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Friday, September 29, 2023

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

  Registration- Sign In

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

  Meet & Greet and Posters

Saturday, September 30, 2023

• 7:30am - 8:15am

  Registration, Exhibitors, Professional Headshots

  Visit our exhibitors and get your professional headshot, included in your conference registration fee!

• 8:15am - 8:30am

  Opening Remarks and Announcements

• 8:30am - 9:30pm

  “Willpower vs. Biology: Breaking the Cycle of Weight Regain”

  Florencia Ziemke, MD

  Breakfast- Sponsored by Novo Nordisk

• 9:30am - 10:00am

  Break, Exhibitors, Photographer

• 10:00am - 11:30am

  Contract Negotiation for Nurse Practitioners

  Monica Carter, MS, FNP-BC
  1.5 CE Credits

  Understand the importance and impact of negotiating. Evaluate current or future employment contracts and identify employment “must-haves” and/or contractual red flags. Apply strategies from the presentation to ask for a raise or negotiate a more favorable employment contract.

• 11:30am - 12:00pm

  Break, Exhibitors

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Lunch- Sponsored by Horizon Therapeutics

  Dr. Priya Reddy

  KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) with methotrexate: Changing the course of uncontrolled gout

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm

  Impactful Resumes- Building a Brand and Telling a Story

  Rebecca McDermott: PHR, CIR, ACIR, CDR
  1.0 CE Credit

  In this session we will discuss what is a resume really used for? What information should be on my resume and where should it go? What happens when I submit my resume online…. Where does it go and who sees it? What will make my resume stand out when I apply?

• 2:00pm - 2:30pm

  Meet your FNPN Region Director

  Tom Schlepko, DNP, APRN, FNP, PMHNP, AAHIVS
  0.5 CE Credits

  In this session, we will discuss the recent legislation that was proposed and passed in the 2023 Florida legislative session and how it influences NP practice in FL. Further, we will explore legislative opportunities for the future and relate it to the needs of the FNPN membership.

• 2:30pm - 2:45pm

  Break/Snack

• 2:45pm - 4:15pm

  Being an Expert Witness

  Matthew Kerry Schwencke, Esquire (JD), & Karen Fehr, APRN-C & Marguerite Mauradian, MS, ARNP, GNP-BC, LNC
  1.5 CE Credits

  Create thorough, accurate, and timely progress notes. Understand who the reader may be of your progress notes (contemporaneously or otherwise). Remember that your progress notes will be scrutinized if an adverse outcome occurs that causes harm to a patient.
  Identifying legal terms in medical practice and malpractice. Articulating medical practice principles that may decrease legal actions against practitioners Defining types of Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) practices Applying legal principles through reviewing case studies.

• 4:15pm - 5:15pm

  Death Certification and Errors in Death Certification

  James W Fulcher, M.D., Medical Examiner
  1.0 CE Credit

  Comprehend "cause and manner of death" and their importance. Apply gained knowledge in the appropriate certification of death in practice by reviewing examples and guidelines. Evaluate the errors and error rates on death certificates

• 5:15pm - 5:30pm

  Wrap Up