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Natural Disasters and the Workplace: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Earthquakes and tsunamis unleash powerful forces of nature. They cause catastrophic infrastructure and property damage and can result in tremendous loss of life. This course presents some basic facts about earthquakes and tsunamis, including considerations for preparedness and protective actions.
Discuss protective actions to enhance safety during and after an earthquake or tsunami.
Explain where and how earthquakes and tsunamis occur.
Natural Disasters in the Workplace: Flooding and Landslides
Floods and landslides can occur in many locations throughout the U.S. This course provides basic information about these hazards and the destruction they can cause. This course emphasizes the importance of being informed about flooding and landslide risks and hazards around you and various protective actions you could consider taking.
The goal of this course is to provide employees with a foundation for staying safe during flooding and landslides.
Identify environments conducive to flooding and landslide hazards.
Select protective actions to minimize risk and maximize safety.
Neonatal Resuscitation
Neonatal emergencies are frightening and challenging to almost all acute care providers. This course will focus on the neonate and provide a succinct review of resuscitation issues pertinent to clinical practice and board preparation/review.
Understand the role of thermoregulation in neonatal distress and instability.
Recognize and interpret relevant monitoring studies for neonates in distress.
Plan the key steps and recognize the complications associated with performing neonatal resuscitation.
Plan the key steps and know the pitfalls in the prevention and management of meconium aspiration.
NIH Stroke Scale
This course is designed to provide nursing professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the NIH stroke scale. The course will cover the purpose of the NIH stroke scale, how to administer the scale, and how to interpret the results. The course will also include case studies that illustrate the use of the NIH stroke scale in clinical practice.
Identify the purpose of the NIHSS and how it is used in clinical practice.
Recall the significance of NIHSS scores to patient outcomes.
Apply the NIHSS to assess patients with stroke or stroke-like symptoms including how to score each section of the NIHSS.
Optimizing Patient Outcomes in Acute Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) treatment is costly and requires a multidisciplinary approach. Evidence-based treatment guidelines improve patient outcomes, and it is essential to become familiar with these guidelines to reduce patient mortality. Healthcare team members play a significant role in treating acute HF (AHF), helping to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease and decrease the use and costs associated with care. This course aims to educate nurses and nutrition and dietetics professionals in the acute care setting about evidence-based heart failure treatment guidelines.
Describe heart failure, including its classification systems, presentation, treatment, and evidence-based therapies.
Describe strategies for patient self-management.
Patient Safety 101
This course is intended to give healthcare providers the information necessary to identify the relationship between patient-centered care and patient safety as well as to understand the key concepts of patient-centered care and systems that improve patient safety to enhance patient outcomes.
Identify the core elements of patient-centered care.
Understand the relationship between patient-centered care and patient safety and outcomes.
Understand key concepts of quality improvement (QI) and patient-centered care and safety.
Identify organizational systems to improve patient safety
Perioperative Pediatric Conditions
Perioperative professionals must have a fundamental understanding of the anatomical, physiological, psychological, and emotional differences of children compared to adults and how these differences impact the care needs of pediatric patients in the perioperative period.
Identify anatomical, physiological, psychological, and emotional differences in pediatric patients and how those differences impact care needs in the perioperative setting.
Recognize strategies for preventing and responding to medication errors and adverse drug events involving children in the perioperative setting.
Recall surgical considerations for pediatric patients.
Perioperative Series: Communication in the OR
In the operating room, patient safety depends on high quality communication and shared knowledge among the surgical team. Several factors in this setting can contribute to communication failures like time constraints, shift changes, environmental barriers, the complex nature of surgical procedures, and clashing communication styles. All members of the surgical team must understand the risks to patient safety associated with communication failures, what information must be communicated and when, and how to use an assertive communication style.
The goal of this course is to equip nurses and CSTs with best practices for effectively communicating in the operating room.
Describe best practices for facilitating communication in the OR.
Identify four communication styles and which style is most effective for ensuring patient safety.
List common barriers to effective communication in the OR.
Perioperative Series: Emergencies in the OR
Perioperative providers can BEST prepare for emergencies in the operating room by knowing the responsibilities of each team member and rehearsing interventions ahead of time. When you are in the moment and your heart is racing, it’s easy to forget how to respond or even where supplies are located. Practicing your responsibilities and team interventions ahead of time will help to prepare you for the unexpected. This course provides you with an opportunity to participate in five emergency scenarios to test your knowledge. Time is of the essence when an emergency happens so you must think and act fast to save the patient!
The goal of this course is to equip nurses and STs with knowledge of the responsibilities of the team during a range of OR emergencies.
Recognize evidence-based strategies for treating and preventing a range of OR emergencies.
Describe the roles and responsibilities of members of the surgical team when emergencies occur.
Recall the best practices for improving patient outcomes during an emergency.
Perioperative Specimen Handling
Proper surgical specimen handling is essential for patient safety. This course covers best practices for intraoperative personnel to prepare, label, and transfer specimens accurately. Adhering to these protocols ensures that specimens are identified and handled appropriately, minimizing the risk of harm to the patient.
This course provides OR nurses and surgical technologists with knowledge of best practices for specimen handling.
Describe the considerations and methods of preparing specimens for various pathologic and examination types.
Recall care standards for the appropriate handling, labeling, and transportation of specimens.
Identify common mistakes made during specimen management and prevention methods to avoid these errors.
Postpartum Hemorrhage Management
Worldwide, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) accounts for high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality. Early recognition is key to good outcomes. Recognizing PPH, its stages, and how to measure blood loss is essential since treatment is based on the stages of hemorrhage. Additionally, it is important to understand nursing interventions, treatments for PPH, and teamwork and communication needs to improve perinatal outcomes.
This course aims to enhance the knowledge of acute care nurses about postpartum hemorrhage, including its causes, risk factors, and medical and surgical management.
Identify the causes and risk factors for postpartum hemorrhage.
Indicate the stages of postpartum hemorrhage.
Recall nursing and medical interventions used during the management of postpartum hemorrhage.
Preparing for an ICE Encounter in Healthcare
This microlearning provides healthcare leaders and staff with practical guidance to prepare for and manage encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It discusses actions organizations can take before, during, and after ICE encounters to uphold legal and ethical responsibilities while supporting clients and staff.
Identify actions healthcare organizations can take to prepare for and manage encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Prevention of Adverse Events and Medical Errors
The prevalence of medical errors correlates with increased risk of patient harm in the healthcare setting. Since most errors are related to systems issues/failures and not to inadequate care by providers, it is critical to understand the breadth of the problem and the best ways to prevent adverse events and medical errors to improve patient safety.
Examine the relationship between adverse events, medical errors, and patient safety.
Identify the barriers to improving patient safety through reducing errors.
Psychopharmacology in the Emergency Department
As a healthcare professional transporting patients to the ED, you may serve patients with symptoms indicative of behavioral health disorders, such as depressive, bipolar, and anxiety disorders. In some situations, the ED provider must administer psychiatric medications. However, if possible, it is prudent to defer their use until the patient is admitted to an inpatient mental health facility or seen as an outpatient. In many instances, the reason for presentation in the ED is an adverse reaction to psychiatric medications.
Identify some of the most common medications in each major category, their indications, and their usage in treating mental health disorders.
Recall adverse reactions to psychiatric medications.
Recognizing and Treating Stroke
By understanding the causes of stroke and how to treat and prevent it, you can make a significant difference in the lives of those you care for. This course will help you identify the symptoms of a stroke and provide you with the necessary knowledge to provide care during and after the stroke.
Recall the pathophysiology of a stroke.
Recognize at least three interventions for someone experiencing a stroke.
Identify strategies for achieving quality of life after a stroke.
Reducing Medical Errors in the Operating Room
Ensuring patient safety in the operating room (OR) requires effective communication, structured protocols, and teamwork. This course examines perioperative communication failures, preoperative verification, site marking, timeouts, and just culture in promoting accountability. Learners will explore evidence-based safety practices and apply structured handoff techniques to improve patient care transitions.
This course provides perioperative nurses and STs with tools to improve communication and safety protocols, fostering a just culture to reduce OR errors.
Explain how effective communication reduces medical errors and contributes to the safe transfer of patient care information.
Discuss evidence-based recommendations from key organizations that support improvements in perioperative safety.
Describe the principles of a just culture and the ten-step process for creating a culture of safety in the OR.
Septic Joint: Diagnosis and Treatment
Septic arthritis is caused by infection and inflammation in the joint and can result in significant damage to the joints. Early recognition and treatment are critical to the preservation of joint function. This course will discuss how to quickly identify and treat septic arthritis.
The goal of this course is to provide physicians, nursing professionals, and radiologic technologists with information about septic arthritis.
Recall how septic arthritis is acquired and its typical presentation.
Identify the laboratory and radiological tests used to make a diagnosis of a septic joint.
Recognize the principles of septic joint treatment.
Sexual Assault Response: Best Practices for Healthcare Providers
Survivors of rape and sexual assault will experience a variety of physical and emotional comorbidities as a direct result of their experience. This means survivors will enter the healthcare system through a variety of specialty clinics in addition to their primary care provider. It is important healthcare providers of all disciplines, be familiar with the signs that a patient may have been raped or sexually assaulted in their past. This course will provide the legal aspects of rape and sexual assault, the emotional and physical trauma associated with the experience, and how to identify and care for survivors.
Recall important aspects of sexual assault and its impact on the survivor.
Indicate the role of the healthcare provider in identifying and caring for survivors of sexual assault.
Shoulder Dystocia: Management and Prevention
Nearly half of all cases of shoulder dystocia occur in the absence of risk factors, making them largely unpredictable and unpreventable. Perinatal morbidity and mortality rates associated with shoulder dystocia are high, even when properly managed.
Although shoulder dystocia is considered an obstetric emergency, a well-trained obstetric provider and a team of nursing/resuscitation professionals can usually manage it well for the pregnant person and fetus.
Identify diagnosis criteria, risk factors, and complications associated with shoulder dystocia.
Recall management and prevention techniques for shoulder dystocia.
Indicate documentation needed following a birth involving shoulder dystocia.
Shoulder Dystocia: Primary Maneuvers
A review of clinical judgment related to the use of primary maneuvers for managing shoulder dystocia.
Identify the clinical signs of shoulder dystocia and appropriate initial interventions to resolve the complication safely.
Recall risk factors for shoulder dystocia and appropriate tasks to perform following the emergency.
Strategies for Decreasing Medical and Treatment Errors in Behavioral Health
Behavioral health professionals are involved in multiple disciplines, all of which are responsible for the safety of the clients in their care. Although each discipline has its own set of ethics to guide practice, they are generally similar in terms of the importance of avoiding harm to the client.
Client safety requires careful planning and consistent vigilance. Any behavioral health professional can jeopardize client safety by committing a medical or treatment error. While it is unrealistic to think that you can prevent all errors, there are steps you can take to reduce occurrences.
Discuss types of medical and treatment errors in behavioral health.
Describe the causes and consequences of medical and treatment errors.
Identify strategies to address an error and reduce the risk of future errors.
Stroke: Recognition and Management
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to promptly and effectively manage stroke in the acute care setting. Participants will gain insight into how to recognize an acute stroke and the initial steps to take for emergency treatment of stroke. In addition, learners will know the different acute treatment options for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke as well as patient care for acute stroke.
Recall the benchmark diagnosis and treatment times for acute stroke.
Differentiate the treatment of ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.
Indicate interventions in the care of a patient presenting with an acute stroke.
Suicide Prevention: At-Risk Populations Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management (WA)
This multi-lesson module provides suicide training according to the state of Washington requirements. The four lessons cover:
Lesson 1: Assessing and Screening for Suicide Risk: provides skills to identify individuals at increased risk of suicide
Lesson 2: Overview of Evidence-Based, Suicide-Specific Interventions: provides knowledge about evidence-based, suicide-specific interventions
Lesson 3: Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Suicide Risk: provides information about community-based, upstream suicide prevention approaches
Lesson 4: Preventing Suicide Among Veteran Populations: provides skills in assessment and intervention to reduce suicide risk among veterans
Recognize three risk and three protective factors for suicide.
Discuss how to effectively screen to identify individuals at risk for suicide.
Identify three components of a comprehensive suicide assessment.
Recall the factors you should consider when determining what interventions may be needed for suicidal individuals.
Describe three evidence-based interventions for treating individuals at risk for suicide or who have made a recent attempt.
Summarize the process for completing a safety plan and reducing access to lethal means. E
Explain what upstream suicide prevention means and why it is important.
Describe how fostering life skills and resilience can help to prevent suicide.
Summarize the impact of connectedness as an upstream suicide prevention approach.
Identify three factors that specifically increase suicide risk in veterans.
Recall screening and assessment strategies to identify veterans at risk for suicide.
Define three effective ways to intervene to reduce suicide risk among veterans.
The Dangers of Alarm Fatigue
This course provides nurses with information regarding safety concerns associated with alarm fatigue along with evidence-based research strategies to reduce the fatigue.
Describe the national patient safety goals set by The Joint Commission as they relate to alarm management.
Discuss evidence-based strategies to reduce alarm fatigue.
The Impact of Psychedelics
This course will provide healthcare professionals in the acute care setting with an introduction to the use of psychedelics for the treatment of behavioral health conditions. Healthcare professionals will learn about the types of agents used, their indications, benefits, and their associated risks and side effects.
The goal of this course is to provide health care professionals in the acute care setting with an introductory review of novel therapeutic agents used to treat behavioral health conditions.
Recall how psychedelics are used to treat behavioral health disorders and how they impact symptoms of behavioral health disorder.
Identify the potential risks and side effects of psychedelics.
Recognize whether an individual is a good candidate for psychedelic treatment for behavioral health symptoms.