Safety Updates from the Anesthesia Closed Claims Project (December 2017 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology)
Karen B. Domino, M.D., M.P.H.
1.00 Hours
The Anesthesia Closed Claims Project conducts a detailed analysis of closed anesthesia malpractice claims to study adverse anesthetic outcomes and identify anesthesia safety concerns. The project was started by the American Society of Anesthesiologists’s (ASA) Committee on Professional Liability in 1985 and is now one of the reg....
Renal Tumours
Mr. Barry McGuire
0.25 Hours
Mr. Barry McGuire provides us with an in-depth discussion on Renal Tumours.
JPE 23.4 Práctica #6 Para un Parto Saludable: Mantén a Mamá y Bebé Juntos — Es Mejor para la Mamá y el Bebé y para la Lactancia
Jeannette T. Crenshaw, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, IBCLC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
Las madres y los bebés tienen una necesidad fisiológica de estar juntos en el momento del nacimiento y durante las horas y días siguientes. Mantener a las madres y bebés juntos es una práctica para un parto seguro y saludable. La evidencia apoya el cuidado piel a piel inmediato y sin interrupciones después del parto vaginal y du....
JPE 23.4 Práctica #2 para un Parto Saludable: Camina, Muévete y Cambia de Posición Durante el Trabajo de Parto
Michele Ondeck, RN, MEd, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE
En los EE.UU., la atención obstétrica es intensiva en intervenciones, lo que resulta en que una de cada tres mujeres sean sometidas a cesárea donde la movilidad se trata como una intervención en lugar de apoyar los procesos fisiológicos naturales para un nacimiento óptimo. Las mujeres que utilizan posiciones verticales y se muev....
Raphael accreditor
Mr Test Administrator
1.00 Hours
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Urinary Tract Infections: Your Role in Recognizing, Preventing & Treating UTIs
Industry Specialists
This course provides caregivers with an overview of the urinary system; the causes, symptoms and risk factors for UTI; the steps for obtaining a urine sample; the treatment of urinary tract infections; possible complications of UTIs; information about incontinence and catheters; and how nurse aides can help prevent this common i....
Understanding Substance Abuse
Industry Specialists
This inservice provides caregivers with an overview of substance abuse including alcohol, illegal drugs, and prescription drugs. Provides a basic understanding of this widespread problem and gives tips for working with clients who are actively abusing or who are recovering. Touches on the problem of substance abuse among health....
Preventing Pressure Ulcers
Industry Specialists
This course provides caregivers with pertinent information about the causes of pressure ulcers and tips for preventing pressure ulcers. It emphasizes how much easier it is to prevent a pressure ulcer than to cure one! A GOOD RISK MANAGEMENT INSERVICE!
Understanding Heart Attacks
Industry Specialists
This inservice contains basic information about heart attacks, including their causes, symptoms, and treatments. Includes tips for how aides can help their clients prevent heart disease, how to recognize the symptoms of a heart attack and how to help clients who are recovering from heart attacks.
Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
Industry Specialists
This course provides background on the basic biology of Alzheimer’s disease, its three stages and how it is diagnosed and treated. Caregivers will gain insight into how to communicate with AD clients, how to keep them safe and how to meet their personal care, nutritional and emotional needs.
Climate Change and Zoonoses
Millicent Eidson, MA, DVM, DACVPM (Epidemiology)
1.00 Hours
This presentation provides an introduction and overview of climate change and zoonotic diseases, the potential impact of climate change on human and non-human animal health, vulnerable populations, and activities to address the risk including the One Health approach, mitigation, and adaption. Areas of discussion include humans,....
Clinic Economics: What Clinic Numbers Actually Look Like - Taking Care of Business Summit
Dr. Jordan Robertson, ND and Dr. Sean Robertson, DDS
Dr. Jordan Robertson and Dr. Sean Robertson provide us with an in-depth discussion on clinic economics and what clinic numbers actually look like. This is part 6 of Taking Care of Business Summit: Learn from successful and innovative business leaders. Summit description: The OAND and CCNM are partnering to bring you the....
Virtual Patient: Young Child with Allergy to Grass Pollen
Linda Cox (MD FAAAAI), Anna H. Nowak-Wegrzyn (MD FAAAAI), and Jeanette Arnold (MSN RN C-FNP)
0.25 Hours
This course provides a case simulation that involves evaluation and management of a young child with seasonal allergic rhinitis with allergen immunotherapy (AIT). The benefits and risks of AIT in general in the context of a young child will be reviewed, and a summary of AIT literature supporting best practices will be provided.
Risk Reduction: Rethinking Recordkeeping for NDS (JURISPRUDENCE)
Dr. Sylvi Martin, ND
Are you practicing enough prevention in your own practice? Would your records contain the most important details if your care of a patient were to be scrutinized? With the expansion of power that the naturopathic regulators have, it is important for NDs to become proactive with their recordkeeping and consent discussions with pa....
Breast Imaging Essentials Module 1: Fundamentals of Breast Imaging
Myke Kudlas, M.Ed.,R.T.(R)(QM), CIIP, PMP
This module describes the radiographic principles essential to mammography, the purpose of regulations and licensing regarding the performance of mammography, and techniques that produce quality mammographic imaging with minimal radiation exposure. You will also learn about the development and purpose of digital mammography in a....
Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, response and control
WHO
This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe: - The nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory....
Approaches to counter loneliness and social isolation in older people
Bob Price
0.50 Hours
Social isolation and loneliness are significant threats for older people and may be associated with mental and physical health problems. This module revisits what is meant by social isolation and loneliness and explores the way in which social change can trigger both problems. Social networks are discussed as the means by which....
Myelodysplastic syndromes: update and nursing considerations
Mary Kelly, Teresa Meenaghan, and Maura Dowling
0.50 Hours
This module provides nurses with an update on diagnosis, management and care of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a complex group of disorders of the bone marrow. MDS has wide-ranging effects on patients’ lives. Understanding the effect of a diagnosis of MDS on patients’ quality of life is an important part of the n....
Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices
Heather Gluyas
0.50 Hours
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) continue to be a challenge in developed and developing countries. Hand hygiene practice is considered to be the most effective strategy to prevent HCAIs, but healthcare workers' compliance is poor. Using a human factors perspective, this learning module explores elements that affect healt....
Webinar: Kidney Pancreas Transplant
Paul Robertson
For patients with both diabetes and kidney disease they are managing two chronic diseases and have high complication rates. Dual transplantation of both the pancreas and kidney offers excellent outcomes to manage both diseases, and is available in specialist centres in Australia.
Treating Minor Burns
Dr. Brett MacFarlane BPharm, PhD, and Dr. Hau Huynh, BBiomedSc, PharmD.
1.00 Hours
This CPE, titled Treating Minor Burns, is designed for pharmacists and will update participants on the classification and referral requirements for all burns and the treatment of minor burns. To Receive Credit: You will be required to view the CPE article and take an exam at the end of the course. Continuing education credit....
Riparian and Littoral Law Tutorial 1
Ms Laura Ayers JD
The course is part 1 of an overview of New York State (primarily) Riparian and Littoral Law with emphasis on determining ownership of lands under water both of the sea and inland lakes and rivers. It begins with an introduction to riparian terms with definitions for each. The course includes discussions of navigability in law an....
Resident Rounds: March 27, 2020
Elizabeth Zhu, OD
Cases presented by ICO's Residents at this session include Marfan Syndrome, Posterior Nodular Scleritis, and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis/Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Clinical Manifestations of Hypertension
Heather McLeod OD
Description: This course will provide a review of the ocular diseases and management of the conditions associated with hypertension.
Resident Rounds: April 2020
Ms Elizabeth Grantner
ICO's Residents present cases from the Illinois Eye Institute.