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CathPCI

Bridging Best Practices into Quality Improvement

Friday, October 13, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
Location: Palms III
Available Credits: 1 CE Hours
CME: (1) CNE: (1) ASRT: (1) COP: (1) CPHQ: (1) ACHE: (1) AAPA: (1)
This session will include two facilities sharing unique ways they’ve implemented processes to help improve patient care. The first presentation will focus on how standardization and implementation of protocols in multidisciplinary care settings are important to improve care coordination, safety, and patient outcomes. Come see how a mid-size academic medical center was able to utilize registry data to successfully design a multidisciplinary quality committee, implement new protocols, and quantify success for the lab.
The second presentation will explore best practices and strategies for standardizing, assessing, and addressing risk related to Cath/PCI procedures. It will focus on integrating best practices into documentation tools and then utilizing those tools to guide an individualized plan of care through all phases of care - pre, intra and post procedure. Optimizing documentation tools to capture Cath/PCI risk model elements will also be shared as a strategy to accurately reflect patient acuity and improve efficiency of data abstraction.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the impact a multidisciplinary quality committee can have on patient outcomes.
  • Discuss the methods to develop a multidisciplinary quality committee.
  • Identify quality metrics that can help guide quality improvement initiatives.
  • Identify challenges and barriers to assessing and addressing Cath/PCI risk.
  • Explore the power of assessing risk as a collective using a standardized approach vs fragmented risk assessment scattered throughout the medical record.
  • Identify the role of the APN, nurse, and physician in supporting and driving risk assessment and quality.

    Speaker(s)

  • Kristen Marrah, BSN, RN

    Cath Lab Accreditation Coordinator
    Hackensack University Medical Center
    Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States

    I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

  • Tammy Russo, APN-C, MS, MBA

    Director of Operations, Heart and Vascular Hospital
    Hackensack University Medical Center, HMH
    Hackensack, New Jersey, United States

    I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

  • Julie Merz, MS (she/her/hers)

    Quality Manager
    Rush University Medical Center, Illinois, United States

    I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

  • Megan Hartman, DNP, APRN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN-K (she/her/hers)

    Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
    Rush University Medical Center
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

    I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

    • Staff Moderator(s)

  • Christina Koutras, BSN, RN, CPHQ

    Director NCDR Registry Products
    American College of Cardiology

    I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.