2024 UPMC Hamot Nurse Podium Presentations
Target Audience
-Nurses
-Nurse Practitioners
Learning Objectives
• Describe the six standards of a healthy work environment and interventions to promote a healthy work environment.
• State the evidence-based practice for preventing bloodstream infections for patients with peripheral IV sites.
• Describe the impact of diversity, equity and inclusion training on O.R. nursing staff.
• Describe a new method to improve the accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis.
• Explain the benefit of a focused training program to promote nurses’ recognition and response to acute hypertension in the peripartum period.
• Explain the components of a newly structured evidence-based practice residency program for hospital-based nurses.
• Describe the effects of music on terminally ill patients.
Faculty:
Paul Caviglia, BSN, RN, CCRN, Professional Staff Nurse, BSN, Expert, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Chair, Informatics Council
Stephanie Prischak, BSN, RN, CGRN, clinician, Endoscopy Department
Lisa Duska, RN, CGRN, Professional Staff Nurse, Expert, Endoscopy Department
Brad White BSN, RN, CIC, Sr. Infection Control Practitioner, Infection Control/Prevention
Heather Vogan, BSN, RN, C-EFM, Nurse Educator, Magee Womens UPMC Hamot
Jessica Benson, MSN, RN, CNOR, UPMC Hamot Operating Room
Danielle Weirich, BSN, RN, CNOR, UPMC Hamot Operating Room
Deb Hess, DNP, RN-BC, Nursing Education Department
Hannah Saunders, BSN, RN, Professional Staff Nurse, 7 South
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.
ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
NURSING (CNE)
A maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.
OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 Attendance