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The National Association of Bariatric Nurses held their sixth annual conference recently, in Orlando, Florida. The conference looked at a variety of topics ranging from lobbying for legislative changes, to new equipment on the block which was delivered by Mary Muir from Canada and a call for more prolific publishing of information.
The OAC is worth a look if this is an area close to your heart.
Obesity Action is an organisation who promote working relationships between obese people and how the public and professionals perceive them. They have produced a set of tools to empower both professionals and suffers into advocacy.
Other aspects of the conference covered evacuation issues and talking in a manner to encourage listening. Three topics under current research and review are managing comorbidities, postoperative exercise, and psychological follow up.
