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CME: Successful Strategies for Addressing Patient Safety Hot Topics - Infusion Devices

ACCREDITATION EXPIRED: September 10, 2015

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

 

In this online CME self-learning program:

The overall learning activity will focus on infusion devices, informatics, and continuous quality improvement and the role of the physicians and allied health professions play in it.

 

  • Infusion devices, informatics, and continuous quality improvement: The Institute of Medicine’s report, Preventing Medication Errors, emphasizes the importance of healthcare organizations adopting best practices in safe medication use and prioritizing proven strategies to minimize harm from medications. The report highlights the widespread adoption of technology, one example of which has been the increased use of medication infusion pumps with dose error reduction software, also called “smart pumps”.  Smart pumps not only include dose error reduction software, which provides administration guidelines using establishing standard concentrations, dose limits, infusion time limits, and clinical advisories, but they also record data that is useful for healthcare organizations to improve the quality of medication administration. Data collected allows for users to evaluate the use of the pump within the institution and identify opportunities to improve IV medication administration.

 

Agenda

 

 

Introduction, Disclosures

Program content

  • Statistics and common definitions
  • A review of the literature
  • Principles for optimizing limits and clinical advisories
  • Making the most of continuous quality improvement reports: a multidisciplinary approach
    • The pharmacist’s role
    • The nurse’s role
    • The physician’s role
    • Drug library updates
    • Additional informatics and clinical decision support optimization

    Putting it all together: best practices, summary, conclusions, and the role of the patient safety coordinator
 

Target Audience:

Healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, and mid-level practitioners working in acute care hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim.

Release Date: September 10, 2013 -- Expiration Date: September 10, 2015

Faculty: Kris O'Shea, MS, RN, NEA-BC

Agenda

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

  • Define common principles of infusion pump quality improvement
  • Develop a strategy to improve patient safety given aggregate infusion pump data.
  • Implement medication error reduction strategies involving three different types of high-risk medications, including integration of health informatics

Accreditation

ACCREDITATION FOR THIS COURSE HAS EXPIRED. YOU MAY VIEW THE PROGRAM, BUT CME / CE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO CERTIFICATE WILL BE ISSUED.


Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI

 

As an provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is our policy to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved thru content review by ScientiaCME.

Faculty Disclosure: Kris O’Shea, MS, RN, NEA-BC reports that she has no relevant financial disclosures.

Disclosures of Educational Planner: Charles Turck, PharmD is an officer and part owner of ScientiaCME, LLC. ScientiaCME has received grants from the commercial supporters of this program.

 

Disclosures of Educational Planner: Ambra King, PharmD (ASMSO) has no financial disclosures.

 

Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim.

Instructions

  • Read the learning objectives above
  • Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
  • View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
  • Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
  • Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.

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Perform Pre-Test (optional)

Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.