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LIVE WEBCAST

Sponsored by The Residency Coordinator's Handbook

Thursday, May 29, 2008
1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central)
11:00-12:30 p.m. (Mountain)
10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific)

Duty hours compliance is crucial to maintaining ACGME accreditation

Moreover, the ACGME requires that faculty and residents learn to recognize the signs of fatigue and have policies in place to prevent its potential consequences.

Educating residents on how to identify and cope with fatigue is critical for patient safety

Even when adhering to the ACGME’s duty hours limits, residents’ performance can suffer due to fatigue. Residents’ demanding schedules and inconsistent sleep patterns can lead to slowed reaction time, reduced energy, decreased attention to detail, and degraded communication and decision-making skills—all of which put patients and residents at risk.

Gain practical tips from nationally-recognized duty hours and sleep deprivation experts

Join HCPro on Thursday, May 29 for the Webcast Resident Fatigue and Duty Hours: Education and Compliance Solutions, and gain workable strategies to deal with duty hour limits and learn more about how fatigue can affect residents, how to encourage resident to recognize fatigue in themselves and others, and how to manage schedules to support resident health.

Avoid citations with safe scheduling options and proper documentation

With participation in the program, you’ll learn how to:

• Teach residents to recognize fatigue
• Train residents on duty hours compliance
• Recognize fatigue in residents and teach them to do so
• Implement safe scheduling options
• Avoid citations with practical solutions for compliance

Ensure resident well-being and improved patient care

No matter what the root cause of a resident being overly tired on duty, the hospital can be held responsible when this issue leads to an adverse event. This 90-minute live program will help residency program directors and coordinators deal with these challenges, provide relief to residents, help residents improve patient care, and ensure compliance with ACGME standards for resident well-being.

AGENDA

1. Fatigue
   1. Basic understanding and the effects of sleep deprivation
   2. Issues with fatigue and residents
      1. Quality of work
      2. Patient safety
2. Fatigue and duty hour education
   1. Strategies
      1. Teach residents how to recognize they’re sleep deprived
      2. Teach others to recognize and monitor signs of sleep deprivation
   2. Handle fatigued residents
3. Duty hours and solutions
   1. Learn from the NY experience- they’re achieving compliance!
   2. Safe scheduling options
      1. Night float
      2. Alternate call schedules
      3. Use attendings
      4. Call rooms
      5. Online tools
      6. Correction binder system
   3. Documentation
      1. Document unusual circumstances properly, but don’t use this as an excuse
4. Live Q&A

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the relationship between resident fatigue, medical error, and occupational hazards
2. Use tools to identify and educate residents on fatigue
3. Recognize strategies to implement safer work schedules

Please note: participants should already have a basic understanding of ACGME requirements and duty hours.

MEET THE SPEAKER

Veronica Wilbur, RN, MBA, is the senior director of IPRO's Hospital Compliance Review Program, which reviews hospital compliance with resident duty hours both statewide and nationally. Her management and administrative background includes case management, discharge planning, risk/quality management and project development experience in five acute care facilities. She has more than twenty five years of nursing experience, including 15 years of management and administrative responsibilities.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Residency program directors, residency program coordinators, GME administrators and professionals, chief residents, chief medical officers, designated institution officials, program coordinators

YOUR MATERIALS PACKET

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and take-home items, along with your log-in information. These materials will be provided prior to the program date via e-mail with PDF links. Please download the PDF files before the day of the program.

WEBCAST SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND PROGRAM MATERIALS

Please note to fully benefit from the Webcast experience, you will need a computer equipped with an Internet connection, Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 or higher, computer speakers with a soundcard, the following browsers: Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Internet Explorer version 5 or higher, and a recommended screen resolution: 1024x768.

PLEASE NOTE

Participation in the Webcast is just $269 per site. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet. Live orders are assessed a $5 processing fee. CD and combo orders are charged $18 for shipping and handling.

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