NICHE Web Based Learning Series presents
NICHE is offering audio conferences to discuss the development and financial support of evidence-based geriatric nursing care in hospitals. This interactive series will focus on important topics ranging from defining and developing organizational strategies to improving clinical outcomes. Join the NICHE audio conference series to learn best practices to achieve geriatric sensitive care while building a solid business foundation and responding to CMS pay for performance guidelines.
Featured speakers are nationally recognized leaders in the field who have been invited to share the most current information and expert advice available. PowerPoint presentations accompany each conference.
"Linking Quality and Cost"
January 28th,2009
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
"Bridging the Great Divide:
Retooling Your Performance Improvement Systems"
Featured Speaker: Lenard L. Parisi, RN MA CPHQ FNAHQ
Vice President Quality Management/Performance Improvement
Metropolitan Jewish Health System
Quality care for older adults has never been more important than in today’s environment of public reporting and pay for performance. As of October 2008, Medicare will no longer pay for eight specific conditions including nosocomial pressure ulcers and fall related injuries in the hospital. Older adult hospitalized patients are especially at high risk for these conditions. Explore and discuss the challenges of measuring quality and how to develop strategies to address these specific organizational challenges.
Join us and learn:
• How to identify specific measures of qualities that are relevant to the care of hospitalized older adults.
• The characteristics of a good performance measure.
• How to identify performance improvement approaches that target the balance of quality and cost.
• Identify two performance improvement approaches that target quality/cost balance.
CALL DETAILS:
NICHE Sites $89 per phone line
Non-NICHE Sites $99 per phone line
- PowerPoint presentations accompany each audio conference
- Live Q&A session with the presenter
Register Today
For more information, please contact Sherienne Felder at (212) 992-9422
"Sustainability and Growth: Making the Business Case for NICHE"
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern
- Ways in which business case approaches can strengthen a NICHE program
- Key building blocks for a NICHE business plan
- Easy approaches to conducting needs assessments for NICHE program implementation and expansion
- Nurse educators, nurse executives, nurse mangers, staff educators
- PowerPoint presentations accompany each audio conference
- Live Q&A session with the presenter
Older adults comprise the largest group of consumers of hospital services. Despite the growing number of older patients, less than 10 percent of U.S. hospitals have developed or are using effective solutions to ensure best outcomes for their older patients. Quality care for older adults has never been more important than in today’s environment of public reporting and pay for performance. Whether you work in a hospital that has recently become a NICHE site or one that has been a NICHE site for many years, this audio conference is designed to help you build a better business case for your program.
Join us and Learn
Who Should Attend?
Featured Speaker:
Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA
President and CEO
Spragens & Associates, LLC
Durham, NC
CALL DETAILS:
NICHE Sites $89 per phone line
Non-NICHE Sites $99 per phone line
New York University College of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
