How to Create a World-Class Financial Service Center
Sharlene Seidman, MBA
0.75 Hours
The shift to consumerism has caused patients to become more engaged in their own care, and because they are now also purchasers, they view the financial interaction as a critical element of their experience. One negative financial encounter could overshadow an otherwise positive patient experience and adversely affect the percei....
How Data Analytics Reduces Nurse Leakage, Improves Care
Michael J. Gillen, MHA, FACHE and Stacey Blankenship, RN, MSN, CENP
1.00 Hours
As hospitals continue to face shrinking margins, they must find ways to either increase revenue or decrease losses. Since labor is the largest single cost in almost any hospital’s budget, reducing needless expenses in this area can help shore up the bottom line without affecting the quality of care – or hurting staff morale. Thi....
Embracing Longitudinal Person-Centered Care Plans
Terry O'Malley, MD and Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS
1.00 Hours
As the delivery of care and services for individuals becomes increasingly mobile and shifts from institutional to community-based care settings, new payment models and data infrastructures are needed to facilitate coordination, collaboration and continuity of care across all stakeholder groups. This session will introduce the co....
Fall Prevention and Fire Departments
Andrew J. Muth, MD
0.50 Hours
The Phoenix VA had already partnered with local fire departments to identify chronically ill Veterans needing interim care. Using the existing infrastructure, this project applies additional intelligence to target patients at risk for fall and mitigate this risk through telehealth intervention. The revamped dashboard utilizes an....
From Big Data to Big Knowledge: Optimizing Medication Management
David Webster, RPh, MSBA and Maria Schutt, EdD
0.75 Hours
Managing medication inventory across complex hospital operations requires medications to be available when and where needed. Pressures on medication budgets demand new strategies to ensure medication availability at the lowest cost. Learn how one health system leveraged national benchmarking to identify opportunities for workflo....
IoT and Wayfinding: Optimizing Healthcare
Cletis Earle and David Frumkin
1.00 Hours
In the quest to improve patient experience, deliver better outcomes, and lower costs, providers are getting creative with connectivity. Increasingly, this means turning to Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to produce, capture and share data needed to make smarter clinical and business decisions. IoT remains daunting for many....
Holistic Counseling Seminar 4: Theories and Techniques of Holistic Counseling
Jim Morningstar PhD
1.50 Hours
A history and overview of the development of holistic counseling is presented. Individual theories and the practices associated with them are presented. These include the Family Systems Theory of Murray Bowen, MD, Gestalt Therapy of Fritz Perls, MD, Bioenegetics of Alexander Lowen, MD, Primal Therapy of Arthur Janov, PhD, and Th....
Group Facilitator Training Course
Jim Morningstar, Ph.D.
9.00 Hours
Learning how to facilitate group energy to bring out the best in each participant, create a spiritual focus and accomplish group goals is the focus for this class. Students will study group process from a variety of theorists including making contracts and effective contact, boundary setting, handling challenges and coming to co....
Food Safety
EYPServices
Failure to comply with good hygiene and safe food handling practices can lead to food poisoning, loss of reputation and heavy financial and in some cases criminal penalties. It is a legal requirement that those handling food have the appropriate training and knowledge to complete their work safely. It is best practice that al....
Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence: Florida Mandatory Training
Jean Clarke-Mitchell, MSW, LICSW, Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC
3.00 Hours
Roseanne is rushing to get ready for work. She finishes helping 3 year old Matthew get dressed and gives him some breakfast. She grabs the baby from her crib and a shooting pain stabs her in the right shoulder. With the pain comes the memory of last night. Roseanne's husband Jack got home late last night-he had been drinking and....
Human factors and analysis of adverse events
Ivan Walton
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the importance of reporting a clinical incident. You will learn what to do if you are involved in a clinical incident and how these reports are used.
Hospital Based Services for Young People
Christine Powell
0.50 Hours
This session explores the needs of young people accessing hospital services. It examines young people friendly services and the advantages and disadvantages of adolescent inpatient wards.
How Environment Affects Children's Mental Health
Barbara Maughan
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the social and environmental factors associated with children and young people´s mental health. It also explores the ways in which they may have an impact, so that potential difficulties and risks can be identified.
Level 2 Part B – Response in Secondary Care
Andrea Goddard Consultant Paediatrician
0.50 Hours
This session uses case studies to help clinical staff who have some degree of contact with children and young people and/or parents/carers to know what are the appropriate responses when they have concerns that a child or young person is being maltreated. It is important to note that the term 'children' means children and young....
Emergency Contraception
Anne Webb
0.50 Hours
This session explores the different methods of emergency contraception, including their indications and use.
Back Pain - Degenerative Conditions
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH), Sacroiliitis and Ankylosing Spondylitis, and Spinal stenosis.
Distal Radius Fractures
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on evaluation of plain distal radius and carpal radiographs, evaluation and treatment options commonly associated with distal radius fractures.
Elbow Examination
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on anatomy review, range-of-motion (ROM), motor and sensory assessments and specific orthopaedic tests for the Elbow joint and related structures.
Knee Injuries – Extra-articular 3
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on general radiographic findings associated with patella fractures, clinical presentation and treatment options for patella fractures.
Hip Examination
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on anatomy review, range-of-motion (ROM), motor and sensory assessments and specific orthopaedic tests for the Hip joint and related structures.
Hip Injuries 2
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.50 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on evaluation and treatment options commonly associated native and prosthetic hip dislocations. Also provides the fundamental skills for the application of a skeletal traction pin.
How Translational Research is shifting the Treatment Paradigm from Symptom Management to Cure
Rosa Bacchetta (MD), Nicholas W. Lukacs (PhD), Natalija Novak (MD), Jennifer M. Puck (MD), and Rudol
2.50 Hours
The major goal of the course is to present translational research to be understood by a broader audience.
Inflammatory Origins of CRS: Uncovering Opportunities for Disease Prevention and Modification
Claus Bachert (MD, PhD), Robert C. Kern (MD), Anju T. Peters (MD), and Martin Wagenmann
2.50 Hours
The goal of this session is to explore the role of Inflammation in Chronic Rhinosinusitis. As we move away from an infectious etiology as the primary trigger for sinus disease and more toward a complex model if multiple inflammatory pathways, we hope to move this topic toward the practicing clinician. The mucosal/bacterial i....
Lessons from Functional Genomics: New Data from the AADCRC
Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey (MD PhD FAAAAI), Benjamin A. Raby (MD MPD), and Marc E. Rothenberg (MD PhD
2.50 Hours
This symposium session will review the most recent data from large population cohorts that inform our therapeutic approach.
Novel Endotypes of Asthma: Lessons from the AADCRC
Dr. Eric B. Brandt (PhD FAAAAI), Dr. Tanya M. Laidlaw (MD FAAAAI), and Dr. Prescott Woodruff (MD MPH
1.25 Hours
This session will review clinically important asthma endotypes and the mechanisms that regulate the clinical expression of disease.