News, tools and resources from PATH - Earn CEUs while learning about a leader's role in a Culture of Safety!

March 2024 | Issue 36

NEW FROM PATH/IHS PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

Culture of Safety Event Achieves Record Participation

Get Nursing CEUs for Recorded Training:

"Leading a Culture of Safety" | Get more information

The Indian Health Service (IHS) Office of Quality, IHS Division of Nursing Services and the Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH) are offering a recorded training with the opportunity for nurses to receive one and a half (1.5) hours of continuing education units (CEUs). The session covers the following topics:

The basic components of a Culture of Safety and how they drive patient safety and high-functioning teams

The role of leaders in demonstrating and reinforcing a Culture of Safety, including examples of specific duties and tasks for leaders
Resources and support for further development in leading a Culture of Safety

This event drew a record crowd and received high points from participants. Learn more about the event's success in this month's spotlight article. You will also find out how to receive the 1.5 nursing CEUs for completing the training.

TAKE 5 FOR SAFETY

Just Culture and Psychological Safety

As individual methodologies, Just Culture and psychological safety provide many benefits for health care organizations that adopt and implement them. Combine the two, however, and health care professionals can learn from their mistakes, trust each other, hold themselves accountable and continuously strive to improve.

Learn more about creating psychological safety and a Just Culture in this month's edition of "Take 5 for Safety."

PATH EVENTS

IHS Opioid Surveillance Dashboard Office Hours | Register now

Every third Wednesday, February through May

2-3 p.m. ET | 1-2 p.m. CT | 1-12 p.m. MT | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. PT

Join the IHS National Committee on Heroin Opioids and Pain Efforts (HOPE Committee) and PATH for open office hours sessions on the use of the IHS Opioid Surveillance Dashboard (OSD). This call will support IHS users of the IHS OSD through

discussing dashboard functionality and use cases;

responding to dashboard questions;
providing a forum to discuss requests, recommendations or enhancements;
highlighting techniques to get the most out of this dashboard.

This event is free and open to IHS staff only. Registration is required to receive the call-in information.

IN THE KNOW

2024 CMS Quality Conference | April 8-10

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a "transformative health care journey" at this year's quality conference. This year's theme is "Resilient and Ready Together: Creating an Optimal Environment for Quality Health Care for Individuals, Families and Communities."

Participants can attend in person by traveling to Baltimore, Maryland, or can join virtually.

Registration is required for both in-person and virtual participants. Check out the newly posted agenda. You can attend as many or as few of the sessions, depending on what your schedule allows.

We hope you will join the PATH team for "Using Community Health Assessments and

Leveraging Community Resources to Improve Health Equity and Reduce Health Care Disparities"

on Monday, April 8, at 2 p.m. Eastern.

Guide to Reduce Health Care Worker Burnout

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation released an evidence-informed guide to help hospital leaders implement a systems approach to accelerate professional well-being. The guide outlines six action steps designed to improve the professional wellbeing of health care workers and strengthen hospital operations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NIOSH will host a webinar series, beginning in late April 2024, for hospital leaders to learn how to use each section of the guide. The goal is for participating hospitals to start implementing the guide immediately after the webinar series.

In the meantime, CEUs are still available for the PATH and IHS session

"Well-being at Work: A Nursing Leader's Role in Building and Retaining Strong Teams."

Learn more about the on-demand video and how to get 1.5 CEUs.

APRIL OBSERVANCES: TOOLS AND RESOURCES

National Public Health Week (April 1-7)

The first week of April recognizes the contributions public health organizations in improving health in our communities. This year's theme for National Public Health Week is "Protecting, Connecting

and Thriving: We Are All Public Health."

Each day of the week is devoted to a different topic, such as healthy neighborhoods and emergency preparedness.
Learn about your state's public health and well-being as analyzed using more than 280 measures and more than 80 data sources.

Patient Experience Week (April 29 - May 3)

Patient Experience Week celebrates how health care workers impact the patient experience.

By participating, you can show your teams you appreciate the hard work they do to provide quality and compassionate care.

Get ideas for celebrating your staff and empowering your patients for Patient Experience Week.
IHS offers a patient experience of care survey as an easy tool for collecting feedback from your patients (geared toward ambulatory primary care sites).
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) American Indian Survey for tribal health care facilities.

Alcohol Awareness Month

As Alcohol Awareness Month, April offers an opportunity to educate individuals and communities about the risks associated with excessive alcohol consumption. Talk with your patients about what their relationship with alcohol looks like.

Get Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tools and resources for patients.
Find ideas for observing Alcohol Awareness Month.
Get tips about how to ask, listen and learn about alcohol use -- meant for kids, but these fun resources can be adapted for any audience!
Provide resources for where patients can get help, like this free, 24/7, confidential hotline: 1-855-955-0771.
Learn about IHS support programs for addressing alcohol and substance abuse.

National Drug Take Back Day (April 27)

Removing unneeded medications from the home helps prevent medication misuse

and opioid addiction. National Drug Take Back Day reminds patients get rid of old and unused medications. Download this flyer and hang it in your facility or provide it to patients.

PARTNERSHIP TO ADVANCE TRIBAL HEALTH (PATH) | Visit the PATH website

This material was prepared by Comagine Health for the American Indian Alaska Native Healthcare Quality Initiative under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. NQIIC-AIHQI-534-03/24/2024