 | Title | Description | Recorded Date | Setting |
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 | Supporting Choice and Mobility Through Restraint-Free Care Teleconference | This teleconference will focus on how person-directed care leads to restraint-free care. Emphasis will be placed on how to assess three aspects of the care environment to create individualized approaches to mobility and safety that honor resident choice and wishes. The need for supportive
Handouts for WebEx are attached. | | Nursing Home |
| Addressing Health Literacy WebEx | Health literacy is the ability to obtain, process and understand health information and use that information to make appropriate decisions about one’s health and medical care.
Speaker: Paul D. Smith, MD - University of Wisconsin
Handouts for the WebEx are attached.
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Nebraska Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
1.4 CNE hours
CNE expires 6/26/10
For more information about health literacy, view the following links:
| | ;Hospital;Homecare;Nursing Home;Physician Office;Case Review;Consumer |
| Mortality Measure Report ~ What Does It All Mean? | Your hospital’s 30-day mortality measures will soon be updated on the CMS Hospital Compare Web site.
This WebEx/Teleconference will assist your hospital in better understanding the AMI, HF and PN mortality meaures report and identify opportunities for improvement.
Objectives
1. Understand the methodology for calculating mortality measures
2. Understand how co-morbidities influence the results of the report
3. Use the report to identify opportunities for improvement
Materials for WebEx are zipped in the attached folder. | | Hospital |
| IHI Call to Action Teleconference |
- Are you still thinking about joining the IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign?
- Are you a new Campaign enrollee trying to get started on your targeted intervention?
- Have you been working on the Campaign for several years and need to build momentum?
Then join us for an inspiring teleconference as we discuss new Campaign strategies and resources. Hear from three of the 54 Nebraska hospitals enrolled in the Campaign as they share their experience with implementing interventions, successes and current challenges.
See more details about this event on the attached flyer. | | Hospital |
| Cardiovascular Health & Diabetes WebEx/Teleconference | This WebEx/Teleconference will help participants become aware of cardiovascular risk and improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes.
Target Audience: Nurses and Medical Assistants
Speaker: Lesa Hoppe, RN, BSN
1.0 peer-reviewed contact hour
CNE expires 2/20/10
WebEx materials are located in the zipped file. | | ;Homecare;Nursing Home;Physician Office |
| Hospital Abstraction Changes WebEx | By attending this WebEx, you will learn about the abstraction changes for discharges beginning October 1, 2007 and forward.
Speaker: Jackie Trojan, RN, BSN
Please see the attached flyer for additional information, including call-in information. The presentation for this event is posted below. | | Hospital |
| Long-Term Care Leadership: Satisfaction for Everyone Teleconference Series #2 | Resident Satisfaction Data Viewed Through New Lenses:
The Key to Resident Satisfaction and Quality Outcomes
The second teleconference focuses on understanding the relationship between resident and family satisfaction and quality outcomes. Understanding this relationship is a critical element for successful quality improvement in long-term care. Resident and family satisfaction data contain vital information to guide and assist leaders in improving the quality of care and life for residents and is important information for staff that cares for them.
Speaker: Diane Peters, RN, MS
Presentation, evaluation and sign-in sheet zipped below. | | Nursing Home |
| Long-Term Care Leadership: Satisfaction for Everyone Teleconference Series #1 | Employee Satisfaction Surveys: What Do We Do Now?
The first teleconference will look at understanding the relationship between employee satisfaction, retention of great caregivers and the quality of care and quality of life for nursing home residents. Employee satisfaction surveys provide vital information to leaders in long-term care that is key to retaining great staff and can help improve or enhance the quality of life and care residents receive.
Speaker: Mary Tellis-Nayak, RN, MSN, MPH
Information for the event, including the Powerpoint presentation , sign-in sheet and the evaluation form are zipped in the attachment.
| | Nursing Home |
| Caring for Patients with Dementia and Cognitive Deficits WebEx | This WebEx/teleconference will enhance your knowledge of evidence-based practices used in caring for patients with dementia and cognitive deficits in the homecare setting.
Speaker: Deborah Marks Conley, MSN, APRN, BC, CS, FNGNA
Presentation and handout materials are zipped in the following attachment.
1.4 CNE hours
CNE expires 9/20/09 | | ;Homecare;Nursing Home |
| IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign Virtual Roundtable Discussion WebEx | This webex is an opportunity to learn more about Rapid Response Teams including the definition, implementation and ways to measure success followed by an open Q&A. Speaker: Chris Bartholomew, RN, Columbus Community Hospital.
| | Hospital |
| Care Management in the Physician Office - Session 4 - Incorporate Chronic Care Model into the Physician Office Setting | Learn how a physician office team can develop a care management process. During this last session, how to incorporate the chronic care model into the physician office setting is discussed.
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 7/12/09 | | Physician Office |
| SBAR: Bridging the Communications Gap WebEx | Learn about standardizing communication to prevent errors by applying the Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) technique.
Speakers: Lisa Koch, BSN, MSHS & Amy Thimm, RN, BSN, MSHSM
1.5 CNE hours
CNE expires 6-26-09 | | Hospital |
| Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Screening and Prophylaxis: What’s it all about? WebEx | Enhance the knowledge of nurses and other clinical staff about the CMS VTE measures and prophylaxis literature and guidelines.
1.5 CNE hours
CNE expires 6/19/09 | | Hospital |
| Quality Improvement: Setting the Stage for Quality Assessment & Assurance in Long-Term Care | This presentation provides an overview of the differences between Quality Assurance (QA) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), and discusses specific processes and tools that are used in establishing quality improvement systems.
Speaker: Kelly Westfall | | Nursing Home |
| Premier Data Tool | Tutorial about how to use the Premier Excel Tool for the AHRQ Hospital Patient Safety Culture Survey remeasurement and analysis. | | Hospital |
| SafetySkills Initiative ~ Engaging Your Hospital Board Members | Learn the importance of engaging your board members and helping them identify ways to move your organization to higher levels of safety and effectiveness. | | Hospital |
| Principles of Palliative Care Chronic Pain Management WebEx | A WebEx to enhance knowledge of effective chronic pain management in older adults in the homecare setting.
Speaker: Todd M. Sauer, MD
1.4 CNE hours
CNE expires 4/19/09 | | Homecare |
| Care Management in the Physician Office - Session 3 - Using Care Management as a means to Improve Quality | Learn how a physician office team can develop a care management process. During the third session, information will be provided on how to utilize care management as a means to improve quality.
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 4/05/09 | | Physician Office |
| Pressure Ulcers: What's Old, What's New and What's Working | Pressure Ulcers: What's Old, What's New and What's Working
This training explores the evidence base of clinical practices for wound prevention and treatment. It also includes the updated terminology for staging pressure ulcers and for support surfaces and the implications for clinical practice.
Presenter is Dr. Karen Zulkowski DNS, RN, CWS
| | Nursing Home |
| Diabetes Nutrition Update WebEx | This educational activity will provide updated information on nutrition management for diabetes to clinical practice settings.
Presenter: Kathy Goddard, RD, CDE, LMNT
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 3/15/09 | | Physician Office |
| Considering Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults | Considering Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults
Presenter: James Dube, PharmD
1.4 CE hours
CNE expires 2/22/09
Enhance nursing knowledge of medications that may cause adverse drug events and effects in older adult populations. | | Homecare |
| Please Release Me, Let Me Go! | The who, what, why and how of a restraint reduction program from real world examples. Presented by three different nursing homes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska. | | Nursing Home |
| Using SBAR to Improve Communication WebEx | Improve your understanding of SBAR as a communication tool for use between clinician and the physician.
Presenters: Jan Herzog, MSN, RN, Paula Sitzman, RN, BSN & Audrey Paulaman, MD, MMM
1.0 non-peer reviewed contact hour
CNE expires 1/30/09 | | Homecare |
| Care Management in the Physician Office Session 2 - Promote Care Management Through Workflow Processes | Learn how a physician office team can develop a care management process. During the second session, we will discuss promoting care management through workflow processes.
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 1/18/09 | | Physician Office |
| Pain Management In Long-Term Care | An overview of strategies for analgesia that supports improved quality of life and care of residents in long-term care is presented. Strategies to improve communication among the members of the interdisciplinary pain team are also discussed.
Presenter: Dr. Cary Levy | | Nursing Home |
| AMI-Getting to the Heart of the Matter WebEx | Enhance the knowledge of Acute Myocardial Infarction, empowering hospital staff to be better able to assess and treat the core measures
Presenter: Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 12/12/08 | | Hospital |
| Long-Term Care Leadership - The Key to Staff Retention #4 - The PEP Rally | Long-Term Care Leadership - The Key to Staff Retention #4 The PEP Rally | | Nursing Home |
| Improving Quality of Care for Adults with Incontinence | Participants will attain an improved knowledge of interventions available for adults with incontinence, both urinary and fecal.
Speaker: Joan Junkin, RN, MSN, CWOCN
1.4 CE hours
CNE expires 11/15/08 | | Homecare |
| Long-Term Care Leadership - The Key to Staff Retention #3 - What a difference management makes! | Presenter: Barbara Frank
This session will explore how, by implementing key management practices, one nursing home analyzed its vicious cycle of CNA turnover and then changed its systems to create a workplace of stability, collaboration and successful quality improvement.
| | Nursing Home |
| Care Management in the Physician Office - Session 1 - Define and Prepare for the Care Management Process | Learn how a physician office team can develop a care management process. During this first session, how to define and prepare for the care management process is discussed.
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 11/09/08 | | Physician Office |
| ACM Concurrent Data Collection | Presenters: Jeffry Strohmyer, MD; Lynn Madsen, RN, BSN, CPHQ; Nancy Noda RN, BSN, MSHP, CIC & Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM
| | Hospital |
| Disease Management: CHF Best Practices & a Telehealth Program | Presenter: Christine Jones, MS, APRN, BC
Enhance knowledge of interventions to promote patient self-management of heart failure.
1.4 CE hours
CNE expires 10/18/08
| | Homecare |
| Long-Term Care Leadership - The Key to Staff Retention Teleconference Series #2 - Nurses As Leaders | Presenter: Anna Ortigara
This session will discuss and explore the essential roles of nurses in building and leading person-centered care teams.
| | Nursing Home |
| Long-Term Care Leadership - The Key to Staff Retention Teleconference Series #1 - The Rally Cry | Presenter: Mary K. Ousley
This presentation relays the need to rally the cry for leadership development and empowerment at all levels to create an environment ripe for transformational change in long-term care. | | Nursing Home |
| Leadership & Turnover Rates - Caring Produces Results | Presenter: David Farrell, MSW, LNHA
The presenter explores research findings that identify unanticipated barriers leaders may encounter when they attempt to implement evidence-based practices designed to empower staff, boost employee morale and lower turnover rates. | | Nursing Home |
| Pressure Ulcers: Best Practice Implementation | Presenter: Janet Cuddigan, PhD, RN
The presentation includes information on the development, implementation and maintenance of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment programs in long-term care. | | Nursing Home |
| Managing Diabetes | Presenter: Pam Wollenburg, APRN, CDE
Enhance the knowledge of diabetes to enable homecare staff to teach and encourage patient self-management of diabetes.
1.4 CE hours
CNE expires 7/20/08 | | Homecare |
| Managing Heart Failure WebEx | Presenter: Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM
Enhance the knowledge of Heart Failure to empower hospital staff to be better able to assess and teach patients to manage their disease process. See attached flier for more information.
1.0 CNE hour
CNE expires 7/14/08 | | Hospital |
| Suicide Prevention in Long-Term Care | Presenter: Jarrod Hindman, MS
Participants will be provided information about suicide and suicide prevention among seniors. Information regarding unique characteristics of older adult suicide, risk factors and resources for senior citizens will be discussed. | | Nursing Home |
| Person-Centered Pain Management | Presenter: Linda Schneider, RNC
The presentation includes an overview of one facility’s journey toward providing person-centered pain management. | | Nursing Home |
| Person-Centered Care Approach | Presenter: Jan Katayama, LCSW
The purpose of this presentation is to share with healthcare providers in long-term care settings creative, resident-directed approaches for addressing depression in nursing home residents.
| | Nursing Home |
| Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Presenter: Bob Bleicher, MD
Enhance knowledge of COPD to empower home care staff to be better able to teach patients to self-manage their disease process. | | Homecare |
| Community Acquired Pneumonia | Presenter: Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM
Measures to Improve Management in Community Acquired Pneumonia | | Hospital |
| Improvement in the Management of Oral Medications | Presenter: Brenda Bergman-Evans, PhD, APRN, BC
Enhance knowledge of interventions to improve and enhance patient self-management of oral medications. | | Homecare |
| Managing Resident's Depression with Medication | Presenter: Jane R. Mort, PharmD
The purpose of this presentation is to help healthcare providers utilize medications in an effective manner to manage depression in elderly residents. | | Nursing Home |
| Recognition of Depression in Long-Term Care | Presenter: Steven Wengel, MD
The presentation will provide a general overview of the prevalence of depression exhibited by residents in the nursing home setting.
| | Nursing Home |
| MDS Coding and RAP Evaluation for Depression in Long-Term Care | Presenter: Peggy E. Williams, SW, RAC-C
The presentation will discuss the quality measure of depression involves several items on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) that present unique challenges to nursing home staff.
| | Nursing Home |
| STAR WebEx | Star WebEx | | Nursing Home |
| Courney Lyder Pressure Ulcer Presentation | Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Learning from the new F-314 tag.
| | Nursing Home |
