2023 Vizient PSO Topical Safety Webinar Series: Creating an empathetic and safe care environment

October 24, 2023

At the heart of healthcare are humans, patients, and workers, who deserve compassion, understanding, respect, and a safe environment in which to work and receive care. This webinar will explore transformative strategies for creating a safe, empathetic, and supportive care environment. Hear about raising public awareness around the scope and impact of workplace violence in healthcare, leveraging patients as partners in creating a safe care environment, and the positive impact that humanizing the healthcare experience through trauma-informed care has on empathy and safety.

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

1.    Describe how organizations can partner with patients and caregivers to create a safe work environment. 
2.    Describe how trauma informed care supports empathy and safety.
 

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 CBRN
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
10/24/2023
Course expires: 
12/08/2023
Event starts: 
10/24/2023 - 1:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
10/24/2023 - 2:00pm CDT
Live Activity
United States
Planning Committee 
Ellen Flynn, RN, MBA, JD, CPPS (Course Director)    
Principal, Vizient Inc.
 
Tammy Williams, MSN, RN, CPPS
Program Director, Vizient Inc.
 
Kathryn Merkeley   MHSA, RN, PMP, CPPS
Program Director, Vizient Inc.
 
Christina Driskill, MPH, RN, CPHQ
Program Director, Vizient Inc.
 
Jay Prystowski, MD, MBA
Principal, Vizient Inc.
 
James Lichauer, Pharm.D., BCPS, FASHP
PI Program Director, Vizient Inc.

 

Faculty

Susie Bourgeois
Interim Director, Public Safety & Security
Intermountain Healthcare, Peaks Region

Jennifer Luer, MSN, RN, CPPS, CPHQ
System Director, Employee Safety
SSM Health

Matthew Doll, PhD
Director, Care for the Caregivers Program 
SSM Health

 

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.

Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships

  • 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.

 

 

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 Designation Statement(s)
 
Nurses
This activity is designated for 1.00 contact hours.
Vizient, Inc. is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP12580, for 1.50 contact hours.
 
Pharmacists
Vizient, Inc. designates this activity for a maximum of for 1.00 contact hour(s) for all pharmacists.
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-341-L05-P
 
Physicians
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation indicating the maximum credits available.
 
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 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 CBRN
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
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