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The accepted guidelines for a proper diabetic foot examination includes: assessing circulatory, skin, and neurological status to detect problems early and reduce the likelihood of amputation. Based on current ADA estimates at least 50% of amputations that occur in diabetics can be prevented through proper foot care.
This presentation will give the listener a simple, low cost educational intervention to significantly improve the providers' adherence to the foot examination guidelines for patients with diabetes.
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Identification: AMBP1003
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Donna Weaver is the Nurse Educator for the Education, Information and Partnership Branch at CDC. Donna earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Before coming to CDC in 2000, Donna practiced nursing throughout the U.S. and also in Saudi Arabia. Donna travels throughout the U.S. providing immunization information to healthcare providers, publishes articles on immunization in nursing literature, and works on a variety of immunization training and education programs at CDC.
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Identification: AMBP1004
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Kathryn Scheidt, RN, MSN, CPHQ, is the Director of Nursing and Director of Operaions for Nurse Advice Line and Training for McKesson Health Solutions. Kathryn holds a BSN in nursing from the University of Connecticut , a MS Healthcare Management from Frostburg University and a Masters of Nursing from the University of Texas, Austin. She spent 30 years in the Army Nurse Corps before coming to McKesson 9 years ago. Her expertise in today’s audio seminar topic comes from her experience in developing a mentor program for over 700 work-at-home, remote employees. The program she developed has been in place for over 5 years and continues to thrive and meet the needs of employees who work in a virtual workplace.
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Join us for this critical-thinking learning experience as we rethink the conventional wisdom related to QA in telephone triage. We will examine systems and processes that support quality care delivery including staffing, access, policies and call flow; as well as address strategies to improve quality in the delivery of telephone triage services
Contact hours available through December 14, 2012
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Identification: WEBINAR2
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Medical call centers have traditionally played a mainly adjunct role to the primary care practice of medicine. This session will explore the future relationship of the medical call center to the primary care practices of the future and of the patient-centered medical home. It will begin with an environmental scan of health care reform visions. Next a discussion of the medical home concepts will be presented. Exploring the role of the nurse as a central aspect of the patient centered medical home and medical resource center leads to a discussion on the myriad modalities that will be utilized by call centers of the future. Examples of modern uses for call centers will be highlighted. Lastly, the concept of a national call center model will be explored.
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Identification: WEBINAR3
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Identification: WEBINAR4
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Identification: WEB121204
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Care coordination as part of Health Care Homes is a focus of ambulatory care redesign for patients with chronic care needs, with self-management support as an integral component. According to the Chronic Care Model, successful self-management support involves effective partnerships with community service organizations. The purpose of this webinar is to examine those partnerships.
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Identification: WEB130717
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This webinar will provide an overview of the development of the Patient-Centered Medical Home and the Case Management Role in the Lahey Health Division of Primary Care. Steps in the current process will be discussed and common issues and barriers to achievement and future plans for case management will be provided to as resources for colleagues dealing with similar issues in their own institutions.
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Identification: WEB160620
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Download your copy of the Ambulatory Care Nurse-Sensitive Indicator Industry Report
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This webinar will share information from AAACN's just-released Ambulatory Care Nurse-Sensitive Indicator Industry Report. Participants can expect to learn about the evidence behind NSIs in ambulatory care, existing NSIs with recommended changes for more meaningful use in ambulatory care, thirteen newly proposed measures that uniquely reflect the role of the RN in the ambulatory care setting, how to use NSIs to enhance quality reporting and national benchmarking to drive nursing excellence, and how the indicators are being developed and pilot tested.
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1.0 contact hour
Accreditation Statement:
This educational activity is jointly provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. (AJJ), American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN), and The Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC).
Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 5387.
Disclosures
The Speakers and Planning Committee members have nothing to disclose.
Sponsorship
This webinar was partially funded by an educational grant from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC).
Learning Outcome
By participating in this webinar the learner will be able to discuss the evidence behind Ambulatory Care Nurse Sensitive Indicators and how to quantify Ambulatory Care Nurse value with metrics.