1. 4TH
Quarter 2018
December 6, 2018
Valerie Bica BSN RN
Leah Savage MSN RN

2. Attendance leah.savage@nortonhealthcare.org
Please have one person from each facility Leah Savage with a list of everyone on the call.
Please indicate if any members are CCDS, there is 1 CCDS CEU for this presentation.
Leah will the CCDS certificates to one member in each facility.
Please send contact information to Leah Savage.
Include: name, address, and name of facility.

3. Welcome to the 4th Quarter 2018 APDIS meeting
We are a new organization and working hard to come up to speed with the ‘paperwork’.
By-laws are in process for our group, unfortunately we all need rules
In the meantime please keep in mind, this is a group of CDI specialists who are gathering with a goal of education and inter-CDI networking only
Please keep that in mind if asked for contact information from anyone involved in the group. Please respect our privacy and do not share that information without permission.
The goals will remain the same, our leadership team is united in that belief. We also want to protect our members

4. We are Little , BUT FIERCE!
We are about 150+ strong!
We need to celebrate our growth…food for thought!
If you are interacting with someone from another pediatric hospital and they do CDI, ask them to join
We really want to capture as many as possible, bring them into the fold but remember the goals!

5. Actively seeking presenters!!!
SAVE THE DATE
Next APDIS meeting is:
Thurs, Mar 7, PM eastern
Be there or be square
Actively seeking presenters!!!

6. AND WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
Do you have a CDI topic that is near and dear to your heart?
Do you have some particularly tough or challenging cases that stay with you day and night (nightmares)
Is there something you accomplished that you think will be helpful to others?
What helps or hampers you administratively?
Why not present at our quarterly meeting?
March 7, 2019
June 6, 2019
Sept 5, 2019
Always the first Thursday, 3pm eastern time
VOLUNTEER! Yes you!

7. Mute your phones
now!!

8. Sooooo…..stay calm and REGISTER FOR THE ACDIS CONFERENCE 2019!!!
We STILL have enough interest and we have an entire track for pediatric CDI
APDIS RULES!
Sooooo…..stay calm and REGISTER FOR THE ACDIS CONFERENCE 2019!!!
Florida, Gaylord Convention Center

9. DON’T FORGET TO NOMINATE!
As it was last year,
You will have a chance to nominate
PEDIATRIC CDI OF THE YEAR!!!

10. DISCLAIMER
Earlier this year I asked a question in the APDIS forum as to anyone having and utilizing a definition for pediatric heart failure.  In that there were no responses for a comprehensive definition, I went to the cardiologists, cardiovascular intensivist’s and cardiothoracic surgeons in our hospital to ask for their help in developing a definition for pediatric heart failure that we could utilize as our institutional criteria.  Wolfson Children’s Hospital is a 250 bed regional children’s hospital that performs approximately 225 cardiothoracic procedures annually.  In utilizing this definition for pediatric heart failure, we are not proposing this as the one and only definition for pediatric heat failure that other institutions  should adopt, but it is a definition based in science and is accepted by our hospital’s Medical Board and utilized by our medical staff.  

11. Interesting Work on Pediatric Heart Failure