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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.
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.
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.