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Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care recognizes and responds to the effects of trauma. All clients should receive trauma-informed care.
Define at least three trauma types and their effects.
Identify strategies for trauma-informed care strategies and their implementation at individual and organizational levels.
Recognize at least two ways trauma affects healthcare staff and strategies to support their well-being.
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.
Understanding Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
This course provides information about the dynamics of intimate partner violence, or IPV, risk factors, safety concerns, screening measures, and how staff can be the most helpful in these situations.
The goal of this course is to help administrative staff, general staff, and direct care staff in all healthcare settings gain a basic understanding of the dynamics of intimate partner violence.
Define domestic and intimate partner violence.
Describe risk factors for intimate partner homicide, including guns and strangulation.
Identify at least two screening measures used to identify persons who have experienced IPV.
Wellness Strategies that Support Addiction Recovery
Substance use is linked to millions of deaths worldwide each year (Ritchie & Roser, 2019). Supporting individuals’ long-term recovery from substance use can help save lives. Recovery is a lifelong process that aims to keep an individual substance-free while improving their overall quality of life. Wellness strategies enhance recovery outcomes by focusing on optimal health across all dimensions of an individual’s life.
Discuss how wellness approaches can positively impact recovery from substance use disorders.
Recognize the eight dimensions of wellness.
Identify wellness strategies to facilitate long-term recovery from substance use disorders.
Wrong-Site Surgery: Prevention
Wrong-site surgery (WSS) has been consistently ranked among the top four most reported sentinel events in the U.S. healthcare system for 5 years in a row, as reported in the Joint Commission’s annual sentinel events report in 2023. Despite being classified as a "never event," the occurrence of WSS is still alarmingly high. These events are both shocking and damaging to the public's trust in the healthcare system.
This course provides physicians, nurses, and surgical technologists with knowledge of evidence-based practices for preventing wrong-site surgeries.
Identify risk factors that can lead to wrong-site surgery. Recall the steps of the Universal Protocol and the components of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist. Summarize evidence-based strategies for preventing wrong-site surgeries.