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About Advance Directives
Advance directives are legal documents with instructions that apply if an adult is not able to make decisions about their own healthcare. They are meant to ensure that a person’s values related to dying, quality of life, and other relevant matters are honored.
Identify the most common types of advance directives and find out if a person has made them.
Explain how advance directives can improve quality of life, even at the end of life.
Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: Core Elements
Antibiotic stewardship is a movement to improve antibiotic use through evidence-based practice. Team members become the stewards of antibiotics. This helps these medications continue to effectively fight infections. Antibiotic stewardship follows core elements to improve the use of antibiotics and their outcomes. This course discusses the core elements and benefits of an antibiotic stewardship program.
Describe the elements of an antibiotic stewardship program.
Identify at least three benefits of antibiotic stewardship.
Employee Wellness: Caregiving Side Effects
Caregiving demands a tremendous amount of compassion and empathy. While this can be incredibly rewarding, it can cause some adverse side effects. The goal of this course is to provide all staff with an overview of caregiving side effects.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of caregiver stress.
Apply practical methods to address the symptoms of caregiver stress.
Employee Wellness: Managing Stress
Stress is part of everyone’s life. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. A certain level of stress is healthy because it motivates you to be productive. However, too much stress can do the opposite, leaving you feeling drained and irritable. You can’t escape stress, but you can learn to respond to it differently.
The goal of this course is to teach employees how to identify triggers and develop a personal stress management plan.
Identify at least three common causes of stress in the workplace.
Describe at least two techniques to manage and decrease your own stress.
Medical Record Documentation and Legal Information for CNAs
Documenting care is just as important as providing care. This course discusses the purpose of the medical record and documentation. It also describes documentation practices and legal standards that affect the certified nursing assistant.
This course provides direct care workers in post-acute care education on documentation and legal aspects of care.
Discuss the purpose of the medical record and documentation.
Identify at least two documentation practices used to avoid errors.
Explain the legal standards that affect the certified nursing assistant.
Medication Reconciliation: Avoiding Errors
This course is designed to enhance the skills of healthcare professionals in conducting effective medication reconciliation with the aim of avoiding medication errors. Learners will explore core concepts of medication reconciliation, review common sources of medication reconciliation discrepancies, and learn practical strategies to minimize errors in the medication reconciliation process.
Recall the steps of the medication reconciliation process.
Apply best practices for minimizing medication errors in the medication reconciliation process.
Prescription Drug Misuse and Diversion
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and practical skills to address the growing concern of prescription drug misuse and diversion. Controlled substances such as opioids, sedatives/tranquilizers, and stimulants are the most misused and diverted drugs. Strategies for reducing misuse and diversion will be presented.
The goal of this course is to inform healthcare team members about their role in the recognition and prevention of drug misuse and diversion in the acute care setting.
Identify signs of prescription drug misuse.
Name at least three drug diversion scenarios and prevention strategies the healthcare team can implement.
Quality Nursing Documentation in the Digital Age
This course reviews the concept of high-quality documentation and how it relates to technology and patient privacy. Most documentation takes place within electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare professionals must understand how to practice high-quality documentation in the digital age. There are challenges with technology but also many exciting developments that can improve nurse documentation. This course reviews how healthcare professionals can reduce the risk of patient confidentiality breaches and cybercrimes.
Recall the criteria for high-quality documentation.
Describe technology’s impact on nursing documentation.
Identify privacy and security issues with documentation.
Self-Care Strategies for Frontline Professionals
Healthcare and behavioral health professionals providing services on the front lines of a sustained health crisis are exposed to traumatic events on a regular basis. Staff deemed essential have little escape from the grueling demands of their daily work. Professional self-care routines are often insufficient or seemingly impossible during times of heavy demand. Without healthy work-life balance, effective self-care practices, and social connection, maladaptive coping mechanisms may surface or return. Many professionals experience feelings of helplessness when, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide clinical solutions for their clients or patients. Based on what is known about trauma, it is imperative for professionals to effectively address self-care needs in a timely manner, for themselves and for those they serve.
Define the psychological and biological effects associated with trauma and stress reactions.
Identify signs and symptoms of moral injury, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue, and burnout.
Recall methods to enhance psychological resilience via self-care practices that can be applied to work and/or home.
Writing Incident Reports
Writing incident reports is an important part of providing direct support services. Your reports help the person's support team respond effectively to their needs and keep them safe in the future.
The goal of this course is to teach DSPs in IDD settings the key elements of an incident report, why they are important, and how to write them effectively.
Recall the purpose and key elements of an incident report.
Identify strategies used to document and report incidents effectively.
Differentiate between effective and ineffective incident reports.