Preventing Sepsis with Bundles (Audio Conference)

Preventing Sepsis with Bundles

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

sponsored by Briefings on Patient Safety

presented on May 30, 2007

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) reports:

• Mortality associated with severe Sepsis remains unacceptably high: 30 - 50%.
• When shock is present, mortality is reported to be even higher: 50 - 60 %. 
• There are approximately 750,000 new Sepsis cases each year, with at least 210,000 fatalities.
• As medicine becomes more aggressive, with invasive procedures and immunosuppression, the incidence of Sepsis is likely to increase even more.

Prevent Sepsis mortality in your facility with the proven bundle strategy

It takes a team approach and hospital-wide commitment to reduce mortality associated with Sepsis and prevent new cases effectively.

During this 90-minute program, experienced speakers share tips and tools that you can implement to get a bundle program off the ground and positioned to measure success. They’ll demonstrate how to properly develop and use bundles when delivering care and provide examples of ways to implement a complicated change of procedure across different units in a facility.

You’ll walk away from this program knowing:

• What is an effective bundle to prevent and treat Sepsis
• How to identify what a bundle is and what is included in it
• How to get staff (physicians, nurses, etc.) to follow all the steps in the process
• How to overcome barriers to implementation

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA

1. The problem of Sepsis in healthcare
   1. How it has been addressed in the past
2. Central line control for Sepsis care
   1. Back to basics
   2. Use bundles in treatment
   3. Attain buy-in through education
   4. Proper hand hygiene and dressing
   5. Bundles to help reduce Sepsis
3.  University of Rochester case study
   1. Bundle implementation timeline
   2. Early identification of Sepsis using RRT
      • ID patients
      • Begin treatment
   3. Getting the emergency department on board
   4. Overcoming barriers throughout the hospital
4. Q&A session

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Carol L. Shenold, RN, CIC, has more than 40 years of experience working in healthcare, including acute care and long-term care facilities. She has worked in all hospital departments over the years. During her 12 years as an infection control professional, Ms. Shenold managed the areas of performance improvement, utilization management, risk management, and infection control. During her job as quality review manager at Vencor Hospital in Oklahoma City, the facility scored 100 on its Joint Commission survey.

Barry Evans, RN, CNS, ANP, Adult Critical Care Quality Improvement Leader, University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Ms. Evans is a registered nurse and clinical nurse specialist with 20 years' experience in critical care nursing. She is also certified in New York state as an adult nurse practitioner. In her daily performance she interfaces with all of the adult critical care units in implementing practice initiatives to ensure safe and reliable care delivery, which results in optimal outcomes for patients, staff, and the critical care service.  Her responsibilities include patient safety education, ICU evidence-based protocol development, organization and implementation of performance improvement projects, data collection tool design and application, data collection, outcomes interpretation, and analysis and reports presentation. Ms. Evans has published her findings on utilization of bundles for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in Nursing Management.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

• PI/QI directors
• Executives
• Risk managers
• Medical staff
• Patient safety directors
• Nurse managers
• Staff development coordinators

PROGRAM MATERIALS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials are provided with PDF links.

Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive 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.

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audio Conferences

Departments :

• Other Quality/Patient Safety Products