CMS Utilization Review Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Utilization review (UR) allows hospitals to monitor and protect themselves and their patients against unnecessary readmissions. It is important to be compliant with the UR standards to avoid penalties from the Recovery Audit Contractors and the Office of the Inspector General. During this program, attendees will learn about CoPs....
Electronic Health Records: Improving Patient Safety
Ronald B. Sterling, CPA, MBA
ECRI Institute listed information management in electronic health record (EHR) as the number one patient safety concern for healthcare organizations. Is your EHR properly maintained on a daily basis? The lack of a daily clinical process can undermine patient service, quality, and efficiency, and it can expose healthcare organiza....
GI Bootcamp for the Healthcare Team
Peter Buch, MD, AGAF, FACP
6.00 Hours
Assessing abdominal pain: Is an emergency looming? The BEST strategies to identify the cause of elevated liver function tests Clostridium difficile: How many recurrences until we utilize fecal transplant? What you need to know about “interval” colon cancer Probiotic treatments 2018 Identify the source of the GI bleed Irritable b....
Nursing Negligence: Even If It’s Not Your Fault, It Will Be Your Problem
Rosale Lobo, PHD, MSN, RN, CNS, LNCC
6.00 Hours
The realities of time stamping 50 facts you NEED to know Avoid the key hazards of drop down boxes in charting Deposition behaviors that add to nursing credibility Hard evidence about what your charting communicates Is the defense counsel for you? Or against you? Charting by exception - a meaningless phrase Trends in nursing liti....
Incident Response Lessons from the Front Lines
Nolan Garrett
0.75 Hours
Incident response planning is the basis for preparing for security and compliance incidents. As healthcare organization, we have found ourselves frequently targets of external attack. A well maintained incident response plan, along with testing, can provide substantial cost reduction to an organization while improving recovery t....
Interoperability in Practice: Pharmacist eCare Plan
Shelly Spiro, RPh, FASCP
1.00 Hours
This interoperability briefing will showcase the implementation of the HL7/NCPDP Pharmacist eCare Plan which is adopted by Community Pharmacists Enhanced Service Network USA (a community-based pharmacy network focused on improving medication optimization activities and patient care services). In this model, pharmacists use the P....
Human Trafficking for Child Welfare Agencies and Caseworkers
Industry Specialist
1.50 Hours
Due to their potentially unstable living situations, physical distance from friends and family, traumatic experiences, and emotional vulnerability, children involved with child welfare are at risk for being targeted by traffickers who are actively seeking children to exploit. This CEU course explores how child welfare agencies....
Clinical Pathways: Ensuring the Right Patients Get the Right Care - Webinar
Dr Angus Ritchie
Using a structured renal pathway document to keep patients on the right track with the right care
Medication Calculation and the Quality Use of Medicines Quiz
Melanie Carstairs (Nursing Student, University of Newcastle), Melbourne Health, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Metro South Health Service District, Top End Renal Services, Southern District Health
An interactive quiz to test your medication and dialysis calculation skills
Does the Early Diagnosis of CKD Really Matter? - Webinar
Dr Tim Mathew
Does it really matter if we diagnose CKD early (or not) and can we make a difference?
Green Dialysis - Webinar
Professor John Agar
How to make your dialysis unit and dialysis practice more environmentally friendly
HIPAA Matters
Donn Kropp, RN, BSN
1.00 Hours
If you’re involved in the healthcare industry, then it’s a pretty safe bet that the requirements and regulations of “H” “I” “P” “A” “A”, which is often pronounced “hippa”, have affected your workplace and your daily routines and practice. You might not realize this, if you’ve never heard of HIPAA before, and you might not even k....
Management and Treatment of the Lower Extremity Wound
Medline University
1.00 Hours
In this course we will focus on the management and treatment of the lower extremity wounds, including the overall management of the patient, the disease process, and that of wound itself.
Management of Central Lines; Current Standards of Practice 2017
Capra Dalton
5.00 Hours
This course has been designed to provide basic conceptual and operational knowledge to healthcare clinicians responsible for the care of patients with central venous access devices. As the science of infusion therapy advances and technology expands, it is imperative that all healthcare clinicians and nurses practicing infusion....
Clostridium Difficile: Prevention and Management
Leah Frederick
4.50 Hours
Clostridium difficile is an inimitable organism that normally lives in the gut. When an antibiotic is taken to treat an infection, helpful or normal bacteria are destroyed, causing an overgrowth of the C. difficile bacteria. Clostridium difficile localizes to the large bowel, where it manifests as diarrhea and colitis. The sympt....
Hazard Communication
Kevin Stansbury
1.00 Hours
This course is designed to protect these workers exposed to hazardous chemicals in all industrial sectors, the Federal Government established the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) 1910.1200, also known as the "right to know" law. This standard is based on a simple concept: that the employee has both a need and a right....
Healing the Healer
Jill Ohara
1.50 Hours
Nurses give of themselves daily in large quantities. Yet, as experience has shown us they are the least likely to take care of themselves. To be in a position to care for others in a loving, healing way the provider must first look to their own needs. In this online continuing education course author Jill O'Hara will share all t....
Healthcare Bullying Solutions
Donna Krasowski
1.00 Hours
Many healthcare workers are subjected to bullying from co-workers, managers, physicians and/or clients. Bullying occurs in all sectors of health care and is a significant, under-reported occupational health and safety issue. Bullying has a profound effect on targets, witnesses, clients, health-care organizations and bullies them....
Medication Administration in the Correctional Setting
Lorry Schoenly
1.00 Hours
Administering medication is one of the most important … and one of the most risky...health care processes in corrections. Frequent legal and licensure issues surrounding medication possession and administration make this a nursing process of significant concern. Due to the secure environment of a correctional setting and the lim....
Drugs and Dysphagia Part 1
Peter Johnson and Lynette Carl Pharm.D, B.C.P.S.
0.25 Hours
The Drugs and Dysphagia video series is divided into three parts. Parts one and two discuss the medications affecting the central nervous system and dysphagia. This course is Part 1, a 2 hour video that provides a review of the central and peripheral nervous systems. This video course also provides an introduction to the pathoph....
Drugs and Dysphagia Part 3
Lynette Carl Pharm.D, B.C.P.S. and Peter Johnson
0.25 Hours
The Drugs and Dysphagia video series is divided into three parts. Parts 1 and 2 discuss the medications affecting the central nervous system and dysphagia. This 2 hr video, Part 3 of the course, looks at the medications affecting the gastrointestinal function. Instruction is given regarding the medications affecting gastrointest....
First Responders: Behavioral Health Concerns
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
First responders are usually the first on the scene to face challenging, dangerous, and draining situations, as well the the first to reach out to disaster survivors and provide emotional and physical support. This CEU course discusses the challenges encountered by first responders during regular duty as well as following disas....
Infection Prevention for Healthcare Professionals
Ruth M. Carrico, PhD, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, FSHEA, CIC
4.00 Hours
As delivery of healthcare becomes increasingly complex and locations where care is delivered more diverse, the challenges for providers of healthcare also become more substantial. Preventing acquisition and transmission of infection to patients, healthcare providers, and those in the community continues to be an area of focus am....
Legal Ramifications for Documentation
Marcy Jack, JD, BSN, CPHRM
1.00 Hours
The quality of infusion therapy is evaluated by the quality of the nursing documentation. Accurate and complete documentation is considered a professional standard of nursing practice. Documentation that is incomplete or not consistent with organizational policy, state regulations, or state boards of nursing can be used to suppo....
Implementing and Evaluating Smart Pump Technology
Pamela Phelps, PharmD, FASHP
1.00 Hours
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports that approximately 1.5 million hospital patients experienced, and are harmed by, medication-related adverse events each year. Half of these events are related to the use of infusion pumps. Infusion-related medication errors can result in serious injury or death. But, the development of "sm....