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Margaret S. Wacker RN PhD CS

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*         Child Therapy within a Family Therapy Framework. (Brief Presentation) American Family Therapy Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, Ca. June, 1985.

*         Working With a Family Possessed by the Devil. (Brief Presentation) American Family Therapy Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. June, 1986.

*         Differentiation of Self/Differentiated and Undifferentiated Families. Maternal Child Health Coordinators, Rhode Island Department of Health. June,1990.

*         Crystals, Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields. University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Classroom. November, 1991.

*         New Age Treatment Modalities. (Five 2-minute radio broadcasts). University of Rhode Island and Brown University Healthwatch Program. Fall, 1991.

*         Holistic Alternatives. South County Hospital Nursing Staff In-service Program. April, 1992.

*         Women’s Consciousness and Health. Rhode Island State Nurses Association. May, 1992.

*         Holistic Approaches to Pain Management. Rhode Island Cancer Pain Initiative. American Cancer Society. Providence, R.I. February, 1994.

*         Holistic Nursing Intervention. Grand Rounds, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Ct. March, 1994.

*         Holistic Pain Interventions. The First Southern New England Palliative Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. April, 1995.

*         Palliative Care Service, a Nurse-Driven Consulting Service. The Eleventh Annual International Hospice Institute Symposium. Vancouver, British Columbia. July,1995.

*         Holistic/Adjuvant Interventions in Pain Management. Valley Hospice, Slater Health Center, Pawtucket, R.I. September, 1995.

*         Alternatives in Pain Management. Burn Care: A nuts and Bolts Approach. Burn Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. October, 1995.

*         Holistic Pain Interventions. The Second Southern New England Palliative Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. April, 1996.

*         The Role of the In-Patient Palliative Care Service in the Treatment of AIDS patients. Co-authored A. Fisher, Vohr, F & Wacker, M. International AIDS Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. July, 1996.

*         Palliative Care Concepts, Quality of Life Issues for the Patient with a Brain Tumor. The Third Annual Anne Martel Leveille Neuroscience Nursing Science Seminar, Rhode Island Hospital. October, 1996.

*         Palliative Care Issues across the Continuum of Nursing Practice. Rhode Island Nurses Association. October, 1996

*         Palliative Care: Issues in Caring for Terminally Ill Patients. Pastoral Care Week Breakfast Conference. October, 1996.

*         The Mind/Body Connection. Diabetes Workshop, Rhode Island Hospital. November, 1996.

*         Interdisciplinary Team Model. The Third Annual Southern New England Palliative Care Conference. Providence, R.I. May, 1997.

*         Alternative Therapies. Horizons Nursing Conference sponsored by Region I Members of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Boston, MA, April, 1998.

*         Psychosocial Issues in Pain Management. Annual Graubart-Irving Lecture sponsored by The Arthritis Foundation, Southern New England Chapter. Providence, R.I. September, 1998.

*         Development of Pain Education Materials for Health Care Professionals and Patients. Poster Presentation at the 33rd ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. December, 1998.

*         Development of the Pain Resource Professional Training Program (PRP). Poster Presentation at the American Society of Pain Management Nurses (ASPMN) Annual Meeting. April, 1999.

*         Chronic Pain. Pharmaceutical Pearls, Nurse Practitioner Council Lecture. March, 1999.

*         Traditional and Complementary Therapies for Chronic Disease. New England Hemophilia Center Northeast Regional Conference. May, 1999.

*         Theoretical Basis for Alternative Therapies in Cancer Pain Management. Rhode Island Cancer Pain Initiative. Warwick, R.I. June, 1999.

*         Pain Assessment, Ethical, Family and Cultural Issues in Pain Management, Non-Pharmacological Methods in Pain Management. (Three separate presentations at each biannual conference). Pain Resource Professional Training Program, Providence, R.I. 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.

*         Pain Management of the Medical Patient (Part I). Brown University Department of Medicine Noon Conference. July, 1999.

*         Pain Management of the Medical Patient (Part II). Brown University Department of Medicine Noon Conference. August, 1999.

*         Nuts and Bolts of Pain Management (Part I). Brown University Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. January, 2000.

*         Nuts and Bolts of Pain Management (Part II). Brown University Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. February, 2000.

*         Surgical Case Presentation. Brown University Department of Surgery. February, 2,000.

*         Acute Postoperative and Procedural Pain Management. Brown University Department of Surgery. March, 2000.

*         Pharmacological Pain Management. Lecture-Seminar Series for the Third Year Core Clerkship in Surgery. Brown University Department of Surgery:

*         March, 2000

*         May, 2000

*         November, 2000

*         February, 2001

*         May, 2001

*         Pain Management of the Orthopedic Patient. Brown University Department of Orthopedics. May, 2000.

*         Pain Assessment and Management in the Elderly Population. Rhode Island Attorney General Conference. April, 2001.

*         Pain Assessment and Management. Lake Sumter Community College, Leesburg, Florida. February, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 March, 2003, 2004, 2005.

*         Pain Assessment and Management Florida Hospital-Waterman, Eustis, Florida. July, 2002

*         Overview in Pain Management People's Medical School. November, 2002.

*         Painless Approaches to Consulting on Unrelieved Pain Issues. National Association of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, New Orleans. March, 2005.

*         Psychosocial Factors and Pain Assessment. American Society of Pain Management Nurses, New Mexico April-May, 2005.

*         Is it Soup Yet?  Neurophysiology of Pain.  National Student Nurses Conference, Fall 2007.

*         Under-management of Pain in the Elderly.  American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants National Education Conference, 2008. 

*         Trends in Nursing Education & Practice.  Leadership Lake County, March 2013.