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Catalog Number : emp1783
Title : Bommer Risk: Patient Safety Solutions for the ED Geriatric Patient
Speaker : Graham Billingham

Duration : 75 minutes

Webplay Recording Date :
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Description:

Ready or not, here they come! There are currently 75 million people who are in the boomer generation. There are currently 17 million Emergency Department (ED) visits a year. Fifty-eight percent of people over 75 visited the ED. One out of every five patients visiting the ED will be 65 years or older by 2030.

Seniors are a population at highest risk of medical errors in the ED. Patients over 65 routinely have more medical problems, medications and subsequently see more health care professionals. Seniors are at risk due to diminishing memory, poor vision and hearing and complex support networks. How do we keep them safe?

This webinar will discuss high risk clinical conditions that place geriatric patients at risk. The changing demographics, workforce challenges and healthcare reforms will be explained as they impact the risk issues for the geriatric patient. The speaker will discuss lessons learned, resources and what the future will look like.

Target Audience:

  • ED nurses and physicians
  • Patient safety officer
  • Chief operating officer
  • PI director
  • ED staff
  • Nurse educator
  • In-house legal counsel
  • Anyone involved in risking risk to elderly patients who are treated in the emergency department

Webinar Objectives:

  • Define the top three risks in caring for the geriatric patient in the ED and the risk mitigation strategies
  • Describe effective solutions to decrease risk and improve patient safety
  • Explain how to modify the care delivery methods and operational work plans for the ED to prepare for the large influx of elderly patients
  • Recognize the unique issues specific to the geriatric patient that places this population at greater risk in the ED for a serious safety event

 Topics:

  • Introduction
  • Current political environment
  • Statistics; Ready or not here they come
  • Geriatric EM milestones
  • Why at increased risk?
  • Less signs and symptoms
  • Changes in physiology
  • What is the impact on the ED?
  • High risk clinical
    • Communication, medications, end of life care
  • The ED environment
    • Temperature control, noise, fall hazards, disorienting environment, narrow thin mattresses etc.
  • Communication barriers
  • Polypharmacy in the elderly
  • High risk medications
  • ED Operations
    • Longer lengths of stay, more consults, more diagnostics, the discharge process
  • End of life issues
  • Case scenarios
  • Risk tools to identify patients at risk
  • Detecting delirium in the ED
  • Red flags
  • Confusion assessment method
  • Lessons learned
  • Call backs
  • System design
  • Discharge coordination
  • Education, training and telemedicine

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Refund Policy:

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.