TraumaCon 2025 - Agenda

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The Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) annual TraumaCon is a premier conference designed for all healthcare providers interested in the specialty of trauma nursing. The event offers a rich educational experience through a blend of dynamic didactic sessions led by expert speakers and interactive breakout sessions. Attendees can customize their conference experience with a variety of engaging sessions tailored to their specific interests and professional needs. Focusing on the latest advancements and best practices in trauma care, TraumaCon provides an invaluable opportunity for networking, knowledge sharing, and professional growth in a vibrant and collaborative setting.

This year's event will be held in Kansas City, MO, April 23-25, 2025. Throughout this three-day conference, you'll have the opportunity to reconnect with familiar colleagues, establish new connections, and choose from a wide array of exceptional educational sessions customized for nurses involved in the care of trauma patients and the administration of trauma programs and systems.

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Abstract Submission

The Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) is excited to announce that submissions for TraumaCon 2025 are now open. We are seeking submissions for pre-conference workshops, plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and abstracts. This premier conference is designed for all healthcare providers interested in trauma nursing, offering dynamic didactic sessions led by expert speakers and interactive breakout sessions. TraumaCon is an excellent opportunity for networking, knowledge sharing, and professional growth. We encourage all members to submit their abstracts and workshop proposals by September 9, 2024, to contribute to the advancement of trauma care.

Submissions must be received by 11:59 pm ET on September 9, 2024, and are open to all; STN membership is not required. Submissions will undergo a blind review process, ensuring impartiality and alignment with STN’s mission, vision, and core values. Please click here to view further details, requirements and make a submission.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025
PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS Attending TraumaCon 2025? Be sure to take advantage of the many exciting course opportunities being offered as both pre-conference & post-conference sessions. Simply add the session of your choice through the online registration process. If you have already registered for TraumaCon 2025 and would like to add one of these opportunities to your existing registration, please contact info@traumanurses.org for further assistance. We look forward to seeing you in Kansas City!
09:00 AM - 06:30 PM	Registration Open
12:30 PM - 04:45 PM	Pre-Conference Concurrent Session: STN Leadership Institute Mini-Series: Unpacking the BIG 5 Leadership Skills in Trauma Care TBD Speakers: Melissa Hall, MSN, RN; Diana Skaff, DBA, DBA, MBA-M, BSN, RN; Katie Hollingsworth, BSN, RN; Shawn Patton, RN, CEN, TCRN Price: $200 Pre-Conference Concurrent Session: The Big 4 in 4 (Version 3.0 and The New Reality)! TBD Speakers: Amber Kyle, BSN, MSN, RN; Jessica Cofran, MSN, RN; Heidi Hotz, RN; Kathleen Martin, MSN, RN; James Colquitt, PhD Price: $200 Pre-Conference Concurrent Session: It's a Small World After All: Understanding the World Wide Impact of TBI TBD Speakers: Cindy Blank Reid, MSN, RN, TCRN, CEN; Rene Ackerman, RN, FANSA; Knut Kolstadbraten, MSN, RN, CRNA; Krongdai Unhasuta, EdD, RN; Cristiane de Alencar Domingues, PhD, MSN, RN; Helen Jowett, MSN, RN Price: $200
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM	Grand Opening of the Exhibit Hall

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025
06:30 AM - 06:30 PM	Registration Open
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM	Breakfast
07:00 AM - 07:50 AM	Committee Meetings
08:00 AM - 08:45 AM	STN Annual Member Meeting Speaker: LeAnne S. Young, MSN, RN, TCRN
08:45 AM - 09:45 AM	Plenary Session: Opening Keynote TBD Speaker: Dan Dworkis Moderator: Maria McMahon
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Break with Exhibitors
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary Session: The Impact of Trauma Nurses on DEI in Healthcare TBD Speaker: Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC
11:05 AM - 12:05 PM	Plenary Session: EAST Update TBD Speaker: Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS, CPE
12:05 PM - 02:00 PM	Lunch in Exhibit Hall & Prize Drawings
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM	Plenary Session: Distinguished Lectureship TBD Speaker: Heidi Hotz, RN
02:55 PM - 03:45 PM	Plenary Session: Title: Global Burden of Trauma TBD Speaker: Knut Kolstadbraten, MSN, RN, CRNA
03:50 PM - 04:30 PM	Plenary Session: Family Perspectives in Trauma: The Moments That Matter TBD Speaker: Troy DeJoode
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM	Poster Judging & Participant Viewing (Optional CE)

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025
06:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Registration Open
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM	Oral Abstract Breakfast
07:00 AM - 07:55 AM	Evidenced Based Practice Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury (BCVI): Universal CTA Neck Screening at a Level 2 Trauma Center tbd Speaker: Katherine Trejo, BSN, RN Improved Antibiotic Timing for Open Fractures: Reassessing Established Practices Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Enhanced Auditing TBD Speaker: Kathryn Heacock, DNP, APRN-CNS, CRNP, ACCNS-AG, ACNPC-AG, CCRN Straight to the Hips: Accelerating Hip Fracture Care TBD Speaker: Wendy Hyatt, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN Research Optimizing Opioid Use in Trauma Patients: Barriers and Facilitators and How to Address Them tbd Speaker: Melanie Berube, NP, PhD Trauma Activation Criteria Overload: Are More Better? TBD Speaker: Nina Wilson, MSN, RN Retrospective Review of Isolated Grade IV Solid Organ Injury (SOI) Admissions at a Single Institution TBD Speaker: Maria McMahon, MSN, CPNP-AC, TCRN, NE-BC
08:00 AM - 08:50 AM	Concurrent #1: Collaborative Rural Trauma Care: Overcoming Challenges TBD Speaker: Elizabeth Fuchsen, MSN, RN Concurrent #2: Pediatric Pancreatic Injuries: Expect the Unexpected TBD Speaker: Jessica Osipowicz, CRNP Concurrent #3: Rapid Fire PI Reducing Geriatric Ortho Trauma Mortality Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Communication TBD Speakers: Kathryn Fisher, RN,BSN,CCRN Pressure Injury Reduction in the Trauma Population: A Performance Improvement Project TBD Speaker: Gerald Stoudt, MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN Making the Time Count: IR Request to Sheath Placement TBD Speaker: Meaghan Crawley, MSN, RN, TCRN; Amy Koestner, MSN, RN
08:55 AM - 09:45 AM	Concurrent #4: TQIP: Beyond the Black Diamond TBD Speakers: Jennifer Brown, TPM; Angela Chisholm, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, CFRN, TCRN Concurrent #5: A Strategic Approach for Improving the ICU Liberation Bundle Compliance Across Trauma ICU’s TBD Speaker: Paula Halcomb, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC, TCRN, FCNS Concurrent #6: Rapid Fire Clinical Direct Peritoneal Resuscitation: What Goes in Must Come Out TBD Speaker: Brody Eick, MBA-HCA, BSN, RN, CCRN, CEN, TCRN; Elizabeth Naber MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, TCRN Pacing: It's Not Just for the Heart! Diaphragm Pacing Review TBD Speaker: Jennifer Bath, DNP, RN, AGCN-BC, CBIS, TCRN, CEN Who Cares About Venous Injuries: They are Just Veins, Right? TBD Speaker: Cindy Blank Reid, MSN, RN, TCRN, CEN
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Concurrent #7: Fall Prevention Pilot Outcomes TBD Speaker: Kirsten Dorsey, OTR/L Concurrent #8: Insane in the Mem-brain: All About Traumatic Brain Injury TBD Speaker: Darrell Hunt, MD, PhD, FACS Concurrent #9: Rapid Fire Leadership Help! I Need More PI FTE TBD Speakers: Amy Koestner, MSN; Vicki Bennett, MSN RN Utilization of Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Practice for Team-Based Care in Trauma Surgery TBD Speakers: Colleen Trevino, PhD NP; Jasmine Garces-King, DNP Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance in STN courses: Proposition and MENA Initiatives TBD Speaker: Diana Skaff, DBA, MBA-M, BSN-RN, ATCN
10:55 AM - 11:45 PM	Concurrent #10: ATCN-2025! What's New, What's Coming TBD Speakers: Debra Kitchens, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, NRP; Carrie Chismarich, MA, BSN, RN, TNS, TCRN Concurrent #11: ECMO for Multisystem Trauma – A Second Chance TBD Speaker: Lisa Evenbly, RN, BSN, MA, MICN, TCRN Concurrent #12: Rapid Fire Clinical Principles of Burn Management TBD Speaker: Brittany Blass, PA-C Paging Dr. Robot: When AI Responds to Trauma Care TBD Speaker: Cindy Joseph, BSN, RN, CFRN, CPEN Knowing the Unknown: How Forensic Nursing can be Used in Trauma Settings TBD Speaker: Sarah Evans Simpson, MSN-FN, RN, TCRN, SANE-A, SANE-P
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Networking Lunch
12:30 PM - 01:15 PM	President’s Address Speaker: Liz Atkins, MSN, RN, TCRN Moderator: LeAnne S. Young, MSN, RN, TCRN
01:15 PM - 01:30 PM	Awards Presentation
01:35 PM - 02:25 PM	Concurrent #13: Taking it to the Streets: Nursing Leadership in the Implementation of Whole Blood Programs TBD Speakers: Tracy Cotner-Pouncy, MSN, RN, TCRN; Heather Finch, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN; Laura Harwood, BSN, RN; Anna Johnson, MHA, MLS (ASCP)CM; Randall Schaefer, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CEN Concurrent #14: The Future is Now: Novel Approaches to Support Hemostasis in Traumatically Injured Patients TBD Speaker: Suzanne Sherwood, BSN, MS, RN, TCRN Concurrent #15: Management of the Transgender Trauma Patient TBD Speaker: Janice Delgiorno, MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, TCRN
02:30 PM - 03:20 PM	Concurrent #16: Pitfalls and Pearls of Geriatric Care TBD Speakers: Katherine Bendickson, BSN, RN; Jill Clemmons, DNP, ACNP-BC Concurrent #17: Pediatric Readiness: Tips for Successful Implementation in Adult Trauma Centers TBD Speaker: Becca Mielke, BSN, RN, CPEN, TCRN; Lindsay Madsen, BSN, RN, CPEN, TCRN Concurrent #18: Explosive Disaster and Blast Trauma TBD Speaker: Steven Talbot, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025 — SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2025
POST-CONFERENCE SESSIONS Attending TraumaCon 2025? Be sure to take advantage of the many exciting course opportunities being offered as both pre-conference & post-conference sessions. Simply add the session of your choice through the online registration process. If you have already registered for TraumaCon 2025 and would like to add one of these opportunities to your existing registration, please contact info@traumanurses.org for further assistance. We look forward to seeing you in Kansas City!
07:00 PM - 05:00 PM	Post-Conference Concurrent Session: Advanced Trauma Program Manager Course (ATPM) TBD Speakers: TBD Price: $995 Post-Conference Concurrent Session: Optimal Trauma Center Organization & Management Course (Optimal) TBD Speakers: Amy Koestner, MSN, RN; Kelly Jung, MS, BSN; Dan Margulies, MD Price: $400 Post-Conference Concurrent Session: TCRN® Preparatory Course TBD Speakers: Cindy Blank Reid, MSN, RN, TCRN, CEN; Linda Reinhart, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN, TCRN Price: $400 Post-Conference Concurrent Session: Trauma Outcomes and Performance Improvement Course (TOPIC) TBD Speakers: Sarah Mattocks, MSN, RN, TCRN, NE-BC; Tracy Cotner Pouncy, MSN, RN, TCRN Price: $400

TraumaCon 2025 - Agenda

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