Nursing Peer Review: Five Steps to Advance Professional Nursing Accountability (Audio Conference)

Nursing Peer Review: Five Steps to Advance Professional Nursing Accountability

AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by the book Nursing Peer Review: A Practical Approach to Promoting Professional Nursing Accountability

presented on December 9, 2008

Improve patient care with an in-depth understanding of nursing peer review

Wish your facility could improve patient care, patient safety, and enhance nursing professionalism and accountability? You can with a streamlined nursing peer review process. Plus, peer review is an important step toward achieving ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* designation and ongoing quality improvement.

Learn how to work past emotional and procedural issues, and implement an incident-based peer review process that bolsters nurse autonomy and improves patient outcomes, when you listen to HCPro’s 90-minute audio conference Nursing Peer Review: Five Steps to Advance Professional Nursing Accountability. 

Our expert speakersl share concepts and tools to organize, structure, and implement a sophisticated, non-punitive peer review approach within your facility that will help you examine unexpected patient outcomes.

AGENDA

1. Overview: Why incident-based peer review?
   1. Defining peer review
   2. What it is and what it is not (e.g., not annual evaluation)
   3. Who owns accountability for nursing quality?
   4. How does peer review fit within the context of the Magnet Recognition Program®?
   5. Benefits, rationale, and goal of peer review
2.  Nursing peer review: The five-step process
   1. Step 1: Design a formal structure/committee to support the peer review process
      1. Informal versus formal structure; where does peer review fit?
      2. Forming a committee charter and defining committee roles and responsibilities
      3. Incorporating peer review process into existing nursing structure
      4. Legal considerations
   2. Step 2: Establish the nursing peer review process
      1. Formulating and writing policy
      2. Peer review timelines
      3. How are cases identified?
   3. Step 3: Educate all stakeholders
      1. Identifying the target audience: Who are the stakeholders?
      2. Training committee reviewers
      3. Eliminating fear and obtaining buy-in
   4. Step 4: Implement the nursing peer review process
      1. The components of the scoring tool
      2. Conducting chart review on selected cases
      3. Implementing the program
   5. Step 5: Track and trend your data
      1. Measuring results
      2. Benchmarking data
3. Case study example of implementing a new nursing peer review process
4. Questions and answers

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the program you’ll be able to:

• Define nursing peer review and describe the difference between formal and informal peer review
• Identify the benefits of and rationale for implementing a nursing peer review process
• Describe how peer review can be integrated into the context of the Magnet Recognition Program®
• Discuss a structure to support the case review process
• Identify five steps in a successful nursing peer review process

BONUS TOOLS

In addition to this audio conference, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and

• Nursing Peer Review Committee Charter
• Nursing Peer Review Committee Agenda
• Nursing Case Review Process Flowchart
• Case Review Timelines
• “Improve quality care face to face” article adapted from HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®

These materials are provided with PDF links.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

LAURA COOK HARRINGTON, RN, MHA, CHCQM, FAIHQ, is a senior nurse consultant in the consulting division and the director of live events and continuing education at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA. She has extensive experience in the areas of performance improvement, risk, case management, and credentialing.

ANNE JADWIN, RN, MSN, AOCN, NE-BC, is assistant vice president of nursing services at Fox Chase Cancer in Philadelphia, which was the first Magnet Recognition Program® institution in the state of Pennsylvania and the first specialty hospital in the United States to earn that distinction.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Chief nursing officers, directors of nursing, quality managers, risk managers, nurse managers, staff nurses, HR representatives, shared governance council members, Magnet Recognition Program® directors/coordinators

AUDIO ON-DEMAND

In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, 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. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can.

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audio Conferences

Departments :

• Other Nursing Products

ORDER CODE: N120908D
SOURCE CODE: EHCM