Small Talks are brief presentations designed to meet your needs during a uniquely challenging time. Each topic is repeated the following week to better accommodate your schedule. We’ll also have experts on hand to facilitate any questions you have.
Each Small Talk is 20-minutes with 10-minutes for discussion and is structured to:
- Articulate a specific challenge
- Offer unambiguous interventions that lead to improvement
- Guide providers to a specific result or outcome
Previous and Upcoming Small Talk Presentation Topics and Slides
Focus: Infection & Antibiotic Tracking Tool: Slides, Resource, & Presentation Video
Focus: Adverse Drug Events (ADEs), January 27 & February 2, 12 PM (ET): Slides, Presentation Video
ADE Small Talk Resource List
- Adverse Drug Event Trigger Tool
- Discharge Medications: Nurse-To-Nurse Warm Handoff Guidance
- Medication Discrepancies Data Collection Tool
- Essential Communication Elements Guides: Anticoagulant, Pain Management, Diabetes
- INTERACT: Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers
- American Geriatrics Society Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
- Medications & Older Adults
- Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed
Focus: Enhancing Transitions to Community, February 10 & 16, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Sepsis: Early Identification is a Cross Continuum Opportunity, February 24 & March 2, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Making Sense & Staying on Track: CMS Vaccine Mandates, March 10 & 16, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: IPRO QIN-QIO Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness & Prevention Programs, March 24 & 30, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Advancing Health Equity in End of Life Planning and Care, April 7 & 13, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Heart Failure – Patient Self-management Supports Better Outcomes, April 21 & 27, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Opioid Use Disorder & Related Behaviors: Supporting Patients & Each Other, May 5 & 11, 12 PM (ET), Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Knowledge Builders Series: Introducing the Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA), May 19 & 25, Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Caring for Residents with Chronic Kidney Disease, June 2 & 8, 12 PM (ET), Slides
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category I: Data Collection, June 16, Slides, Presentation Video
Focus: Ambulatory Care COVID-19 Antivirals (Paxlovid, Lagevrio): Overview for Healthcare Professionals, June 22, Slides
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category II: Data Collection Training, June 23
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category III: Data Validation, June 30
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category IV: Data Stratification, July 7
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category V: Communicating Patient Demographic Findings, July 14
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category VI: Addressing & Resolving Gaps in Care, July 21
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series, Category VII: Organizational Infrastructure & Culture, July 28
Focus: HEOA Knowledge Builders Series Recap, August 4