Main Themes
The main topics of the conference can be incorporated into some of the main themes as listed above. Presentations will address one of the topics listed in the following:
2. Patient safety, risk management and the reduction of medical errors including Health Associated Infections in Nursing.
3. Patient-centered Care
4. Digital Health in Nursing Care
5. Advancing healthcare technology in Nursing.
6. Making the Healthcare environment safe to patient, their families and our employees. Includes: medical errors, environmental safety, reporting on errors, problem solvinin Nursing servicesg, etc.
7. Patient Falls
8. Patient safety Education in Nursing
9. From Clinical Risk Management perspective; Patient Safety and Infection Control and Prevention of Health care Associated Infections (HAI)
10. Clinical Risk Management and Moral and ethical behavior in delivering healthcare services.
11. Discuss CQI, Patient safety and its relationship to Risk Management
12. Discuss related Laws and regulations as it applies to negligence and medical malpractice.
13. Discuss Patient Safety under high-risk situations, adverse events, and safety prevention strategies.
14. Discuss Employee work place risks and safety prevention strategies
15. Sterilization and Disinfection and clinical risk management
16. Providing on-time care. Includes: waiting times, effective referrals, early detection, timeliness of results, etc.
17. Effectiveness: Insuring a delivery of care that achieves desired outcomes. Includes: accreditation, certification in Nursing, outcomes indicators, setting standards, measuring performance, PI projects, etc.
18. Ensuring the optimum use of current resources: Efficient Resource Utilization. Includes: utilization management, peer review, cost Innovation in care services that is patient focused and customized. Includes: IT issues, innovations in practice, breakthrough experiences, e-health in nursing. Breakthrough in communications: The patient and nurses.. Includes: reporting mechanisms, communication avenues, patient and provider satisfactions, marketing quality, etc.
19. Advancing healthcare technology. Includes: safe and user friendly technology, patient oriented technological advances, use of technology to render safe, effective and efficien in Nursingt healthcare.
20. Innovations in healthcare system infrastructure. Including; system design, safety by design, an environmentally friendly facility, patient participation in structure changes.
21. Efficiency in delivery and care; includes; cost effective and cost beneficial care, linear programming to contain costs, minimizing and maximizing to provide effective yet efficient services and organizational structure.
22. Innovation in communication and training. Includes: use of electronic medical records, CPOE, effective communications with patients, interpersonal communications among care givers, active listening, etc.
23. Preparing for the worse. Including Emergency preparedness, disaster planning, FMEA applications, risk assessment, risk management, malpractice issues, etc.