APS Launches Second Annual Pennsylvania Patient Safety Initiative

Advanced Practiced Strategies (APS), a arch provider of online apprenticeship solutions for accommodating safety, today appear the barrage of its Second Annual Pennsylvania Patient Safety Initiative. The statewide action enables hospitals to acceptance best-in-class online accommodating assurance apprenticeship at a cogent abatement by abutting calm with added bounded hospitals to accept APS courseware.

The 2009 action builds on the success of endure year’s Pennsylvania Perinatal Safety Initiative, through which about 1000 doctors and nurses at Pennsylvania hospitals throughout the accompaniment accustomed a 25% abatement on apprenticeship absorption on the primary drivers of obstetrical risk. Course capacity included cyberbanking fetal affection ecology (EFM), accept dystocia, accessible vaginal accumulation and NICHD terminology.

The 2009 Initiative expands the advance offerings to beset added areas of risk, including surgery, safe prescribing practices, SBAR+R communications and abiding affliction management. The Initiative aswell includes added courses in the perinatal area, such as postpartum drain and adequacy aliment in EFM.

“In animosity of arduous times, hospitals in Pennsylvania accept apparent amazing charge to convalescent accommodating affliction by partnering with us in endure year’s Perinatal Safety Initiative, and acknowledgment has been abundantly positive,” said Dennis Ferrill, CEO of APS. “By accretion the initiative, we can acknowledge added absolutely to the accommodating assurance needs of Pennsylvania hospitals, while aswell authoritative the apprenticeship accessible to as abounding clinicians as possible, behindhand of admeasurement or account constraints.”

The APS Perinatal Safety Courses accept delivered accurate after-effects as allotment of a able access to accident management. Hospital Corporation of America has bargain its perinatal claims by over 48% by adopting a absolute civic assurance action featuring APS perinatal education.

Expanded Course Offerings
The broadcast 2009 Pennsylvania Initiative will beset the aboriginal amount perinatal content, including Advanced Fetal Assessment and Monitoring, Managing Shoulder Dystocia, Operative Vaginal Delivery and SBAR+R Communications. Expanded advance agreeable includes:

Patient Safety Bundle
• Errors and Injury in Healthcare
• Using Systems Theory to Prevent Errors and Injury in Healthcare
• Changing Systems

General Practice
• Safe Prescribing Practices and Environments
• Chronic Pain Management
• SBAR+R

Surgery
• Reducing Errors in the Operating Room
• Surgical Safety Toolkits
• SBAR+R
• Bariatric Surgery

Expanded Perinatal Courses
• Introduction to EFM (for access akin nurses)
• Postpartum Hemorrhage

Joining the Initiative
Hospitals absorbed in abutting the action can acquaintance APS at sales@aps-web.com to access an Indication of Commitment form. This non-binding anatomy provides APS with an appraisal of how abounding clinician-training seats anniversary hospital would accede purchasing. APS again aggregates this amount from all hospitals to appraisal the admeasurement of the state-wide discount. The aboriginal charge date for the 2009 Pennsylvania action is October 16, 2009.

Press Contact:
Shonna Keogan
Advanced Practice Strategies, Inc.
45 Main Street
Suite 612
Brooklyn, NY 11201
917-660-7462
skeogan@aps-web.com http://www.aps-web.com .