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Saturday
1:00 PM-4:50 PM
Intermediate
Length
CE Credits 4
This intermediate workshop provides a practical grounding in quality improvement (QI) methods, from development of a QI charter with SMART performance goals articulated, through handoff to a process owner for sustainability monitoring. Conceptual, practical, regulatory, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) considerations are discussed. The presenters’ experience in implementing the Comfort Promise, an evidence-based bundled approach to minimizing pain with needle procedures, is used to illustrate key concepts. Participants with interest in further developing their QI skills and/or in strategies for adopting evidence-based comfort measures as standard of care across needle procedures at their own institution may benefit from this workshop.
Jennifer Schurman, PhD, and Amanda Deacy, PhD, Children's Mercy, Kansas City
American Psychological Association
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