LIVE AUDIOCONFERENCE
Sponsored by
StrategiesForNurseManagers.com Thursday, June 26, 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)
UTIs are the number one cause of hospital-acquired infections.
Does your hospital implement evidence-based procedures to prevent them?
As of October 2008, CMS will not reimburse healthcare organizations for treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) if the UTI was preventable. At a time when 56% of hospitals do not have a system for monitoring which patients have urinary catheters and 74% do not closely monitor catheter duration, hospitals need to act now to reduce their facility’s infection rates or risk losing reimbursement.
During this live 90-minute audioconference, Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: Evidence-Based Nursing Practices for CMS Compliance, you’ll learn how to reduce catheter-associated UTIs at your facility. Expert speakers Mikel Gray, PhD, CUNP, FAAN, and Joan M. Lorenz, RN, MSN, PMHCNS-BC, will teach you:
- The latest evidence-based methods to prevent CAUTIs in the acute-care setting
- How to design prevention and treatment programs that cut your incidence of CAUTIs
- Protocols, procedures, and policies to help raise the standard of patient care
- Training techniques for educating nursing staff and ensuring collaboration
Agenda
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and new CMS payment policy
- Scope of the problem
- Catheterization rates in acute- and long-term care
- Indications for indwelling catheter in acute-care setting
- CAUTI
- Epidemiology
- Etiology and pathophysiology
- Evidence-based practices for preventing CAUTIs
- Catheter insertion
- Size
- Retention balloon
- Material of construction
- Securement devices
- Drainage systems
- Timing of removal
- Implementation of clinical practice changes at the bedside
- Writing policies, procedures, and protocols
- Informing all parties of the changes
- Documentation and monitoring
- Education and training
- Educating the healthcare team
- Ensuring the collaboration of all healthcare staff
- Patient education
- Follow-up
- Live Q & A
Learning objectives
After participating in the audioconference, you will be able to:
- Identify why CAUTIs are so prevalent in the healthcare setting
- Describe evidence-based practices for preventing CAUTIs
- Explain evidence-based treatment options
- Discuss the benefits of adopting standards relating to urinary catheterization
- Identify effective ways for training nurses and other healthcare staff
Bonus tools
In addition to the advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:
- Sample project planning worksheet
- Sample patient education materials
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.
Meet the speakers
Mikel L. Gray, PhD, FNP, PNP, CUNP, CCCN, FAANP, FAAN, is a nurse practitioner and professor in the Department of Urology and School of Nursing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing and a Board Member of the Society’s Center for Clinical Investigation. A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, he is past president of both the Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates and Certification board for Urologic Nurses and Associates. He was named the NACF Continence care champion for WOCN in 2004.
Joan M. Lorenz, RN, MSN, PMHCNS-BC, works as a member of the Nursing Education Department of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, in Bay Pines, FL. She has clinical experience on both medical-surgical and psychiatric units. Her entrepreneurial nursing experiences include the founding of Hygeia Inc., which provided psychiatric/mental health liaison and consultation services to individuals, healthcare facilities, and municipalities, as well as life enhancing workshops for groups. She is currently the president of Clearly Stated, writing and editing health-related materials for healthcare professionals as well as for the general public.
Faculty Disclosure Statement: HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.
Continuing education
ANCC
HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
This educational activity for 1.5 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc. Valid for Live Event Only.
Who should listen?
Chief nursing officers, directors of nursing, VPs of nursing, VPs of patient care services, directors of education, staff development specialists, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* coordinators/directors, nurse managers and clinical managers, patient educators, and staff nurses
Dial in toll free!
Details on how to call will be sent to you via e-mail with your materials package.
Audio on-demand
In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences—live, CD, or combination packages—we are pleased to offer another option, an Audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.
Can’t listen live?
No problem. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand 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.
Please note
- Participation in the call is just $259 per site and allows access to ONE phone line for an unlimited number of people to listen. 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.
- Audioconference materials will be delivered via e-mail four days prior to the conference and again the day before the conference.
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