Novel Biologicals for Asthma and Allergic Rhinosinusitis
PRof. Cezmi A. Akdis (MD FAAAAI), Prof. Claus Bachert (MD PhD), and Dr. Sally E. Wenzel (MD FAAAAI)
1.25 Hours
This session will aim to inform about two major therapeutic strategies, namely biologicals and allergen-speciffic immunothrapy for asthma and allergic rhinits and their mechanisms of action. Allergen-specific immunotherapy, aims to induce specific immune tolerance and has a long-term disease-modifying effect. The second approa....
CMS Hospital Infection Control Standards & Antibiotic Stewardship
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
This program will cover the CMS infection control standards and antibiotic stewardship program, TJC’s antibiotic stewardship program requirements, and CDC’s Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship. Our speaker will discuss common deficiencies in infection control and provide tips to ensure compliance. Attendees will l....
ED Hot Legal & Regulatory Issues
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The emergency department (ED) is a high-risk environment for liability. During this session, our expert will discuss legal and risk management issues staff face every day. To help prepare, she will review the CMS CoP and TJC's ED-specific standards. Attendees will learn about medication management and opioid use, anesthesia s....
CMS Utilization Review Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Utilization review (UR) allows hospitals to monitor and protect themselves and their patients against unnecessary readmissions. It is important to be compliant with the UR standards to avoid penalties from the Recovery Audit Contractors and the Office of the Inspector General. During this program, attendees will learn about CoPs....
Measuring Case Management Success: Does Your Department Make the Grade?
Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
When all is said and done, how do you know that you are doing a good job as a case manager? How do you know what your effect is on your patients and on the organization? Our experts will explain the latest ways in which case management departments and staff can ensure that they are achieving the outcomes that they hope to ach....
Measuring Case Management Outcomes Within a Value-Based Reimbursement Environment
Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
How do we know that we are meeting the hospital goals for value-based reimbursement while making a positive impact on patients? Join our speakers as they review the latest outcome measures in the field of case management and provide examples of benchmarks and dashboards with value-based reimbursement metrics case managers can cr....
Early-Detection Pediatric Sepsis Algorithm
Matthew Eisenberg, MD and Kate Madden, MD
1.00 Hours
Sepsis and septic shock remain common causes of morbidity and mortality in children. This session will discuss how they investigated the use of electronic health record data to proactively identify potentially septic children. The approach used to define the early-detection pediatric sepsis (PS) algorithm was to combine the logi....
Closing the Gap: Risk Insights at the Point of Care
Heather Trafton, MBA, PA-C and Catherine Turbett, MHA
1.00 Hours
Steward Health Care Network is an accountable care organization with 3,500 physicians, 18 hospital campuses, and 25 affiliated urgent care provider locations. Headquartered in Boston, Steward is community-based and physician-led with more than 23,000 employees across four states. With their participation in the Next Generation A....
Educating the Next Generation of Physician Informaticians
Bruce Levy, MD, CPE
1.00 Hours
Clinical Informatics is not merely a subspecialty of medicine, but a crucial component of the practice of 21st Century medicine. The roles of the Physician Informatician (PI) and CMIO are rapidly changing. Originally focused on the implementation of health information systems, PIs and CMIOs are focusing more on optimization of e....
Empowering Data-Driven Health
Kevin Ross, PhD
1.00 Hours
While the healthcare sector is being transformed by the ability to record massive amounts of information about patients, the enormous volume of data being collected is impossible for human beings to analyze. Machine learning provides a way to automatically find patterns and reason about data, which in turn enables healthcare pro....
Expanding Access to Advance Care Plans with HIE
Carol Robinson, DNP, MS, BSN, RN, CHPN and Doug Dietzman
1.00 Hours
Advance Care Planning (ACP) has significantly improved multiple health outcomes, particularly for patients with serious illness; including increased compliance with patient wishes, reduced hospitalization at end-of-life, improved quality of life, and lower costs of care. While the number of personal Advance Directives has grown....
Nursing Research Series: Format & Research Topic
Dr Michael Joseph Dino
Nursing Research Series: Format and Topic
Holistic Counseling Seminar 2: Counselor/Client Contact and Contractual Agreement
Jim Morningstar PhD.
1.50 Hours
The quality of counselor contact with clients before, during and after session is examined from a holistic perspective. An exercise on counselor self perception is introduced. The issue of creating successful agreements with clients is addressed and basic principles outlined. Exercises to explore self expectations and self obser....
Improving Literacy In Early Years
EYPServices
The statistics surrounding the number of people who are able understand and use literacy effectively creates a growing concern nationally. According to the Literacy Trust (2013) 1 in every 6 people struggle with literacy and around 6 million adults are classed as functionally illiterate The EYFS 2014 has set out to close this....
Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence
Jean Clarke-Mitchell, MSW, LICSW, Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC
4.25 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....
Evaluation and Advice on Good Inhaler Technique
Swapna Manda
0.50 Hours
This session will show you how to assess your patients’ inhaler techniques, and describes the different range of inhalers that are available and when different types of inhalers or a nebuliser should be prescribed.
Impact of Postnatal Mother and Baby Separation
Dr Ambalika Das
0.25 Hours
This session provides evidence which emphasises the importance of avoiding mother and baby separation in the postnatal period. It provides best practice guidance to healthcare staff on how to support an optimal outcome for both mother and baby by keeping them together.
LGBT Issues in Substance Abuse
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
GLBT Issues in Substance Abuse is a substance abuse counselor's introduction to substance abuse for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Serving as both a reference tool and program guide, this unit provides statistical and demographic information, prevalence data, case examples and suggested interventions, treat....
Nutrition and Health
Annabel Alder and Ruth Kander and Mary Hickson
0.50 Hours
This session identifies the reciprocal relationship between health state and nutritional status.
Emergency Contraception - Cases
Anne Webb
0.50 Hours
This session focuses on applying the knowledge acquired from the session Emergency Contraception to example clinical situations.
Managing Side Effects/Complications - Cu-IUD/LNG-IUS
John Bland
0.50 Hours
This session explores the assessment and initial management of complications in intrauterine contraceptive users after fitting.
Management of Chronic Pain
Ben Thomas
0.50 Hours
This session describes the complexity of chronic pain and the potential dire consequences of untreated long-term pain.
Elbow Soft Tissue Injuries
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.75 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on evaluation and treatment of conditions commonly associated with medial and lateral Epicondylitis, Cubital tunnel, and Olecranon bursitis.
Babesiosis Infection
Andrew McNulty, PhD
This course will discuss microscopic parasites that infect red blood cells, going into detail of Babeiosis infection. This activity will discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, characteristics of patients and treatments to this disease. This course will also review ways to prevent and control the disease with various examples.....
Fit to Perform: Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace
Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN
2.00 Hours
It is the employer’s obligation to discover, uncover, and address any employee behaviors that may indicate unsafe job performance. Impairment due to chemical, physical or psychological disease interferes with fitness for duty and is evidenced by effective job performance (Marquis & Huston, 2017). When addressing impairment the....