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Send in your registration now to attend the 2005 AFT Healthcare Professional Issues Conference, April 28-May 1, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Join AFT Healthcare members from around the country as we look forward to building a strong foundation for better contracts, legislative achievements, stronger professions and winning organizing campaigns.
Our schedule:
| 9:00 a.m., Thursday, April 28 |
Lobby Day on Capitol Hill |
| 9:00 a.m., Thursday, April 28 |
Daylong workshop on chronic wound care management |
| 7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 28 |
Reception with John Lear and Sound Experience |
| 9:00 a.m., Friday, April 29 |
Opening session with President Ed McElroy |
| 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 30 |
Special speaker Michael Fortino on "Falling Back in Love with Healthcare" |
| 9:30 a.m., Sunday, May 1 |
Closing session with international guests |
Featured workshops will include: Legal issues in hospital care; parity in mental health; reporting and managing adverse events using JCAHO; current issues in health and safety; nuts and bolts of hospital finance; alternative health therapies and women's health; pensions and other retirement quandaries; legal issues in home care; medication administration in public schools; leadership recruitment and development for organizing; and more!
REMINDER: The deadlines for obtaining housing and registering for the conference and for Lobby Day are March 18, 2005. To obtain conference materials and registration packets, contact your local president, visit the AFT Healthcare Web site at www.aft.org/healthcare/conference05, call 800/238-1133 ext. 4491, or send an e-mail to healthcare@aft.org.
This conference is co-sponsored by AFT Healthcare, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing through the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
