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A Review of EMTALA
Identify key terms as defined under EMTALA.
Identify provider obligations under EMTALA and penalties for violating EMTALA statutes.
Recognize how EMTALA guidelines apply to different emergency situations, including patient screening, stabilization, and appropriate transfer.
Define key terms and requirements associated with EMTALA.
Describe how EMTALA applies to certain situations.
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.
Anesthesia: Perioperative
The perioperative nurse plays a primary role in the anesthesia experience. Knowledge of techniques, patient assessment, and care management for the patient receiving or recovering from anesthesia positively impacts patient outcomes. This course discusses anesthetics and adjuvant medications used in the perioperative setting, anesthesia-related complications, and the nurse’s role in assisting with anesthesia management.
This course provides nursing professionals with information about the principles and practices of anesthesia care in the perioperative setting.
Identify the stages and types of anesthesia, and associated medications commonly used in the perioperative setting.
Recognize important assessment areas and nursing interventions for the perioperative patient receiving or recovering from anesthesia.
Describe complications of anesthesia and their treatments.
Cybersecurity: Protecting Patient Data and Personal Devices
Everyone has an important role in keeping patient information safe. Protecting private details and securing work devices is essential. This course will guide you through easy steps to reduce cybersecurity risks and help you handle information safely.
Recall best practices for the secure handling of patient information and device protection.
Cybersecurity: Safe Practices for Remote Work in Healthcare
The purpose of this course is to teach secure practices for remote work and telehealth.
Recall best practices for remote work and telehealth.
HCAHPS: Transitions of Care and Discharge
Improving hospital processes surrounding discharge and transitions of care can reduce adverse events and readmissions. Process improvements may also lead to better patient adherence to the treatment plan and their overall experience with care. Healthcare professionals must understand care coordination and transitions of care and how they impact HCAHPS survey results.
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a national standardized survey required for hospitals participating in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs. Survey results are linked to hospital reimbursement from CMS.
Identify the impacts of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) programs on healthcare organizations.
Categorize transitions of care, care coordination, and discharge planning.
Select strategies to improve interprofessional teamwork.
In Session: Practicing Clinical Skills to Prevent Suicide in Adults
The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings with an opportunity to apply your existing knowledge to assess and intervene with an at-risk adult.
Identify risk factors and warning signs for suicidality in adults.
Indicate the appropriate steps to assess an individual’s level of suicide risk.
State the essential interventions to implement based on the level of identified risk.
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.
Overview of Evidence-Based, Suicide-Specific Interventions
It was once assumed that addressing underlying conditions was the best way to treat suicidality. We now know that suicidal people need interventions that directly target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Suicide-specific interventions will give you the tools to help clients manage suicide risk.
In this course, you will learn about specific evidence-based and research-informed interventions that directly target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Through case examples, you will gain a better understanding of ways to implement these strategies.
The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals with knowledge about evidence-based, suicide-specific interventions.
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 for reducing access to lethal means.
Recall the factors you should consider when determining what interventions may be needed for suicidal individuals.
Preventing and Handling Crisis Situations
Healthcare professionals often encounter patients experiencing agitation or displaying hostile behavior during their careers. De-escalation is a set of approaches and techniques used to assist patients in self-calming to avoid incidents of harm to self, others, or property. Professionals should understand escalation and physiological responses to threats. After determining the risk of escalation, healthcare professionals can use various aspects of verbal communication, such as tone and pitch, and nonverbal communication skills to defuse potentially hostile situations and apply the least restrictive interventions.
Describe what de-escalation is and why it is important.
Recall how to use de-escalation to prevent a crisis from developing.
Indicate specific approaches you can use during a crisis to help individuals return to pre-crisis levels of functioning and prevent harm.
Preventing Suicide Among Veteran Populations
Veterans are 1.5 times more likely to die by suicide than non-veterans (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [VA], 2022). This course will explain the specific factors that increase suicide risk in veterans. You will also learn about assessment and intervention approaches used to manage suicide risk in this population.
The goal of this course is to provide knowledge to addictions, behavioral health counseling, case management/care management, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, social work professionals, and physicians in health and human services settings about suicide prevention strategies for veterans.
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.
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.
Suicide Prevention in the Acute Setting
This course will provide you with information about the numerous risk and protective factors of suicide. You will learn effective screening approaches you can use to identify elevated risk. You will also learn how to follow a positive screening with an in-depth clinical assessment, including several different models you can use to guide your assessment. The goal of this course is to provide alcohol and drug counseling, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services with skills to identify individuals at increased risk of suicide.
Recognize risk and protective factors for suicide.
Explain how to effectively screen to identify individuals at risk of suicide.
Summarize the major components of a comprehensive suicide assessment.
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.
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.