STTI Congress 2008 : General Information : Continuing Nursing Education

Continuing Nursing Education Credits

Sigma Theta Tau International is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours will be awarded as follows:

Congress – 26.75 contact hours
  
Monday, 7 July – 6.25 contact hours
  
Tuesday, 8 July – 6.5 contact hours
  
Wednesday, 9 July – 4 contact hours
  
Thursday, 10 July – 6.5 contact hours
  
Friday, 11 July – 3.5 contact hours

Concurrent Nursing Workshops

Monday, 7 July

  • Conducting an Evidence-Based Practice Project (Presented in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Health) – 7 contact hours
  • Influencing Health Outcomes Through Evidence-Based Practice in an eHealth Era (Presented in collaboration with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario) – 7.5 contact hours

Tuesday and Wednesday, 8-9 July

            Two-Day Simulation and Emerging Technologies Workshop – 11 contact hours

Thursday, 10 July

  • Evidence-Based Practice: Resources for Practice at the Point-of-Care (Presented in collaboration with The Joanna Briggs Institute) – 7.5 contact hours
  • Dreyfus Health Foundation’s Problem Solving for Better Health-Nursing (Presented in collaboration with the Dreyfus Health Foundation) – 7 contact hours