On Thursday, September 25, 2008 Gail Robison RN, RAC-CT, Clinical Operations Consultant along with Bonnie Wirfs MD, CMD, FACP, Geriatric Medicine Physician provided a three part series on Clinical Standards of Practice.
The three part series included:
- The ABC’s of Facility Behavior Related to Our Clinical Practice
- Reach for Evidence-based Medicine, Clinical Practice and Care and
- Make QA Improvements Based on Sound Clinical Practice.
The audience of clinicians and other experts primarily remained through all three separate presentations. This topic is one of critical interest with a tremendous increase in citations related to Quality of Care cross referenced to Standards of Clinical Practice. The foci included how the Medical director and Medical staff assist facility practice through geriatric approaches to care, implementation of evidence based medicine and geriatric principles. The focus of defining the role, responsibilities of the Medical staff and provision of geriatric medicine to improve care in nursing home facilities was of vast interest to the attendees. The nursing components and support of the process improvement through the understanding and utilization of facility/nursing process was extensively addressed to facilitate a successful facility Quality Assurance program based on sound clinical practice and the team working together to ensure the best practiced care for the residents of the facility.
The Boyer and Associates Team provided a booth as part of the Exhibitors Forum on September 25th. As a diamond conference sponsor the Boyer and Associates, LLC also provided the refreshment breaks for Thursday September 25th at 10:30am and 3:30 pm.
Additionally we sponsored the evening entertainment: WAHSA Idol Competition September 25th. The talent in the WAHSA group was unexpected and a difficult challenge for the judges to select the winners.
The 28th WAHSA Conference was most successful and we took pleasure in providing a team approach to support this conference.
