West Michigan Chapter of AACN

Neuro Night with Mary Kay Bader

Corewell Health
221 Michigan Street Northeast 1st Floor Conference Rooms
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 4:30pm ET - 8:00pm ET
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221 Michigan Street Northeast 1st Floor Conference Rooms, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Info

Topic

Seizures and traumatic brain injury

Credits Offered

This event offers 2.5 CERP credits to attendees.
Accreditation Info: AACN.

Additional Information

Neuro Night with Mary Kay Bader

Time in Seizure Is Brain: Managing Convulsive (CSE) and Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus (NCSE)

&

Recategorizing and Managing TBI: From GCS to New Criteria

2.5 Synergy CERP Category A Credits 

Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:30-8:00 pm

Dinner Provided

Pricing:

Members: $20

Non-members $30

Registration Deadline Monday, November 3, 2025

Schedule:

Registration

1630-1650

AACN Announcements

1650-1700

Session 1 (seizure)

1700-1815

Dinner

1815-1845

Session 2 (TBI)

1845-2000

Wrap-up/Evals

2000-2015

Objectives:

Time in Seizure Is Brain:

  • Distinguish between convulsive status (CSE) and non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE).
  • Prioritize medications into first-tier, second-tier and third-tier interventions to manage SE
  • Develop hospital-based protocols on managing CSE/NCSE ensuring advanced monitoring/care

Recategorizing and Managing TBI:

  • Assess the effects of injury to the brain in the neurologic-injured patient and implement strategies to manage severe TBI.
  • Redefine TBI severity using new proposed criteria
  • Evaluate TBI patients using noninvasive and invasive multimodality monitoring & apply algorithms to manage pts

Speakers

Mary Kay Bader MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, FAHA, FNCS

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.

Register For This Event

Member

AACN West Michigan Chapter Members

Includes Dinner and 2 Presentations

$20.00

Non-Member

Non AACN West Michigan Chapter Members

Includes Dinner and 2 Presentations

$30.00