CE credits available for nurses
Jeanne Bryner will offer a presentation on her book, “Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose.” Her books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Ashland University’s Coburn Gallery and College of Nursing and Health Sciences in cooperation with the Rho Nu-at-Large Fall Scholarly Meeting will provide opportunities to view and discuss the concepts of compassion and healing through a variety of creative media while offering continuing education credits for nurses on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The events also are open to the public.
The opening reception for the juried art exhibition is titled Compassion: The ART of Healing. The gallery exhibition will open at 4:30 p.m. with a scholarly poster session starting at 5:30 p.m. (1.5 CEs). Jeanne Bryner, RN, BA, CEN, will offer a presentation on her book, “Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose” (1.5 CEs), at 7 p.m. Her books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Bryner is a registered nurse author who was born in Appalachia and grew up in Newton Falls, Ohio. She has nine books in print. Her work has been adapted for the stage in several national venues and the 2004 Fringe Festival of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her most recent anthology, “Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose,” received the 2019 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Studies Association.
CEs will be awarded based on participation and a completed evaluation form. Ashland University is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s commission on accreditation.
For more information call Jackie Owens, associate professor of nursing, at 216-554-2964 or email jowens2@ashland.edu.