APRN Essentials Workshop - 2025 Midwest Conference Pre-Conference
NIU Rockford
8500 East State Street
Rockford, IL 61108
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 8:00am CT - 9:00pm CT
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Topic
Primary Care Track Office Skills, Acute Care Track Point of Care Ultrasound
Credits Offered
This event offers
6.0 contact hours
to attendees
(1.0 pharmacology)
.
Accreditation Info:
Illinois Nurses Foundation is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Additional Information
Kick off the Midwest Conference with the Pre-Conference APRN Essentials Workshop!
APRN Essentials Workshop (October 21, 2025)
Presented by: John Russell DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA
Dr. Russell is the Founder and Owner of Skills on Point.
Skills On Point, LLC was founded in 2017 by John Russell, DNP, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA, to provide advanced practice professionals with expert-led instruction to simplify the privileging process.
Primary Care Track Office Skills (8:30 am - 11:30 am) - 3.0 Contact Hours
A 3-hour course that includes all necessary consumables and instruction, covering local anesthesia, punch, shave, and excisional biopsy, common dermatological complaints, cryotherapy, fluorescein staining and Woods lamp use, digital blocks, abscess incision and drainage, packing, paronychia release, subungual hematoma trephination, ring removal, and more, as time allows. There is virtual lifetime access to the Skills On Point CE portal, which includes videos to reinforce this learning, all at no cost. No experience in office procedures is required to attend this session.
Acute Care Track Point of Care Ultrasound (12:30 pm - 3:30 pm) - 3.0 Contact Hours
This 3 hour course is will include hands-on training with real ultrasound machines and cover the following: ultrasound basics, "knobology", probe types, applications, real life clinical scanning on partners for musculoskeletal, orthopedic, vascular, and trauma applications including injection in ultrasound phantom gel blocks, use of arterial line catheters to make vascular puncture and demonstrate short and long axis approaches with/without seldinger technique, color flow with arterial demonstration of the palmer arch, cardiac phased view providing limited 2D echo landmarks, FAST exam landmarks and findings. No experience with ultrasonography is required to attend this session. As students will be scanning each other, it is recommended that they wear loose-fitting clothing, allowing their arms to be exposed to the elbow.
Speakers
Founder & Owner, Skills on Point
Event Agenda
APRN Essentials Workshop - 2025 Midwest Conference Pre-Conference
Event Agenda
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 8:00am CT - 9:00pm CT
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Central Time (US & Canada).
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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8:00am - 8:30am
Registration for Primary Care Track
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8:30am - 11:30am
Primary Care Track - Office Skills
Dr. John Russell DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA
3.0 CE Credits3 hour course which includes all consumables and instruction including: local anesthesia, punch, shave, and excisional biopsy, common derm complaints, cryotherapy, fluorescein staining/woods lamp use, digital blocks, abscess I/D and packing, paronychia release, subungual hematoma trephination, ring removal, and more as time allows. There is a virtual lifetime access to the Skills On Point CE portal with videos to reinforce this learning included at no cost. No experience in office procedures is required to attend this session.
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11:30am - 12:30pm
Snack Break
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12:00pm - 12:30pm
Registration for Acute/Emergent Care Track
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12:30pm - 3:30pm
Acute/Emergent Care Track - Point of Care Ultrasound
Dr. John Russell DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA
3.0 CE CreditsThis course is will include hands-on training with real ultrasound machines and cover the following: ultrasound basics, "knobology", probe types, applications, real life clinical scanning on partners for musculoskeletal, orthopedic, vascular, and trauma applications including injection in ultrasound phantom gel blocks, use of arterial line catheters to make vascular puncture and demonstrate short and long axis approaches with/without seldinger technique, color flow with arterial demonstration of the palmer arch, cardiac phased view providing limited 2D echo landmarks, FAST exam landmarks and findings. No experience with ultrasonography is required to attend this session. As students will scan each other, it is recommended students wear loose-fitting clothing allowing arms to be exposed to the elbow.
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3:30pm - 3:45pm
Adjourn