American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) Annual Meeting in Seattle, June 23-25; Keynote Speaker
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The AAHFN 7th Annual Conference is recognized as the premier meeting in the field of Heart Failure Nursing. It is planned to meet the needs of nurses, advanced practice nurses, inpatient nurses, outpatient nurses, home health nurses, cardiac/HF administrators, clinical directors, physician assistants, dieticians, etc. who are interested in heart failure patient care. Throughout the three-day conference vital data and crucial updates will be presented to encourage the exchange of new scientific & clinical information and support the interchange of opinions regarding care and management issues relevant to heart failure.
This year's keynote address will be presented by Susan Johnson, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Director (Region 10) and is titled: Health Care Reform: Better Benefits, Better Health. President Barack Obama appointed Ms. Johnson in 2009 and she serves Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. As HHS Regional Director, Susan works with federal, state, local and tribal officials on a wide range of health and social service issues. For twelve years prior to this, she worked to implement innovative collaborative policy development and pilot projects that focused on system change and improvement of worsening health trends affecting vulnerable populations within King County, Washington.
This year, AAHFN has launched the first-ever Heart Failure Nursing Certification program (www.heartfailurecertification.com). "Heart failure is appropriately on everybody's radar screen; at the nexus of care for the patient with heart failure is the heart failure nurse - a talented caring professional with unique expertise. Certification makes it clear; heart failure nurses are essential health care providers and their work makes a difference", says Clyde W. Yancy, M.D., Magerstadt professor of medicine and chief of the division of cardiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Past President of The American Heart Association.
The Heart Failure Nursing Certification provides an added credential (Certified Heart Failure Nurse: CHFN) beyond licensure and demonstrates, by examination, that the registered nurse has acquired a core body of specialized knowledge and adheres to specialized nursing standards.
AAHFN is a specialty organization dedicated to advancing nursing education, clinical practice and research to improve heart failure patient outcomes. AAHFN's focus is on patients across all environments of care from hospital, to home care, to clinic. Learn more at www.aahfn.org or 888-45-AAHFN.
SOURCE American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)
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