Program Description:

An opportunity to fully engage in education as it applies to your own practice.

Performance improvement continuing education activities have the goal of moving beyond acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge in professional practice. By taking learning a new fact or procedure to the level of actually putting it into practice, it is moving from simply “knowing” to “knowing how” and actually “doing”.

But it is more than this. It is thinking about and developing measures to assess the outcomes of the changes in clinical practice made as a result of a continuing education activity, implementing the change in practice, and evaluating the outcome.

Target Audience:

This activity is available to participants of the live or on demand replay, of the Bug-Drug-Host Triad in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance satellite symposia and is intended to meet the needs of infectious disease specialists, critical care/pulmonologists, surgeons, pharmacists, nurses and other members of the health care practitioner team who have an interest in the management of Gram-negative infections.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this competence and performance focused activity, participants should be able to:

• Reflect upon the learning experience and how it relates to their day-to-day professional practice.

• Identify a change or changes you contemplate could be made in your day-to-day professional practice as result of something learned in this learning activity that could improve patient care outcomes.

• Describe how the change(s) in the care of a patient could be implemented and assessed.

• Summarize and evaluate the results of the change or changes in the care of a patient.

Acceditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the Center for Education Development 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.

Credit Designation:

Center for Education Development designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, 2.0 CPE credit (UAN # 0498-0000-16-010-H01-P) or 2.0 ANCC credit.

Participants should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Participants must participate in the session and complete an activity evaluation before October 28, 2017. Pharmacists are required to pass the post-test with a minimum score of 70%.

Competencies:

MedEDirect supports recommendations that will promote life long learning through continuing education. The following desirable physician attributes are addressed through this activity:

• Provide patient-centered care
• Work in interdisciplinary teams
• Employ evidence-based practice
• Apply quality improvement

Disclosures:

Faculty and staff disclosures were provided in the attendee materials distributed at the meeting and on the on demand activity web page.

Copyright:

Created and published by CE Development. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 2016 Center for Education Development. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. The material presented at or in any of CE Development continuing medical education activities does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of CE Development. Neither CE Development nor the faculty endorse or recommend any techniques, commercial products, or manufacturers. The faculty/authors may discuss the use of materials and/or products that have not yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. All readers and continuing education participants should verify all information before treating patients or utilizing any product.