Overview and Conference Goals

The American Nurses Association is hosting its inaugural quadrennial policy conference, Nursing Care in Life, Death and Disaster, on June 20–22, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, in Atlanta , Georgia . This conference 1) is dedicated to considering the significant health and disaster preparedness policy questions related to an altered standard of care that can result from a major natural or manmade disaster, 2) will inform nurses, policy makers, government and other disaster planners and responders regarding reconciliation of the professional, legal and regulatory conflicts of a diminished standard of care and 3) will promote better decision-making, all to improve possible patient outcomes and the quality of care provided during a major disaster.

Conference Goals

• Examine how current nursing standards of care might be altered in response to a disaster in order to save as many lives as possible
• Describe the key areas of risk to patients if standards are altered in whole or in part
• Describe institutional and individual action that can reduce risk to patient during a period when standards of care must be altered for emergency purposes
• Identify what guidance about alterations in standards of care would be of benefit to institutions employing nurses
• Identify what guidance about alterations in standards of care that should be available to individual nurses as a part of preparedness planning and education
• Direct individual professional nurses to resources for planning emergency and disaster response preparedness

Who Should Attend

• Registered nurses
• Nurse managers
• Nurse educators
• Regulators
• Disaster planners and responders
• Health care professionals
• Policy makers at national, state, local and institutional levels

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