Patient Safety Series - Continuing Education (June 4, 2019)

"What Problem are We Trying to Solve? How Continuing Education Professionals Help Close the Gap"
Presented by Dena Silva, MS, CHCP, Director of INCEDO, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center

This webinar series is co-sponsored by SaferCare Texas (formerly known as the UNTHSC Institute for Patient Safety).

Description: Continuing education in the healthcare professions is transitioning to delivering meaningful and measureable outcomes. INCEDO, the office of continuing education at UNT Health Science Center, offers CE programming that is interprofessional/multi-disciplinary and focuses on changing behaviors of clinicians to optimize patient care. In this webinar, insight to the inner workings and skillsets of a continuing education office will be provided along with key take-home points to initiate collaboration on innovative approaches to clinical continuing education.

Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of a continuing education professional;
- Identify 3 ways CE can close a patient safety gap; and
- Describe innovative approaches to using CE for healthcare professionals for improving outcomes.

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