Winship Cancer Institute to hold 10th annual nursing symposium
The 10 th Annual Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Oncology Nursing Symposium will be held March 16-17, 2018 at the Atlanta Evergreen Conference Resort in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The symposium will kick off Friday evening with a keynote address by Atlanta television news icon Monica Kaufman Pearson, a two-time cancer survivor who was treated at Winship. The meeting will provide nurses and health professionals with practical strategies and tools to improve patient outcomes and advance professional goals. This course offers eight contact hours through Emory Nursing Professional Development Center (ENPDC) and is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Early bird pricing will be in effect until February 16, 2018. To register, go to https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/nursing-symposium For information contact Monique Jones 404-778- 5303 or Monique.jones@emoryhealthcare.org.
WellStar Paulding Hospital awarded for efficiency in Emergency Department
Patients are now admitted up to 46 percent faster from WellStar Paulding Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED). The hospital collaborated with Vizient MidSouth, an organization which helps hospitals improve healthcare outcomes, to make the ED more efficient. As a result, Vizient awarded the hospital one of its Top Performer awards for decreasing patient admission time.
“There were multiple processes we could have chosen to work on with Vizient,” said Jan Faulkner, MSN, RN, director of nursing and outpatient services for Paulding Hospital. “Since 95 percent of our admitted patients come through our ED, we chose to focus on decreasing the amount of time patients wait before transferring to an inpatient room. Improvement in this area will increase our patients’ safety comfort and overall experience.”
Working together with the Vizient ED Throughput Performance Improvement Collaborative, members like Paulding Hospital benefit from collaboration with regional and national partners. Face-to-face meetings, webinars and conference calls were used to relay information from leading practice experts.
“Our team members took initiative in creating and maintaining our new process,” said Bobbi Jazdzewski, MBA, MSN, RN, manager of Emergency Services for Paulding Hospital. “We are so appreciative of their commitment to quality and safety. They led this change to make a positive impact on our patients’ experience.”
In addition to this recognition from Vizient, Paulding Hospital recently received one of only 14 As in Georgia from Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. This is the hospital’s third consecutive A for safety.
