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Sponsored by the book Nursing Peer Review:
A Practical Approach to Promoting Professional Nursing Accountability
presented on December 11, 2007

Physicians have been conducting peer review for decades and now it is time for nursing to establish the same standards to evaluate and promote safe patient care. Formal peer review can be valuable as organizations attempt to raise their standard of nursing excellence and it can be part of an organization's efforts to achieve designation from the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*. Unfortunately, it can also be a complicated process to implement, fraught with emotional and procedural issues. But with the proper guidance, your facility can streamline the implementation process, resulting in better patient care, patient safety, and improved nurse professionalism and accountability.

Listen to HCPro's Formal Nursing Peer Review: Perform incident-based case review to promote professional nursing accountability. During this 90-minute audioconference, speakers Laura Cook Harrington, RN, MHA, CPHQ, CHCQM, FAIHQ, Marla Smith, MHSA, and Meryl Montgomery, RN, MSN, walk listeners through the necessary steps to organize, structure, and implement a sophisticated approach to nursing peer review.

BONUS TOOLS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program and these valuable tools:

• Nursing Peer Review Committee Charter
• Nursing Peer Review Committee Agenda
• Nursing Case Review Process Flowchart
• Case Review Timelines
• HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® article on best practices in peer review

These materials are provided with PDF links.

AGENDA

• Goals, benefits and rationale for establishing a peer review process
  • Why implement a peer review process?
  • Formal versus informal peer review
  • Who are "peers"
  • Goals and benefits of peer review
  • How peer review fits within the context of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®
• Five step process for successful peer review
  • Step 1: Design a formal structure
  • Step 2: Establish the nursing peer review process
  • Step 3: Educate all stakeholders
  • Step 4: Implement the nursing peer review process
  • Step 5: Manage nurse performance
• Peer review cases and outcomes that have led to improved patient care
  • Case studies
  • Scoring methodology
  • Practical application

A question & answer session follows the presentation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Define nursing peer review and describe the difference between formal and informal peer review
2. Identify the benefits of and rationale for implementing a nursing peer review process
3. Describe how peer review can be integrated into the context of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®
4. Discuss a structure to support the case review process
5. Identify five steps in a successful nursing peer review process
6. Describe case reviews and outcomes that have led to improved patient outcomes

FACULTY
Laura Harrington, RN, MHA, CPHQ, CHCQM, FAIHQ, director of live events & continuing education and senior consultant at The Greeley Company. She is an experienced healthcare manager with extensive experience in the area of performance improvement, risk, case management, and credentialing. Ms. Harrington is a registered nurse, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, and Fellow of the American Board of Quality Assurance & Utilization Review Physicians.

Marla Smith, MHSA, associate consultant for The Greeley Company in the Quality and Patient Safety Practice. Her areas of expertise are in medical staff and nursing peer review, medical and hospital quality performance improvement, and physician and hospital based data analysis. Ms. Smith works closely with clients during the assessment and restructuring of medical staff and hospital quality programs. She also works closely with clients in the development of peer review case tracking and physician profile methodologies and systems.

Meryl Montgomery, RN, MSN, director of the Learning Center at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. She has more than 30 years experience in acute-care nursing. She began her nursing career in Minneapolis, MN, where she was a critical care nurse and then a critical care clinical nurse specialist. Ms. Montgomery relocated to Macon, GA, and the Medical Center of Central Georgia, a Level 1 Trauma 1 Center and the second largest hospital in the state. She has held the positions of Medical, Surgical, and Critical Care Director for the Medical Center.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Chief nursing officers, directors of nursing, VPs of nursing, VPs of patient care services, directors of education, staff development specialists, quality managers, risk managers, nurse managers, clinical managers, staff nurses, human resources representatives, shared governance council members, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® directors

Purchase a CD or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff. An audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player.

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