The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation

The UCSF Venous Access Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project

Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Cooperative Agreement (Grant number D51 HP10004-01)
Nancy E. Donaldson RN, DNSc., Principal Investigator

Overview

VAD Team: Jerry Kellogg, Nancy Donaldson, Kathleen Yule, Marcia Ryder, Ann Williamson, Jeff Pearl

Investigators

• Nancy E. Donaldson, RN, DNSc., Principal Investigator/Project Director, UCSF School of Nursing; Center for Nursing Research & Innovation
• Ann Williamson RN, PhD, Co-Investigator, UCSF Medical Center
• Jeffrey Pearl, MD, FACS, Co-Investigator, UCSF Department of Surgery

Description

• The UCSF Vascular Access (VAD) Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project was a three-year project
• conducted under a Health Resources & Services Administraton (HRSA) Cooperative Agreement (Grant number D51 HP10004-01). It proposed to:
• Develop and present a 10 hour/one academic unit VAD patient safety graduate seminar including a web-based module and clinical simulations for clinicians;
• Disseminate the VAD patient safety seminar translated into continuing professional education to Medical Center nurses, advance practice nurses, and physicians, faculty and students in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing;
• Valuate the content and processes of the instructional programs, as well as clinical outcomes, related to the utilization of VADs in practice; and
• Disseminate the findings from the development and implementation of the VAD patient safety seminar and professional educational programs.
• Envisioned as an interdisciplinary academic and continuing professional education project, the UCSF Vascular Access Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project will link faculty and students from the UCSF Schools of Medicine and Nursing, in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy, with staff from the UCSF Medical Center to expedite improvement in vascular access patient safety and clinical outcomes through integrating established process improvement methods, evidence-based medicine, and interdisciplinary professional education. Key levers for VAD patient safety related to interprofessional collaboration, communication and documentation will be explicated and interdisciplinary education curriculum geared to optimizing key levers in practice will de designed and implemented. It is expected that the template for high volume, high risk, error prone, highly collaborative process improvements through interdisciplinary education emerging from this project will make an important contribution to health sciences curricula.

Back to top- - -

- - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -