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Category
Credits
Event date
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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
Now that more patients are surviving critical illness than ever, the detrimental effects of an intensive care unit (ICU) admission are becoming increasingly evident. In March 2021, a post-ICU follow-up clinic was initiated within a large, specialized, complex care hospital with 120 critical care beds.
  • 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
Using the Vizient mortality risk model and a rapid-cycle learning approach, a multidisciplinary team designed a novel mortality review tracker tool and review process that meaningfully reduced the mortality observed-to-expected (O:E) index at an academic medical center over a six-month time frame.  
  • 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
Nebraska Medicine identified an opportunity to use an interdisciplinary approach to address a gap in cachexia documentation upon admission in the adult inpatient setting at both the academic medical center and community hospitals. This novel approach incorporated cachexia documentation into the malnutrition assessment workflow and was designed collaboratively by the clinical quality, nutrition therapy, coding and analytics departments. Data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base was used to analyze documentation opportunities within various demographics and patient populations.
  • 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
Readmissions within 30 days of discharge for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were identified as a potential area for program improvement. To address this problem, the PIH Health Whittier Hospital Respiratory Department developed and implemented a pulmonary disease navigator (PDN) program that focused on patient assessment and education and multidisciplinary collaboration to reduce 30-day readmissions and length of stay.
  • 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
Nursing documentation, the often-daunting task of recording the care that was planned and delivered to a patient during a shift, is necessary because "if it's not charted, it's not done." Completing such documentation for six patients over a 12-hour shift, however, can be overwhelming. For years, data elements have been added to nursing documentation, but there has been no thorough review to determine if some requirements could be eliminated. Incremental data additions have resulted in lengthy, repetitive, unnecessary documentation.
  • 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
Ochsner Health was able to dramatically reduce the number of clinical queries and denials for inappropriate documentation while increasing standardization of care by using structured smart text in combination with problem-oriented charting for particular conditions. We outline the process used to build the phrases with coding, compliance and quality leaders and describe implementation of the automations across our system of 42 hospitals to demonstrate how others could undertake similar initiatives in their organizations.  
  • 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
“If it wasn’t documented it wasn’t done.” In the current context of nursing shortages and burnout, it has never been more important to improve documentation efficiency and eliminate work that does not add value. The purpose of this project was to reduce documentation elements and increase efficiency. Reducing the documentation burden gives nurses more time to interact with patients as well as more time for self-care, which reduces burnout and improves job satisfaction.
  • 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
More than four out of 10 adults over 60 will undergo intraabdominal surgery during their lifetime; of these, 30% are expected to experience complications, including postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). These include pneumonia, unplanned intubations and need for a ventilator > 48 hours postoperatively).1,2 Cancer patients undergoing complex surgeries are likely to be frail, sarcopenic and malnourished, and therefore have a high rate of PPCs.
  • 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 purpose of this project was to address verbal violence (VV) over the telephone, a form of workplace violence that ambulatory staff encounters. A lack of healthcare-specific tools for managing VV calls necessitated development of deescalation scripting, decision support for terminating egregiously violent calls, and enhanced event documentation, as well as their integration into organizational processes.
  • 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
Mechanical restraint events for youth in inpatient behavioral health are traumatizing and damaging to the therapeutic relationship. Using identifiers of high risk for violence in patients, an aggression screening tool bundled with a collaboratively created safety plan, can reduce the use of mechanical restraints and provide a safer therapeutic approach to care. 

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