Welcome to the INS/INCC Events Calendar—your quick reference guide to upcoming INS and national events, important deadlines, and valuable announcements. We hope this quick and easy reference will better assist you as you plan your year with INS and INCC!
The INS/INCC Events Calendar will be used to publicize upcoming local chapter events as well. If your local chapter has an upcoming meeting or event, please submit your complete information including date/time/location/contact information to Jason Beal, Director of Membership and Marketing Services, at jason.beal@ins1.org.
Pine Tree Chapter - Fall Meeting Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Maine General Medical Center - Augusta
You knew it was coming!!!!!
We hope you saved the evening of September 21st......................to do something nice for yourself, a professional Guest(s), and your patients!! Rand McAfoose, from Summit Medical, will be joining us to show us the AquaGuard, PICC waterproof protector.
Even more than that.............he is graciously bringing FOOD for all who attend!! We will be making fresh Subs and having Double-Stuff OREOs for dessert. A short Chapter Business Meeting will follow Rand's presentation, as we forge ahead with a new plan for the Chapter's survival.
Bring a guest.........................bring two!! Anyone interested in improving patient safety, is welcome!
RSVP Required to be sure that you get your Sub!!! Please contact me by any means below, to let me know that you will be joining us.............................BY September 19th!!! This is a hard and fast deadline for "eaters"! If you aren't planning to join us for dinner, please drop in whenever you can!!
This is a "VITAL" Meeting! We need all of you and your colleagues to keep this Chapter thriving. The field of Infusion Therapy has never been more important than it is right now! So many things are changing and so many new technologies are becoming available. We must be the ones to help lead, educate, and train nurses as they take on more and more Infusion Therapy functions with their patients.
I can not wait to see each and every one of you and I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all your efforts to help us keep the Pine Tree Chapter soaring into the future!!!!! '
The 2010 Fall Conference titled "Infusion Roundup" is $70 and includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks.Early conference registration enters you in a $500 drawing towards INS National Conference registration.
Please plan to attend our October 14, 2010 business meeting and educational presentation sponsored by TopoTarget.
·Educational topic will be "Managing a Serious Complication of Oncological Treatment: Extravasation".
·This will be located at Stone Creek (see address and directions below).
·Agenda: 6:00pm Business Meeting
6:30pm Presentation
·Objectives: describe 3 risk factors associated with vesicant chemotherapy agents, distinguish between irritant and vesicant agents, describe 3 signs and symptoms of extravasation, list 3 treatment methods.
Buckeye Chapter - Fall Meeting 2010 Saturday, October 23, 2010 Wingate by Wyndham & Meridian Conference Center 7500 Tylers Place Blvd West Chester Ohio
Join us at the Wingate by Wyndham & Meridian Conference Center 7500 Tylers Place Blvd West Chester, OH. Confirmed speakers are Brenda McKay and Kathy Kokotis.
