed full training regimen in otolaryngology-head & neck surgery. A total of 24 otology/neurotology fellows will be accepted into the course on a “first come, first served” basis. Please be aware that the deadline to register is August 21, 2020! There is no registration fee and acceptance will include lodging and meals. Registrants will be responsible for their own travel expenses to and from Little Rock. View preliminary agenda (PDF) • Michael B. Gluth, MD (Course Director) Professor of Surgery Director, Comprehensive Ear & Hearing Center and Bloom Otopathology Lab The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, IL • John L. Dornhoffer, MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor and Director Division of Otolaryngology/Neurotology University of Arkansas For Medicine Sciences Little Rock, AR • Brandon Isaacson, MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX • J. Walter Kutz Jr., MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor Department of Otolaryngology UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Total Joint Arthroplasty: An Intensive Lab Course to Improve Functional Outcomes is organized by Therapy Network Seminars (TNS) and will be held from Oct 24 - 25, 2020 at OrthoArkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America.  Target Audience: This is an intermediate level course intended for PTs, PTAs, OTs, OTAs and ATs Educational Credit: A certificate of attendance for 15 Contact Hours will be awarded to each participant. All Therapy Network Seminars are pre‐approved for CEUs in the state where the course is conducted when required for PT, OT, ATs & Assistants. Description: Total joint arthroplasty is the most common surgical procedure performed in the U.S. and will continue to climb rapidly. However, as surgical advances and prosthetic implants improve rapidly, the therapeutic process and protocols used with this population have remained stagnant. In an attempt to improve outcomes while reducing length of stay and therapy visits, clinicians have over utilized rigid protocols while neglecting proprioception and function yielding a reduction in long term outcomes. Today’s clinician must possess a stronger understanding of the techniques used by surgeons, the prosthetics commonly (and uncommonly) used, and evidence-based treatment strategies determined not just by their referring surgeon but by current research. This course investigates the latest surgical and minimally invasive techniques used and the benefits and risks associated with these techniques. Taking hundreds of nationally established joint protocols, presenter Trent Brown summarizes the most effective and functionally relevant treatment strategies and protocols. Numerous labs will occur to ensure application of material and immediate carry-over to the clinical setting. Mr. Brown will also discuss documentation techniques and examples to strongly justify the need for skilled services with this population in hospital, in-patient, acute, home health, and outpatient settings. Objectives: • Identify the diagnostic, demographic, and lifestyle explanations related to an increase in joint arthroplasty and the increased need for therapy services following arthroplasty • Identify and apply current evidence behind tissue healing science and how it affects the total joint client • Identify the evidence justifying therapy following total joint arthroplasty and the long and short-term benefits of therapy • Identify the difference between standard and reverse total arthroplasty components and techniques and how it impacts rehabilitation • Demonstrate evidence based hip therapeutic strategies used for recovery of the most commonly used hip surgical techniques • Identify the difference between the various surgical components and techniques used for knee arthroplasty and the impact of treatment • Demonstrate the best treatment strategies for patients seen in any therapeutic setting following practice of techniques in lab Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Arkansas Rheumatology Association (ARA) 2020 Annual Meeting is organized by WJ Weiser and Associates, Inc. and will be held from Dec 11 - 12, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.