The Department of Nursing Education offers education on a variety of topics and case studies that follows the format of grand rounds. These topics and case studies touch on all disciplines of nursing and best practice initiatives. Speakers include nurses, physicians and others in the healthcare community who are well-versed in specialty areas of patient care.

Nursing grand rounds are held monthly. Continuing education units are awarded for those in attendance.

Topics currently offered are:

• The Care and Management of Tracheotomies
• The Ms. USA MI Pageant
• Developing a Code of Professionalism to Improve Patient Safety
• Implementing the 2007 National Patient Safety Goals in Promoting Patient Safety
• Let’s Talk SBAR
• Diabetes Patient Education: Managing and Monitoring Strategies
• The Caring Model
• Stem Cell Transplantation
• Improving Outcomes in Breast Reconstructive Surgery: Tram Flap and Free Flap
• Clinical Ladders: A Reach for Excellence
• Health Literacy: A Foundation for Quality Care
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Managing Diabetes in the Hospital Setting
• Ring the Alarm: Everything You Wanted to Know About a Code But Didn’t Ask
• Cirrhosis: It’s More than Just Alcohol

If you have a topic of interest or would like to present a topic yourself, please contact Pat Thorpe, nurse educator, at 516-562-4934.