Justification Tips

The four days of the SHSMD’s Annual Conference, Connections 2010 will be the most cost-effective professional development choice you have all year. You will experience a full year of benefits in the form of new and greater knowledge that you can apply directly to your job.

Here are more tips on getting employer support for attending the SHSMD’s Connections 2010:

• Offer to prepare and deliver a short presentation and Q&A to your colleagues to share what you learned. That way others on your unit will get the benefits of your attendance, too.
• Share the executive summary and speaker handouts with your colleagues. As an attendee, you have unlimited access to materials posted by speakers as well as a take home CD-Rom.
• Explain what you plan to get out of attending and how that will benefit your work, organization and patients.
• Be ready with a plan that shows who will cover for you while you are attending the conference.
• Offer to share a room to reduce hotel expenses.