Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1.  Explain how interactions with transport personnel can be a very important part of delivering compassionate care.
2.  Define how interactions with patient transport can provide continuity and may be instrumental in helping bring out important details and information from hospitalized patients.
3.  Determine how as with interactions with any other hospital personnel, the transporter's style, mood, and degree of professionalism, can highly impact the patient's sense of well-being and the patient experience. 

Faculty

Stephen J. Ryzewicz, MD, FACP, DFASAM
Internist AHMP
Baystate Medical Center 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Inter-professional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Physicians
Baystate Continuing Inter-professional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Inter-professional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 1.0 Inter-professional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.