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27th Visions Symposium, A Success!

5/4/2014

 
Last month, the 27th Annual Visions Symposium was held at the Ritz Charles Event Center in Over-land Park. Over 130 attendees from around the KC metro area and neighboring areas such as Columbia MO attended. Participants enjoyed a silent auction, wonderful speak-ers, networking opportunities, and great food and vendors.

Janet Pierce PhD, RN wowed everyone with her research on cellular energetics and CoQ10. Dr. Dennis Allen had the audience in stitches while discussing evidence-based management of tachyarrhyth-mias and Stephanie Meyer RN, MSN-FNP taught us how to be the best version of ourselves. Finally, Lisa Riggs MSN, RN, ACNS-BC CCRN challenged all of us to “Step Forward”.
Thank you so much to all of the local vendors and organizations that contributed to this event, and to our speakers who volunteered their time developing wonderful talks. We couldn’t do it without you!

Sneak Peek 2015: the local chapter is exploring a new venue for Visions 2015 that promises to be fun and af-fordable. We welcome your sugges-tions on how to improve our local conference and hope to see you all in 2015!!

27th Annual Visions Symposium Set for March 6-7, 2014

12/10/2013

 
AACN Conferences offer a broad range of learning opportunities developed by national experts. Be sure to keep a look out for more information about the following local conference.  


The 27th Annual Visions Symposium will be held on Thursday March 6th and Friday March 7th at the Ritz Charles in Overland Park, KS.  This annual program is designed to inform critical and progressive care nurses on updates in practice and changes to practice guidelines.  


Topics that will be presented include: Pediatric Head Injury, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Athletic Heart, Sepsis, Adrenal Insufficiency in Trauma Patients, Street Drugs, Heat Failure and Hemorrhagic Shock, Tachyarrhythmias, and much, much more. Look for Early Bird Registration details, coming soon!

[From the 2012 Spring Newsletter] 134 Nurses Gather to Learn & Network at the 25th Visions Symposium

4/6/2012

 
On March 8th and 9th, 134 critical care nurses gathered at the Ritz Charles in Overland Park for the 25th Annual Visions Symposium.  This conference opened with a keynote address by AACN National President Mary Stahl presenting her theme Together, Stronger, Bolder. Other speaker highlights included Barb McLean discussing her experiences in Haiti after their disaster and our local stroke expert Debbie Summers on Stroke Management. This conference had something for everyone whether you work in ICU, Progressive Care or Pediatric Critical Care.

We were honored to have 12 critical care nurses from Joplin Missouri who shared with us their journey since May 2011 when an F5 tornado hit their hospital. I was awed with their stories of courage and heroism although they humbly say that they just did what was needed.

Once again we had a good group of vendors on Friday that gave us the opportunity to shop during our breaks. You could purchase anything from candles to purses and then some. The silent auction provided entertainment as well as funding for the scholarships that Greater Kansas City Chapter of AACN provides each year.

Please plan to join us next year for the 26th Annual Visions Symposium on February 28th and March 1st, 2013.  We plan to continue to grow and improve and would like you to join us in this journey.

How Is My VISIONS $$ Spent?

12/6/2011

 
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The Visions Committee is hard at work again, securing speakers, negotiating fees, planning details, etc. for the 2012 Visions Symposium on March 8-9, 2012 at Ritz Charles in Overland Park, Kansas. 

You may already recognize that putting on a large event costs dollars.  We make every attempt to secure sponsorship from vendors and educational grants to limit the cost passed on to the participants without compromising the quality of the offerings and venue. 

In the spirit of transparency, we thought it would be interesting for our membership base to see “where your registration dollars for Visions go.”   The $22,000 cost for ~130 participants was distributed as follows.  Note that the food represents 50% of the cost.  It is very limiting to us that many venues will not allow outside catering; thus, the food cost is largely nonnegotiable.  This chart also does not include the additional $7000 in educational grants and/or sponsorship received, as well as the additional printing costs covered by a vendor.


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New Due Date for the 2-Day Visions Scholarship!

10/27/2011

 
Every Spring, we award one AACN member, a scholarship to attend both days of the Greater Kansas City Visions Symposium, usually held in early March.  This year, the due date for the "Visions Symposium Scholarship" has been moved to January 12th, 2012 (instead of February 9th).  This will allow additional time to review the applications and provide enough prior notice to the recipient.  To apply, go to the Scholarships page....We look forward to reviewing your applications.  
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