Multi-disciplinary Healthcare Team Engagement, Education, and Empowerment: The Key Ingredients to a Sustainable Sepsis Program
Recorded On: 07/29/2021
Description:
This educational webinar will discuss key strategies for engaging and empowering the multi-disciplinary healthcare team in your sepsis program. Attendees will gain an understanding of tools such as nurse-driven protocol and early warning alerts to improve communication and timeliness of sepsis recognition and treatment. Additionally, the presentation will review novel strategies for educating frontline providers and encouraging multi-disciplinary teamwork.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the activity, the learner should be able to:
- Identify key components of multidisciplinary healthcare team engagement;
- Discuss ideas for gaining physician buy-in and using nurse-driven sepsis protocols;
- Describe benefits of sepsis early-warning alerts and other sepsis tools;
- Review novel sepsis education strategies to encourage multi-disciplinary teamwork.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Webinar Supporters:
Sepsis Alliance gratefully acknowledges the support provided for this webinar by the Sepsis Alliance Clinical Community sponsors.
Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH, FACEP
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Medicine, Medical Director of Hospital Sepsis
University of California, San Diego
Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician cross-trained in internal medicine and critical care at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), where he is also an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. He is the founding Chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care within the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The major focus of his career has been on improving the diagnosis and outcomes of sepsis patients. He is the Medical Director of Hospital Sepsis at UC San Diego, a position he has had since 2018. In this role, he has overseen a 40% drop in sepsis mortality. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to investigate novel approaches to improve care of patients with sepsis through big data and machine-learning approaches. Dr. Wardi has been selected by his peers as a "Top Doctor" in San Diego multiple times.
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Session Day/Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM EST
Kristin Bray, RN, MAS
Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist
UC San Diego Health
Kristin Bray completed her undergraduate education at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, earning a degree in Sport Sciences. She then went on to Nursing school at Grossmont College in San Diego, California and accepted a position as a nurse in the UC San Diego Health Emergency Department in Hillcrest. Kristin then continued her education at University of California at San Diego, graduating with a Master of Advanced Studies in Leadership of Healthcare Organizations. After 9 years in Emergency Medicine, Kristin took on a new role in Quality and Patient Safety as a Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist. Currently, she oversees hospital-wide Sepsis initiatives, Emergency Department Throughput and Perinatal Care. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys working on home projects, the beach and spending time with her family.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.7 contact hours.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.25 contact hours.
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