REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW - UNTIL JUNE 1ST. This meeting is designed to provide accredited continuing education for nurses. Other healthcare professionals working in the ART/infertility field may register to attend and will receive a certificate of completion.
IMPORTANT: All attendees must be fully vaccinated and bring proof of vaccination. If you have recently recovered from COVID before the StartART Congress, please bring proof that you have completed quarantine plus 5 additional days before attending the meeting.
IMPORTANT: All attendees must be fully vaccinated and bring proof of vaccination. If you have recently recovered from COVID before the StartART Congress, please bring proof that you have completed quarantine plus 5 additional days before attending the meeting.
OVERVIEW
The Annual REI Nursing Congress: Scientific & Therapeutic Approaches to Assisted Reproductive Technology (StartART) provides a unique and comprehensive educational opportunity for nurses and other REI professionals, featuring critical updates on the latest advances in reproductive medicine from procedures and protocols to lab updates, innovations in genetics, impact of social change, and current legal issues. The goals of this annual congress are to provide late-breaking information, cutting-edge techniques, and best practices to improve ART outcomes. The goals are enhanced by the unique contributions that REI nurses make to the field of reproductive medicine through their skills, compassion, and caring.
The Annual REI Nursing Congress: Scientific & Therapeutic Approaches to Assisted Reproductive Technology (StartART) provides a unique and comprehensive educational opportunity for nurses and other REI professionals, featuring critical updates on the latest advances in reproductive medicine from procedures and protocols to lab updates, innovations in genetics, impact of social change, and current legal issues. The goals of this annual congress are to provide late-breaking information, cutting-edge techniques, and best practices to improve ART outcomes. The goals are enhanced by the unique contributions that REI nurses make to the field of reproductive medicine through their skills, compassion, and caring.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After participating in this virtual congress, the attendee should be able to:
After participating in this virtual congress, the attendee should be able to:
- Distinguish strategies for selecting stimulation protocols according to responder types to optimize outcomes;
- Explain the challenges and management issues associated with advanced parental age;
- Discuss the impact of disease and treatment strategies for endometriosis and PCOS on reproductive potential;
- Summarize current diagnostic criteria and treatment strategies for endometriosis;
- Identify advances in oocyte cryopreservation for donor egg banking;
- Review progress in male reproductive medicine;
- Debate current legal and liability issues encountered in ART practice;
- Examine concepts and progress in stem cell research;
- Assess strategies to manage compassion fatigue and burnout in the field of REI nursing;
- Recognize the unique contribution and critical role played by the IVF nurse;
- Apply guidelines and algorithms to improve recurrent pregnancy loss;
- Describe innovations in lab techniques from IVF retrieval to embryo transfer;
- Demonstrate the value of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy;
- Summarize advances in fertility preservation and the application of recent guidelines.
