PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS (Send items of interest to Assistant Editor, Ruth C. Mullins; allow 4-month lead time for meeting announcement.)

n EVENTS NAPNAP Chapter Activities*

n MINNESOTA CHAPTER

April 4,1991, “Lyme Disease,” speaker, Kay Bilani, Col- lege of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota

May 31,1991, “Pediatric Pharmacology and Prescriptive Practice Issues,” speakers varied, Earl Brown Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

Contact: Patsy Stinchfield, 689 Fairmount Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105.

n NEW YORK CHAPTER

May 4, 1991, “Child Behavior: Practical Approaches in Primary Care,” speakers varied, St. Moritz Hotel, 50 cenval Park, New York, New York

Contact: Susan G. Fisher, Program Committee, New York Chapter of NAPNAP, 205 E. 95th St., Apt G, New York, NY 10128.

n PENNSYLVANIA-DELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTER

June 5, 1991, “Current Professional Issues,” Mavis McGuire, MA, CPNP, speaker, Philadelphia Col- lege of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania

Contact: Roseann McLaughlin, 171 Blanchard Rd., Drexel Hill, PA 19026.

I RIVERSIDE CHAPTER

March 25, 1991, “Pediatric Pharmacology II,” Andy Lowe, PharmD, speaker, Kaiser-Permanente, Fon- tana, California

*All Chapter programs have been approved for NAPNAP contact hours, which are also given for all PREP-approved AAP and NAACOC pro- grams. Unless otherwise indicated, the reader should write to the contact person or the national office of NAPNAP to verify whether NAPNAP contact hours will be granted in the program.

n SAN DIEGO CHAPTER

September 14, 1991, ??he Practical Points of Pedia- tric HematoIogy,” William Lande, MD, speaker, San Diego, California

Contact: Kathy Morse, 9277 Adolphia St., San Diego, CA 92129.

Other Program*

March 25-28, 1991, “Uniformed Services Pediatric Sem- inar,” Conference Director, Captain Qtrentin L. Van Meter, Monterey Sheraton and Conference Center.

Contact: Cass Jones, Professional Conference Manage- ment, 7691 Convoy Ct., San Diego, CA 92111.

April 9-10,1991, “Parents and Professionals: A Necessary Partnership in the NICU and Beyond. . .,“Transitional Infant Care, The Chiklren’s Home of Pitrsburgh, Sher- aton Hotel, Station Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Contact: Jan S. Glick, Director, Transitional Infant Care, 5618 Kentucky Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.

April 12, 1991, “Nutrition for Young Children,” varied speakers and activities, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin

Contact: O&e of Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Stout, WI 54751.

May 26-29,1991, “Changing Our Society: The Challenges of Caring in the 199Os,” Association for the Care of Children’s Health, 26th Annual Conference, varied speakers, Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Contact: ACCH, 7910 Woodmount Ave., Suite 300, Be- thesda, MD 208140-6549.

October 10-12, 1991, The National Nurse Practitioner Symposium 12th Annual Scientific and Clinical Ses- sions, varied speakers, University of Marykurd, Bahi- more, Maryland.

Contact: Continuing Education Dept., School of Nursing, University of Maryland, 655 Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Note: Call for Abstracts. You are invited to submit a 250 word abstract for this symposium. Research reports should be related to primary health care or education. Abstracts are dare b May IS,1991 to the above address.

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March-April 1991

PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS

Places*

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners has become a founding member of the newly created National Health/Education Consortium, which had its first meeting on September 19,1990, in Washington, D.C. Convened by the Institute for Ed- ucational Leadership (IEL) and the National Commis- sion to Prevent Infant Mortality (NCPIM), the Con- sortium is made up of nearly 40 national health and education membership organizations with a collective constituency of approximately 11 million. Each orga- nization has appointed a representative to the Consor- tium, which plans to meet quarterly.

Funded originally by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the Irving Harris Foundation, and the Pills- bury Foundation, the Consortium is based on the prin- ciple that the health and education of children are in- tricately connected. The goal of the Consortium is to improve the health and learning potential of children by discovering and disseminating ways in which those involved in providing health and education services to children can work together. The Consortium will en- courage interagency collaboration at the federal level and will serve as a catalyst for similar health/education coalitions at state and local levels.

a ASTHMA TEACHtNG MATERtAlS AVAILABLE

The Department of Health and Human Services has a lim- ited number of copies of Open A&WV, Air Parirer, Air Wire, and Living Witb A.&ma available at no charge. These materials formerly were available for sale through the U.S. Government Printing O&e.

Each program covers the issue of exercise and asthma and each contains guidelines for making decisions about physical and social activities. All programs stress inter- active teaching and active learning for both leaders and participants.

The four programs teach the same basic inkmnation; how- ever, the programs di&r in teaching style, materials, and complexity, and each program emphasizes different topics. Open Airway was developed for low income, low education, or inner city families. Liviqg Witb As&mu covers topics that would be helpful to rural families. Air Paper and Air Wise were developed for suburban families. All four programs contain much ma- terial that is generic and can be used anywhere. A brief comparison of the programs is given in the descriptive brochure, New Tooh@ Tea&g Mampnmtfi Child- hood AstM which is available from the National Asthma Education Program at the address below.

To request these publications, use the special order form below and mail to: Chris Krntzsch, NHLBI Asthma Pmjcct, BOX,PNP, B&ding 31, Room 4A-21, NIH, Bedwda, MD 20892. Albw 6 weeks for delivery.

PEDIATRIC NURSE ASSOCIATES AND PftACTlTfONERS ORDER FORM FOR ASTHMA A4ATERfAf.S

Yes, we are interested in using the childhood asthma education manuals.

Please send the four manuals: C&PJ Airways (465 pages), Air Pmm (165 pages), Air Wire (210 pages), and L&iv Witb Adma (750 pages).

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