Newport Hospital Classes and Programs:
Nursing Professional Development

Workshops for Nurses

• Preventing the Spread of Infection
  
  
• Nursing Orientation
  
  
• Legal and Legislative Issues Related to Nursing
  
  
• Ethnopharmacology
  
  
• Critical Care Certification Review Course

Preventing the Spread of Infection

• Gudoian Conference Room
  Faculty: Gail Jackson, RN, BC, CIC

This program will provide an essential review of the following: effective hand hygeine techniques, the importance of environmental asepsis, the use of personal protective equipment and strategies related to ventilator-associated pneumonia, catherter-associated bloodstream infection and cather-associated urinary tract infection.

This educational activity has been approved for 1.2 contact hours by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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Nursing Orientation

• Janurary 31, February 1, 2 & 3, 2006.
  Fireplace Room, Library
  Newport Hospital

Nursing Orientation is presented every other month on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday to coincide with Hospital-wide Orientation Part II. All Newly hired Registered Nurses are expected to attend this program.

Schedule is as follows:

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Legal and Legislative Issues Related to Nursing

The presentation will review the following legal and legislative issues: the Nurse Practice Act, and implications for practice, the development of the legal status of the nurse, the importance of professional organizations, strategies to prevent malpractice litigation, and current law as it relates to informed consent, intentional torts, documentation, and delegation.

• Gudoian Conference Center
  Faculty: Dorothy Garman, RN, MSN
  

  Friday, February 20	1:30 - 2:30 p.m. or 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
  Monday, March 6	11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

This educational activity has been approved for 1.2 contact hours by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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Ethnopharmacology

• Monday, March 20
  1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
  or
  3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
  Gudoian Conference Room
  

Physiological and pharmacological responses may be influenced by ethnicity as a result of genetic factors, environmental factors, and/or their interaction. This program will provide information in two areas. There will be overview of ethnicity as a determinant of drug metabolism and response with reference to antihypertensive agents. The concept of ethnicity has been applied extensively to the study of hypertension especially in American blacks in which the hypertension is more common and more aggressive. Also, the difference in the black-white physiological responses to psychotropic agents will be discussed and supported. A review of the literature will provide substantial evidence of ethnic variations in response to major classes of psychotropics.

This educational activity has been approved for 1.2 contact hours by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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Save the Date:

Critical Care Certification Review Course
February 8 and 15, 2006
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Approved Contact Hours

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For more information about any of the classes at Newport Hospital, please call 401-845-1592.

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