BPN offers innovative new conference
Need the tools to launch a benchmarking initiative? Want to know how to create a culture that supports best practices? Could you use some new ideas on treating congestive heart failure or reducing cesarean rates?
You can get the answers to those questions plus more about the operational and clinical issues surrounding benchmarking at a new conference sponsored by the first organization to bring together the country's top nursing leaders. The Best Prac -tice Network (BPN), founded two years ago by 13 nursing associations to promote information- sharing in health care, will hold its first Showcase for Innovation and Best Practices Oct. 2-4 in Chicago. The network is offering a special conference rate for readers of Healthcare Benchmarks.
The conference is for nurses, physicians, admin istrators, managers - anyone interested in best practices from the bedside to the boardroom, says Mary Kingston, RN, MN, director of the BPN. "It's a broad group of people, but none of them can act in isolation," she explains. "We're trying to really promote collaboration, to get people in these different positions to start looking at each other as real team members. The showcase offers a little bit for everybody, with topics that will stretch people in different ways."
Administrators might be especially interested in hearing keynote speakers Tim Porter O'Grady and Gerry Faust, Kingston says. Physicians and nurses could check out case studies of breakthrough programs in chest pain clinics, geriatric care, congestive heart failure, cesarean rates, and nosocomial infections. Novices will discover ways to get started in sessions that demonstrate how to create and document a best practices program.
Plus, there's the usual conference benefit of networking with colleagues from around the country. The BPN will make that process easier by providing you with contact information on speakers and attendees and by holding a luncheon where you can participate in small group discussions with speakers.
"This will be a conference like none other," she says. "We want it to be provocative. We want people to leave changed, to look at their practice in a completely different way. We want them to go back not just charged up and excited like everybody tends to get at a conference, but to really go back and make some meaningful changes."
[For more details, call the Best Practice Network at (800) 899-2226 or (949) 362-2050, ext. 375.]
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