PHCNEWS

July/August 2002 41AJOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE

■ EVENTSSeptember 3-5, 2002, Enlighten, Em-

power, Envision: Action Strategiesfor SCI Nursing Practice, 19th An-nual Conference of the AmericanAssociation of Spinal Cord InjuryNurses, various speakers, RivieraHotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nev.

Contact: American Association of SpinalCord Injury Nurses, 7520 AstoriaBlvd, Jackson Heights, NY 11370-1177; phone: (718) 803-3782; Website: www.aascin.org.

September 26-29, 2002, 59th Brenne-mann Memorial Lectures, BahiaHotel, Mission Bay, San Diego,Calif.

Contact: Los Angeles Pediatric Society;phone: (323) 757-1198 or (310) 540-6240; e-mail: lapserve@aol.com.

October 19-20, 2002, 29th PostgraduateCourse sponsored by Duke Univer-sity Medical Center, Division ofPediatric Pulmonary Medicine,“Practical Management of Com-

Professional Notes

(Send items of interest to the Assistant Editor, Ruth G. Mullins, PhD, RN, CPNP, 6382 Heil Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647;e-mail rmullins@csulb.edu; allow a 4-month lead time for meeting announcements.)

mon Problems in AmbulatoryPediatric Patients—The Adolescentin Health and Disease,” Searle Cen-ter for Continuing Medical Educa-tion, Duke University Medical Cen-ter, Durham, NC.

Contact: Thomas M. Murphy, DukeUniversity Medical Center, Room302 Bell Building, Box 2994 DUMC,Durham, NC 27710; phone: (919)684-2289; fax: (919) 684-2292.

October 22-25, 2002, Mosby’s PediatricNursing 2002, “Current Issues,Future Directions,” Bellagio Hotel,Las Vegas, Nev.

Contact: Jenny Besser, Mosby Continu-ing Education, 11830 WestlineIndustrial Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146;phone: (800) 826-1877; fax: (314) 453-4172; Web site: www.mosby.com/Ped.

■ NEWSThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundationand the Institute for Healthcare Im-provement has announced that 12

health care organizations across theUnited States will continue to seekimprovements in the care they providepatients in the second phase of the ini-tiative, Pursuing Perfection: Raisingthe Bar for Health Care Performance.The 12 participated in the initial phaseand developed comprehensive plansfor systematically improving healthcare quality. In the second phase,seven of these organizations willreceive funding to implement theirplans. It is hoped that these plans willbecome models of care that can beemulated across the world. The RobertWood Johnson Foundation, based inPrinceton, NJ, is the United States’largest philanthropy devoted exclu-sively to health and health care. TheInstitute of Healthcare Improvementis an independent, nonprofit organiza-tion, based in Boston, that attempts tointegrate the innovative ideas of vari-ous health care organizations toimprove health care worldwide.

NAPNAP’s 24th Annual Nursing Conferenceon Pediatric Primary Care

April 9-12, 2003Gaylord Palm Resort and Convention Center

Orlando, Florida

Contact: Maureen Walker, A. J. Jannetti, Inc., (856) 256-2300or visit the NAPNAP Web site (www.napnap.org)