2024 Reflection - W02 - Nursing Executives

Las Vegas, NV US
September 18, 2024
Collaborate with nurse executives from across the country to explore how healthcare organizations can enhance the patient experience by optimizing care delivery processes and incorporating human-centered design principles, with a focus on empowering nurses.

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Executives
  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

 
By participating in the Vizient Connections Summit, learners should be able to:
  • Discuss leading practices for measuring, improving and sustaining high quality healthcare-related practices.
  • Explain how healthcare analytics and/or insights can be used to improve healthcare performance.
  • Describe at least one actionable strategy for your organization to achieve healthcare performance improvement.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.75 ACHE
  • 3.75 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.75 ANCC
  • 3.75 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 3.75 General CE - Attendance
  • 3.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
Course opens: 
09/18/2024
Course expires: 
12/09/2024
Event starts: 
09/18/2024 - 8:00am CDT
Event ends: 
09/18/2024 - 12:00pm CDT
Wynn Las Vegas
3131 Las Vegas Blvd S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
United States
+1 (702) 770-7000

FACULTY & PLANNERS

Faculty
Peggy Duggan, MD
Executive Vice President, Chief Physician Executive and Chief Medical Officer
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Fla.
 
Matthew McCambridge, MD, MHQS, CPHQ, CPPS
Senior Vice President, Chief Quality, Patient Safety and Acute Care Continuum Officer
Legacy Lehigh Valley Health Network
Chief Medical Officer, Acute Care Quality
Jefferson Health
Allentown, Pa.
 
Dale Beatty, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Caritas Coach, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care
Stanford Health Care
Stanford, Calif.
 
Jackie Anhalt, MSN, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer
ThedaCare
Co-Chair, Vizient CNE Network Advisory Committee
 
Sara Dvorak, MSN, RN, BSN,
Director of Nursing Services, Hospital Operations
Altru Health System
Grand Forks, ND
 
Cory Geffre, MSMSL, RN, BSN,
Executive Vice President of Hospital Operations and Chief Nursing Officer
Altru Health System
Grand Forks, ND
 
Lisa Johnson, DNP, MSN, RN
Director of Emergency and Specialty Services, Hospital Operations
Altru Health System
Grand Forks, ND
 
Jackie Anhalt, MSN, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer
ThedaCare
Co-Chair, Vizient CNE Network Advisory Committee
 
Jason Atkins, MBI, RN-BC
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Ga.
 
Monique Bouvier, PhD, ARNP
Nurse Scientist
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Ga.
 
Erica Davis, BSN, RN-BC
Unit Nurse Educator
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Ga.
 
Julie Swann, MBA, RN
Chief Nursing Officer
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Ga.
 
Chante White, MSN, RN
Specialty Director
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Ga.
 
Linnea Tolbert, MSN, RN
Senior Member Network Director
Vizient
 
Planning Committee
Juli Hermanson, MPH, RDN, CPHQ (Course Director)
Senior Director 
Member Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Kathy Christensen, BS 
VP, Operations 
Member Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Katie David, DNP, MS-HSM 
Senior Intelligence Director 
Member Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Cheryl Jachna, BS 
Lead Education Programs Manager 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP 
Director 
Continuing Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
David Levine, MD 
Chief Medical Officer 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Lisa McClain, BS 
Networks Manager 
Member Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Mike Oinonen, PharmD, MPH 
Vice President 
Pharmacy Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 

 

DISCLOSURE

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.
 
Ineligible companies those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
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.
 
Disclosure Statements
 
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.

 

Jason Atkins, MBI, RN-BC, speaker for this educational activity, is an advisory board member for GE.

 

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.

 
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 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.
 
 
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.

 

Joint 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.

 

Designation Statement(s)
 

Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)

This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive 3.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

 

 
Nurses (CNE)
 
This activity is designated for 3.75 contacts hours.
 
Pharmacists (CPE)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.75 contact hours for Pharmacists.
 
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Physicians (CME)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.75 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 (General CE Credit)
 
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation.  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.
 
Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
 
By attending the Connections Summit offered by Vizient, Inc., participants may earn up to 3.75 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. 
 
Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for ACHE Qualifying Education hours should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification. Participants are responsible for maintaining a record of their ACHE Qualifying Education hours. To self-report, participants should log into their MyACHE account and select ACHE Qualifying Education Credit.
 

Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)

This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 3.75 CPHQ CE credits.

 

Available Credit

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