Monthly Archives: February 2011

Silver Sponsors at the The Texas Organization of Nurse Executives (TONE)

February 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm

If you are a nurse executive attending this year’s annual conference of the The Texas Organization of Nurse Executives (TONE), be sure to come by and talk with the Texas based Decision Critical founder and CEO, Kenneth Dion RN, MBA, PhD. Kenneth is an expert on competency management for your nursing staff.

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Midland Hospital commits to enhancing their quality of care with Decision Critical

February 16, 2011 – 3:40 pm

Midland Memorial Hospital is the latest healthcare organization to make the move to the Decision Critical, Inc (DCI) suite of online tools in an effort to better manage the proficiency of their nursing staff. As more hospitals start to look at how they can transform themselves with an emphasis on delivering a higher quality of care to their patients, they are looking to Decision Critical for assistance in helping to train, evaluate and assess their teams. The tools offered by the company let hospitals keep the training of their nursing staff up to date and their facility in compliance. A key benefit cited by Midland is that the DCI tools help in dramatically reducing the time and resources it takes to generate their regular reporting requirements for their Magnet designation. Something which often requires a full time resource months to compile in order for the hospital keep the designation.

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Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System switches to Decision Critical

February 15, 2011 – 11:27 pm

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System switches to Decision Critical
Following an intense evaluation process, the largest health system in Louisiana, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System(FMOLHS) made the decision to switch their learning management system vendor to Decision Critical, Inc. (DCI).

One of the factors cited by FMOLHS is that the DCI solution included a greater set of functionality, including the ability to be able to create and track attendance at both online and live training events. In addition, the DCI solution was considered to have a much more intuitive interface, allowing users and administrators to get up to speed a lot faster. The strong relationship and customer support which had been developed with a recent FMOLHS hospital acquisition who were already using the DCI solution was also a key factor in their decision.

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See us at the American Organization of Nurse Executives Conference in San Diego

February 15, 2011 – 10:35 pm

Decision Critical, the leading provider of competency management solutions for healthcare will be sponsoring the Sigma Theta Tau International President’s Reception at the American Organization of Nurse Executives Conference (AONE). The event runs from April 13-16 and will be held in beautiful San Diego, CA.

Here are some of the tracks for the conference:

* Care Delivery and Sustainability
* The Impact of Health Care Reform Policy
* Leading for the Future
* Patient Safety and Quality
* Leveraging Technology

Please join us for some champagne and networking with nursing’s national and international leaders.

If you would like to meet with us while at the conference, please submit your contact information using the form in the right sidebar.

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Decision Critical Sponsors the 2011 Texas Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing

February 10, 2011 – 5:05 pm

Decision Critical, a leading developer of online competency management tools for healthcare organizations will be sponsoring the Texas Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing. This event is designed to further the recommendations from the report of the Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, which was released in fall of 2010.

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Caregiver Competency, one of the Top 10 Patient Safety Issues for 2011

February 3, 2011 – 9:55 pm

Linda Groah, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN, CEO and executive director of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), discusses the top 10 patient safety issues facilities should tackle in 2011.

Have a look at #6 on the list. The challenge is in how to effectively deliver education, evaluations and clinical assessments from within a single system.

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