2023 Together - PH361 - Streamlining First-Case On-Time Starts in the Operating Room - On Demand

Capacity constraints across the continuum of care continue to challenge healthcare organizations. This panel discussion will explore streamlining patient flow by focusing on operating room efficiencies. Two organizations will discuss efforts to address first-case, on-time starts by deploying multiple improvement strategies while also addressing culture and the impact of those efforts on broader operations and patient throughput.  

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the importance of data analytics in identifying focus areas for process improvement and garnering buy-in from stakeholders. 

  • Define key drivers for cultivating teamwork and communication to positively affect culture change. 

  • Identify root causes of late first-case starts in the operating room. 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.75 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.75 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.75 ANCC
  • 0.75 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.75 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
Course opens: 
09/07/2023
Course expires: 
09/22/2024
On Demand
United States

Faculty

Chelcee Howard, MSHSA, Director, Operational Excellence, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, Calif.  

Ihab Dorotta, MD, Chief of Quality and Clinical Operations, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, Calif. 

Kenneth Mitchell, MBA, Director, Healthcare Operations Research, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, Calif. 

Andrew M. Harris, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, Ky.  

Julia L. Hay, PharmD, MBA, Clinical Facilitator, Office of Performance Services, University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, Ky.  

Sindhuja Hariharan, BE, Data Research Analyst, Office of Performance Services, University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, Ky. 

 

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:

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.

Andrew Harris, MD, speaker for this educational activity, is a Consultant for Beckton Dickenson.

All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.

All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

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.

Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
FDA Off-Label Use
 
Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.
 

 

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.
 
 

Credit Types

Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)

This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive 0.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

 

Nurses (CNE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 ANCC contacts hours.

Pharmacists (CPE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 contact hours for Pharmacists. 

Universal Activity Number:JA0006103-0000-23-202-H04-P

Pharmacy Technicians (CPE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 contact hours for pharmacy technicians. 

Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-202-H04-T

Physicians (CME)

Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)

This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 0.75 CPHQ CE credits.

Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)

Vizient, Inc. will award a maximum of 0.75 contact hours to all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity. These individuals will receive a Certificate of Participation indicating the maximum credits available.

Many state licensing 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

  • 0.75 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.75 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.75 ANCC
  • 0.75 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.75 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
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