Registration Fees
$150.00 (includes full breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks)
Student fee (attending full-time college or university program): $100.00
VGH Chest Centre/JPP 12, TB Unit/CP8 D, & Pulmonary Diagnostics: Complementary
Heart + Lung Health FEST 2014
Nursing & Allied Health Professionals' Respiratory Update
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Registration is available for this event here.
About the Conference
This conference presents a comprehensive list of current topics relating to the assessment, diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases. We will include information on pulmonary hypertension, pleural empyema and TB infections. Dyspnea management will be discussed in end stage lung diseases. Respiratory assessment topics will include basic chest x-ray interpretation. Noninvasive ventilation will be reviewed in the treatment of hypercapnic respiratory failure. Chronic respiratory disease management will be reviewed through the COPD Transition and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs.
2014 Conference Planning Committee
Lynn Paddon, Manager, Respiratory Sciences VGH
Lisa Kolkman, NP-Pulmonary Hypertension/ Respiratory Sciences VGH
Alyson Chin, NP, Thoracic & Transplant Surgery VGH
Gail Jeffrey & Lori Powroznik, Patient Care Coordinators, Chest Centre @ VGH
Priscilla Messier & Katherine Gavaghan, Educators, Chest Centre & TB Unit @VGH
2014 Agenda
To access the agenda for the 2014 Nursing & Allied Health Professionals’ Respiratory Update, please click here.
2014 Conference Location & Accommodation
This year’s Nursing & Allied Health Professionals’ Respiratory Update will take place at the Vancouver Renaissance Harbourside Hotel. We are pleased to provide participants wishing to stay on-site with a discounted rate. Please click here to book your accommodation.
