Potpourri of Nursing Conference

May 6, 2025
This is a hybrid educational activity. 

Target Audience

This activity is designed for nurse leaders, clinical nurses, nursing support personnel, respiratory therapists, care management, and social workers.  Other learner groups such as Geisinger School of Nursing alumni and nursing students would also benefit from this education. 

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • empower healthcare professionals to better understand their low-resourced patients' typical challenges and values
  • adjust perspectives while assessing medical situations and patients, to achieve positive health outcomes
  • communicate and engage patients across the economic spectrum
  • verbalize initiatives to support and retain staff through nurse residency and other professional development programs
  • discuss the knowledge of professional wellbeing for all healthcare workers to drive the success of hospital systems to ensure safe work environments for both healthcare workers and patients.
Course Cancellation Policy
In the unusual circumstance that this course is cancelled, you will be called and/or emailed.
 
Attendance
Attendance will be recorded within three to four days of the conclusion of the activity.  Credit will display on your continuing education transcript once the activity evaluation is completed.  
 
Virtual Information
All details pertaining to the links for this activity will be sent once you are registered for the activity. 
    Course summary
    Available credit: 
    • 6.00 ANCC
    • 6.00 Participation Credit
    Course opens: 
    04/04/2025
    Course expires: 
    12/31/2025
    Event starts: 
    05/06/2025 - 7:00am EDT
    Event ends: 
    05/06/2025 - 3:30pm EDT
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    7:00 AM
    Registration and Continental Breakfast (for in-person attendees)
     
    7:25 AM
    Welcome and Introductions
    Janet Tomcavage, MSN, RN and Amanda Cresswell, MSN, BSN, RN
     
    7:30 AM 
    Hospital at Home
    Travis Marker, MHA and Michael Palmer, BSN, RN
     
    8:00 AM
    Geisinger at Home
    Carisa Wakefield, BSN, MBA, RN, and Melissa Czajkowski, RN
                                             
    8:30 AM
    Medical Documentation of Domestic Violence
    Zoe Swisher, Healthcare Outreach Coordinator
     
    9:30 AM
    Morning Break
     
    10:00 AM
    Getting Ahead in the Valley: A Poverty Reduction Initiative
    Rose Williams and Gail Poole
     
    11:00 AM
    Luncheon will be provided (for in-person attendees)
     
    12:00 PM
    Beyond the PPE: Revisiting Standard Precautions and Employee Expectations
    Ashley Hoffman, MLS (ASCP), CIC, System Infection Preventionist II
     
    1:00 PM
    Well-being
    Steven Keihl, PhD, PsyD, LMFT, MRT
     
    2:00 PM
    Afternoon Break
     
    2:15 PM
    Growing and Supporting the Nursing Pipeline
    Andrew Capalong, MSN, RN and Lindsey Ford, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
     
    3:30 PM
    Evaluations/Adjournment

     

    *Topics and Speakers are subject to change. 

     
    Henry Hood Center for Health Research and via Microsoft Teams
    100 North Academy Avenue
    Danville, PA
    United States
    All visitors to the Geisinger campus, please park in the patient parking lot. A shuttle bus will take you to the Henry Hood Center for Health Research, please notify the driver when boarding the bus of your final destination.

    Travel

    Henry Hood Center for Health Research is located on the Geisinger Campus in Danville, Pennsylvania (Montour County), Exit 224 on Interstate 80. Routes 11 and 54 also intersect in Danville.

    Guest Faculty

    Steven Keihl, PhD, PsyD, LMFT, MRT
    Well-Being Coach
    Major, US Army Retired
    Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
    Lancaster, PA
     
    Zoe Swisher
    Healthcare Outreach Coordinator
    The Women's Center Medical Advocacy Program
    Danville, PA
     
    Rose Williams
    Founder, Getting Ahead Foundation
    Linntown, PA

     

    Geisinger Faculty

    Tonya Beaver
    Project Manager Nursing
     
    Amanda Cresswell, MSN, BSN, RN
    System VP Nursing Excellence & Inpatient Case Mangement
    Geisinger Medical Center
     
    Andrew Capalong, MSN, RN
    Nursing Program Director
    Geisinger Medical Center
     
    Melissa Czajkowski, RN
    Operations Manager Nursing, Geisinger at Home
    Geisinger 65 Forward Reedsville and Geisinger Primary Care Reedsville
     
    Lindsey Ford, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
    Director Nursing
    Geisinger Wyoming Valley
     
    Ashley Hoffman, MLS (ASCP), CIC, System Infection Preventionist II
    Infection Control Practitioner II
    Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre
     
    Travis Marker, MHA
    Operations Director II, Hospital at Home
    Geisinger CenterPoint Office Building
     
    Michael Palmer, BSN, RN
    Operations Manager, Hospital at Home
    Geisinger CenterPoint Office Building
     
    Gail Poole
    Food Service
    Geisinger Medical Center
     
    Stephanie Pultynovich, BSN, RN, CMSRN
    Inpatient Nursing Manager, HfAM8 Telemetry GMC
     
    Robin Rudy, BSN, RN
    Activity Director 
    Inpatient Registered Nurse
    eICU Nursing Services, GMC
     
    Janet Tomcavage, MSN, RN
    EVP Chief Nursing Executive
    Foss Home, GMC
     
    Megan Tomtishen, BSN, RN, ONC
    Registered Nurse, Ambulatory Surgery CEP
    Geisinger Healthplex Woodbine
     
    Tami Underhill, MSN, RN
    Manager Evidence Based Practice
    Geisinger Medical Center
     
    Carisa Wakefield, BSN, MBA, RN
    Operations Manager Nursing, Geisinger at Home
    Geisinger Health Plan Hughes Center 
     

    Content Disclosure

    The faculty has attested that their presentations and/or content are HIPAA compliant.  
     
    Individuals in a position to control educational content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. 
     
    CE Committee Members/Content Reviewer(s) have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.
    Jenna Hampton, LSW; Roxanna Larsen, MS, LAT, ATC; Daniel Longyhore, PharmD, MS, EdD; Tammy McCormick, RDN; April Morgan, EdD; Christen Mowad, MD; Alison Mowery, DNP, CRNP; Timothy Murphy, MD and Michaelyn Notz, DO
     
    *Any/All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.  

    Accreditation 

    In support of improving patient care, Geisinger College of Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

     

     

     

     

    Credit Designation 

    Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for 6 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity. 

    Disclosure Policy 

    Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activity sponsored by Geisinger College of Health Sciences must disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s). 

    Commercial Support

    None

    Available Credit

    • 6.00 ANCC
    • 6.00 Participation Credit
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