Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Satellite Broadcast: 19th Annual National Forum

Continuing Education

Continuing education instructions

Participants in the 19th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care satellite broadcast will learn how to:

Recognize habits that support good care and apply the basic principles for improving them.
Define ways to reduce suffering and improve health.
Develop an understanding of how to transform an organization.
Identify elements for creating a culture of change that will lead to continuous improvement.

This Institute for Healthcare Improvement activity carries the following types of continuing education credits:

Physician Credits

Nursing Credits

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

Participants receive 1 contact hour per Keynote and Mini Keynote presentation.

IHI designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This continuing education activity carried 9 contact hours. Each nurse should claim only those hours of credit s/he actually spent in the educational activity.

Participants receive 1 contact hour per Keynote and Mini Keynote presentation.

*All RN licensing boards nationwide acknowledge and accept contact hours from accredited providers. The California Board of Registered Nursing recognizes Category 1 Continuing Medical Education credits, and California nurses can use participation at these events, which are approved for CME Category 1 Credits, towards their license renewal, regardless of whether or not they were held on California soil. In the section where California nurses are asked to provide a BRN number, please indicate that the IHI event attended was approved for Category 1 CME credits. For further inquiries, the California Board of Registered Nursing is in Sacramento, and their number is 916-322-3350.

Continuing Education for Pharmacists

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the Accredidation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. IHI can award up to 2 contact hours for participation in the program.

The following Mini Keynote presentations offer 1 contact hour each:

A1: When Safety Programs Make Us Less Safe
Date: December 11
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Eastern Time
Speakers: Carol Haraden, PhD; Rene Amalberti, MD, PhD

C1: New Ways to See: Innovative Tools to Improve Patient Care
Date: December 11
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern Time
Speaker: Maureen Bisognano