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- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Clostridioides difficile is a life-threatening disease that can lengthen and complicate a patient’s hospitalization. Parkview Health, a hospital system in Northeast Indiana, is on a journey toward zero harm and high reliability. From 2017 to 2019, Parkview Health noted an increase in the number of C. difficile events and the standard infection ratio (SIR). In 2019, the organization convened a multidisciplinary task force to address increases in C. difficile events. Rapid process improvements using plan-do-study-act (PDSA) methods were deployed from 2019 to 2022.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Staying at the forefront of medicine, innovation and research are the key drivers of success for many academic medical centers. Lessons learned from such institutions are routinely applied to community hospitals. However, one cannot adapt the practices of medical center to a community-based center and expect similar outcomes without some adjustments. While the concepts of hospital-associated infection (HAI) prevention may be the same for all, the implementation of interventions can vary depending on the care setting.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
In conjunction with enterprisewide efforts to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates, a group of pharmacists created a tool within the electronic medical record (EMR) to evaluate the need for central lines for vesicant medication administration. Since launching the tool in adult intensive care units (ICUs), pharmacists have recommended central line removal in 19% of patients reviewed. The ICU CLABSI rate, standard infection ratio and standard utilization ratio have all decreased since implementation.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
The COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges in critical care. One was an increase in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). For these patients, their high acuity level increases their risk for CLABSI beyond the point where evidence-based bundle elements can mitigate it. However, despite conducting unit-based reviews of all CLABSI events with key stakeholders, no clear care gaps or common contributors were found. This resulted in collaborative efforts between critical care and infection prevention to identify and implement interventions that reached beyond the bundle.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Quick response (QR) code technology is already used in various industries, but its use in the operating room (OR) is an innovative concept. A typical OR can include more than 100 different pieces of equipment, posing a challenge for OR nurses who must be competent in their use. A QR code-enabled education tool can make it easier for nurses to navigate this complex environment, support proficiency and reinforce skills, and promote quality care in the OR.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Patients transitioning from an inpatient hospital stay to self-care are at risk for readmission within 30 days of discharge, which leads to increased costs and resource utilization as well as decreased quality of life. In addition, value-based payment programs use 30-day readmission rates as a measure of quality. Identifying interventions that improve 30-day readmission rates is imperative to avoid penalties and improve patient outcomes.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Embracing diagnostics as a core stewardship function is critical to delivering evidence-based and cost-effective care. With advanced infectious disease testing emerging over the last decade, the processes and analytics supporting such frameworks are essential for organizational sustainability. Our Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Advisement Program created an efficient operational structure to assess, advise, deploy and track diagnostics.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Better Flow is a systemwide initiative to deliver the right care in the right place at the right time. Successful implementation requires seven steps focused on improving patient flow while delivering high-quality care and ensuring patient safety. The goals of the initative are to remove system barriers and improve efficiency by leveraging electronic health record tools to create consistent workflows both at the institution level and across a 1,300-bed enterprise. This framework is successful and generalizable.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Reducing patient health inequities is a priority for all hospitals. The goal at UCHealth is to provide care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, geographic location, or socioeconomic status. Data collection and analysis is the basis of all clinical effectiveness, patient safety and performance improvement efforts and is a crucial part of the health equity journey.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Located in a coastal community, Milford Hospital was failing financially and losing the confidence of its community, staff, and providers. Bridgeport Hospital, an affiliate of Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) located 8.5 miles away from Milford, was consistently challenged by capacity limitations. In 2019, YNHHS acquired Milford Hospital, which was under threat of closure, and made it a second campus of Bridgeport Hospital.