Cruise Nursing Conference Attracts Capacity Audience
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| Barb Bancroft (center), a nationally recognized speaker on health care, addressed a capacity audience during the recent George M. Cruise Nursing Conference in Princeton. She is pictured with Dr. Betty Rader (left), Interim Dean/Bluefield State College School of Nursing and Allied Health, and Dr. Bernadette Dragich (right), Professor of Nursing and the “Cruise Endowed Chair Of Nursing” at BSC. The BSC School of Nursing and Allied Health sponsored the conference, which took place at the First Assembly of God Church in Princeton. |
( Bluefield)— Barb Bancroft’s kept them laughing and learning. As a featured speaker during the George M. Cruise Nursing Conference, sponsored by Bluefield State College’s School of Nursing and Allied Health, Bancroft’s presentation, “Shampoos, Tattoos, and Barbecues,” provided a capacity audience of health care professionals with an update on current issues in infectious diseases.
The executive director of a Chicago-based continuing education firm for health care professionals, Bancroft covered topics including global warming and travel, bioterrorism, food-borne illnesses, and infectious agents and their relationship to acute and chronic disease. She also discussed innovations in vaccine delivery. “Within ten years, vaccines can be grown in foods like potatoes, tomatoes, bananas and spinach, and you can be vaccinated by eating a fruit or vegetable,” she noted.
Dr. Elaine Scott, Interim Dean/BSC School of Business, was also a featured speaker. Her topic was “Ten Steps to Financial Security for Health Care Providers.
Dr. Betty Rader, Interim Dean of the BSC School of Nursing and Allied Health, welcomed the audience of more than 200, and Dr. Bernadette Dragich, Professor of Nursing and the “George M. Cruise Endowed Chair Of Nursing” at BSC, introduced the speakers.
The conference, which was held at the First Assembly of God Church in Princeton, was approved by the West Virginia State Board of Examiners for Registered Nurses and the West Virginia State Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses.
School of Nursing & Allied Health Website
May 8, 2006
