VTE prophylaxis: Key components of a hospital-wide policy

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VTE prophylaxis: Key components of a hospital-wide policy

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12 noon EST

Due to the overwhelming interest in the session held on July 28, 2010, it has been decided to repeat this webinar.

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the most common preventable causes of complications in hospitalized patients.

This one hour webinar will provide strategies for developing a hospital-wide VTE prophylaxis policy and will help healthcare organizations prepare for the new Accreditation Canada Required Organizational Practice (ROP) for VTE (effective 2011).

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

understand the importance of VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized patients
identify which patients are at risk for VTE, and
know what a hospital-wide thromboprophylaxis policy should include.

Audience: Nurses, Pharmacists, Accreditation Coordinators, Physicians, Directors and Managers of Quality and Risk Management.

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST
10:00 am - 11:00 am MST
11:00 am - 12:00 pm CST
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm AST
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm NST

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: $95.00 (plus applicable GST/HST) per telephone connection
For registration information, please select the ‘Registration’ tab.

Speaker: Lynn Riley, RN, Educator, ISMP Canada

Contact Us: webinars@ismp-canada.org

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Speaker

Lynn Riley, RN, Educator, ISMP Canada

Lynn has more than 25 years of clinical and managerial nursing experience. She has a varied background that includes staff nurse in critical care, outpatient HIV clinic cardiovascular intensive care and case management. Lynn has taught components of the critical care certificate programs at Seneca, Centennial and George Brown Colleges. She has also held a position as a national clinical educator for a home healthcare agency.

Lynn is an educator at ISMP Canada and most recently, was employed at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the Quality and Patient Safety department and was the VTE intervention coordinator for Safer Healthcare Now!

Background

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the most common preventable causes of complications in hospitalized patients.

Related Links:

ISMP Canada Safety Bulletins:

Accreditation Canada ROPs:

Required Organizational Practices Handbook; April 2010, pages 51-52

Contact Information

Mail:	4711 Yonge Street, Suite 501 Toronto, ON M2N 6K8
Email:	webinars@ismp-canada.org
Phone:	416-733-3131 ext. 236
Toll Free:	1-866-544-7672 ext. 236
Fax:	416-733-1146