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19th Annual
Long-Term Care Conference
NOVEMBER 13 - 14, 2008
Hotel Vetro
Iowa City, IA
CONFERENCE FACULTY
Joanne Rader RN, MN, PMHNP graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing in 1968, and from Oregon Health Sciences University with a Masters in Psychiatric, Mental Health Nursing in 1979. She worked as a clinical specialist and nurse practitioner in nursing homes for 27 years. In addition, she was an Associate Professor at Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Nursing for 20 years. She is currently an independent consultant.
Rader was project director on a 3-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1991-1994) to develop strategies to assist Oregon nursing homes in reducing the use of physical restraints and inappropriate psychoactive medications. She was a co-investigator for a research study designed to reduce the aggressive behaviors during bathing of persons with dementia. She was also co-investigator and interventionist for another NINR funded study looking at pain and its relationship to behavioral symptoms during morning care.
Rader has published numerous articles and books addressing the emotional needs and behavioral symptoms of persons with dementia including Individualized Dementia Care: Creative, Compassionate Approaches, and Bathing Without a Battle which received AJN Book of the Year awards in 1996 and 2002. She was also chosen "Distinguished Alumni of 2004" by Oregon Health and Science University, School of Nursing.
As a volunteer, founding member and board member of the Pioneer Network, she is working to change the culture of aging in America.
Carol Siem, MSN, RN, BC, GNP, has more than 15 years experience as a nurse manager of a hospital based Medicare skilled unit and a hospital based acute rehab unit respectively. For the past 7 years, she has been employed by Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri, and is currently a Clinical Educator working for QIPMO (Quality Improvement Program for Missouri) and Primaris (Missouri Quality Improvement Organization). Her job responsibilities include providing clinical consultation to nursing homes around the state of Missouri.
De Minner, BSN, RN, is an experienced LTC nurse with several years as an ADON, education director & RAI coordinator. De has been with the MDS and Quality Research Team at the University of Missouri-Sinclair School of Nursing for more than 9 years. She was a QIPMO nurse in Mid-Missouri for more than 6 years helping homes with everything from care planning and clinical issues to quality improvement. She currently is a research nurse/clinical consultant with “Project Roadmap to Success,” a National Institute of Health funded project under the direction of Dr. Marilyn Rantz, RN,PhD, FAAN. The purpose of this project is to help nursing homes make sustainable improvements in the basics of care. Ms. Minner has earned the designation of a Dementia Care Mapping Evaluator from Heather Hill Institute in Chardon, Ohio, and has performed DCM evaluations in many homes in the state of Missouri.
Keela Herr, PhD, RN, FAAN, AGSF, is Professor and Chair of Adult and Gerontology in the College of Nursing at The University of Iowa and serves as the Research Director for the John A. Hartford Foundation Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Iowa. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Herr has engaged in programs of research and scholarly and professional activities that focuses on the problem of pain in older adults. Dr. Herr presents broadly on pain-related topics to interdisciplinary geriatric audiences across the country and the world, and has numerous publications on the topic of geriatric pain.
Janet Specht, PhD, RN, FAAN, interests include practice models to promote professional nursing; diagnosis, interventions and outcomes for older persons with urinary incontinence; and care of persons with dementia and their families. Dr. Specht has a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research for a demonstration project to increase nurse awareness and training for evidence-based practices in nursing homes. The model includes a team approach to deliver direct care. In addition, Dr. Specht is co investigator on The John A Hartford Foundation/Atlantic Philanthropies Nursing Home Collaborative, a nation-wide project to implement professional nursing models of practice in long-term care, with a specific component in continence management, funded by Golden Living. These grants provide rich opportunities to increase quality of care in elders as well as influence policy at the state and national level.
