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Catalog Number : ngp1828
Title : Patient Safety Issues in the ED Crowding and Boarding: Causes and Solutions
Speaker : Jesse Pines

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 2-21-2013
Webplay Price : $ 250 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Description:

Patient Safety Issues in the ED Crowding and Boarding: Causes and Solutions This webinar will explore the phenomena of Emergency Department Crowding and Boarding. It will discuss the relationship of Crowding to Boarding and will cover both quality of care and patient safety outcomes. It will also discuss real world solutions and how hospitals can implement interventions to alleviate crowding and make their EDs safer in the process. Emergency Department Crowding has been identified as a major public health problem by the Institute of Medicine. Several validated measures of Emergency Department Crowding are currently approved by the National Quality Forum and may play a role in future government pay-for-performance programs.

Target Audience:

  • ED Physicians, ED Nurses, Hospital Administrators, Researchers interested in ED Care and Quality, Policy Makers
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Webinar Objectives:

  • Recognize the current literature related to ED crowding / boarding and patient safety
  • Discuss real solutions to reduce crowding and improve safety

Contact Hours:

  • Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 1.8 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
  • All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 1.5 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.

Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

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.