PADONA is seeking proposals for the 2025 PADONA 37th Annual Conference
Tuesday, April 1 – Friday, April 4, 2025
We invite you to partner with us to bring superior quality continuing education to our members by submitting proposals which build core skills and share best practices and innovations. Your proposal should assure the Conference Committee that each session you deliver will provide attendees with a learner-focused program that address a practice gap with immediate application to the attendee’s work.Â
Speaker Application and Session Proposal Form must be submitted by December 6, 2024
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Event location: The Hotel Hershey; Hershey, PA
Dates: April 1 – 4, 2025
Audience Demographics: The audience includes directors/assistant directors of nursing, staff development directors, nursing supervisors, infection preventionists, MDS Coordinators, clinical managers/directors and nursing home administrators whose primary practice area is the nursing home / senior living setting in both urban and rural areas of Pennsylvania. 85% of attendees are Registered Nurses and 40% are licensed Nursing Home Administrators.
Requested/Suggested Topic Categories: We strive to provide educational programming that is relevant and timely to our Conference attendees. Our Conference Committee has collected feedback on future educational programming from prior Conference attendees, annual membership educational needs assessment, and prior program evaluations. The results of this analysis were analyzed during our 2025 Conference planning. We include the following topics and categories of interest of our membership to guide your speaker proposal; however, we will accept proposal submissions containing other timely topics relevant to our audience demographics.
- Regulatory Requirements
      – Common regulatory challenges
      – Federal and State Nursing Home Regulations
      – Trauma Informed Care
      – Corporate Compliance and Ethics
      – Effective QAPI Program—real examples of QAPI programs in action!
      – Reimbursement Considerations
      – PDPM and the nurse leader’s role
      – Challenges in meeting Medicare requirements - Strategies to promote regulatory compliance
- Innovative ways to manage resident behaviors that negatively impact self and others
- Effective Documentation Strategies
- Resident rights
- Implementing an effective competency evaluation program
- Effective orientation and training programs
- Overview of human resources laws and requirements relevant to Nursing Management
- Disaster Planning and emergency preparedness
- High Risk Clinical Areas—practical application strategies
– Strategies to mitigate falls and accidents
– Conducting incident/ accident investigations and root cause analysis
– Wound prevention and care strategies
– Nutrition and hydration best practices
– Abuse / Neglect prevention and best practice strategies for investigation
– Pharmacy/Medication administration, availability, and med management
– Infection Control best practice standards
– Pain Management Program
– Medication Diversion and Opioid Crisis
– Medical Marijuana - Innovative practice changes in long term care
- Strategies to address hospital readmissions
- Innovative methods to ensure nursing clinical capabilities
- Strategies to address recruitment challenges and staffing shortages
- Writing effective IDR’s
- Addressing facility reputation with referral sources and community
- Best practices for use of technology to improve workflow efficiencies
- Best practices for technology use for resident caren
Educational Sessions: Sessions are generally sixty or ninety minutes in length. Some sessions may be offered twice by the presenter (once in each room). The Conference Committee may shorten or lengthen sessions at their discretion.
Speaker Selection Process:
- PADONA’s Conference Committee will make selections based on criteria below:
- Overall quality of content
- Relevance/timeliness to current issues
- Well-defined focus and objectives
- Level of speaking experience and expertise
- Free from commercial bias
- Feedback from previous presentations
- Speakers of accepted proposals will be required to:
- Submit a completed presentation to PADONA in a standard Power Point format no laterthan March 14, 2025. Depending on size, it may be emailed or sent via a link.
- Agree to standard copyright and reproduction terms of this event. PADONA is granted theright to record, reproduce and distribute each presentation without royalties/fees paid tothe speaker.
- Speaker agrees they are providing this educational session at no charge to PADONA.Fees or remuneration will not be paid by PADONA for educational sessions.
- Speaker agrees that he/she has permission from their company to make a presentation.
- Selected speakers receive complimentary attendance to the Convention.
- Agree NOT to market products/services during education sessions – this include spublished books/materials
- Submit required documentation for PSNA Nursing Continuing Professional Development continuing education hours and for NAB approval for nursing home administrator credit hours.
- Grant PADONA permission to photograph you and publish the photographs on PADONA’s website/Facebook page.
- Agree to provide the educational presentation virtually if there is a Public HealthEmergency or other emergency requiring adjustment from in-person learning to virtual learning.
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