Staying Alive: A Journey to Redefine the Medical Emergency Care Process

Thursday, November 30, 2023

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM PST

Location: Town and Country Ballroom A

Primary Presenter(s)

Lisa M. Baker, MEd, BSN

Director, Resuscitation and Outreach
VHA SimLEARN
Orlando, FL, United States

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Co-Presenter(s)

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Tracey Robilotto, APRN DNP

Associate Director
Veterans Health Administration
Orlando, Florida, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.
Stacy E. Prosser, MSN, RN

Quality Management Coordinator
VA Northern Indiana Health Care System
Fort Wayne, IN, United States

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Moderator(s)

Bridgid G. Joseph, MSN

Director Emergency Cardiac Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Groton Long Point, Connecticut, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):

Lisa M. Baker, MEd, BSN: No financial relationships to disclose

Stacy E. Prosser, MSN, RN: No financial relationships to disclose

Summary: Journey through one rural Veterans Hospital Administration (VHA) medical facility’s in cultural transformation, through the implementation of a robust resuscitation campaign and interprofessional mock code training program, to positively impact lives saved.

Synopsis: Poor quality CPR is a preventable harm. The Veterans Health Administration, the largest healthcare organization in the Nation, developed a resuscitation simulation system testing to proactively identify and mitigate gaps associated with personnel, equipment, environment or the overall system.

Learning Objectives:

Describe how simulation can be used to assess unforeseen vulnerabilities and latent safety threats within the medical emergency care process
Recognize facility specific strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats during the planning and implementation phase of the resuscitation simulation system testing.
Define innovative solutions through a resuscitation campaign that resulted in grassroot cultural transformation in resuscitation.
This presentation will include ways to educate citizens that can lead to a comprehensive change to a culture of excellence and improved CPR training in the community, schools and workplace.
This presentation will include components of a high quality collaborative cardiovascular and resuscitation program in a dispatch, EMS and / or healthcare system that has demonstrated improvement in survival from SCA.
This presentation will include strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.