Learning Collaborative

July 30, 2018

The Dish

The Dish provides a monthly update to participating sites enrolling in the MQii Learning Collaborative.

Spotlight: New Learning Collaborative Member Portal 

Explore the new MQii Learning Collaborative Member Portal!

We are excited to share that the new MQii Learning Collaborative Member Portal is available for your access and use on the MQii website. This page will allow you to access all Learning Collaborative member-only content in one location, including recordings and slides from monthly expert webinars, educational webinar recordings, and archived monthly Dish newsletters.

To view the site, go to www.MQii.Today and click on “Learning Collaborative Member Login” on the left hand side. You will be prompted to input a username and password, which is the same for all Learning Collaborative participants:

  • Username: MQii
  • Password: MQiiLC2018!

See the graphic below to find the portal access location on the MQii Tookit website. If you have any questions regarding accessing the portal, or other suggestions for content for the portal, please reach out to your MQii Team Point of Contact at [email protected].

MQii Learning Collaborative News

Access the 2018 MQii Educational Video Series Today!

You can now view all four of the 2018 MQii educational videos on the MQii website in the Member Portal. The video series provides 30-to-60 minute pre-recorded educational sessions on key components of the malnutrition quality improvement process, such as generating leadership support, building your care team, mapping your workflow, and collecting and analyzing your data. The videos feature MQii Learning Collaborative leaders and an MQii Learning Collaborative participant. As a Learning Collaborative member, you are encouraged to review these webinars as soon as you come onboard to gain insights for beginning your malnutrition quality improvement activities. You may also wish to share them with your MQii project teams and other relevant clinicians and staff within your facility to help them understand the potential benefits of malnutrition quality improvement and the process for undertaking such activities.

The educational video series includes:

  1. Engaging Your Leadership— Hear from Beverly Hernandez PhD, RD, Director of Clinical Nutrition Services at Tampa General Hospital on why leadership buy-in is criticial to support your project and when to seek that buy-in.
  2. Building an Interdisciplinary Care Team— Hear from Jill Johnston, MS, RD, LD, Clinical Nutrition Manager at West Virginia University Hospital to learn why an interdisciplinary care team is important when planning and implementing your malnutrition quality improvement initiative and how to engage other clinicians in your project.
  3. Data Collection— Hear from Ken Nepple, Clinical Associate Professor of Urology, MD, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to better understand recommended approaches and tools that are available to support your data collection efforts to inform your quality improvement project(s) and monitor your results.
    1. Please note: Guidance in this webinar includes information on collecting both structured data from your EHR as well as other types of data to inform your quality improvement initiative, and can be used by Tier 1 and Tier 2 participants.
  4. Mapping Your Workflow— Hear from Angela Lago, RD, LDN, CNSC, Clinical Nutrition Manager at New Hanover Regional Medical Center to learn how to map your clinical workflow and how to use it to identify gaps and inform the selection of your malnutrition quality improvement area of focus.

We encourage you to watch all four videos of the series. All tools and resources referenced in the educational videos can be found on the “Tools and Resources” page of the MQii Toolkit. Please reach out to your MQii Team Point of Contact if you have any questions about how to access specific materials.

Receive CPEU Credit for the MQii Learning Collaborative Expert Webinars

The MQii Learning Collaborative expert webinars are in full swing! On June 6th, the Learning Collaborative hosted an expert webinar, “The Burden and Impact of Malnutrition in the Hospital”, featuring Evelyn C. Granieri, MD, and Kelly A. Tappenden, Ph.D., R.D., FASPEN. The second expert webinar, on July 24, covered “Performing Malnutrition Screenings” and featured Christina Biesemeier,  MS, RD, LDN, FADA and Angela Lago, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC.

As a member of the MQii Learning Collaborative, you can now receive CPEU credit for (1) having attended either or both of these expert webinars or (2) watching the recording of these sessions. To do so, please follow the instructions below:

Receive Credit for June 6 Expert Webinar, “The Burden and Impact of Malnutrition in the Hospital”:

  • Go to https://anhi.org/education/print-certificate
  • Log in with your anhi.org User ID and password. If you don’t already have a User ID and password, you can create one by clicking “REGISTER” at the top of the anhi.org homepage.
  • When you register, please be sure to indicate your professional designation, otherwise, your certificate will reflect that you’ve attended, but it won’t show that you’ve earned CE credit.
    • If the site redirects you to the homepage after you register:
      • Click “EDUCATION”
      • Click “PRINT CERTIFICATE”
  • Enter Event ID: D4D53
  • Complete your course evaluation
  • Print and save your certificate

Tips:

  • For best results, be sure your browser is set to allow pop-ups on this site
  • If you have trouble printing your certificate, we’re here to help. Click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any anhi.org page.

 PLEASE PRINT YOUR CERTIFICATE BY AUGUST 31, 2018

Receive Credit for July 24 Expert Webinar, “Performing Malnutrition Screenings”:

  • Go to https://anhi.org/education/print-certificate
  • Log in with your anhi.org User ID and password. If you don’t already have a User ID and password, you can create one by clicking “REGISTER” at the top of the anhi.org homepage.
  • When you register, please be sure to indicate your professional designation, otherwise, your certificate will reflect that you’ve attended, but it won’t show that you’ve earned CE credit.
    • If the site redirects you to the homepage after you register:
      • Click “EDUCATION”
      • Click “PRINT CERTIFICATE”
  • Enter Event ID: 0BFA1
  • Complete your course evaluation
  • Print and save your certificate

Tips:

  • For best results, be sure your browser is set to allow pop-ups on this site
  • If you have trouble printing your certificate, we’re here to help. Click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any anhi.org page.

 PLEASE PRINT YOUR CERTIFICATE BY AUGUST 20, 2018

MQii Featured in Society of Hospital Medicine’s The Hospitalist

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) recently featured the MQii Toolkit in its newsmagazine, The Hospitalist. The article, “Addressing Malnutrition and Improving Performance,” discusses the development of the MQii Toolkit and the role that hospitalists can play in supporting malnutrition quality improvement. Hospitalists particularly have an opportunity to partner with dietitians to support more effective malnutrition identification, treatment, and diagnoses.

You can view the article here. Feel free to share this with hospitalists in your facility to encourage them to get involved in your malnutrition quality improvement effort and help champion your project internally!

What’s Around the Corner?

Upcoming Events

Please join us for our upcoming Welcome Webinar and Coffee Break on Monday, July 30 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET.

The Learning Collaborative Welcome Webinar will provide an opportunity for newly enrolled sites to become acquainted with the team, other participants, and receive a streamlined presentation of the onboarding process for getting started. The Welcome Webinar will cover such topics as an overview Learning Collaborative participants and aims, phases of your MQii project, and information on data collection. The Welcome Webinar will take place for the first hour of the event, from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET.

Directly following the Welcome Webinar, from 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM ET, we will hold an MQii Learning Collaborative Coffee Break. The Coffee Breaks are open-format and interactive sessions that allow participants to discuss particularly challenging questions around engaging their IT teams and preparing for eCQM and outcomes data extraction in addition to QI project support. Participants are encouraged to attend and bring their questions, suggest ideas to other participants who are encountering obstacles, or just listen in and be inspired by the discussion.

Please reach out to your MQii Team Point of Contact if you need access to the calendar invitation or have any questions regarding this event.

Save the Date

Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo 2018

Every year the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics organizes the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo for registered dietitian nutritionists and other food and nutrition experts. FNCE 2018 will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 20-23. Be sure to save the date! MQii efforts will be highlighted at various events and sessions throughout the conference. Please let us know if you are planning to attend FNCE 2018 so we can connect in-person and invite you to MQii-focused events.

Next Steps

  1. Check out the new MQii Member Portal Page
    • Log in information— Username: MQii  Password: MQiiLC2018!
  2. Attend the upcoming Welcome Webinar (if you have not attended one already) and the Coffee Break
  3. Begin to fill out your Project Charter as you start to identify plans for your malnutrition quality improvement project(s)
  4. Watch the educational videos and explore the resources in the MQii Toolkit