New guide & modules on multimodal pain strategies for postoperative pain management
Pain management can pose multiple challenges in the acute care setting for hospitalists and front-line prescribers. While their first priority is to optimally manage pain in their patients, they also face the challenges of treating diverse patient populations, managing patient expectations, and considering how pain control and perceptions affect Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores. Furthermore, because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, prescribers must ensure that pain is managed responsibly and ethically.
To address these issues, SHM developed a guide to address how to work in an interdisciplinary team, identify impediments to implementation, and provide examples of appropriate pain management. In accompaniment with this Multimodal Pain Strategies Guide for Postoperative Pain Management, there are three modules presented by the authors which supplement the electronic guide.
To download the guide or view the modules, visit hospitalmedicine.org/pain.
Proven excellence through a unique education style: Academic Hospitalist Academy
Don’t miss the eighth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), Sept. 25-28, 2017, at the Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. AHA attendees experience an energizing, interactive learning environment featuring didactics, small-group exercise and skill-building breakout sessions. Each full day of learning is facilitated by leading clinician-educators, hospitalist researchers, and clinical administrators in a 1 to 10 faculty to student ratio.
The Principal Goals of the Academy are to:
- Develop junior academic hospitalists as the premier teachers and educational leaders at their institutions
- Help academic hospitalists develop scholarly work and increase scholarly output
- Enhance awareness of the value of quality improvement and patient safety work
- Support academic promotion of all attendees
Don’t miss out on this unique, hands-on experience. Register before July 18, 2017, to receive the early-bird rates. Visit academichospitalist.org to learn more.
Choosing Wisely Case Study compendium now available
The Choosing Wisely Case Study Competition, hosted by SHM, sought submissions from hospitalists on innovative improvement initiatives implemented in their respective institutions. These initiatives reflect and promote movement toward reducing unnecessary medical tests and procedures and changing a culture that dictates, “More care is better care.”
Submissions were judged by the Choosing Wisely Subcommittee, a panel of SHM members, under adult and pediatric categories. One grand prize winner and three honorable mentions were selected from these categories. The compendium includes these case studies along with additional exemplary submissions.
View the Choosing Wisely Case Study Compendium at hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.
Strengthen your interactions with the 5 Rs of Cultural Humility
Look inside this issue for your 5 Rs of Cultural Humility pocket card. It can be easily referenced on rounds and shared with colleagues. We hope to achieve heightened awareness of effective interactions. In addition to the definitions of each of the Rs, the card features questions to ask yourself before, during, and after every interaction to aid in attaining cultural humility.
For more information, visit hospitalmedicine.org/5Rs.
Brett Radler is communications specialist at the Society of Hospital Medicine.