Preventing staff risks in outpatient care settings
Learning objectives
Participants will:
- Identify the composition of current outpatient service facilities
- Determine factors affecting outpatient market growth
- Review importance of safe patient handling and mobility in any healthcare setting
- Compare safe patient handling and mobility in acute, outpatient and point of service care environments
- Overview of patient handling solution process
Presentatoren
Eric McCready, RN, BSN
Clinical Team Lead - Arjo Inc.
Eric has been in the medical field for the past 15 years. He began as an EMT and worked as an EMT-P, where he spent the majority of his career in the Emergency Department a a Registered Nurse. Eric also has a background in leadership and education. Eric has a passion for teaching; he wants to see improved patient outcomes while improving the safety in healthcare environments.Eric worked for Arjo as a consultant and clincal team leading safe patient handling and mobility programs resulting sustainable and repeatable results.
Greg Pinnington
Executive Business Director, MOVE - Arjo Inc.
Greg Pinnington has been with Arjo since 2002 and is the Executive Business Director for MOVE and the leader of Arjo’s team of MOVE Directors. MOVE is Arjo’s strategic outcomes partnership for healthcare providers. He has been involved in employee safety and risk management systems since 1993, with a focus on healthcare since 1999.Greg and his team consult with US acute and long-term care health care providers to strategically develop and implement clinically supported safe patient handling and mobility program solutions to drive clinical, financial and operational outcomes. Originally from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Greg moved to the United State in 1998 and resides in Apollo Beach, FL with his wife Jan.