Advocate Seminars and Events - Information and Registration

Advocate Health Care is an approved provider of continuing education by the Illinois Nurse’s Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Below are links to seminar activities for which online registration is available. Please note that location, length and costs are different for each event.

View or download the event brochure by clicking on the event title below.

Online registration for classes offering CME credit is available at www.advocatehealth.com/cme

2008 Events

May

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing Course

Objective:
The purpose of this 7-day course is to provide participants with a core foundation of knowledge that will contribute to their ability to competently practice nursing in critical care settings. Expert speakers from across the Advocate Health Care system cover essentials of critical care nursing practice.

When:
May 15, 16, 22, 29, 2008
June 5, 12, 19, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where:
Advocate's IBS Building
2625 Butterfield Rd.
Suite 208S
Oak Brook, IL

Registration:
Advocate Nurses: No Cost - Register for the event

Non-Advocate Nurses: $595.00 - Register for the event

Only on-line registration, with a credit card, will be accepted.

Contact Hours: This 7-day course is approved for 49.0 INA contact hours.

For any questions, contact Pat Juarez, APN at 630.575.3262

June

Understanding Legal Issues in the Operating Room

Presented by The Surgical Services & Peri-Anesthesia Nursing Professional Development Councils of Advocate Health Care

View brochure and program agenda

Saturday June 14, 2008
8:20 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Conference
8:00 a.m. - Registration & Continental Breakfast

Location:

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Olson Auditorium
1775 Dempster Street
Park Ridge, IL 60068

For Directions, click here.

Registration:
Advocate Associates: No cost - Register for this event
(Section Number 80033)
Non-Advocate Associates: $30.00 - Register for this event

For more information about the program, contact Mary Caputo at 847-723-7003.

July

The 5th Annual Advocate Children's Hospitals Nursing Conference

Presented by the Advocate Children's Hospitals: Advocate Hope Children's Hospital and Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital

Course Objectives:

• Provide networking and communication opportunities for professional pediatric nurses.
• Expand the knowledge base of pediatric nurses in a variety of pediatric clinical setting.
• Explore the health care challenges affecting children, their families and the nurses who care for them.

View brochure and program agenda

Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.- Conference
7:00 a.m.- Registration, Exhibitors, Posters, and Continental Breakfast
Lunch will be provided

Location:
Hamburger University
McDonald's Office Campus
2815 Jorie Boulevard
Oak Brook, IL 60523
For Directions, click here.

Conference Fees:
Advocate Associate - $75.00
Other - $125.00
**Attendance is limited; and registration will be taken on a first come first served basis**
Fees include continental breakfast, program materials, refreshment breaks and sit-down lunch.

Register online for this event.

For questions regarding the conference or registration, contact Kelley Sava at 847.723.1500 or e-mail kelly.sava@advocatehealth.com.

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AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Class

Description:
The AWHONN Intermediate Fetal monitoring course is a two-day course focusing of the application of essential fetal heart monitoring & skills in intrapartum nursing practice.

This program provides 18.3 contact Hours for nurses and 15.25 CME credits for physicians and APNs.

When:
Monday, July 21, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Where:
Kensington Building
1400 Kensington
Oak Brook, Illinois

Register for event

October

7th Annual Breast Imaging Symposium

Description:
Educational symposium for technologist and RNs that work with breast cancer patients.

This program provides 8 CEU credits.

When:
   Saturday, October 25^th, 2008
   6:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
   A continental breakfast, lunch and snacks will all be provided.

Where:
   Doubletree Hotel Chicago Oakbrook
   1909 Spring Road
   Oak Brook, IL 60523

Seminar Fees:
   Advocate Employees: No Cost
   Non-Advocate Employees: $85.00

Resister for event