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2026 Nursing Contact Hours – Evaluation Form

23rd Annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference - October 15-16, 2026

Organization: Davis Continuing Education

Location: Patient Safety Conference Zoom Webinar/Meeting

Please complete this conference evaluation for the presentations you attended live or watched recorded. Upon receipt we will send you the certificate with your contact hours. We will base your contact hours on the sessions you respond to on the evaluation.

Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16359 for 12 contact hours.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026

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KEYNOTE 1: 8:00 - 9:00 am

1. Advancing Health in Turbulent - Jerome Adams

1. Learning Objectives: 1) Explore the impact of social, economic, and healthcare system challenges on patient outcomes and provider well-being during periods of uncertainty and change. 2) Identify strategies to improve resilience, adaptability, and equitable healthcare delivery in rapidly evolving clinical environments. 3) Discuss innovative approaches and collaborative solutions that promote sustainable health advancement for patients, providers, and communities during turbulent times.

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BREAKOUT SESSION A: 9:15 - 10:15 am

2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Amplifying the Signals in Your Patient Safety Data - Eileen Kasda | Christine Robson | Asa Adadey

2. Learning Objectives: 1) Describe how AI and advanced analytic techniques can move patient safety from reactive event reporting to proactive surveillance across an organization. 2) Explain how analytic approaches can unlock staff capacity, reduce workarounds, and help safety leaders extract actionable information for improvement. 3) Articulate key principles for developing an organizational AI philosophy that drives innovation in patient safety while preserving the integrity of safety data and human judgment.

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BREAKOUT SESSION A: 9:15 - 10:15 am

3. From Staffing Shortages to Safety Solutions: Optimizing Nurse-Patient Alignment Through the Synergy Tool - Farinaz Havaei

3. Learning Objectives: 1) Explain the structural limitations and implications for patient safety, workforce sustainability, and health equity of traditional nurse staffing methods. 2) Understand the Synergy tool to align nurse competencies with multidimensional patient acuity and dependency characteristics, including implementation strategies for integrating Synergy-informed decision-making into daily nurse staffing. 3) Appraise the empirical and implementation evidence supporting Synergy-informed staffing—including impacts on patient outcomes, nurse outcomes, and organizational performance—and identify future directions for scalable, equity-informed, and AI-enabled workforce innovation.

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KEYNOTE 2: 10:30 - 11:30 am

4. How Can We Accelerate the Trajectory of Safety Progress in Healthcare - Terry Fairbanks

4. Learning Objectives: 1) Describe five essential elements of change in safety management that the healthcare industry must embrace in order to become a truly highly reliable industry. 2) Describe the systems approach to safety and name the essential areas that must be considered in designing for safety within a complex socio-technical system. 3) Describe the difference between quality and safety and contrast the different skill sets and methods needed to lead each of these specialties.

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KEYNOTE 3: 11:45 am - 12:45 pm

5. From Cockpit to Bedside: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Safety - Ben Clayton

5. Learning Objectives: 1) Identify leadership behaviors that strengthen or weaken safety culture. 2) Explain how trust and psychological safety influence reporting and learning. 3) Describe strategies for sustaining safety culture during periods of change and operational pressure.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2026

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KEYNOTE 4: 8:00 - 9:00 am

6. You can hear me, but are you listening? Transforming culture to advance CRPs - Tom Gallagher, MD | Jeff Goldenberg, MD & Naomi Kirtner | Caitlin Harrington, MD, JD | Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD

6. Learning Objectives: 1) Recognize the patient, family, and clinician impact of harm events and ineffective organizational responses. 2) Discuss the evidence, benefits, and key components of communication and resolution programs (CRPs) in healthcare settings. 3) Apply lessons learned from implementation experiences to address common challenges and advance CRP adoption within their own organizations.

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BREAKOUT SESSION B: 9:15 - 10:15 am

7. Practical Strategies to Build Vaccine Confidence - Lori Handy, MD

7. Learning Objectives: 1) Recognize challenges with different communication strategies. 2) Describe best practices for communicating about vaccines. 3) Develop a plan for how to best communicate with parents about vaccines.

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BREAKOUT SESSION B: 9:15 - 10:15 am

8. Beyond the NHSN Definitions: Looking at harm and infection prevention surveillance with a new lens - Catherine Kroll

8. Learning Objectives: 1) Describe the limitations of relying solely on NHSN surveillance definitions to evaluate clinical harm when evaluating the impact of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). 2) Apply a patient harm matrix to healthcare-associated infections to differentiate surveillance events from clinically significant harm and prioritize opportunities for improvement. 3) Describe an enhanced HAI review framework that shifts organizational focus from surveillance compliance to patient harm reduction and quality improvement.

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BREAKOUT SESSION B: 9:15 - 10:15 am

9. Did you Catch That? Changing Culture through Good Catch Program - Jessica Yanny

9. Learning Objectives: 1) Implement structured good catch program and measurements for success. 2) Identify critical safety behaviors highlighted in the program. 3) Verbalize culture impacts.

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BREAKOUT SESSION C: 10:30 - 11:30 am

10. Electronic Tools in Infection Prevention: Practical Applications and Lessons Learned - Shruti Gohil, MD

10. Learning Objectives: 1) Describe how electronic tools support patient safety and infection prevention initiatives. 2) Identify strategies for using electronic strategies to improve antibiotic stewardship and reduce CLABSI, CAUTI, and C. difficile infections. 3) Evaluate opportunities to incorporate electronic decision support into infection prevention programs.

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BREAKOUT SESSION C: 10:30 - 11:30 am

11. Let’s Talk to Clients: Integrating a Patient Voice Framework in Mental Health as a Foundation for Patient Safety - Rishika Selvakumar

11. Learning Objectives: 1) Explain how incorporating patient and client voices in mental health care supports recovery? oriented, trauma? informed, and culturally safe practices that enhance patient safety. 2) Recognize mental health–specific factors (e.g., power dynamics, stigma, coercion, emotional safety, trust) that influence meaningful patient and client engagement in safety and quality improvement initiatives. 3) Apply a Patient Voice Framework to mental health settings to integrate lived experience perspectives into service design, clinical practice, and organizational decision?making in ways that promote psychological safety and quality of care.

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BREAKOUT SESSION C: 10:30 - 11:30 am

12. SMART Continual Readiness Program - Ivy Dacones

12. Learning Objectives: 1) Describe the purpose and structure of the S.M.A.R.T. Continual Readiness Program, including how Kamishibai-based tools (Resource, Task, Reference, and Survey Theme Cards) support accreditation and regulatory compliance. 2) Explain how S.M.A.R.T. rounding tools promote real-time feedback and standardization, improving staff knowledge, accountability, and adherence to high-risk, low-frequency processes. 3) Apply S.M.A.R.T. tools to support continual readiness efforts, including integrating cards into daily workflows, reinforcing regulatory requirements, and identifying opportunities to improve patient safety and quality outcomes.

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