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Nemours Health Partnerships Quality Council
Course Overview
Interdisciplinary leaders from our Partnership sites participate in a 10-month program for training in Quality Improvement. These leaders are charged with forming a local team to execute a step-by-step quality improvement project. Participants progress through a structured curriculum with targeted pre-work and proctored assignments.
The 2026 collaborative project across all sites will be related to reducing treatment nonadherence. Preliminary collaborative aim statements include: Reducing Vitamin K and Hepatitis B vaccine refusal in the well-baby nursery / NICU from 50% to 33% by January 2027 and Reducing readmission for asthma exacerbation secondary to treatment non-adherence from 10% to 5% by January 2027.
Required Course Deliverables
Aims:
- To develop a cadre of health care professionals with training in quality improvement
- To develop a cadre of health care professionals with experience in leading quality improvement activity
- To promote interprofessional teamwork in quality improvement
- To generate meaningful and coordinated quality improvement activity across our Nemours Partnership sites
- To demonstrate progress towards QI aim statements as noted above.
Measures:
- Completion of all required assignments – use of team workbooks stored on MS Teams site to capture activities
- Meaningful participation in team meetings as noted by attendance and faculty reflection
- Completion of a poster presentation reflecting on each team’s efforts
Target Audience
Physicians and Nurse Practitioners
Learning Objectives
Please visit the monthly course pages for each session's learning objectives.
Contact Information: If you have any questions regarding this course please contact [email protected].
Nemours Health Quality Council Program Schedule
Session 1 Building a Team |
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Session 2 Understanding Process |
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Session 3 Defining the Problem |
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Session 4 Drivers of Change |
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Session 5 Measurement of Change |
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Session 6 Safety |
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Session 7 Harm Prevention |
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Session 8 Equity in QI |
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Session 9 Measurement - Advanced |
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Session 10 Sustainability & QI Leadership |
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All relevant Financial Relationships have been mitigated. To view additional information on the Nemours Children's disclosure policy, right click on the following link to open in a new tab.
Click on the Speaker's Name to see their full bio:
Johanna Ivich, MSN, APRN, NNP-BC
Shanmukha Mukthapuram, MD MEd
Lloyd Werk, MD, MPH
In support of improving patient care, Nemours Children’s Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nursing
Nemours Children’s Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physicians
Nemours Children’s Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Professions
A certificate of participation will be provided to other health care professionals requesting credits. Please check with your accreditation board to make sure they accept the above accreditation types.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 2.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
IPCE
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Below are the credit types available to you per your professional designation.
Price
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