AACN Greater Memphis Area Chapter Annual Seminar September 26, 2025
Methodist University Hospital School of Nursing - Wilson Hall
251 South Claybrook
Memphis, TN 38104
Friday, September 26, 2025 at 7:00am CT - 5:30pm CT
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Topic
Care of the Acutely Ill Patient: Finding Your Courage and Purpose
Credits Offered
This event offers
7.25 CNE credits
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
AACN.
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Additional Information
All day event featuring expert speakers, networking, and opportunities to interact with health care professionals dedicated to the care of the acutely ill patient. Our guest speakers include:
Jennifer Adamski, DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM AG-ACNP Program Director, Emory University, Flight Nurse, and Critical Care ACNP. Immediate Past President of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Mary Kay Bader MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, FAHA, FNCS. Neuro/Critical Care CNS Mission Hospital Mission Viejo CA. Past President Neurocritical Care Society & AANN
Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC, CCRN, FCCM Critical Care Program Specialist
Grady Health System, Atlanta GA
Susan Cooper, MSN, RN, FAAN. Senior Vice President and Chief Integration Officer Regional One Health, Memphis, TN
AACN Approval Notification of CNE Individual Activity File Number: 25649
This nursing continuing professional development individual activity is approved for 7.25 contact hours.
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Registration Refund and Cancellation Policy
Cancellations can be made up to 3 days before the seminar by calling Janet @ 901-484-4062 or email jfmulroy@comcast.net. Refunds will not be given for cancellations received less than 3 days before the seminar. Your course tuition can be transferred to another person or applied to other AACN-GMAC courses and seminars.
AACN-GMAC reserves the right to cancel the program and refund registration due to insufficient enrollment.
Speakers
Immediate Past President of AACN and Director of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Program at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta
In addition to her work with AACN, Jennifer's areas of research include trauma prevention and system development, rapid response teams and critical care/trauma advances in hemorrhagic shock. She has lectured on the critical care NP model, trauma resuscitation and management, and received numerous awards, including the March of Dimes Critical Care Nurse of the Year, the Excellence in Leadership Award for Emory School of Nursing Faculty and Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice from her BSN alma mater in 2024. In addition, she was inducted as a Fellow in 2021 to the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Neuroscience/Critical Care CNS, Mission Hospital
Mary Kay Bader, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, CCNS has over 45 years of y experience with an emphasis in neuroscience/ICU. She has lectured nationally and internationally on traumatic brain injury (TBI), targeted temperature management (TTM), intracranial pressure (ICP), spinal cord injury, aneurysm, subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), novel anticoagulants in the presence of intracranial hemorrhage and stroke. Mary Kay was honored as a Fellow for NCS in October 2013 and currently sits on the Board of Directors.
Intensive Care Clinical Nurse Specialist at Grady Health System
Barbara McLean has been in critical care practice for 35 years. She functions as an independent, inter-national Critical Care Practice Consultant. She participates as part of the critical care team as an objective observer of patient care, guiding with classroom and bedside education as well as consults. Her practice is enriched with her Guest Lecture activity at the Emory University School of Medicine and as a Clinical Faculty member of the Emory University School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms McLean is a member of many professional organizations including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American Association of Surgery and Trauma. She has been awarded the excellence in education award by the AACN and the SCCM has presented her with presidential citations for her volunteer efforts. She has also authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters and has made more than 2000 presentations nationally and internationally. Her research has been focused on blood flow and oxygenation and she continues to expand her knowledge every day in her international clinical practice.
Chief Integration Officer, Senior Vice President
Regional One Health
Memphis TN
Susan Cooper, MSN, RN, FAAN, is the chief integration officer at Regional One Health. Appointed by Governor Phil Bredesen in 2007, Cooper served as the Commissioner of the Department of Health, State of Tennessee, for five years. In 2011, Cooper transitioned to the Governor’s Office, working on health and wellness related special projects.
Exhibit
Join us on Friday, September 26, 2025 for an all day educational event for nurses from the Greater Memphis Area. Our focus for the day will be the care of acutely ill trauma and neurotrauma patients, including those with significant metabolic and hemodynamic instabilities. We have a fantastic line up of expert presenters, including
1. Dr. Jennifer Adamaski, AACN's Immediate Past President, ACNP program Director at Emory, and Flight Nurse for Cleveland Clinic;
2. Mary Kay Bader, Neuro-Critical Care Expert for Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Ca, and Past President of American Association of Neuroscience Nurses.
3. Barbara McLean, Critical Care Expert from Grady Health System in Atlanta recently awarded the Master of Critical Care Medicine Award by SCCM.
4. Susan Cooper, Chief Integration Officer and Senior Vice President of Regional One Health in Memphis. Former Commissioner of the Department of Health for TN.
You will have the opportunity to network with critical are nurses, educators, advanced practice nurses, and nurse administrators at this event.