SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal 25th Annual Nurse Practitioner Conference Scheduled FROM: Kathleen Dannenhold 206-221-2456 kathyd@u.washington.edu DATE: Sept. 23, 2002 Although nurse practitioners play important roles as primary care providers today, practicing in both urban and rural hospitals, clinics, and community health settings, 25 years ago they were as unfamiliar to the average health care consumer as the newly-invented push-button phone. The major reason for that change has been the leadership of graduates and faculty in the University of Washington nurse practitioner program, and the corresponding support of the School of Nursing's Office of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE), which has provided nurse practitioners with updated information about common health problems, pharmacology and regional and national trends affecting health policy every year since 1977. This fall, Continuing Nursing Education will hold its 25th anniversary conference for nurse practitioners and other primary health care providers in the Pacific Northwest area. Students enrolled in advanced practice degree programs to prepare for nurse practitioner certification are also encouraged to attend. Over 120 lectures, earlybird sessions, workshops, and special interest group meetings are planned for the 25th anniversary conference, October 23-26 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle. Recently renamed The Pacific Northwest National Conference on Advanced Practice in Primary and Acute Care, the conference attracts over 900 clinicians working in acute, adolescent, adult, family, geriatric, pediatric, psychosocial, midwifery, and women's health care settings. Featured speakers are Marie-Annette Brown, PhD, ARNP, FAAN, a professor of nursing at the UW School of Nursing, author of "When Your Body Gets the Blues," and award-winning primary care provider at the UW Medical Center Women's Health Care Clinic; Jeffrey Bauer, PhD, an educator, consultant, author and health futurist; and Mark McClung, MD, PC, a psychiatrist in private practice and member of the clinical faculty at the UW School of Medicine. The conference provides a broad spectrum of learning opportunities for providers in all settings. Interested participants should contact CNE at (206) 543-1047 or visit their website at uwcne.org for registration information. Special rates are available for School of Nursing students, faculty and staff. Return to News and Events   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195