3. Comprehensive team-based care
- Date: Friday, September 20, 2019
- Concurrent Session C
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Time: 8:45am – 9:30am
- Room: Pier 7
- Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
- Focus: Practical (e.g. Presentation on how to implement programs and/or practices in the team environment)
- Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.), Clinical providers
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn how to implement a team-based approach to COPD management for patients with comorbid serious mental health diagnoses and, often, low health literacy. Ms. Lisa Smyth, Nurse Practitioner Village FHT will lead the presentation. Innovative low literacy tools will be shared, designed by Village FHT, to reach this challenging patient population.
Summary/Abstract
The presentation will outline the process through which the COPD program was developed at Village FHT. They will review:
- Initial needs assessment for the program
- The creation of a chronic disease management tool to standardize evidence- based quality care for all COPD patients.
- Development of low literacy health teaching tools with input from patients to facilitate individualized self-management plans.
- Alignment with HQO COPD Quality Standards including introduction of on-site spirometry
- Outcome measures
- Areas for future development
- Challenges and successes along the way!
Presenter
- Lisa Smyth, BSc Nursing, MN, NP-PHC, Village FHT