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Achieving Excellence with High-Performing Teams
eams with talented people and a skilled leader are often unable to maintain optimum results over a long period of time. Team leaders must continually assess, evaluate, and monitor the team’s motivation level toward achieving its goals. They must also facilitate emotional buy-in and commitment. This course provides healthcare staff with an overview of how to motivate and enhance a team.
Explain the difference between a team and a group.
Apply motivational approaches to facilitate an effective team environment and engaged workforce.
Recognize the importance of assessing and evaluating the current state of your team.
Change Facilitation and Quality Outcomes
Facilitating change for quality outcomes is the cornerstone of any successful organization. Change is necessary for organizational growth and development and for creating a robust organizational culture. In this course, you will explore the trends and change models for quality improvement, barriers to system change, problem-solving, crisis management, and how to incorporate quality measures that support change facilitation in the acute care setting.
Recall the importance of change in facilitating quality outcomes in the acute care setting.
Identify the trends and change models for quality improvement and concrete strategies for enhancing quality outcomes in the acute care setting.
Communicating with Patients with Limited English Proficiency
Within healthcare, a patient with limited English proficiency (LEP) is an individual whose primary means of communication is not English and who has a limited command of the language in reading, writing, speaking, or understanding (Office for Civil Rights, 2016). These patients need the careful attention of healthcare personnel to ensure the safety and quality of care. Healthcare professionals should understand regulations and standards related to patients with LEP, such as the use of an interpreter for communication.
The goal of this educational program is to improve the ability of the healthcare team to provide quality care and better outcomes for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Recall the importance of medical interpretation services for patients with LEP.
Identify regulatory, accreditation, and evidence-based standards related to patients with LEP and linguistic services.
Choose strategies for effectively communicating with patients with LEP, including best practices when using an interpreter.
Cultural Competence for Supervisors
Today's workforce is increasingly diverse. Supervisors must be able to work effectively and respectfully with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds. In this course, you will learn about various dimensions of culture. You will learn what cultural competence is and how you can become more culturally competent. You will also learn how culture and cultural competence affect your relationship with the staff members you supervise.
Explain the impact of cultural diversity in the workplace. Identify up to 5 strategies to help you become a more culturally competent supervisor.
DEI: Understanding Privilege
Understanding privilege is a step toward increased empathy. It helps to foster a more inclusive culture. People often associate privilege with one gender identity, one race, or wealth. The truth is, we all have privilege to varying degrees. This course will help you understand what privilege is. It will help you understand how privilege affects different individuals and groups.
Recall the meaning of privilege and the various ways it impacts individuals and groups.
Diversity and the Healthcare Employee
Diversity presents both challenges and opportunities. This course discusses the benefits and challenges of diversity. It also discusses how to avoid discrimination toward those you work with and provide care for. This course provides healthcare employees with education on diversity.
Discuss the benefits of a diverse workforce.
Identify at least two ways to avoid workplace discrimination.
Introduction to Multicultural Care
Multicultural care helps reduce behavioral health disparities, build trust, and improve outcomes for marginalized clients. This course explains key concepts that support multicultural care and core components of culturally responsive care. It also indicates how to address personal and institutional bias in healthcare settings.
Define at least four key concepts that support multicultural care.
Indicate how to address personal and institutional bias in healthcare settings.
Identify at least three core components of culturally responsive care.
Quality Data Presentation
Interpreting and using data are essential components of evidence-based nursing practice, which has been linked to improved patient outcomes and quality of care. However, many nurses do not use evidence-based practice (EBP) or participate in nursing research efforts.
Understanding data collection and presentation methods is an important first step to greater nurse participation in EBP and quality improvement (QI) initiatives.
Identify data collection and presentation methods that are best for understanding quality of care performance and making timely and actionable decisions.
Recognize the relationship between nursing research, data presentation, and evidence-based practice.
Quality Improvement and Use of Data
Quality improvement is driven by data. Nurses who understand data and how to interpret it can create the most impactful quality improvement initiatives. This course for nursing professionals explains the relationship between data and quality. It also reviews what data is, how to collect it, and how to display it in charts and graphs for others to understand.
Recognize the relationship between data, quality indicators, and quality improvement.
Recall essential characteristics of data and data collection for quality improvement.
Apply knowledge of visual displays of data and their connection to quality improvement.
The Role of Risk Management: A Quality Perspective
The role of risk management has a significant impact on the quality outcomes of acute care organizations. It includes systems and validated processes aimed at assessing and developing interventions to mitigate risk factors and optimize quality outcomes. HCPs are stakeholders in the risk management process and can benefit from understanding risk management strategies and objectives. In this course, you will learn about risk management in the acute care setting.
The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals in acute care settings with information to enhance their understanding of the role they play in risk management along with proven strategies for ensuring quality outcomes in their professional practice in acute care settings.
Identify the importance of risk management, the processes, and tools used in risk management in the acute care setting.
Identify at least two concrete strategies for enhancing quality outcomes.
Triage: Reliable System for Assessing Acuity
This course covers the essentials of emergency department (ED) triage, including triage strategies, systems, and scales used to prioritize patient care. Learners will explore key concepts such as the ESI system, vertical split flow, and the impact of accurate triage on patient safety and ED efficiency. Focus is also placed on the importance of ongoing education, reassessment, and collaboration within healthcare teams.
This course provides ED nurses and providers with a comprehensive understanding of the triage process.
Recall the history and purpose of triage, the various triage methods and systems used in emergency departments, including creative strategies, and the importance of accurately determining triage levels for optimal patient care.
Recognize how to accurately assign ESI levels by assessing clinical severity, resource needs, and the patient's ability to wait, while understanding the risks of under-triage and over-triage and their impact on patient safety and care outcomes.