TELECONFERENCE

Gaining Physician Compliance to Your Patient Safety Initiatives

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Today, more than ever, it is critical for healthcare systems to gain physician compliance to their patient safety initiatives. While most healthcare systems rely on the well-established tool of enforcement, this tool is expensive, antagonistic and often not very successful. To be successful, organizations must explore how to win and encourage, not just enforce, compliance. While there are many barriers to physician compliance with patient safety goals [clash of culture, clinical inertia, time issues, physician perception of compliance with goals], physician champions can help healthcare organizations overcome these barriers. These champions must have clinical credibility, communication skills, and a positive attitude that is contagious among other traits. By addressing the above processes, key patient safety goals, such as elimination of dangerous abbreviations, medication reconciliation, and appropriate use of safe verbal/telephone orders, can be achieved

INTENDED AUDIENCE (Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to attend together):

Physicians
Pharmacy Directors
Hospital Pharmacists
Nurse Managers
Staff Nurses
Medication Safety Officers

OBJECTIVES

Following completion of this teleconference, participants should be able to:

Describe reasons why physicians are non-compliant with patient safety initiatives.
Describe three simple techniques for improving the physician compliance with you patient safety initiatives.
Describe techniques for maintaining physician compliance over time.

MODERATOR

Allen J. Vaida, PharmD, FASHP, Executive Vice President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.

SPEAKERS

Dr. Russell H. Jenkins, Medical Director for ISMP and a member of its Board of Trustees. Dr. Jenkins is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has served as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Medical Schools of Temple University, and Hahneman Hospital and as an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and St. Francis de Sales. During his more than 27 years in private practice he was also the Director of Respiratory Therapy and Chairman of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at St. Lukes Quakertown Hospital.

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$195.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$225.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
Teleconference CD	$195.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
*CD includes a file of the audio recording of the teleconference as well as PowerPoint files containing slides of each presentation.

TELECONFERENCE POLICIES

Registration

One telephone line connection is allowed per registration. Others may listen on this telephone line via an internal extension, or a speakerphone may be used for larger groups.
You may not set up conferencing capabilities for other sites outside the facility. Each specific site may be used for larger groups. Each specific site must register individually.
We cannot accept registrations without an email address and the name of a contact person.
Registration for this teleconference will end at midnight ET on 2/21/2007.
CDs will be available for purchase after the teleconference.

Cancellations

Cancellations must be requested via an email message to our teleconference department.
Cancellations received before the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference will receive a full refund or credit.
Cancellations received after the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference and within 3 business days after the teleconference will be assessed a cancellation fee of $50.00.
If your organization does not cancel within 3 business days after the date of the teleconference and does not participate, the full registration fee will be charged.

Materials

If your organization's registered participant does not receive the teleconference materials that are sent out approximately 2 days before the teleconference via email, please send an email message to our billing department prior to the start of the teleconference.
When registering, please be sure to provide the email address of the person to whom ISMP should send these materials.

Accreditation Information:

NOTE: There is no additional charge for continuing education credits for this teleconference.

Pharmacy Continuing Education
Continuing education credits will be provided by The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. PPAG is an approved provider of continuing pharmacy education by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). This program has been approved for 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs). The UPN is: 180-999-07-500-L04.

Nursing Continuing Education
Debora Simmons is approved by the California Board of Nurse Examiners as a provider of continuing nursing education. This program has been assigned the Universal Program Number CEP 13677 and is approved for 1 contact hours (0.1 CEUs) of continuing nursing education.