[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50998-50999]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21254]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Advisory Councils; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), announcement is made of the 
following National Advisory bodies scheduled to meet jointly during the 
month of September 2000.

    Names: Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) and 
National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP).
    Date and Time: September 13, 2000; 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. September 
14, 2000; 7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
    Place: Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20024.
    The meeting is open to the public.
    Agenda: At the joint Councils meeting, eight invited experts 
will address the effect of the relationships between physicians and 
nurses on patient safety; the impact of physician-nurse 
collaboration on systems established to protect patient safety; 
educational programs to ensure interdisciplinary collaboration to 
further patient safety; education to prepare students, practicing 
physicians, and nurses to apply new technologies to error 
prevention; and consumers' perspectives on physician-nurse 
collaboration and its effects on patient safety and communication 
with patients and their families. Members of the two Councils will 
then work together to develop recommendations on physician-nurse 
collaborative education and practice activities leading to enhanced 
safety in caring for their patients. The meeting presentations and 
recommendations will be published.
    Anyone interested in obtaining rosters of COGME and NACNEP 
members or other relevant information should write or contact Elaine 
G. Cohen, MS, RN, Executive Secretary, National Advisory Council on 
Nurse Education and Practice, Parklawn Building, Room 9-35, 5600 
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857; telephone (301) 443-1405.

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    Following the joint Councils meeting on September 14, COGME will 
meet independently for two hours to discuss COGME's fifteenth 
report. The meeting is open to the public. Anyone requiring further 
information regarding this two-hour meeting should contact Stanford 
M. Bastacky, D.M.D., M.H.S.A., Executive Secretary, Council on 
Graduate Medical Education, Division of Medicine, Bureau of Health 
Professions, Room 9A-27, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857, telephone (301) 443-6326.

    Dated: August 15, 2000.
James J. Corrigan,
Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.
[FR Doc. 00-21254 Filed 8-21-00; 8:45 am]
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