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Quality and Safety for Leaders in Women’s Health Care

San Francisco, CA | Oct 17-19, 2018

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Does your health care facility foster a culture of quality and safety for patients and providers alike? Is there an emphasis on teamwork and collaboration? This 3-day course in Denver, Colorado, will provide practical tools and techniques to enable health care leaders and others to make necessary improvements within their respective institutions, with special emphasis on:

  • Importance of standardization
  • Methods to change organizational culture
  • Peer review protections
  • Impact of human factors
  • Clinical performance improvement tools
  • Simulations and drills to improve patient safety

Credits

1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Earn up to 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits using ACOG's eModule series.
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Skills & Techniques

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

  • Improve team building and communication techniques
  • Address the myriad medical staff issues related to credentialing and privileging

  • Implement the use of drills and simulations at your institution or improve existing mechanisms
  • Disclose adverse events and implement strategies to assist the patient, her family, and the second victim

Who Should Attend

Present or future physician leaders in hospital departments of ob-gyn, ambulatory care centers, or multi-specialty groups (titles such as Department Chair or Chief Medical Officer) Nurse leaders in hospital Labor and Delivery departments such as nurse managers (NOTE: Nursing Continuing Education Units [CEUs] are available)