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Ergonomics Program Builds on Hospital Improvement Efforts

The Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) has released an online continuing education program to help nurses prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the clinical care setting.
The new online education program, developed by CPH‐NEW occupational ergonomics experts and faculty at the Solomont School of Nursing at UMass Lowell, offers 10 essential components of an effective prevention program to reduce patient handling injuries.

This free program consists of six self-paced online modules aimed at reducing risks for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Participants will learn to use ergonomic principles, work practice, and administrative controls to identify and reduce hazards associated with patient handling and non-patient handling tasks.
The program is intended to supplement the work that most hospitals have done to improve patient handling in an effort to protect both patients and the healthcare workforce.

Conceptual Model of Factors Affecting Clinician Well-Being and Resilience

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System [1], which revealed that a significant number of people die annually from medical errors. The report spurred two decades of action on the part of hospitals and health care professionals to improve patient safety. The IOM, renamed the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), is now addressing the issue of clinician well-being. The Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience (the “action collaborative”) was launched in January 2017 in response to the burgeoning body of evidence that burnout is endemic and affects patient outcomes. The action collaborative has defined “clinician” and “burnout” in Box 1.

Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub

Sharing Knowledge to Combat Clinician Burnout.

Click here to find articles, research studies, and other resources

The Rory Staunton Foundation for Sepsis

We established The Rory Staunton Foundation after our son’s death from sepsis in April 2012. Our overriding goal is to ensure that no other child or young adult dies of sepsis resulting from the lack of a speedy diagnosis and immediate medical treatment.

Our Mission

To reduce the number of sepsis-caused deaths through:
Raising public awareness of sepsis through education and awareness programs to promote faster diagnosis and effective treatment for children and young adults
Improving medical diagnosis of sepsis, particularly pediatric sepsis, through the implementation of rapid treatment protocols and improved communication between parents and medical staff in hospitals and medical clinics
Supporting those affected by sepsis and providing a platform for their voices to be heard.

Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™

The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ Grand Challenge (HNHN GC), is a social movement designed to transform the health of the nation by supporting nurses to take positive action to improve health.

The HNHN GC will:

Broadly connect and engage individual nurses and partner organizations to take action within five focus areas: physical activity, sleep, nutrition, quality of life, and safety.
Provide a web platform to inspire action; cultivate friendly competition; provide content and resources to nurses; gather data; and connect nurses with each other, employers, and organizations.

Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem – The DAISY Foundation

The DAISY Foundation was formed in November, 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). The nursing care Patrick received when hospitalized profoundly touched his family. Read more about why they started The DAISY Foundation.

The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses (The DAISY Award) – to honor the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day. In creating The DAISY Award, there were three elements we wanted to ensure our recognition program included:

A partnership with healthcare organizations to provide on-going recognition of the clinical skill and especially the compassion nurses demonstrate at the bedside all year long.
Flexibility so that The DAISY Award may be tailored to each hospital’s unique culture and values.
A turn-key program with The DAISY Foundation providing most everything you need to implement The DAISY Award.

State of the State: Reducing Readmissions in Massachusetts

Prepared by the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association and Collaborative Healthcare Strategies

Incentives targeting readmission reduction are intended to improve the delivery of care across settings and over time, and to reduce the losses and inefficiencies created by avoidable returns to the hospital.

The public and private sector call for hospitals to reduce readmissions is not new. Incentives targeting readmission reduction are intended to improve the delivery of care across settings and over time, and to reduce the losses and inefficiencies created by avoidable returns to the hospital.

Over the past several years, incentives to reduce readmissions have been introduced into the Massachusetts market in payer- and diagnosis-specific ways. Individually, these incentives have served to stimulate improvements in care for some groups of patients. An unfortunate consequence of payer-specific and diagnosis specific incentives has been the emergence of balkanized efforts to find and serve certain patients with readmission risks – but not others. As a result, readmission rates have not dramatically improved, and the pace of improvement is not quick enough.

It is now clear that financial success under a wide variety of payment models and performance incentives will reward providers for minimizing hospital utilization – whether through population management in accountable care organizations, bundled payments for 90-day episodes of care, or value-based purchasing.

Read the entire report here…

No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home

There truly is no place like home, and care in the home holds many potential benefits, including support for person-centered care. Care recipients generally prefer to be at home, where they may have more autonomy than in inpatient settings. Care in the home is not without its challenges, however, and these challenges may affect both care recipients and everyone who supports them. Existing data suggest that preventable harm to care recipients is an important issue in the home setting. In addition, both home care workers and family caregivers may be physically or emotionally harmed as they provide care.

The safety of care provided in the home has not yet received nearly as much attention as patient safety in hospitals and other clinical settings, despite the fact that the home has become the site of care for many people. In 2016, more than 2 million personal care attendants provided care in the home, according to the US Department of Labor, and this number is expected to grow by 40 percent in the next decade. Care in the home comprises a number of different services, including personal care, home health care, hospice, palliative care, and, through some specialized programs, primary care and hospital-level services. These services are provided by a variety of home care workers with a range of training and expertise. In addition, many aspects of care are provided by family caregivers.

Read the full report here…

WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks – Overview & Introduction Worksite Wellness- FREE Webinar

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 — 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) is offering a free webinar: Evolving Employee Wellness Programs.

Engaging team members in worksite wellness programs can be difficult. WELCOA is committed to helping you reframe your strategies and give you the tools necessary to build world-class wellness programs

As a central part of WELCOA’s Well Workplace Process evolution, we’re delivering a revamped certification headlining our Seven Benchmarks. We’re putting more clarity around current and future approaches to wellness. Whether you’re a seasoned professional needing a spark or building a wellness program from the ground up—we’ll sharpen your focus for designing and delivering engaging results-oriented wellness initiatives. In this webinar, you will get the first look at WELCOA’s updated Seven Benchmarks and Checklist tool.

Learning Objectives:

Learn about WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks approach
Create engaging and meaningful worksite wellness initiatives
Communicate your organization’s wellness value story

Click here for more information and registration…

Healthcentric Advisors – No Cost Learning Center

Healthcentric Advisors would like to invite you to visit The Learning Center, our no cost virtual online learning system, with an Introduction to Statistics and Epidemiology in Infection Prevention. Through this interactive and self-paced module, you will learn about statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in infection prevention and control. New courses will also cover interpreting infection prevention measures (e.g., Standardized Infection Ratios (SIR)) and using Microsoft Excel to collect and analyze your own data.
You will develop a deeper understanding of how statistics and epidemiology are used to inform your clinical practice and harness surveillance, data collection, statistical analysis and reporting skills to inform clinical leadership and monitor population health at your facility.

You can access this series on The Learning Center here…