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Leading in a Microsystem
Description: Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals. Leaders develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems, open issues to new options, and take risks when necessary. They excite people to gain followers. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, PhD, MPH, RN & John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 Minutes
Publication Date: March 11, 2021
Expiration Date: March 10, 2027
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Understanding the Microsystem
Description: This module examines the structure of healthcare systems to understand how the structure and performance of these systems improves or impedes the quality of care patients receive. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, PhD, MPH, RN & John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 Minutes
Publication Date: March 11, 2021
Expiration Date: March 10, 2027
$25.00 -
Interpreting Control Charts
Description: Control limits (analogous to confidence limits) offer more power to detect special cause variation. A control chart can detect special cause events more frequently and more quickly than run charts, although we can still use the typical long run, trend and other run chart rules. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Jan 15, 2021
Expiration Date: Jan 15, 2027
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Collecting QI Data
Description: To improve quality, you will need to collect data to know whether the changes you are implementing are making a difference. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
Expiration Date: Oct 20, 2026
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Recognizing Clinical Practice Variation
Description: Imagine the perfect dish of spaghetti. Now imagine eating it every night. Or, once you've developed the perfect recipe, you keep trying variations that never taste quite as good as the original. In either case, variation can be useful or harmful. How can we understand when variation is desirable and when it is not? Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
Expiration Date: Oct 20, 2026
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Understanding Change in Health Care
Description: Organizations must change to remain healthy. As open systems, organizations are sensitive to changes in the environment around them. These changes can have major impact. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, MPH, RN, John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
Expiration Date: Oct 20, 2026
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Using Descriptive Data
Description: Lets talk about how to analyze data. Analyzing data, after all, is just making sense of it, of turning numbers or other observations into information we can use. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Sept 10, 2020
Expiration Date: Sept 10, 2026
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Using Run Charts
Description: In this module, we will describe how to prepare and interpret run charts, one of the most useful tools of quality improvement. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
Expiration Date: Oct 20, 2026
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Using Theory to Plan Change
Description: Change is a constant in healthcare today. Treatments improve, new drugs are discovered, new techniques are developed, and new challenges arise. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, MPH, RN, John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
Expiration Date: Oct 20, 2026
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Histograms and Pareto Charts
Description: Measures like the mean and standard deviation (covered in the Descriptive Data module) are useful methods for summarizing data, but we can also use pictures or graphs to gain a clearer understanding of process performance. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .5
Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes
Publication Date: Sept 10, 2020
Expiration Date: Sept 10, 2026
$25.00 -
Analyzing Cause and Effect Processes
Description: Other modules in the Skills series describe how to create a process map to identify opportunities to build a better process. Once you have a map, you will have analyzed it to identify problems delays, gaps, confusion, variation, and waste. Next you will need to analyze further to understand the root causes and contributing factors for these problems. Without this deeper understanding, it would be premature to begin developing solutions. In this module, we explore techniques to tease out the underlying causes of process and systems problems that will give you confidence about where to focus your efforts as you redesign your process for the future. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN, John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .5
Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes
Publication Date: March 19, 2020
Expiration Date: March 19, 2026
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Brainstorming & Affinity Diagramming
Description: As quality improvement teams aim to improve clinical or operational processes, it will be necessary to elicit and catalog ideas about how a process currently functions, what works well and what doesn't, and what a future or ideal process will look like. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN and John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Jan. 8, 2020
Expiration Date: Jan. 8, 2026
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Creating and Analyzing Process Maps
Description: This module describes how to create and analyze a process map, from defining the start and end points, through visually depicting all process steps, to finally scrutinizing all points for variation, waste, and inefficiencies. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN, John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .5
Estimated time to complete: 25 minutes
Publication Date: March 19, 2020
Expiration Date: March 19, 2026
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Multi-voting & Prioritization
Description: This module describes two further tools in the idea generation group: multi-voting and use of a prioritization matrix. These tools will help the team come to consensus on priorities for testing and implementation. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN and John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Jan. 8, 2020
Expiration Date: Jan. 8, 2026
$25.00 -
Overview of QI Skills
Description: In this module, we will review a summary of tools based on their indications and aims. Over time, as you become familiar using these tools, you will build your own toolkit to help you realize your quality improvement goals. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN and John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: Jan. 8, 2020
Expiration Date: Jan. 8, 2026
$25.00 -
Process Mapping for Opportunities
Description: Streamlining clinical or operational processes has the potential to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and staff and patient satisfaction, and also reduce variability and waste. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: Katharine Schlag, MSN, RN, John Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: March 19, 2020
Expiration Date: March 19, 2026
$25.00 -
Quality Improvement: Analyzing the Test of Change
Description: In this module, we will describe a basic approach to analyzing quality improvement (QI) data. The first step is to prepare your data for analysis. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: Nov 6, 2019
Expiration Date: Nov 6, 2025
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Quality Improvement: Conducting a Test of Change
Description: After analyzing your process of care and designing improvements to test, it is important to carefully prepare for and conduct a test of change. We describe how to pull together all the necessary materials, gain leadership support, recruit a troubleshooter, communicate with the team, and identify test pitfalls. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .5
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Nov 6, 2019
Expiration Date: Nov 6, 2025
$25.00 -
Quality Improvement: Designing a Test of Change
Description: In this module we examine why a multidisciplinary team is essential in planning quality improvements. Then we turn to how to plan and implement a test of the proposed change, including test data collection. The role and importance of the Test Champion is explained, along with how to scale the test of change. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Publication Date: Sept 4, 2019
Expiration Date: Sept 3, 2025
$25.00 -
Quality Improvement: Identifying and Collecting Data
Description: In this final module about the Plan step of the PDSA cycle, we will review how to identify the quality data necessary to test the value of process changes you are planning to make. Without this preparation, chances are that your test will be weak or inconclusive. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .5
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Nov 6, 2019
Expiration Date: Nov 6, 2025
$25.00 -
Quality Improvement: The Big Picture
Description: In this module we will take a look at the big picture of quality improvement–the view from 35,000 feet–and describe the basic paradigm of QI and the roles various tools play in working to improve quality. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Sept 4, 2019
Expiration Date: Sept 3, 2025
$25.00 -
Quality Improvement: The PDSA Cycle, Themes and Aims
Description: In this module we look at how to develop Themes and Aims, the first step of the Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle. We explore how to identify Themes for improvement, develop Global Aims, and narrow those down to Specific Aims. Note: This course is eligible for ACPE credit.
Authors: John D. Voss, MD
Credit/contact hours: .25
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes
Publication Date: Sept 4, 2019
Expiration Date: Sept 3, 2025
$25.00
