Ensuring the Right Solutions for the Trickiest Problems - Cohort 2
We offer 10 interactive sessions for high reliability, which help participants identify essential leadership skills, activities, and behaviors required to bring about cultural, knowledge, learning system, and leadership changes using the Framework for High Reliability Healthcare.
Each session provides baseline high reliability knowledge, recommended tools and interventions to improve teamwork, work setting environment, knowledge creation using data and transparency, building capacity and capability for improvement, supported by effective high reliability leadership skills, activities, and behaviors.
Each session begins with shared reflection on the previous session and ends with homework to test tools and interventions with the expectation to report testing experience back in the following session.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses and nurses' aides, social workers, physical therapists, and all other healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Recognize the differences between acting and improving when solving problems.
- Explore ways to find energy, generate good ideas and make improvements that last.
Faculty
Jean-Ann Wurtz, MSPSL
Consulting Director
Vizient, Inc.
Stacy Flemming, MHA
Event Manager
Vizient, Inc.
Kathleen Vega, BA
High Reliability Communications Consultant
Vizient, Inc.
Planning committee
Jean-Ann Wurtz, MSPSL
Consulting Director
Vizient, Inc.
Stacy Flemming, MHA
Event Manager
Vizient, Inc.
Maureen Frye, MSN, ANP-BC
Associate Principal
Vizient, Inc.
Samantha Gordon, MS
CE Programs Manager
Vizient, Inc.
Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP
Director, Continuing Education
Vizient, Inc.
Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
Disclosure of Financial Relationships:
Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships
Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
No one in a position to control the content of this educational activity have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Statement of content validity
Vizient, Inc. educational activities are intended to assist healthcare teams advance their professional responsibilities in accordance with the definition of continuing education. It is the policy of Vizient, Inc. to review and ensure that all content and recommendations for patient care within accredited CE is evidenced-based, based on current science and clinical reasoning while ensuring the content is fair and balanced. All recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Vizient, Inc. does not permit accredited continuing education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
FDA off-label/unapproved usage
Faculty/Presenters are required to identify any new and evolving topics for which there is a lower/absence of evidence base. This is to ensure that our content does not advocate for, or promote, practices that are not, or not yet adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning. Faculty/Presenters are required to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label/unapproved or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices and/or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.
Disclaimer: The education provided through this activity is for continuing education purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty/presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vizient, Inc.
Acknowledgement of Funding Support
This activity was funded in part by University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Joint Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Designation Statement:
NURSING
This activity is designated for 1.0 contact hours.
OTHER
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation. Various state license boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re- certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCC
- 1.00 General CE - Attendance
If the "Register/Take Course" tab is displayed instead of the "Obtain Credit" tab, you must first login to proceed with the credit claim process.
Select the “Obtain Credit” button to access the activity evaluation and to claim CE Credit.
Required Hardware/software
The Vizient CE Learner Portal is compatible with most modern web browsers (such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari) and can also be accessed with mobile devices.