Contact:
Nancy Clover RN, COHN-SHEHNA, NHAOHN & AOHP-NE Chapter
nancy@occhealthconnections.com
978-686-9739
Where
Frisbie Memorial Hospital Conference Center11 Whitehall Road
Rochester, NH 03867
Driving Directions
Costs:
Members of: HEHNA, AOHN, AOHP
Before March 7, 2012: $35.00 After March 7: $45.00
Nonmembers:
Before March 7, 2012: $60.00 After March 7: $70.00
Payment must be received before the conference:
Checks made out to: HEHNA PO Box 2106 Methuen, MA 01844. All registration must be paid in advanced. Full refund up to 10 days before the event. We are sorry but we are unable to refund money after the food count has been placed.
Contact Hours: A certificate of attendance for 4 hours will be given.
The NH Board of Nursing does not require that your contact hours be earned at conferences that provide "official" contact hours granted by a professional organization. However, the educational offering must:
- Have specific objectives that guide the learning
- Pertain to and enhance the licensee's knowledge, skills and judgment
- Pertain to the licensee's scope of practice
- Have a method for evaluating the learner's attainment of the objectives
- Maintain a list of attendees
The licensee should maintain documentation of attendance that includes: the title, length and date of the offering and the name of the entity providing the offering.
Misc Info:
Dress is casual.
Please dress in layers for your personal comfort.
Scents can trigger asthma and migraines in some individuals, please refrain from wearing strong scents.
Go Green: In order to be as green as possible, paper copies of handouts will not be provided. If you would like a copy of the powerpoint after the conference emailed to you. Please let us know.
Vendors:
Please stop by and thank our exhibitors. Their support helps us keep our cost low.
Currently confirmed vendors:
Jamil Ergo & Office
McAuley Medical
Axion
New England Medical Systems
Humanscale
Meditrax
Membership Info:
For information on additional conferences or joining our organizations go to:
Local Area Information:
Frisbie Memorial Hospital is located in Rochester, NH and is the fourth largest city in the state. Rochester is located in the state's Seacoast Region with convenient access to the Region's arts, fine dining, entertainment and beaches. Rochester is also the gateway to New Hampshire's Lake Region, home to the state's largest lake, Lake Winnipesaukee, and to several ski resorts.
Rochester and surrounding communities have a variety of fine and casual dining and lodging facilities and is home to the historic Rochester Opera House.
For more information on Rochester and area communities, please visit the following website:
Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.rochesternh.org
HEHNA, NHAOHN & AOHP-NE Chapter
Spring Occupational & Employee Health Conference in Rochester, NH
March 30, 2012
Registration link is the blue button above!
Come and celebrate it a joint conference with HEHNA (www.hehna.org), NHAOHN (www.AAOHN.org) & AOHP NE Chapter (www.aohp.org)
Friday, March 30, 2012
Venue: Frisbie Memorial Hospital Conference Center, 11 Whitehall Road Rochester, NH 03867 http://www.frisbiehospital.com. This is a delightful place with excellent parking.
Agenda:
8:45-9:20: Registration, Networking & Continental Breakfast. Visit Vendors
9:20-9:30: Welcome and Introductions
9:30-10:30: Dr. Linda Sheldon: Electronic Medical Records: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from a User's Perspective.
10:30-10:45: Break, Visit Vendors
10:45-11:45: Denise Finch, OTD: Ergonomics, EMR and Solutions to Reduce Risk Factors
11:45-1 pm: Buffet Lunch & Visit with Vendors
1:00 - 2:00 pm: Denise Finch, OTD: Ergonomics, EMR and Solutions to Reduce Risk Factors (continued)
2:00 - 2:15 pm: Break
2:15 -3:15 pm: Attorney Susan Fentin: EEOC Regulations and Developments in Disability
3:15 - 4:00 pm: HEHNA Meeting (All are Welcome)
Speakers & Objectives:
Linda Sheldon is a staff physician @ St Jospeh Internal Medicine. She has been in practice for 12 years most of which is clinical. She is a member of the Board of Director's at St Joseph Hospital and serves as the Chairwoman of the Finance Committee for St Joseph Hospital in Nashua, NH.
Title: Electronic Medical Records: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from a User's Perspective.
Objectives:
1) The attendee will be able to tell what works and what doesn't in EMR from the User perspective.
2) The attendee will understand how EMR is being introduced to clinical providers in the outpatient setting and why.
3) The attendee will know how EMR impacted one clinical provider operating it in a standard outpatient setting.
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Denise Finch, OTD, OTR, CHT, CCM is the founder and owner of WorkRite Medical Associates. Ms. Finch received a BS in Occupational Therapy from the University of New Hampshire in 1982. In 2012, she was awarded a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Boston University and completed her dissertation titled “Advancing Ergonomic Expertise in Occupational Therapists: Using an Online Course to Facilitate Knowledge Acquisition and Application of Ergonomics in Daily Practice”. Ms. Finch also holds certification as a hand therapist and case manager. She specializes in the treatment and prevention of work related injuries, work transition programming, job site evaluation and modification, and ergonomics. Ms. Finch has presented to a wide variety of audiences. Topics include: preventing and managing work related musculoskeletal disorders, musculoskeletal risk assessment, office ergonomics, job modification and worker’s compensation, and return to work programming.
Title: Ergonomics, EMR and Solutions to Reduce Risk Factors
Objectives:
1. Become familiar with the evidence regarding the perceptions of EMR among health care providers
2. Become familiar with the evidence regarding ergonomic concerns and EMR
3. Be able to Identify at least 4 biomechanical ergonomic issues related to input devices used in EMR
4. Be able to identify at least 5 solutions to reduce ergonomic risk factors associated with EMR.
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Susan Fentin, a partner in Skoler, Abbott & Presser is a labor and employment law firm that practices only labor and employment law and represents only management. Susan is Associate Editor of the Massachusetts Employment Law Letter. She is experienced in both labor law and employment litigation, speaks frequently to Employer Associations on employment law topics, and teaches Master Classes on the FMLA and Wage and Hour law.
Ms Fentin has been named a "Super Lawyer" for several years and has been recognized for the past two years as one of the top labor and employment lawyers in Massachusetts by Chamber and Partners, which is a prestigious company that ranks law firms and lawyers. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and a magna cum laude graduate of Western New England University School of Law.
Title: 2011 EEOC Regulations and Developments in Disability
Objectives:
1. Attendees at this session will learn how the EEOC's final regulations have altered the definition of disability under the American with Disabilities Act and how those changes will affect the way that New Hampshire employers handle requests for accommodations.
2. The sessions will also cover details surrounding the "interactive process" between employer and employee as a means of identifying reasonable accommodations that would enable the disabled employee to return to work and perform the essential functions of his or her job, including the significance of accurate job descriptions and the use of such job descriptions in the process.
Directions
TO THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION & CONFERENCE CENTER (CECC): Enter at the Main Entrance Of Frisbie Memorial Hospital. Take an immediate right turn. Follow the drive up the hill to the right. Turn right into the parking lot at the top of the hill. The CECC is the only building in that parking lot. The CECC has an arched copper canopy over the entrance.
Directions to Frisbie Memorial Hospital
FROM LOGAN AIRPORT: Take Route 1A North, approximately 10 miles to Peabody and bear right onto Route 95 North. Drive 15 miles to fork at Exit 4 and bear left for the Spaulding Turnpike. Follow Spaulding Turnpike to Exit 12 (Route 125). At the end of the ramp, bear right onto Route 125 North toward Rochester. Continue on 125 North to the fifth set of lights and turn right onto South Main Street. Frisbie Memorial Hospital is approximately 1/2 mile on the left.
FROM PORTLAND, ME: Take Route 95 South to Exit 4 (Biddeford) to Route 111 West. Follow Route 111 for 30 to 40 minutes to Route 202 South. Look for Minor's Restaurant on the left. Go over the bridge and turn left at the intersection by Cumberland Farms. Proceed through the first intersection and bear left at the fork in the road. Go to the end of this road and turn left onto South Main Street. Frisbie Memorial Hospital is approximately 1/2 mile on the left.
FROM MANCHESTER, NH: Take Route 293 East to Route 93 North. Drive about two miles and take exit for Route 101 East. Take exit for Route 125 and turn left at the end of ramp onto Route 125 North. Proceed on 125 N. for approximately 30 minutes into Rochester. You will pass under the Spaulding Turnpike as you enter Rochester. At the fifth set of lights turn right onto South Main Street. Frisbie Memorial Hospital is approximately 1/2 mile on the left.
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