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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
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.
- 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
As the pandemic shifts to an endemic, the utilization of workforce resources has also changed. Support from contingency staff has become essential to manage workforce complexity. We have seen that multiple staffing models are needed to address the current nursing shortage. After enduring a pandemic, employees revealed that they want a safe working environment that offers flexibility and promotes well-being. We heard from leadership that we could not maintain the current escalated agency cost to provide these resources, and the rising costs were unsustainable.
- 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
Discover how a nurse-led, interprofessional team implemented virtual acute care nursing (VACN) practice in a new and innovative care delivery model. This practice innovation uses an audiovisual, bidirectional communication tool (tablet) to connect virtual nurses to patients, families and clinicians with the click of a button. VACN utilization has led to improved patient outcomes and has positively impacted the nursing practice environment.
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 ANCC
- 0.50 General CE – Attendance
- 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Grady Health System, a level-1 trauma center, has used the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ platform since 2017. Historically, Grady onboarded nurse residents in cohorts twice annually to capture spring and fall graduates. To combat the nursing shortages, strengthen the nursing pipeline and decrease dependence on travel nurses, Grady successfully implemented a strategy focused on increasing the number of nurse residency cohorts from two to six annually, resulting in a 118% increase in nurse residents.
- 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
As hospitals navigate decreasing margins and increasing expenses for labor and supplies, it remains vitally important to balance quality and costs. Nash UNC Health found that by engaging physicians to review cost data, compare data with each other and review benchmarks with other system entities, we were able to successfully decrease cost of care. Other benefits of this project include improved physician partner understanding of the cost of orderable services and standardization of care practices, as well as a stronger connection between acuity and cost for key stakeholders.
- 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.