Choose Your Own Adventure Down the Yellow Brick Road 9/10/25

Park Ridge, IL US
September 10, 2025

This four-hour interactive session will provide nurses with a fun opportunity to challenge their knowledge and apply critical thinking with the goal of improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.

This conference is being held in person.

NOTE: Please note this activity will be presented 12:00pm – 4:00pm CST / 1:00pm - 5:00pm EST

Target Audience

This course is intended for nurses.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, learners should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate use of lines, tubes, drains and respiratory devices by applying hands-on practice
  2. Identify the role of BRRT and management of escalating patient behaviors 
  3. Apply evidence-based methods to improve care of patients with sepsis
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 4.00 Continuing Nursing Education (CE)
    Aurora Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 4.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
Course opens: 
07/30/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
09/10/2025 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
09/10/2025 - 4:00pm CDT
Cost:
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11:55 – 12:00pm Welcome & Opening Remarks

12:00 – 1:00pm Lines, Tubes and Drains Debbie Kantoris MSN, APRN, CCNS, CCRN Mallika Patel AGAC-NP

  • GI tubes – G tube, J tube, GJ tube, Flexiseal, ostomy, NG tube etc
  • Feeding pump
  • CBI
  • PCA
  • Surgical drains- JP, Hemovac, T- tube etc.
  • Wound vacs 
  • PIV – maintenance 
  • Table with documentation

1:00- 2:00pm Sepsis Escape Room Angela Flynn MSN, RN Tracy Montesa DNP, APRN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN

2:00- 3:00pm BRRT De-escalation Darlene Seeman MSN, RN, CEN, TNS Maricar Tapiador RN, MSN, NE-BC

  • Violent and nonviolent restraints 
  • Documentation requirements

3:00- 4:00pm Respiratory Megan Hanson MSN, RN Milena Fatta-Kenar MSN, RN-BC

  • Trach/laryngectomy 
  • Oxygen devices 
  • Lung sounds
  • Chest tube
  • Pleurx
Lutheran General Hospital
1775 Dempster St
Park Ridge, IL 60068
United States

10th Floor West Side

Faculty

  • Debbie Kantoris MSN, APRN, CCNS, CCRN
  • Mallika Patel AGAC-NP
  • Angela Flynn MSN, RN
  • Tracy Montesa DNP, APRN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN
  • Darlene Seeman MSN, RN, CEN, TNS
  • Maricar Tapiador RN, MSN, NE-BC
  • Megan Hanson MSN, RN
  • Milena Fatta-Kenar MSN, RN-B

Disclosure

The planner(s) and speaker(s) have indicated that there are no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Advocate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Credit Statement(s)

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Available Credit

  • 4.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 4.00 Continuing Nursing Education (CE)
    Aurora Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 4.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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This course is available to Advocate Health providers (employed and independent) and team members only.

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Mallika Patel at [email protected]

If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact the IPCE Office at [email protected]