Coming Events
Call for Responses to the Draft Renew Position Paper
RENEW members are seeking feedback on the draft position paper. With input from key stakeholders, the group will then determine the structure and content of a final position paper to be disseminated to constituencies to then establish a plan of action in Colorado.
The statewide forums for direct input in your region will be found:
- March 26 Breckenridge and also in Boulder at Avista Hospital
- March 28 Metro Denver hosted at Regis University
- April 2 Metro Denver hosted at Anschutz- CU Outpatient Center 5-7:30pm
- April 4 Alamosa hosted by SLV Nurses’ Forum at United Methodist Church 3:30-5pm
- April 11 Co Springs hosted by Univ of Phoenix, at Exec Towers 3-5:30pm
- April 16 Co Springs hosted at the main campus of U of Phoenix 3-5:30pm
- April 18 Greeley hosted at Centennial AHEC with ITVto High Plains locations 6:30-8:30pm
- April 22 Montrose Hospital, hosted by Western AHEC ITV also to Clifton and possibly Craig 6-8pm
- April 9th and 25th TBA
In addition, responses to this article may be sent to: RENEW,
c/o Marie Miller, CO AHEC, PO Box 6508, MS F433, Aurora, Co 80045 or by email
to kris.wenzel@uchsc.edu, or recorded on the bulletin board (asynchronous)
at http://www.uchsc.edu/forums by May 1, 2002.
International Seminar Series: Lessons of Humanity Learned from Nursing,
Across Time
and Cultures: Japan, Vietnam, Korea and Beyond
Margaret Kinneer, RN, PhD, Professor Emerita, UCD-SON
Challenges and Nursing's Hopes for Humanity in Vietnam
Joined by: Ruby Martinez, RN, PhD, UCD-SON Assistant Professor
Monday, February 25, 2002, 4:00 PM, SON Room TBA
Colorado Health Workforce Summit
The Colorado Health Workforce summit is being held in early December. Registration is free. For more information and to register.
Nightingale Awards
March 16,2002 10th Annual Metro Nightingale Event
The University of Colorado Hospital Clinical Research Council and University of Colorado Denver School of Nursing in collaboration with UCD Physical Therapy Program and the Denver VA
Present: "Evidence-Based Practice: Climbing to New Heights" Rocky Mountain Regional Multidisciplinary Research Symposium
Thursday, February 28 and Friday, March 1, 2002; Hilton Denver Tech South
For more information.
Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices
AHRQ's report on "Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices" was released last week. It's available for downloading with Adobe Acrobat. Check out Chapter 39--Nurse Staffing, Models of Care Delivery, and Interventions.
- The press release and a link to the document may be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2001/ptsafpr.htm
- The document "Making Health Care Safer" may be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety
- Part III-C of the document covers "surgery, anesthesia and perioperative medicine," with the main anesthesia focus being Chapter 23, Preanesthesia Checklists To Improve Patient Safety at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/chap23.htm
- Another chapter relates to nurse staffing, http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/chap39.htm
- The chapter relating to medical equipment addresses equipment checklists in anesthesia at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/chap41b.htm#41.3