Education
2009 NC Quality & Patient Safety Conference
The NC Quality Center held the Annual Quality & Patient Safety Conference on March 12-13, 2009 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference was a great success with well over 200 in attendance. The speakers were able to share their expertise on both national and state levels and poster presentations were done by the local hospitals to showcase their current efforts centering on patient safety and hospital quality. To review the presentations, click here. To check out the abstracts of the poster presentations, following this list. Be sure to review April 2009 edition of the NC Quality Highlights for more details on the conference. Presentations are provided below.
| Full agenda including presentations for the 2009 conference (large file) | 2009PSConf.pdf (27MB) |
| Standalone agenda | 2009ConfAgenda.pdf (412k) |
| Patient Safety at 10: What have we learned? by Lucian L. Leape, MD, Harvard School of Public Health |
LeapePresentation.pdf (9.1MB) |
| Safety Culture at Work by J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, MA, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
SafetyCultureatWork.pdf (2.2MB) |
| Driving Quality Through Accountability and Responsibility of Patient Care by Gayl Kirkpatrick, RHIT, CCS, Senior Manager & Client Service Executive, 3M Health Information Systems Consulting Services |
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| Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections: Developing a Culture to say "Bye Bye UTI" by Sharona Johnson, MSN, FNP-BC, Pitt Co Memorial Hospital and Lou MacDaid, MT (ASCP), CIC, Pitt Co Memorial Hospital |
ReducingCAUTI1.pdf (1.8MB) |
| Strategies to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections by Heather Mann, MSPH, CPHQ, Palmetto Health, SC |
ReducingCAUTI2.pdf (4.1MB) |
| The TeamSTEPPS Approach to Enhancing Patient Safety: Sharing Lessons Learned by Sue Hohenhaus, MA, RN, FAEN, Hohenhaus & Assoc. |
TeamSTEPPs.pdf (2.5MB) |
| Safe Skin: A Roadmap for Pressure Ulcer Prevention by Julie K. Apold, MA, Minnesota Hospital Association and Denise Nix, RN, MS, CWOCN |
SafeSkin.pdf (4.0MB) |
| Navigating the Safety Frontier: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sherry Sweek, RHIA, CPHQ, CPMSM and Martha White, RN, MBA Memorial University Medical Center, Savannah, GA |
NavigatingSafety.pdf (2.2MB) |
| Engage Physicians in Transforming Care by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE and Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH |
EngagePhysicians.pdf (11.4MB) |
| Conference Poster Abstract | ConfAbstractBook.pdf (1.2MB) |
2008 NC Quality and Patient Safety Conference
The 2008 conference was held on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. It was a great success with over 160 attendees. You can download the full conference brochure here as a PDF or the PowerPoint presentations and handouts (also as PDFs) using the links below.
Eliminating HAIs - Trish Perl, MD, MSc
Can Patient Partnerships Make Healthcare Safer? Part 1 - Patrice Spath
Can Patient Partnerships Make Healthcare Safer? Part 2 - Patrice Spath
Engaging with Physicians - Alice Gosfield, Esq.
Principles of Engagement - Alice Gosfield, Esq.
Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Safety and Quality - Bev Johnson
Patient and Family Centered Care Partnerships - Bev Johnson
Advancing the Practice of Patient and Family Centered Care - Bev Johnson
Patient Centered Care - Debbie Dowling, MPH, BSN, CPHQ
Patient Centered Care - Carrie Brady
Infection Control - Sharon Burnett , RN, BSN, MBA
VAP free in the MICU - Lou Ann McLamb, RN, BSN
Trish Perl, MD
Alice Gosfield, Esq.
Breakout Session
Quality Center and NCHA Staff
Attendees viewing story boards
