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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
In 2020, Memorial Hermann (MH) Katy and MH Cypress began an initiative to address patients admitted for sickle cell pain crisis due to disease process and pain management challenges. They adapted best practices developed at MH Texas Medical Center: no intravenous (IV) diphenhydramine or promethazine, use of patient-controlled analgesia instead of IV narcotics, and shorter time to medication, both in the emergency department and inpatient units. It became evident that the challenges of implementing these best practices were common among MH community hospitals.
- 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
Delirium affects a large percentage of hospitalized patients and leads to higher length of stay (LOS), direct costs and mortality, as well as poor patient outcomes. Our organization implemented a set of national guidelines for the treatment and prevention of delirium. Previously, uptake and compliance was suboptimal, without any improvement in metrics. A quality improvement project was initiated to introduce an advanced practice nurse (APRN) consultation for hospitalized patients with delirium.
- 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
According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, at least 300,000 hip fractures occur in the United States annually. The majority are in patients over 65 years of age.1 Developing delirium after hip fracture has shown to lead to poorer outcomes and increased mortality risk in elderly patients. It is not always feasible for a hospital to have a pain block team or have anesthesia on call 24/7 to provide pain blocks in the emergency department (ED).
- 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 caused a surge in demand for blood transfusions, which led to increased hospitalizations and more critically ill patients. At the same time, the Red Cross reported a 25% decrease in the number of blood donors compared to the prepandemic level. These factors emphasized the importance of optimizing blood utilization practices to reduce waste and improve patient outcomes. Loyola University Medical Center developed an analytics dashboard that uses the electronic medical record and data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base to analyze blood utilization practices.
- 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 exacerbated existing preventable health disparities and highlighted the urgent need to eliminate them. Addressing disparities requires a multifaceted, data-driven approach that takes demographics into account. This project used the electronic health record (EHR) and data visualization tools to identify existing health disparities among demographic groups at Loyola Medicine and measure results of the hospital-level initiatives developed based on those findings. Our project led to several major organizationwide improvement initiatives.
- 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
Preventative care leads to healthier individuals and a longer life expectancy. National guidelines provide benchmarks that allow identification of gaps in preventative care. To close these gaps in primary care at UC Davis, quality improvement medical assistants (qiMAs) used patient registries to identify patients with such gaps.
- 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
Learn how the implementation of a nonclinical role can optimize health and satisfaction for a rising-risk patient population by identifying and closing gaps in care rather than focusing on specific chronic conditions. The health guide service is a proactive strategy to provide high-touch, high-frequency support that increases trust and improves the well-being of patients by removing barriers and streamlining care, while reducing acute utilization and improving clinical 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
After years of progress on our zero harm and high-reliability journey, ECU Health experienced a backslide during the COVID-19 pandemic. A decline in patient safety event reporting and safety culture perceptions along with worsening quality performance prompted a call to action. Invigorating our safety culture became an urgent, systemwide focus with strategic tactics developed and implemented in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
- 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
With an information technology budget of $3,400, we implemented a cost-effective, efficient imaging safety net that protects patients, providers and the health system by ensuring completion of follow-up on incidental findings from more than 700,000 nonmammographic imaging studies annually. Our detailed analysis demonstrates the importance of extending coverage beyond emergency department imaging. The program is self-sustaining, as the necessary medical care prompted by our imaging safety net easily covers the cost of the program.
- 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
Healthcare workers want to tell you how to provide safer care. Intentional leader rounding was utilized to build relationships with interdisciplinary healthcare workers to promote a culture of physical and psychological safety for patients and the workforce. A process was created to prioritize, escalate and resolve worker-reported concerns with loop closure to individuals. Nearly half of the employee-reported concerns involved themes of patient safety.