Recorded: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 

Sponsored by ED Management

Emergency department crowding and boarding are major public health issues in our nation. Over the past decade, there has been a large literature generated demonstrating the relationship between ED crowding and boarding and patient safety issues. Potential solutions do exist, but implementation requires teamwork, leadership, and finding the “right” idea.

Sign up for this 90-minute webinar by Jesse M. Pines, M.D., M.B.A., M.S.C.E., F.A.C.E.P. who will describe the current state of evidence on the relationship between ED crowding and boarding and important patient safety outcomes, such as adverse events, complications, and mortality. He will also describe several potential solutions to mitigate the relationship between ED crowding and boarding, patient safety, and strategies that hospitals can use to restructure operations and reduce crowding altogether.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the current evidence on the relationship between ED crowding and boarding and patient safety
• Understand the state-of-the-art when it comes to designing and implementing local strategies to make crowded EDs safer
• Identify novel ways to improve crowding and boarding in the ED

Target Audience:

• Emergency Department Staff
• Physicians
• Nurses and Nurse Managers
• Admissions and Discharge staff
• Risk Managers
• Patient Safety Officers
• Staff Educators
• Compliance officers
• Hospital administrators
• Performance and Quality Improvement Staff

Level: All levels 

Meet Your Expert:

Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE is the Director of the Center for Healthcare Quality and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at George Washington University.  He is a board-certified emergency physician. Dr. Pines holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Medical Degree and a Masters of Business Administration from Georgetown University.  He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia and a fellowship in research at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

He has received grant funding from several government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and private foundations to conduct research and is author on over 130 peer-reviewed publications in the academic literature, and two books. He has been a contributor to Slate.com, TIME magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

Participation:

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Accreditation Statement:

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

AHC Media designates this educational activity is for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

Refund Policy:

If you are not able to attend for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible. Webinar cancellations received prior to the start time of the webinar are fully refundable. If you prefer, you may substitute an upcoming webinar for the one you originally registered for.