Empower Yourself with ANA-Illinois’ 2022 Professional Issues Conference

The one-day conference will be held on November 5, 2022, in Lisle, Illinois.

“ANA-Illinois has worked really hard to build a community of nurses where we can come together and support each other. The Professional Issues Conference is an ideal opportunity for nurses to do that,” says Susan Swart, Executive Director of ANA-Illinois.

Relevant & Inspiring Sessions

The theme for the conference this year is “Empower Yourself.” Feyifunmi 'Feyi' Sangoleye, PhD, RN, will deliver the opening session, entitled: “Empower Yourself: How Do You Take Care of Others if You Don’t Take Care of Yourself?”

Other sessions include

• Violence Prevention... Are we doing enough?
• The Criminalization of Nursing Practice: A Risk Management and Regulatory Perspective
• Nurses Driving Change with Staffing – Legislative Implementation in Practice
• Emotional Intelligence
• Exhibitors & Virtual Poster Presentations

New This Year

This year, every conference attendee will receive an “Empower Yourself” t-shirt. Innovative membership-focused stickers with QR codes will also be available.

Refer a nurse to the conference and both you and your colleague will be entered to win a $250 gift card!

Registration Refunds & Cancellation Policy

Refunds: Refunds on paid registrations will be issued for written cancellation requests received via email at info@ana-illinois.org.   A $25 administrative fee for registrants or a $10 administrative fee for student registration will be charged for refunds.

• A full refund, less administrative fee, will be issued for requests received no later than Monday, October 10
• Fifty percent (50%) of the registration fee, less the administration fee, will be issued for cancellations between October 10 and October 23
• NO Refunds will be issued after Sunday, October 23.
• Returned Checks: An administrative fee of $35 will be charged for all checks returned to ANA-Illinois for insufficient funds.

 

No Shows: If you do not cancel in writing to ANA-Illinois and do not attend, you still are responsible for payment.

 

Registration Indicates the Registrant's Agreement to the following policies. 

ANA-Illinois Event Policies 

General Policies

•        The recording and/or transmission of the Event in any format is strictly prohibited.

•        All individuals and/or entities are strictly prohibited from electronically recording the Event.

•        ANA-Illinois, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to modify the Event.

 

Consent Clause

By registering and participating in activities, which include sharing pictures with ANA-Illinois or tagging the Event in social media, the registrant consents to the use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant’s image, likeness, comments, or voice in both live and on-demand reproduction of the Event. Further, Registrant consents to ANA-Illinois and its affiliates, employees, contractors and assigns use of any and all such image, likeness, comments, voice, videos in which registrant has participated, and any reproductions thereof, as well as registrant’s name, quotations from a verbal interview in whole or in part, in any manner ANA-Illinois, may deem proper, for any purpose, including without limitation commercial purposes. Registration may also include technology that monitors the registrant’s activities at the Event.

 

Code of Conduct

ANA-Illinois values the participation of each attendee and desires for all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of different backgrounds. Attendees are solely responsible for their actions.

 

ANA-Illinois will not tolerate harassment of any kind, including, but not limited to, harassment based on ethnicity, religion, disability, physical appearance, gender, or sexual orientation. This policy applies to all participants and attendees of all ANA-Illinois events. Harassment includes, without limitation, offensive gestures, verbal and written comments, deliberate intimidation, and sustained disruption of talks or other events. Attendees requested to cease harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately, and failure to comply may serve as grounds for removal from the Event.

 

When notified of individuals engaging in harassing behavior, ANA-Illinois, at its sole discretion, may take any action it deems appropriate, ranging from a simple warning to expulsion from current and/or future ANA-Illinois meetings, conferences, and events. Decisions to ban individuals from future events are the sole discretion of ANA-Illinois.

 

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the organizer by email at info@ana-illinois.org

 

Cancellation Policies

ANA-Illinois reserves the right to cancel or postpone any or all Event-related activities due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of ANA-Illinois, which include, without limitation, computer-related attacks, hacking, earthquakes, governmental regulation, fire, flood, labor difficulties, civil disorder, public health crisis, or acts of terrorism and acts of God (“Force Majeure Events”).

COVID Protocol Change: Proof of vaccination and negative test results will NOT be required before entering the event, however vaccination and masking is recommended for all attendees during the event. If you are feeling unwell the day of the event, please plan to attend the event on-demand.  Please remember that all general sessions will be live streamed and all breakout sessions will be recorded.  All recordings will be available on the event platform within two weeks of the end of the conference.