Many organizations intend to provide quality care to their patients by implementing initiatives proven or presumed to be effective. While all of these initiatives have the end goal of providing care that is safe, efficient, quality, and cost effective, there are several strategies for achieving success. Often confusion exists among the processes used to improve quality care and patient outcomes. This webinar examines the research, quality improvement and evidence-based practice processes in clinical practice. Your will learn the differences, benefits, drawbacks, and applications of each process. This knowledge is extremely important for anyone planning to implement new measures to achieve quality care. You don’t want to miss it!
Learning Objectives:
After the webinar, participants should be able to:
1. Differentiate among research, quality improvement and evidence-based practice
2. Examine the research, quality improvement and evidence-based practice processes for application in clinical practice.
When: November 29, 2012 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern
Who should attend?
Quality Improvement Professionals, Nurse Managers, Staff Nurses, Hospital Administrators
Price
Individual ANA Member -$49
Individual Non ANA member -$79
Nursing Quality Network Members – FREE
NDNQI Hospitals - $179
Non NDNQI Hospitals-$279
Nursing Quality Network members – FREE
Payment
Members of the Nursing Quality Network can attend this event for free.
Nursing Quality Network members – enter your Network Membership code to access this webinar for Free. Contact QualityNetwork@ana.org if you need help remembering your Network code.
ANA Members and staff at NDNQI hospitals receive a discount. Select the appropriate option after adding the item to your cart, and enter the appropriate code.
ANA Members please enter the code ANA2012 (case sensitive)
NDNQI Members enter the code NDNQI2012 (case sensitive)
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Contact Us:
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Phone: 1.877.488.2666
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1-888-962-7484
Susan B. Stillwell, DNP, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
Susan B. Stillwell has climbed the academic ranks from BSN to DNP and is now a Fellow in the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Stillwell, former Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-based Practice, at Arizona State University, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Portland. Her expertise is evidence-based practice, nursing education and critical care nursing. As an expert EBP Mentor, she has educated nursing faculty in graduate and undergraduate programs about evidence-based practice and evidence-based curriculum through presentations and workshops nationally and internationally. Dr Stillwell has published on the evidence-based practice paradigm, innovative teaching strategies to teach and integrate evidence-based practice into courses and across the curriculum to best prepare graduates to be evidence users. She is a co-author of the twelve-part Evidence-based Practice series published in the American Journal of Nursing, which has been honored with the 2011 Sigma Theta Tau Media Award.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANCC Provider Number 0023.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP6178.