Virtual Format Due To Coronavirus/COVID-19 Concerns
In order to ensure the safety of students, staff, faculty and community, SIUE is suspending all University-sponsored events with 50 or more attendees effective March 16-April 10. As a result, the School of Nursing’s ANEW Conference will be offered virtually via Zoom. For questions, please contact Melissa Bogle at mbogle@siue.edu or 618-650-5612.
Welcome to the School of Nursing Education Conference!
March 21-22, 2020
Morris University Center, SIUE Campus
SIUE SON continues its pioneering advancement of the nursing profession across Illinois with its receipt of a competitive four-year $2.75 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for its innovative Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program. The multi-faceted educational effort is creatively designed to increase the number of nurse practitioners who practice in rural and underserved communities throughout Illinois, by promoting a smooth and natural transition from the student role to practicing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) into these areas.
Bolstering the success of the program includes academic clinical partnerships between the SIUE SON and Chestnut Health Systems, OSF HealthCare, Southern Illinois Healthcare, Synergy Healthcare Solutions, LLC., and the SIUE We Care Clinic. The SIUE SON and its clinical partners have collaborated on the development of this year's regional conference for primary care providers highlighting the opioid crisis, non-opioid pain treatment options, recognizing addictive behavior, rehabilitation of the opioid dependent patient, and long-term follow-up strategies. The decision to focus a portion of this effort on opioid priorities was supported by recent changes to the Illinois Nurse Practice Act, which requires a minimum of 50 hours of continuing education, including no less than 20 hours of pharmacotherapeutics and including 10 hours of opioid prescribing or substance abuse education every two years.
This conference, the first of four to be held annually in the spring, was made possible through the ANEW program funding. We are excited to appreciate our preceptors and those providers serving in rural and underserved regions through this educational benefit.
