New CMS QAPI Standards & Revised QAPI Worksheet
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
During this program, attendees will learn all The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for hospitals and how those goals compare and contrast to CMS standard equivalents. Infection control standards and NPSGs on infection control issues are very important to hospitals and healthcare facilities, as are the goals regarding alarm....
Managing and Preventing Third Party Payer Denials
Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
Third party payment denials remain a critical challenge for case managers in healthcare, especially with recent denials coming from Medicaid and Medicare. The impact of denials has increased with the implementation of the two-midnight rule and requirements associated with placing patients in the right level of care based on thei....
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 to Hospitals: How to Overcome the QAPI Worksheet and Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI) is one of three CoP sections with a correlating CMS worksheet. State and federal surveyors use the worksheet on all survey activities in hospitals when assessing compliance with the QAPI standards, including validation and certification surveys. This program will cover t....
Nurse Case Managers & Social Workers: Relationship Best Practices Part II
Toni Cesta, Ph.D., RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
Social workers play a unique role in the interdisciplinary care team. In best practice case management models, social workers work with psychosocially complex patients and family caregivers to provide psychosocial support, interventions and assistance with discharge planning. This program will review how case management proc....
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 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....
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....
Closing the Gap: Risk Insights at the Point of Care
Heather Trafton, MBA, PA-C and Catherine Turbett, MHA
1 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....
How Scan4Safety helps to support patient safety
Rob Drag & Lorna Wilkinson
Rob Drag, Scan4Safety Programme Manager and Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing will share the Salisbury Hospital's journey (UK) with GS1 standards.
Hypothermia in the Elderly: Causes and Multifactorial Nature
Claire Dow
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the definition and causes of non exposure hypothermia in older people, how to treat it and how to prevent it.
Investigation Management and Treatment of Mitral Stenosis
Ceri Davies
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the investigation of mitral stenosis and its subsequent management.
Holistic Approach
Marion Lynch
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the Holistic Approach domain of the RCGP curriculum. It explores patients and GP perceptions of holism and how these influence the presentation of problems, communication, diagnoses and the sharing of management planning. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in October 2014.
Fever and Febrile Convulsions
Anisio Veloso Melo Junior
0.5 Hours
This session explains how to assess a child with fever using the "traffic light"™ system. It discusses febrile seizures, their features and management, advice to parents and indications for hospital referral. This session was reviewed by Jenny Bedford and last updated in September 2014.
Hearing Difficulties in Primary Care
Ewa Raglan
0.5 Hours
This session will describe how to best take care of adult patients presenting with hearing difficulties, as well as how to assess and manage those who require referral to first and second levels of audiology care.
Early Pregnancy Loss
Nilesh Agarwal
0.5 Hours
This session covers the assessment and management of women who present with vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain in early pregnancy and is illustrated through three separate cases.
Introduction to Adolescent Health And Illness
Russel Viner
0.5 Hours
This session introduces learners to key concepts in young people´s health.
Normal Changes of Ageing
Manminder Sandhu
0.5 Hours
Ageing is a gradual series of changes over time that leads to the loss of function of organs and cells, with the eventual outcome of death. This is a natural process and not a medical condition to be treated. This session looks at the normal changes of ageing.
Examination of a 30-Year-Old with Anterior Knee Pain
Peter Godfrey
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with knee pain in primary care.
Eating Disorders In Young People
Dasha Nicholls Consultant Child and Adolescent Psyschiatrist
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the nature, aetiology and risk factors linked to eating disorders. Also covered are the diagnostic elements that allow us to distinguish between eating disorders and other conditions affecting the eating behaviour of young people. This session was reviewed by Hilda Mulrooney, Louise Lam and Lisa....
Elbow Pain
Satpal Shekhawat
0.5 Hours
This session provides essential information on the common causes of pain in the elbow, their associated diagnoses and recommended treatment, as well as an overview of elbow anatomy.
Healthy Eating for Toddlers: 1- 4 years
Catherine Elwig Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietetics, Imperial College London
0.5 Hours
This session describes ways of identifying what constitutes healthy eating to satisfy unique toddler requirements. In addition, the session also examines toddler behaviours such as fussy eating and food neophobia and the impact these behaviours can have on nutritional intake. This session was reviewed by Elaine Tabony and update....
Endodontic Access
Sanjay Ardeshna
0.5 Hours
This session covers the principles and techniques of accessing the root canal system.
Impression Materials
Fraser McCord
0.5 Hours
This session describes some basic aspects of dental impression materials.