Continuing Education Live Events

Create Your Best Life: Lean on Me: How Friends Can Support Your Best Life

• Saturday, July 19, 2025, 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM

Do you struggle with knowing what to say or how to support a friend going through cancer? Are you going through the cancer journey and wish that your friends would be more supportive? This webinar will offer insight into emotional support, helpful actions, and ideas for what to say (and not say) to truly make a difference. Additionally, we’ll discuss helpful tips to help survivors communicate their needs to their friends.

Register Here

21st Annual Methodist Research Day

• Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Explore cutting-edge research alongside esteemed professionals and graduate-level scholars. Research Day showcases an array of presentations, from illuminating best practices in healthcare to compelling posters highlighting evidence-based projects. With an extensive spectrum of research topics spanning surgery, pediatrics, bedside care, and cultural insights, there's boundless knowledge to discover. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare provider, faculty member, or an aspiring student, there's an enriching experience awaiting you.

Register Here

Leadership Series: Managing Personality Conflicts

• Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Join us for a session designed to help prevent personality conflicts from interfering with work productivity, and learn how to deal with the disputes that arise between different individuals.

2025 Geriatrics Symposium: Care Across the Continuum

• Friday, August 22, 2025, 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM

This program will provide current information and evidence-based practice guidelines that will enhance clinical and professional practice related to the care of the older adult. Topics will include the evidence-based approaches to support positive mentation in older adults, promoting safe mobility across diverse functional levels, Caring for Care Givers (C4C) Model by Rush University, communication and breaking bad news, potentially harmful medications, poster presentations, and so much more! The keynote speaker is Dr. Marie Boltz, who is the executive editor for the newly released textbook Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice (7th Edition).

Register Here

The NICN and APIC NE Symposium: 45 Years of Progress: Advancing Infection and Control Together

• Friday, August 29, 2025, 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM

Join NICN and APIC NE for their 45th anniversary symposium. Join us for an engaging and informative workshop dedicated to infection prevention and control in all healthcare settings. This workshop will feature expert speakers and interactive discussion on infection prevention strategies, leadership development, vaccination promotion, and media interaction skills.

Register Here

Women’s Hospital OB/GYN Grand Rounds: Complex Wound Management: Improving C-Section Outcomes from a Plastic Surgery Approach

• Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM

Key Points:
- Identify high-risk patients who might benefit from additional treatment at the time of C-section closure
- Intra-operative techniques to decrease the risk of surgical site infections
- Pearls on wound care management (surgical and non-surgical) for C-section wounds

Register Here

Rehab Week!

• Five sessions running each day from September 29 - October 3, from 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM

2025 Rehab Week: Day One, Monday, 9/29: Registration will open soon!

Healing Touch and Rehab Collaborate: Enhance Self-Care Along With Patient Care, Tuesday, 9/30

Key Points:
- Benefits of Healing Touch
- Which patients may benefit from Healing Touch
- How Healing Touch and rehab may collaborate to enhance patient care
- What grounding is and learn one or more ways to ground

Register Here

Early Actions, Lifelong Impact: Practical Tools and Strategies for SCI Rehab Professionals, Wednesday, 10/1

Key Points:
- Advanced clinical strategies—including transfer techniques, wheelchair modifications, and shoulder preservation principles—to optimize early mobility and prevent secondary complications in individuals with incomplete or non-traumatic SCI.
- Integrate long-term wellness concepts into early rehabilitation by identifying barriers and implementing strategies that promote sustained physical activity, community engagement, and healthy behaviors after SCI.
- Access and utilize high-quality patient education resources and community-based programs to support effective discharge planning, caregiver training, and continuity of care beyond the inpatient setting.

Register Here

Awake and Walking ICUs: Giving Patients the Best Chance to Survive and Thrive, Thursday, 10/2

Key Points:
- The role of sedation and immobility in the development of post-ICU syndrome
- The impact of the ABCDEF Bundle on patient outcomes.
- Advocate for patients to be awake, communicative, autonomous, and mobile as soon as possible in the ICU.

Register Here

Vestibular Rehab, Friday, 10/3

Key Points:
- HINTS testing to differentiate between peripheral and central causes of dizziness.
- Bedside oculomotor exam to evaluate a person with dizziness.
- Dix Halpike and Roll test to assess for BPPV.
- A plan of care including interventions to address a patient's dizziness.

Register Here

Save the Date

Registration will open soon for these events:

October 17, 2025: 2025 Perinatal Conference