AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Quality Improvement Report
presented on July 23, 2008
Catheter-associated infections: $40,347 per case to treat
Pressure ulcers: $40,381 per case to treat
Patient falls: $24,962 per case to treat
Protecting your patients from these conditions: invaluable
Beginning October 1, 2008, CMS will no longer pay for eight hospital acquired conditions
Unless they are documented as present on admission (POA). Our expert speakers explain what the conditions are and how to prevent them.
Is your staff prepared to screen for and protect your patients from these conditions?
Get all the information you need to be sure your entire facility is prepared by attending this 90-minute audioconference. This program features helpful tips and tools to ensure your facility is up to speed and successfully preventing hospital-acquired conditions.
At the end of this audioconference, you will be able to:
1. Identify the eight hospital-acquired conditions that Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals for.
2. Train staff how to prevent:
•Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
•Pressure ulcers
•Patient falls and falls with injury
AGENDA
I. The eight hospital-acquired conditions CMS will no longer pay for beginning October 1, 2008
II. Pressure ulcers
A. Staging
B. Assessment on admission
C. Interventions to pressure skin ulcers including daily assessments for high-risk patients, frequent turning, purchasing pressure-relief devices
D. Documentation and how to get doctors on board
III. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
A. Assessment on admission
B. Determining whether a patient definitely needs a catheter
C. Bundle prevention -- daily assessment whether patient needs a catheter and removal if no longer required.
D. Antiseptic techniques to insert the catheter
IV. Patient Falls
A. Assessment on admission
B. Strategies and protocols to prevent falls and injuries from falls
V. Q&A
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Jan Fitzgerald MS, RN,CHPQ Director Quality and Medical Management Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts. She has a Master of Science Degree in acute/critical care nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Worcester MA. Her clinical experience includes work in critical care, emergency medicine, general surgery orthopedics. Jan is responsible for program development, development, implementation and monitoring of clinical guidelines, and protocols, outcomes measurement across the medical center. She oversees clinical performance improvement and measurement, quality regulatory reporting and functions as the site coordinator for several national and state performance improvement collaborative's.
Stephanie Jackson, MSN, APRN, CS at Sentara Health. Stephanie Jackson is the manager of the Education Department, Diabetes Program, and Enterostomal Therapy Program at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. Stephanie received her Bachelor of Science of Nursing degree in 1992 and her Master of Science in Nursing degree in 1998, both from the University of Virginia. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral nursing program also at the University of Virginia located in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of her research interests is fall prevention. Along with her mentor, Suzanne Rita, she received the Best Practice Award for Fall Prevention at the 8th National Evidence Based Fall Prevention Conference in 2007. Stephanie and Suzanne are also 2006 recipients of a Robert Wood Johnson grant to study new and innovative approaches to the identification of patients at high risk to harm from falling.
Salah S. Qutaishat, Ph.D. CIC. FSHEA, is the director of Infection Prevention and Control with Premier Inc, Informatics Division located in Charlotte North Carolina. Qutaishat received a Ph.D. in Microbiology Department school of Medicine from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Qutaishat also has a M.S. in Medical Biology from C.W. Post College, Long Island University, and a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Science, University of Jordan. Qutaishat’s prior experiences include being the clinical epidemiologist and director of Infection Control Department at Columbia St. Mary’s in Wisconsin, as well as the senior infection control epidemiologist at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield Wisconsin.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Quality and performance improvement professionals, nurse managers and administrators, infection control professionals, staff development educators, patient safety officers, risk managers
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
Save money when you purchase multiple copies! Ask your customer service representative about money-saving
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