Upcoming Medical Conferences in Uniondale

Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Trauma-Informed Tools to Support Social and Emotional Learning, Student Success and Positive Climate is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 31, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 0.6 CEUs. Target Audience: • Educators • Special Educators • School Administrators • School Social Workers • School Counselors • School Nurses • Paraprofessionals • Occupational Therapists • Physical Therapists • Speech Language Pathologists Course Description: Do you find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your easily distracted student? The one who has a hard time maintaining focus? What if you had the tools that would enhance focus and attention, ease anxiety, and improve confidence, self-esteem and academic performance? During this seminar, you will learn simple, developmentally appropriate yoga and mindfulness tools that can be immediately integrated into your daily curriculum. These skills are a proven and effective way to promote self-regulation ability, learning readiness and resilience while cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom. Through the framework of – Noticing, Mindful Choice, Practice, Reflection, Integration – you will learn how to empower your students and yourself with increased self-awareness, the foundation for the development of self-regulation skills and cognitive control. Through 67 simple yoga and mindfulness-based activities designed to engage the whole child, you will help your students move from a state of anxiety and dysregulation to a state of engagement, control and connectedness. All activities are specifically chosen for their suitability for the typical classroom space and schedule and can be done standing beside or sitting at desks, while hands and bodies remain off the floor. Yoga 4 Classroom is easy for teachers, students, and therapists to use, and helps to create a more harmonious, learning-friendly school day. Objectives: • Explore the mind-body connection and how it affects learning and behavior. • Evaluate the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional benefits of yoga and mindfulness-based interventions for children in schools. • Determine the signs of imbalance in your students and yourself. • Develop opportunities for taking yoga breaks during the school day. • Implement 67 simple yoga and mindfulness activities as needed throughout the day. • Design outcome-focused sequences based on time available: calming, focusing, energizing, community building. • Access additional tools and resources to ensure continued progress.

Point of Care Ultrasound Course: Diagnose the Critical Issues Faster! is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 06, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Physicians • Nurse Practitioners • Physician’s Assistants • Registered Nurses • EMT/Paramedics • Sonographers Course Description: In the fast-paced setting of healthcare, you have limited time to make critical evaluations. Precious minutes tick away while you order and transport the patient for imaging. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is changing the way that advanced practice health professionals evaluate their incoming patients. Imagine if you had the ability to identify a patient’s internal problem – on the spot! Point-of-care ultrasound gives you this ability. The days of relying solely on the stethoscope are outdated – you don’t have to rely on listening and looking alone. Take off the blindfold that has been preventing you from dynamically observing tissues in vivo! With this game changing technology, you will create a new standard of evaluation: • Detect fluid in the pericardium • Identify abdominal aortic aneurysms as early as possible • Catch a DVT before it has a chance to embolize This hand-on seminar will walk you through everything you need to know to begin using point-of-care ultrasound imaging – from primary care settings to emergent care. With this tool, you’ll be able to quickly identify a diagnosis AND cut down on unnecessary radiation. Learn why this technology is taking the medical world by storm – register today!c Objectives: • Explain the indications for specialized point-of-care ultrasound examinations. • Critique ultrasound images of anatomy appropriate for point-of-care examination. • Compare normal vs abnormal ultrasound appearances for specialized point-of-care ultrasound. • Analyze ultrasound images for specialized point-of-care ultrasound examinations. • Discuss how point-of-care ultrasound findings can be utilized in patient management. • Utilize appropriate techniques for reporting results of point-of-care ultrasound examinations. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Cardiac and Respiratory Complexities: Quickly Differentiate to Take Rapid Action is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 26, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States Of America. This CE Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.33 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Clinical Nurse Specialists Course Description: You are assessing the patient who just returned from endoscopy following a foreign body removal. The patient is complaining of his throat itching. On assessment, his vital signs are normal, but he appears anxious. Is this normal following the procedure? Do you put him on a cardiac monitor? Should you call a rapid response?  We have all been faced with the clinical dilemma when our patient has rapidly progressing dyspnea, tachypnea, fever, cough, and chest pain. What is happening? Distinguishing between heart failure, pneumonia, and ARDS can be difficult. Did you know that COPD could mask a pulmonary embolism? When your patient is wheezing, do you make the assumption it is asthma? Or could the presentation be caused by heart failure or an allergic reaction?  Attending this conference will provide you with the confidence to recognize early and identify appropriate interventions to prevent further deterioration. We will discuss when non-invasive ventilation devices should - and should not - be used. If you are still struggling with blood gases, don't let blood gases intimidate you! Learn quick and easy ways to interpret ABG results. You will learn from actual patient stories to illustrate the complexities and co-morbidities of cardiac and respiratory diagnoses. Course Objectives: • Review the nursing assessment for patients with airway or ventilatory problems. • Describe the pathophysiologic changes that occur causing the signs and symptoms associated with airway or ventilatory problems. • Select appropriate interventions for airway or ventilatory problems. • Differentiate between ventilator modes and the use of NPPV. • Evaluate appropriate treatment strategies for high-risk ECG findings. • Plan for emerging treatments in heart failure. • Analyze management options for acute coronary syndromes. • Describe the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of inflammatory cardiac disease.

Respiratory Distress: Assess and Respond with Skill and Confidence is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 23, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 06, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours / 0.6 CEUs. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists/ PTAs • Occupational Therapists/OTAs • Athletic Trainers • Massage Therapists • Personal Trainers Course Description: Become a Certified Myofascial Cupping Practitioner in this hands-on course powered by RockTape, and boost your credentials as you learn everything you need to know to offer cupping services the next day. Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification teaches the fundamentals of modern cupping techniques through a full day of interactive labs. Learn how to combine cupping and functional movement to produce the kinds of active treatment strategies that are revolutionizing rehab. Discover effective cupping treatments you can use for pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. Objectives: • Review the principles of myofascial cupping and supporting evidence. • Describe the physiological and neurological effects of cupping. • Demonstrate how to apply cupping for best results. • Compare and contrast common cupping techniques and review indications/contraindications for each. • Demonstrate how cupping techniques can be combined with corrective exercise to improve pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. • Develop cupping applications based on your assessment/treatment approach and the individual needs of your patient. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

High Risk Postpartum Patients: Conquer the Mother-Baby Warning Signs is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 08, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Certified Childbirth Educators • Lactation Consultants • Midwives • Doulas • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants Course Description: Caring for a new mother and her newborn is complicated, stressful, and challenging. You may be very experienced as a postpartum nurse or new in your role. Regardless, at the end of the day we want to feel as if we did a great job, but how many times do you wonder if you missed something? What could you have done differently? The fast-paced world of OB means constant admissions and discharges. How stressed do you feel when you know you need to discharge a patient so you can accept a new one? Have you met the challenge of teaching a new mom the post-birth warning signs? Does she know how to prevent the most common causes of postpartum maternal mortality? And…do you? Each day we try our best to care for patients. We all want to know that we did all we could for every patient. Giving the best care requires staying up-to-date. Changes, protocols, state regulations, policies and procedures make nursing a complicated world that challenges all of us. It adds a layer of stress to each day and it feels difficult to keep up with the latest from AWHONN, ACOG, the ISMP and the CDC. At the core….you need to understand WHY these changes occur and HOW they benefit our patients. This seminar takes a closer look at some current issues and digs deeper into finding out the WHY and HOW, discussing life-saving measures for both mothers and babies. Bring important new insights back to the patient bedside to transform the care that you deliver! Objectives: • Distinguish the pharmacodynamics of medications used to treat bipolar disease for breastfeeding safety concerns. • Manage complications which are more prevalent in the morbidly obese patient.  • Plan for the pathophysiology which places the morbidly obese pregnant woman at risk for a dysfunctional labor. • Determine effective ways to provide post-op pain management with minimal opioid use. • Appraise the pharmacodynamics of epinephrine and its use in newborn resuscitation. • Differentiate between postpartum blues and postpartum depression. • Analyze three post-birth warning signs and their implications for reducing maternal mortality.

Awesome Review Certification and Recertification Course is organized by Awesome Review Inc. and will be held from Apr 10 - 19, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. Target Audience: This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Accreditation: The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 63 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. MOC Credit: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 63 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Description: April 10, 2020 - S1: Hematology                            S2: Rheumatology April 11, 2020 - S1: Endocrinology                            S2: Statistics and Oncology April 12, 2020 - S1: Infectious Disease                            S2: Critical Care and Neurology April 17, 2020 - S1: Nephrology                            S2: Pulmonary April 18, 2020 - S1: Gastroenterology                            S2: General Int. Med April 19, 2020 - S1: Cardiology                            S2: Dermatology and Immunology Educational Objectives: After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to: • Recognize and apply the most current scientific, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic advances • List and prescribe generic medicine to treat disease with increased national health care (i.e. Diabetes) • Describe pathophysiology and correlate with clinical presentation for IM disorders • Prepare for ABIM Certification and Recertification exam. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

2-Day: Advanced Assessment Skills: Respond to the Patient's Clues with Skill and Confidence is organized by PESI HealthCare an d will be held on Apr 20, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.  

Preventing Post-Operative Complications is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 27, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Clinical Nurse Specialists • Surgery Technicians • Surgical First Assistants Description: Changes in the post-surgical environment mean that patients have shorter post-operative hospital stays and spend more recovery time at home. Nurses providing care in the post-operative setting are left with the highest risk patients and tight schedules for getting them out the door. You are now challenged to ensure safety, minimize complications, and support an optimal recovery along the way. If you are providing care to patients recovering from a surgical intervention, you are guaranteed to sharpen your skills through updated knowledge gained by attending this critical one-day event! Objectives: • Explain the essential measures to prevent complications of anesthesia. • Understand various pain management strategies in the perioperative and postoperative period. • Evaluate how the human body responds to stress and injury, particularly following a surgical procedure. • Apply the "ebb" and "flow" theories surrounding responses to trauma. • Incorporate new skills to prevent complications of surgical intervention. • Learn how to contribute to an early identification of SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. • Propose the immediate interventions that must be taken with sepsis. • Choose strategies to optimally prepare the patient for recovery at home. • Incorporate teach-back into everyday interactions with patients. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

4th Annual Case Management and Transitions of Care Conference - New York Chapter is organized by American Case Management Association (ACMA) and will be held on Sep 25, 2020 at Long Island Marriott, Uniondale, New York, United States of America. Who Should Attend? • Case managers • Nurses • Social workers • Physician advisors • Physicians • Students Description: The 2020 New York Chapter Conference will be an opportunity to share knowledge and learn with case management and transitions of care professionals in health care. Gain new strategies and insights when you collaborate for care with your peers. Take advantage of this unique professional development event right in your backyard and improve patient outcomes. What Will You Get? • Innovative ideas you can immediately use • Updates on case management best practices from recognized innovators • In-depth discussion about the latest health care resources • Knowledge-sharing with like-minded peers • Interaction with the latest tools and products in the exhibit hall • Networking and education with dedicated professionals Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.