4 September 9-15. 2010 CENTER eXpress THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL • UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER

Annual nurses survey Sharing our telemedicine expertise launches Monday Already pioneers in the The 2010 National Database for field of telemedicine, KUMC Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) experts will teach more survey begins Monday, Sept. 13. The physicians, nurses and other survey ( www.nursingquality.org/survey ), health professionals how to open through Oct. 3, can be accessed use remote technology to from hospital or home computers. care for rural patients. To participate, you must have KUMC has received been on the payroll before July 1 $980,000 in federal funding and be an RN with direct patient from the U.S. Department of contact. This includes full-time, part- Health and Human Services time and PRN positions. to work with the University The voluntary, confidential survey of Missouri and the Univ - takes about 20 minutes. If fewer ersity of Oklahoma to create than five people participate on a the Heartland Telehealth unit, results will be included in the Resource Center. Led by Ryan Spaulding, PhD, KUMC's telehealth program is one of the first hospital aggregate, but there will be The center will help of its kind in the country. Our caregivers have held consultations with tens of no specific unit information. thousands of patients since the program launched in 1991. health providers throughout Units with 100 percent participa - the region understand what Ryan Spaulding, PhD, direc - Among other things, the tion receive awards. Information: KUMC has been demon - tor of KUMC’s Center for new center will provide Becky Waitkoss, RN, 8-6579. strating for nearly 20 years: Telemedicine and Telehealth technical assistance and Patients in hard-to-reach, (www2.kumc.edu/telemedicine ) resources to new telehealth Symposium focuses on rural areas receive high- and the grant’s principal programs, use new social evidence-based practices quality care using video - investigator. media tools such as The 5th Annual Nursing Science conference technologies to “Doctors are able to listen Facebook to provide Symposium Sept. 24 will showcase “visit” faraway doctors. to patients’ hearts with resources to patients and evidence-based practices, perform - “Almost any tool a health stethoscopes, look in their professionals, and test other ance improvements and research professional would normally ears with otoscopes and marketing strategies to drive projects. use can be used through check their skin with derma - consumer demand for tele - Hosted by the hospital’s Nursing telemedicine,” explained scopes.” health services. Research Council, the symposium is 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in G013 School of Nursing. The symposium, Jayhawk opens urgent care clinic in KCK “Evidence-Based Practice: Cultural Diversity and Vulnerable Populations,” Ailing Wyandotte County resi - cut. They need to see a doctor “There is a national trend for features keynote speaker Martha dents have a new option for con - quickly but aren’t sick enough for occupational health facilities to Baird, PhD, RN, clinical assistant pro - venient urgent care services: the a visit to the Emergency offer urgent care services,” Olson fessor of nursing in the KU School of Jayhawk Primary Care facility at Department. said. “This was a matter of, we had Nursing. Poster presentations in the 4810 State Avenue in Kansas Though the State Avenue facil - the location, we didn’t have an City, Kan. ity has been up and running since urgent care presence in Wyandotte atrium will focus on a variety of topics. Jayhawk, a subsidiary of the July 2006, until last week it had County, and we could do it Attendance is free, and lunch will hospital that operates primary only offered occupational health with minimal additional overhead.” be provided for the first 100 atten - care practices throughout the services, which include things like The Wyandotte County facility dees. CEUs are available. metro area, now has four urgent employer services, workplace did not have to add any additional Nurses and nurse students from care facilities. The facilities – in injury treatment and rehabilitation. staff to get the new urgent care throughout the metro can attend. Gladstone, Mo., and Shawnee, Michael Olson, chief operating practice up and running. Olson Register: [email protected]. 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