Lightening the Load: Unpacking Cognitive Overload

 Thursday, May 11, 2023 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time 45 minutes

Course Overview: 

Today, roughly 80% of medical-device user errors occur due to cognitive overload. In addition, persistent cognitive overload contributes to fatigue, burnout, and practice dissatisfaction among nurses and other clinical team members. Hospital systems and clinical leaders are challenged with creating environments and systems to help lift some of the burden placed on healthcare professionals. In this course, we'll discuss system wide solutions to address these challenges, and in particular, how technology can play a pivotal role in lightening the load, and the positive impacts these changes have on nurse wellbeing, and patient care. 

Course Objectives: 

• The three different types of cognitive load 
• The factors that contribute to cognitive overload 
• How a heavy cognitive load impacts nurses and patients 
• Solutions to address cognitive overload 
• How technology can help lighten the load 

Speaker: 

Liz Boehm
Executive Strategist, Stryker

Liz Boehm is executive strategist at Stryker, where she oversees the CEO Coalition, manages the Heart of Safety Learning Community, and hosts the award-winning Caring Greatly™ Podcast. Her life’s work is to restore dignity and respect to the healthcare experience. Liz has an extensive healthcare background including 15 years as leader of global healthcare research at Forrester Research. Her work focused on patient and consumer behavior, delivery and payment system management, and the role of technology in helping to transform healthcare. This experience has made her a national expert and sought-after speaker on experience transformation. Beginning her career as a Peace Corps volunteer at a health center in rural West Africa, Liz is relentless in her pursuit to improve human connections and conditions in healthcare. Through professional and volunteer work in hospitals, she’s developed a profound respect for the dedication of the doctors, nurses, and staff who commit their lives to caring, as well as the courage of patients who survive and thrive as a result of their combined efforts. Liz holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.

Lightening the Load: Unpacking Cognitive Overload (on24.com)