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1025-20: Patient Safety 2.0: Using Technology to Enhance Patient Safety Practices

This interactive presentation will provide opportunity to review several different examples of how technology is enhancing patient safety interventions across hospital departments.  We will also examine the use of evidence based assessment tools and interventions that allow  nurses to optimally engage with patients to provide appropriate care.

Presenters:  Tina Aown, MSN, RN-BC, CNML; Robyn Welch, MSN; Amy Rushton, DNP, APRN; Jennifer Bush, RN; Deborah Parker, MSN, RN-BC

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour 30 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Describe how standardized safety practices facilitate effective and efficient care. 

Keywords:  Patient Safety Practices, Data Transparency Used to Promote Patient Safety, Technology Enhances Patient Safety

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 34th Annual Conference

Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2024

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