18th Annual Maine Pain Symposium

“Pain Management in the Older Adult:

Aging Doesn’t Need to Hurt”

 Date: Friday, October 19, 2012

Time: 8:15am (breakfast available before)

Location:  Pettengill Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine  (Directions can be found here).

Cost: General Admission $149.00; Member Registration $129.00; Students $49.00 (I.D. required).

Hand-outs for the day: 

Carol Curtiss, MSN, RN – BC  – Managing Pain in the Older Adult: It Doesn’t Need to Hurt


 

8:00AM- 9:00AM                                                                        Registration and Breakfast

9:15AM – 9:30AM                                                                        Welcome

9:30AM – 11:00AM                                                                     Carol Curtiss, MSN, RN – BC

11:15AM – 12:15PM                                                                     Breakout Sessions

  1. Nurse Practitioner Panel: “Supporting the Continuum of Care”
  2. “Challenges to  Quality of Life for Our Elders: Psycho-social Interventions”
  3. Nursing Assistant Panel: “The Bedrock of Support for Our Elders”

 

12:15PM – 1:15PM                                                                        Lunch

1:15PM – 2:15PM                                                 Steve D’Amato BSP, BCOP – “What’s New in the Symptom Management Toolbox?”

2:15PM – 2:30PM                                                                        Break

2:30PM – 3:30PM                                                                        Repeat Breakout Sessions

3:30PM – 3:45PM                                                                        Wrap-up and Evaluations

 

 

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