Emergency Medicine PRN Focus Session — Care of the Boarded Patient: Practical Clinical and Operational Strategies to Improve Emergency Department Care​

The overcrowding and boarding crisis in the emergency department (ED) has only worsened since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Boarding and overcrowding places logistical and operational challenges on the healthcare team as oftentimes emergency medicine (EM) personnel, including EM clinical pharmacists, become tasked with continuing to provide care while trying to manage new ED patients. For EM clinical pharmacists, this can include clinical tasks (optimizing pharmacotherapy, titrating medications, counseling, etc) and operational tasks (order verification, medication distribution, assisting in locating missing medications, etc.) as EDs are generally not designed operationally as inpatients units are. The focus of this session will be to provide guidance from clinical EM and from administrative/operational viewpoints on ways to improve efficiencies and innovative practices to improve the care of the boarded patient.

Moderator: David E. Zimmerman, Pharm.D., FCCP, FASHP, FCCP, BCCCP, BCEMP Associate Professor of Pharmacy Duquesne University School of Pharmacy Pittsburgh, PA   View Biography

ED Boarding Crisis: The Current State of Affairs 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Speaker: Bryan J. Gendron, Pharm.D., BCEMP

It Takes a Village to Care for the Boarded Patient 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Speaker: Yujing Z. Steenwyk, Pharm.D., MS, BCPS Coordinator, Acute Care Surgery Pharmacy Services UF Health Shands Hospital Gainesville, FL   View Biography

Utilizing IT and Other Initiatives to Improve the Care of the Boarded Patient 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Speaker: Laura E. Celmins, Pharm.D., BCCCP, BCEMP