Quality Improvement Training: Designing for Improvement

April 15, 2025

In-person learning session to provide an introduction to quality improvement and its application to the HIV care continuum for staff working at HIV/AIDS service organizations in the southwestern PA region.

Target Audience

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

  • Understanding of quality improvement principles needed to effectively and efficiently navigate the social care services for their clients.
  • Umderstand concepts of work design principles to support social workers in breaking down silos to work more effectively and efficiently both within their organization and external partners.
  • Understand quality improvement methodology on a consistent basis to create agency and regional buy-in with the expectation that clients/patients served
  • Demonstrate effective of work design principles that will help social workers develop PDSA/A3 
     

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/15/2025
Course expires: 
06/30/2025
Event starts: 
04/15/2025 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/15/2025 - 1:00pm EDT
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In-person learning session to provide an introduction to quality improvement and its application to the HIV care continuum for staff working at HIV/AIDS service organizations in the southwestern PA region.

EQT Plaza
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Jennifer Condel
Chris Garnett'
Emma Seagle
Rachel Schaffer

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. 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.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.

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

  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
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