Catalog Number : ncd1002
Title : Patient Safety in Your Hospital - Part 2
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 11-14-2006
Webplay Price : $ 225 for two weeks viewing

Teleconference/Webinar Presenter: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, Esq., AD, BA, BSN, MSN, JD

Teleconference/Webinar Title: Patient Safety in Your Hospital - Part 2

Teleconference/Webinar Level: Basic

Teleconference/Webinar Purpose: There is a growing emphasis and a plethora of recent research regarding patient safety. Patient safety is a focus of regulatory and accreditation agencies such as the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These standards will be discussed along with recommendations from a number of patient safety organizations. Come and find out what are the current hot topics in patient safety. All attendees will get a CD full of resources and both a hard copy and electronic copy of the slides. The program will provide your patient safety committee with multiple ideas on how to improve patient safety in your facility.

Teleconference/Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss recommendations to reduce medication errors and why a non-punitive environment is important.
• Explain how the SBAR technique can be used as a process to improve communication among healthcare providers.

Teleconference/Webinar Outline:

• Medication Error Reduction - Sue Dill
  • Definition
  • Non-punitive environment
  • Causes
  • Bar coding
  • CPOE
  • IOM Medication Error Report
  • Diprivan sedation
  • Fentanyl patches
  • Tips to reduce errors
• SBAR - Sue Dill
  • History
  • SBAR as communication technique
  • What does SBAR stand for?
  • SBAR for handoffs,
  • Use with Rapid Response Teams
  • Improved patient survival rates
  • Recommendations
  • Case studies
• Questions & Answers

Prerequisities: None

Target Audience: Patient Safety Team Members, Patient Safety Officer, Quality Management Coordinator, The Joint Commission Coordinator , Nurse Educator, Chief Nursing Officer, Nurse Managers, Risk Manager, Hospital Legal Counsel, Physicians, VP of Medical Staff Consumer Advocate, Nurse Managers, Nurse Supervisors, Clinic Managers, Nurses, CEO, Compliance Officer and anyone else involved in improving patient safety in healthcare facilities.

Nursing Contact Hours: This course has been approved for 2.4 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.

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.