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Bernoulli CNO Discusses Innovation and Technology at Villanova Health Summit

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Jeanne Venella talks with Matt Birnholz about the importance of integrating new technologies within the nursing field.

At the Villanova Health Summit, Jeanne Venella, Chief Nursing Officer of Bernoulli, was interviewed by Dr. Matt Birnholz, Vice President and Medical Director for ReachMD, about the challenges of adopting and integrating new technology into nursing workflow.

Venella stressed the importance of including nurses in healthcare technology evaluation, implementation and training. If end-users are not involved in the selection, adoption and implementation of a technology, then the likelihood that they will become owners of that product is significantly lower, which could impair patient safety and clinical workflow initiatives.

The Villanova Health Summit brings together renowned leaders in the healthcare community representing diverse points of expertise such as bioengineering, law, ethics, hospital administration, bench-to-bedside research, and patient care. Featuring unique, multi-disciplinary collaborations, this series explores novel approaches to some of the most pressing issues in healthcare today.

Click to watch the video interview with Bernoulli’s CNO Jeanne Venella on Reach MD Radio

Managing Ventilator Alarms and Data

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Bernoulli’s

Alarm management is constantly  evolving to meet the the needs of the hospital patients and clinical staff alike.

Using Bernoulli One™, the Hospital for Special Care (HSC) has empowered their clinical staff with real-time surveillance capabilities for more than 100 patients on ventilation support and has reduced the total number of ventilator alarms by an estimated 80%, helping achieve compliance with both Phase I and II of the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarm management, as well as the four associated Elements of Performance (EPs).

Jeanne and Connie’s byline on ventilator alarm reduction, based on our HSC case study, was just published in Advance Healthcare Network for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine.

Learn more of how HSC reduced alarms on 100+ ventilators by 80 percent!

Links:

See the “Managing Ventilator Alarms and Data: Hospital reduces non-actionable alarms while collecting actionable patient data from more than 100 ventilators.”

 Please contact us to get a copy of the case study.

Check out the webinar recording by going to Bernoullihealth.com/Webinars

Jeanne Venella talks about alarm fatigue on RN FM radio

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203 Episode of RN FM Radio,

The Alarming Truth at the Bedside of Nursing with Jeanne Venella, DNP, Chief Nursing Officer of Milford, CT-based Bernoulli,

is an informative, funny, personable,and extensive discussion of the issue of alarm fatigue, the risk for patients, the process and governance needed to address it and the capabilities of Bernoulli One to not just manage alarms but actually reduce them.  The best part of the interview is probably when one of the nurse hosts mentioned that by 2020, hopefully all nurses/hospitals will have Bernoulli in place to ease their alarm woes

Bernoulli's Jeanne Venella talks about how to manage alarms on RN FM radioThe 55-minute RN FM Radio broadcast on alarm fatigue can be heard here: http://rnfmradio.com/episode203 – this page also features a full-length article, as well as links to resources on the Bernoulli website and social media.

The May issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News has TWO Bernoulli articles

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DOTmed HealthCare Business News is THE source for busy medical professionals looking to improve the health of their bottom line.  DOTmed HeathCare Business News is sent monthly to over 31,000 influential medical executives.

Screen shot 2016-05-03 at 9.18.16 AMThe May issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News has TWO Bernoulli articles:

1)      “The need to leverage enterprise medical device integration” by John Zaleski on page 32

2)      “Why it is time for an immediate hospital alarm intervention” by Jeanne Venella on page 69

DOTmed HealthCare Business News is THE source for busy medical professionals looking to improve the health of their bottom line.  DOTmed HeathCare Business News is sent monthly to over 31,000 influential medical executives.

About the authors:

John Zaleski, Ph.D., CPHIMS, is executive vice president and chief informatics officer of Bernoulli, a leader in real-time connected health care. Dr. Zaleski brings more than 25 years of experience in researching and ushering to market devices and products to improve healthcare. He received his PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation that describes a novel ap­proach for modeling and prediction of postoperative respiratory behavior in post-surgical cardiac patients. Dr. Zaleski has a particular expertise in designing, developing and implementing clinical and non-clinical point-of­ care applications for hospital enterprises. Dr. Zaleski is the named inventor or co-inventor on seven issued patents related to medical device interoperability.

Jeanne Venella is chief nursing officer at Bernoulli, and has spent her career transforming nursing care and improving processes. In combi­nation with her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, Venella brings both day-to-day op­erational experience and classroom theory to Bernoulli clients. Her areas of expertise include adult and pediatric emergency nursing, organizational throughput, patient flow and efficiency, process improvement change management departmental de­ signs, redesigns, and physical plant layouts.

Please see the attached DOTmed HCBN Bernoulli articles 2016-05 pdf; the online version of the magazine is also available here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c1659eab#/c1659eab/1

Bernoulli to Present Poster on Alarm Reduction at National Patient Safety Foundation

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Bernoulli to Present Poster on Alarm Reduction at National Patient Safety Foundation

Jeanne Venella, DNP, MS, RN, CEN, CPEN, Chief Nursing Officer at Bernoulli will present a poster on alarm reduction, during the 18th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress, May 23-26, 2016, in Scottsdale, AZ. The poster is based on a paper Dr. Venella co-authored on selectively delaying alarm notifications to reduce clinician alarm fatigue for patients receiving patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). The poster will be on display in the Learning & Simulation Center/Exhibit Hall on Tuesday, May 24. The poster is based on a forthcoming paper co-authored by Dr. Venella, Dr. John Zaleski, Chief Informatics Officer, Bernoulli, and Dr. Leah Baron, Chair Department of Anesthesiology, Virtua Memorial Hospital.

Interested in learning more about Bernoulli’s alarm reduction and management capabilities? Please contact us today to schedule a meeting.

Bernoulli Sponsored Webinar: The Impact of Alarm Fatigue on Patient Safety

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Bernoulli Sponsored Webinar: The Threat of Alarm Fatigue on Patient Safety

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Webinar: The Threat of Alarm Fatigue on Patient Safety

It is well documented in the literature that the overwhelming majority of clinical alarms, upwards to 85-90% tolerated by nurses, respiratory therapists and other caregivers are either false alarms or non-actionable – requiring no clinical intervention – leading to alarm fatigue and desensitization that can result from caregivers responding to hundreds or even thousands of alarms every day. Both ECRI Institute and The Joint Commission (TJC) have noted this is a clear and documented threat to patient safety.

Join Bernoulli, a leader in real-time connected healthcare, on Thursday, May 12, 2016, at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time) for an informative webinar on the impact of alarm fatigue on your clinicians and patients; the causes of nuisance alarms; and evidence-based best practices for clinical alarm management and reduction.

The webinar will be co-hosted by Jeanne Venella, DNP, MS, RN, CEN, CPEN, Chief Nursing Officer at Bernoulli, and Connie Dills, MBA, RRT, RPFT, Respiratory Practice Manager at the Hospital for Special Care, New Britain, CT.

Register for this event today!

“The Alarms that Cried Wolf” by Bernoulli CNO Jeanne Venella published in Safety Outlook.

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Bernoulli CNO Jeanne Venella’s  article “The Alarms that Cried Wolf”published in Safety Outlook

Bernoulli Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Jeanne Venella’s article “The Alarms that Cried Wolf” was published in Safety Outlook, the online forum for safety including important news, developments and trends across every industry.  To read the full article please click on this link: http://www.safetyoutlook.com/the-alarms-that-cried-wolf/