Conference targets advanced practice EH
New AOHP program for docs, experienced RNs
Experienced employee health nurses and occupational medicine physicians will have a new program tailored to their needs at the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP). The conference will be held Oct. 8-11 in San Diego.
The conference will provide CE for nurses, CME for physicians, and case management hours for those seeking the case manager certification.
This is the first year that AOHP has reached out to physicians in a systematic way, says MaryAnn Gruden, MSN, CRNP, NP-C, COHN-S/CM, AOHP executive president and employee health coordinator at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.
"We’re having the advanced practice sessions geared toward occupational health physicians in health care," she says. "Those sessions are also open to the other attendees at our conference."
Geoff Kelafant, MD, MSPH, FACOEM, medical director of the occupational health department at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, IL, spearhead the effort.
He maintains an e-mail discussion group on medical center occupational health and previously chaired the medical center section for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
AOHP is presenting an eight-hour advanced practice session prior to the conference, and will include advanced practice sessions throughout, says conference chair Linda Good, RN, MN, COHN-S, employee occupational health coordinator at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA.
"We wanted to take it to the next level and have things that were relevant to people who have been [working in employee health] for a while," she says.
[Editor’s note: For more information on the AOHP conference, go to www.aohp.org for an on-line brochure and registration information; or contact AOHP at 500 Commonwealth Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086-7513. Telephone: (800) 362-4347. For information on the medical center occupational health e-mail list, contact Geoff Kelafant at [email protected].]
Experienced employee health nurses and occupational medicine physicians will have a new program tailored to their needs at the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP). The conference will be held Oct. 8-11 in San Diego.You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
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