CRN2010 to Lead Off IACRN Conference in Bethesda
Episode # 48
Uploaded: November 8, 2010
Running Time: 4:09
SCHMALFELDT: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.
The NIH Clinical Center's Nursing and Patient Care Services will co-host the 2nd Annual International Association of Clinical Research Nurses (IACRN) Conference on the NIH campus, in Bethesda, MD. A free one-day pre-conference, sponsored by Clinical Center Nursing, is planned for November 17th in the Masur Auditorium at the Clinical Center. The IACRN conference will open the evening of November 17th at the Bethesda Double Tree and continue November 18th and 19th at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus.
The Pre-Conference, entitled "CRN2010 Nursing Practice at America's Research Hospital", will showcase the results of Clinical Research Nursing 2010, a four-year plan developed by the NIH Clinical Center Nursing Department to define specialty knowledge and develop the tools needed to support the emerging specialty of Clinical Research Nursing. This conference provides an opportunity for attendees to receive newly-developed information, interact with staff and clinical leaders with extensive experience in clinical research nursing, and visit specific groups of patient care settings designed to showcase research in Pediatrics, Rare Diseases, Genetics, Behavioral Health Research, Oncology, Metabolic/Endocrine Disorders, Multispecialty Areas, Imaging Studies, and Critical Care in a Research Setting.
Dr. Clare Hastings, Chief Nursing Officer at the NIH Clinical Center, described what went into the planning of CRN 2010.
HASTINGS: CRN 2010 is our name for a four year project that we launched in 2007. And it was the result of an internal and external review that we'd had where some people had come to look at the nursing department and give us feedback on how well we were doing and they gave us great feedback. One thing they told us was that we were a well-kept secret… and that nobody really knew what nurses did here and that the way that we took care of patients in studies should be documented and should be made clear...
SCHMALFELDT: Dr. Hastings talked about what will be available at this pre-conference.
HASTINGS: So the sessions include presentations that have some of the key things that we've finished, they include small group work for people to discuss and talk about how those things might apply to their settings and so on. It's a full day and its free and a lot of the people who have signed up for the conference have decided to come so we are expecting quite a crowd. We'll have a panel of nurses who work primarily focused on patient care units and taking care of patients in the research program, clinical research nurses and nurses who work primarily in the institutes, research nurse coordinators or research nurses as we often call them, so we'll have a panel of two people representing those roles… round tables that are topic based where people will go often to a conference room and discuss a topic of their interest. And we will have some really neat tours that will be more than just tours to the unit where you walk around and show them the architectural features.
SCHMALFELDT: For more information about CRN2010 and the IACRN Conference, as well as information about one of the 1,500 clinical trials and studies performed here, log on to http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Bill Schmalfeldt at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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