Registration | Sunday | Monday | Wednesday
| 7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. |
Early Bird Coffee |
Morning Session
CE Credits TBD |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. |
CRNA-PAC Sponsored Campaign Fundraiser |
| 8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. |
2010 Healthcare Leadership Award Winner
Speaker TBD
Learner Outcomes:
- Discuss healthcare issues from the perspective of the 2010 AANA Healtcare Leadership Award recipient.
- Summarize legislative issues for CRNAs.
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| 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
The Present and Future of the Government in Healthcare
Speaker TBD
Learner Outcomes:
- Discuss economic, demographic, fiscal and policy environment shaping healthcare policy as it applies to nurse anesthesia.
- Examine a range of future outcomes in healthcare policy and their relative merits for nurse anesthetists.
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| 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Refreshment Break |
| 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Healthcare 2010: National Policy Perspectives
Speaker TBD
Learner Outcomes:
- Discuss federal healthcare policy issues from alternative perspectives, as they affect CRNAs' patients, practice and profession.
- Discuss the various regulatory, credentialing, and legislative healthcare issues relevant to the CRNA's current practice.
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| 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
Quality Measures and Pay-for-Performance: Taking Stock, Considering the Future
Speaker TBD
Learner Outcomes:
- Develop further conversational knowledge of fundamental health reform topics important to CRNA practice and profession, including the role of CRNAs in health reform, public and private health plan markets, expanding health coverage, workforce development, health reform financing, and outlook for health reform legislation on Capitol Hill.
- Discuss the role of organizations such as the Bipartisan Policy Center in informing the health reform debate, and make application to how the nurse anesthesia profession may make its voice heard.
- Describe how change in healthcare markets and policy might impact healthcare facilities, reimbursement for services, and nurse anesthesia practice.
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| 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Networking or Visits to the Hill |
Registration | Sunday | Monday | Wednesday