cpe newsletter summer 2009

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Lisa Alikhan is the Congress Education Program Coordinator in the Center for Perioperative Education. She worksclosely with the Education Specialists, the CPE Director, and other departments within AORN to facilitate theplanning and operational components of this annual event. She is the Staff Liaison for the Congress EducationPlanning Committee, and prepares and organizes education proposals for committee review. She is alsoresponsible for ensuring that speakers are in compliance with ANCC Content Provider Guidelines when presentingon behalf of AORN.

Susan K. Bakewell, MS, RN-BC is the Director, Center for Perioperative Education, for the Association ofperioperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Susan has been a member of the staff of the AORN Center forPerioperative Education for fourteen years. Susan has been involved in nursing education in various roles. She hasbeen a faculty member at three- and four-year nursing programs. Her teaching experience includes working withgeneric and BSN completion students in the classroom and clinical setting. She has worked in the field of nursingcontinuing education and staff education in several clinical areas. Susan is administratively responsible for theAmerican Nurses' Credentialing Center's (ANCC) accredited provider and approver units, and the state board ofnursing provider unit held by AORN. Susan previously worked for the Colorado Nurses Association as an EducationSpecialist responsible for the provider and approver units through ANCC. Susan is a member of AORN, ANA, theColorado Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau, ASAE, and ASTD. Susan is the Vice Chair of the American Nurses'

Credentialing Center (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation and Chair of the Accreditation Review Committee.

Laurie Clark is the Periop 101 Program Manager and has been with AORN for nearly nine years. Her current workincludes providing customer support to the current Periop 101 online licensees, mainly through contact with theCourse Administrators. She also promotes and sells Periop 101 to new customers (visithttp://www.aorn.org/Education/Periop101/), as well as keeps the online Perioperative Nursing ProgramDirectory and Periop 101 database updated with new Periop 101 facility and contact information (visithttp://www.aorn.org/Education/EducationResources/PeriopNursingCourseDirectory/). In the past, Lauriemanaged the CD-ROM/paper-based Periop 101 course, as well as education videos and all other independentstudies.

Cathy Halterbaum is the Instructional Designer/AORN Learning Center (ALC) Administrator. She has been with theCenter for Perioperative Education for five years. She came from the corporate sector working at Lucent

Technologies and Accenture Learning as an instructional designer and trainer. Cathy’s main job at AORN is keepingthe Periop 101 modules up to date per the new and revised Recommended Practices. Other areas in which she hasresponsibilities include the AORN Learning Center administrator, communication with our ALC vendor,GeoLearning, and troubleshooting an issues that may arise for our students and administrators as they access ouronline courses. In addition to revising the current Periop 101 modules, she works with RN’s at AORN and within ourmembership to develop new modules to complement and enhance the Periop 101 course such as the newestmodule due out next month called “Considerations for the OB RN Circulator.”

Sue Hardin, Education Program Coordinator, previously worked for AORN as Congress and World ConferenceProgram Coordinate for five years. She returned to AORN in January 2009 to coordinate CPE’s face-to-face events,such as the Magnet, Leadership, Executive Symposium, and Fall Multispecialty Conferences. Sue also assists withthe annual Congress by coordinating the Poster Sessions and Moderator/Session Assistant assignments. She has

cross-trained in the processes used for on-line courses, webinars, and is helping review the Periop 101 modules.Sue supports the International Relations Committee and will coordinate the International Symposium held atCongress.

Holly Heston, Instructional Designer, has seven years of experience creating online education programs for nurses.She manages the content development, staff training, and implementation of the new Confidence-Based Learning(CBL) programs. She recently completed the updates on the Preparing for the CNOR online course and is working onthe upcoming Older Adult Competency and Tissue Banking CBL modules. Other responsibilities include ongoingmaintenance and update issues on the ALC.

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Radhika Pradhan, Education Program Coordinator. Radhika’s position at AORNinvolves working in collaboration with members of the Center for PerioperativeEducation. She communicates status and updates related education activities andassures accreditation by managing the electronic ANCC file. Her job includesmanaging functions of the continuing education activities for all online educationmodules like Ambulatory Surgery and Periop 101, education videos and webinars.

Ellen Reeder, Project Coordinator, Approver Process. For the past five years, Ellenhas worked closely with Nurse Education Planners at AORN to coordinate and planlogistical aspects of many programs, including Congress 2006 and the MultispecialtyFall 2006 conferences. Ellen has been in the role of project coordinator, ApproverUnit since June 2006, and is currently working on instructional design projects forAORN CBL. She’s also helping to edit and update Periop 101 as necessary. Ellencurrently holds an MA in Communications and will begin working toward herMaster’s degree in Instructional Design and Adult Education at the University ofColorado, Denver this Fall.

Susan Root, RN, MSN, CNOR joined the AORN Center for Perioperative Education inOctober 2003. She brought with her almost 30 years of progressive perioperativeexperience ranging from staff nurse to educator, to manger and director of surgicalservices in northern California hospitals. Susan has taught as adjunct faculty at alocal community college. Prior to coming to AORN, Susan served as director formultiple acute care departments, including ICU, OR, ED, SPD, and Endoscopy.Susan is currently the Education Products Manager with AORN. In this position, sheis responsible for managing, designing and executing a wide range of educationalproducts including AORN's online Periop 101: A Core Curriculum, specialtyconferences, Perioperative Management Resource manuals and various clinical andmanagement online programs utilizing multiple teaching modalities in collaborationwith peers, association staff, volunteers and other business entities.

Kim Simkins provides administrative support for the Center of PerioperativeEducation. She has over 22 years of experience with AT&T and LucentTechnologies as an administrative manager, including 6 years as a technicalinstructor for Fortune 500 companies. She supports the CPE by scheduling andcoordinating meetings, taking and transcribing minutes, processing expenses andordering supplies, and assisting the approval process Program Coordinator withmonitoring applications for contact hours when submitted for approval, accordingto current ANCC requirements. Kim also assists the Periop 101 Program Managerwith new and renewed purchases, printing and mailing free membership offerletters, and mailing copies of completed contracts to the subscribing facilities.Kim also works closely with the CPE Director assisting in various administrativetasks, and supports other members of the CPE team on projects, as needed

Marisa Tapia, RN, MSN, CNS Prior to her current position as a PerioperativeEducation Specialist at AORN, Marisa Tapia was the System Clinical Nurse Specialistfor Surgical Services at Lee Memorial Health System. Her past experience as a

Clinical Nurse Specialist includes education and staff development for all membersof the surgical team. She served on numerous committees to facilitate educationaloutcomes management initiatives and served on "the Road to Magnet" committeesboth at the unit level and at the system level. Tapia served on Active Duty in theUS Army from 1993 to 1998 where she attended the US Army Nurse CorpsPerioperative Course. In March 2003, Tapia was activated and served twoconsecutive years at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.Her primary role at Fort Bragg was that of education for Operative Nursing

Services, as well as maintaining her clinical skills in the operating room.

Warm Fuzzies …

I went into the CE ApprovalProcess section of thewebsite today to check onthe new prices. I found your power point presentation & just wanted to say you did avery nice job--it is VERY welldone. Kudos to theauthor(s).--Kathy

You have been a great helpto me in making our seminar

come to life. Thanks for allof the help over the pastyear. I plan to help Mellissaand Karen with the programsnext year, otherwise you aredone with me! Thanks again for all of the help.--Cindy

The Periop 101 online program is going very well. Ilike the format. My new students are doing great!

--Sandra Buckley, RN, BSN,CNOR, OR Clinical Educator

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AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing educationby the American NursesCredentialing Center’sCommission on Accreditation

AORN is provider-approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider

Number CEP 13019.

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