SaferCare Texas (formerly the UNTHSC Institute for Patient Safety) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region housed at the Gibson D. Lewis Library would like to invite you to join us for the next session of our joint webinar series.
This 1 hour series co-sponsored by NNLM SCR and SaferCare Texas will focus on topics related to the field of patient safety and health care quality. Through this series, we hope to empower health care professionals, patients, and health information professionals to support the elimination of preventable harm and achieve the highest quality in health care possible. Sessions will be scheduled quarterly and topics chosen based on current trends in patient care.
Dena Silva, director of INCEDO, will present What Problem are We Trying to Solve? How Continuing Education Professionals Help Close the Gap at 1pm on Tuesday, June 4th. Details on joining the meeting are available at the event link below. No registration is required, and the session is free to any interested parties.
Description: Continuing education in the healthcare professions is transitioning to delivering meaningful and measureable outcomes. INCEDO, the office of continuing education at UNT Health Science Center, offers CE programming that is interprofessional/multi-disciplinary and focuses on changing behaviors of clinicians to optimize patient care. In this webinar, insight to the inner workings and skillsets of a continuing education office will be provided along with key take-home points to initiate collaboration on innovative approaches to clinical continuing education.
Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
-Describe the role of a continuing education professional;
-Identify 3 ways CE can close a patient safety gap; and
-Describe innovative approaches to using CE for healthcare professionals for improving outcomes.