Value of Attending NCDR.15
Use this worksheet to make the most out of your attendance at NCDR.15. Use the suggestions below to develop your
goals for the conference before you attend and to follow up on them once you return.
Goal
• Gain NCDR registryspecific knowledge
and fine-tune data
collection skills
• Assess and use
NCDR outcome
reports
•Discover tips and
tools for applying
registry data for
quality improvement
• Network and forge
relationships with
colleagues
nationwide
Pre-conference Activity
Assess the specific strategic and quality
improvement plans, goals and needs of your
hospital or department. Evaluate the quality
and completeness of your data using the SelfAudit tool.
Post-Conference Activity
Review your notes from the conference and
submit to your manager/supervisor a list of
information that you learned by attending
NCDR.15. Include at least one action that you
want to implement as a result of attending
NCDR.15.
Review the sessions at NCDR.15 and identify
the specific ones that will provide
information and insight and will be useful to
help meet your goals. Identify how this
information will be used by you within the
organization. Include a plan on how you will
share new information with others who work
with NCDR.
NCDR.15 offers significant networking
opportunities during case studies, poster
sessions, seated lunches and the Thursday
evening Welcome Reception. These
opportunities allow for sharing of best
practices and exchanging of ideas with others
who work with NCDR. Identify the
connections you hope to make and link them
to the goals and needs identified above.
Identify the contacts that you made and
provide a brief description about how each
provided value to you, to your department,
and/or to your hospital.
Identify one poster session that addresses a
quality improvement challenge that exists at
your organization
• Team building
(even if others from
your hospital cannot
attend)
Identify key stakeholders in your organization
with whom you can share information from
the conference. Consider how you can use
this time to collectively solve one of the
problems that your department or hospital is
facing.
If you are not the only one attending the
conference, arrange for a time in which you
can all have a working but fun meeting.
Discuss which session each is attending so
that you may cover as many concurrent
workshops as possible.
If unable to meet as a team during the
conference, set up a meeting shortly after
your return and develop a team-based action
plan to address the need or goal.
Share with your key stakeholders a best
practice that you learned from one of the
presentations or poster sessions. Explore the
feasibility of implementing this practice at
your site. The cardiologist or cardiology group
may then use this plan as part of his/her/their
application for Maintenance of Certification
Part IV.