Focusing on new, collaborative approaches for practice innovations and other far-ranging subjects. The webinars are often based on requested topics from past participants and are intended for practitioners interested in new ways to enhance practice improvement outcomes. Each webinar provides 1.0 contact hour.*
Featuring: Rebecca Trotta, PhD, RN
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
This webinar will allow participants to understand how Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) approached this initiative and the lessons learned in implementing it. This webinar will detail the rationale for establishing a baseline, the process undertaken, the challenges encountered, the lessons learned, as well as next steps and recommendations for colleagues in similar clinical settings.
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Non-NICHE Site: $99
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Featuring: J. Michelle Moccia MSN, ANP-BC, CCRN and Kathleen Dattolo, LMSW
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
This webinar will enable the learner to obtain information on how to formulate a work group of nursing facilities (independent, assisted, skilled), EMS, home healthcare agencies, non-licensed medical providers, and RNs to partner and address deficiencies in process of care. Tools will be shared along with outcome metrics.
Cost:
NICHE Site: Free
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Non-NICHE Site: $99
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Featuring: Bette K. Idemoto, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Delirium is a complex syndrome associated with significant morbidity/mortality, adverse patient outcomes and increased cost of care. University Hospitals Case Medical Center conducted a pilot study to evaluate an innovative CNS multi-phased educational program that included didactic teaching, bedside mentoring, and consultation. General medical and ICU RNs were surveyed to assess their competency in detecting and managing delirium. Planned education and consultations on patients were provided as part of interdisciplinary rounds. The study revealed that traditional didactic education was insufficient in improving detection and that enhanced CNS telephone consultation to bedside nurses in the midst of delirium patient crises can provide needed support and timely cost-effective targeted interventions. Join us to learn more about this important study and its result.
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NICHE Site: Free
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Featuring: Denise Schwartz, BSN, RN-BC
Bayshore Community Hospital, Meridian Health
Allowing patients to preserve their independence through promoting their baseline function, and avoiding the possibility of sub-acute rehabilitation should be the focus of nursing care. Research shows that 74.3% of patients develop functional decline while hospitalized and 32% of discharged patients develop functional decline six months post-hospitalization. Nurses need a tool to measure a patient’s baseline functional status and track it from initial admission, and from shift-to-shift to monitor/prevent functional decline. The KATZ INDEX is that tool. Bayshore Community Hospital incorporated the Katz Index into their charting system to assess patients’ functional status. Learn how the KATZ INDEX was implemented and the results in this important presentation.
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NICHE Site: Free
Non-NICHE Site: $99
Featuring: Lynn McNicoll, MD
Rhode Island Hospital, Lifespan
Hip fractures are becoming increasingly common and traumatic events in the older adult population. Orthopedic and geriatrics comanagement programs reduce variability and improve care quality in mortality, length of stay (LOS) and other critical outcomes. The Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) Orthopedics and Geriatrics programs formed an interdisciplinary team to plan and implement the RIH Geriatric Fracture Program (GFP) starting in 2011. Three process improvements accelerated the program’s progress toward measurable success: streamlined admittance of GFP patients from the ED to facilitate early operative intervention; development of ED admission, pre-operative and post-operative order sets to address delirium reduction and expedite pain management; and collaborative orthopedic and geriatric post-operative care co-management. Sit in on this new webinar to discover how these protocols improved the quality of care, outcomes and patient satisfaction.
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NICHE Site: Free
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Featuring: Sue Durkin, MSN, CCRN, CCNS
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
While the aspect of "comfort" is a high priority among healthcare providers, the perception by patients can sometimes be the opposite. Comfort is associated with contentment and synonymous with relief, calmness, well-being and being consoled. Often, when basic needs are met, contentment and satisfaction occur and contribute to decreased agitation, an improved mood and increased comfort. To help counter lower satisfaction scores among the older adult patient population, Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital used a simple intervention of care: providing a fleece "Comfort Shawl" for warmth. This intervention was intended to address comfort needs, prevent adverse safety events and improve patient satisfaction. A pilot was launched in 2011 to gauge the effectiveness of this intervention. Learn the details and results of this simple yet innovative program in this upcoming webinar.
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NICHE Site: Free
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Featuring: Carrie Hays McElroy, RN-BC, MSN-HCA, ACM
St. Mary Mercy Livonia
A quarter of older adult patients in the U.S. have a diagnosis of dementia, however hospital staff have limited training or experience in understanding demonstrated behaviors and how to manage them. St. Mary Mercy Livonia initiated a program to provide all new staff with an orientation that improves their understanding of the challenges that older adult patients with dementia and their family members face. The central component of the program was the "Virtual Dementia Experience." The "experience" was designed to simulate the challenges of dealing with dementia in everyday situations. Find out more about how this program gave participants a "real" understanding of the problems dementia patients face.
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NICHE Site: Free
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Featuring: Patti Pagel, MSN, RN, GCNS-BC
Aurora Health Care
One-fourth of Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the hospital to home may be readmitted to the hospital, costing $4.34B. Re-admissions lead to patient dissatisfaction and medical errors, and can result in financial penalties for hospitals. To counter high rates of re-admissions from skilled nursing facilities, an Aurora Health Care team launched a pilot program targeting avoidable hospital re-admissions of older adult patients. The pilot involved placing advance practice nurses employed by Aurora in partner skilled nursing facilities to assist in managing complex older adult patients. Join us for this webinar to learn how this pilot program used the APN model to successfully reduce re-admissions to the hospital.
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NICHE Site: Free
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Featuring: Sandra Karam, MS, RN, GCNS-BC and Allison Dery, PharmD
Sentara CarePlex Hospital
Polypharmacy and physiologic changes occurring with age predispose older adults to harm from medication use. Sentara launched a program to improve medication safety and appropriateness in older hospitalized patients using the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) approach. Patients admitted to the ACE unit were evaluated for medication reconciliation, functional status prior to admission, inpatient medication review using the Beers and STOPP/START criteria, and identification of potential ADEs. The ACE approach to medication management for older adults patients led to identification and reduction of inappropriate medication use, improving medication safety and appropriateness. Learn how the ACE approach could help your hospital by attending this important webinar.
Cost:
NICHE Site: Free
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These archives are recordings of our previous live webinar presentations and are intended for practitioners interested in new ways to enhance practice improvement outcomes.
* The NYU College of Nursing Center for Continuing Education in Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
