Early-Detection Pediatric Sepsis Algorithm
Matthew Eisenberg, MD and Kate Madden, MD
1.00 Hours
Sepsis and septic shock remain common causes of morbidity and mortality in children. This session will discuss how they investigated the use of electronic health record data to proactively identify potentially septic children. The approach used to define the early-detection pediatric sepsis (PS) algorithm was to combine the logi....
Closing the Gap: Risk Insights at the Point of Care
Heather Trafton, MBA, PA-C and Catherine Turbett, MHA
1.00 Hours
Steward Health Care Network is an accountable care organization with 3,500 physicians, 18 hospital campuses, and 25 affiliated urgent care provider locations. Headquartered in Boston, Steward is community-based and physician-led with more than 23,000 employees across four states. With their participation in the Next Generation A....
Educating the Next Generation of Physician Informaticians
Bruce Levy, MD, CPE
1.00 Hours
Clinical Informatics is not merely a subspecialty of medicine, but a crucial component of the practice of 21st Century medicine. The roles of the Physician Informatician (PI) and CMIO are rapidly changing. Originally focused on the implementation of health information systems, PIs and CMIOs are focusing more on optimization of e....
Empowering Data-Driven Health
Kevin Ross, PhD
1.00 Hours
While the healthcare sector is being transformed by the ability to record massive amounts of information about patients, the enormous volume of data being collected is impossible for human beings to analyze. Machine learning provides a way to automatically find patterns and reason about data, which in turn enables healthcare pro....
Expanding Access to Advance Care Plans with HIE
Carol Robinson, DNP, MS, BSN, RN, CHPN and Doug Dietzman
1.00 Hours
Advance Care Planning (ACP) has significantly improved multiple health outcomes, particularly for patients with serious illness; including increased compliance with patient wishes, reduced hospitalization at end-of-life, improved quality of life, and lower costs of care. While the number of personal Advance Directives has grown....
Nursing Research Series: Format & Research Topic
Dr Michael Joseph Dino
Nursing Research Series: Format and Topic
Holistic Counseling Seminar 2: Counselor/Client Contact and Contractual Agreement
Jim Morningstar PhD.
1.50 Hours
The quality of counselor contact with clients before, during and after session is examined from a holistic perspective. An exercise on counselor self perception is introduced. The issue of creating successful agreements with clients is addressed and basic principles outlined. Exercises to explore self expectations and self obser....
Improving Literacy In Early Years
EYPServices
The statistics surrounding the number of people who are able understand and use literacy effectively creates a growing concern nationally. According to the Literacy Trust (2013) 1 in every 6 people struggle with literacy and around 6 million adults are classed as functionally illiterate The EYFS 2014 has set out to close this....
Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence
Jean Clarke-Mitchell, MSW, LICSW, Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC
4.25 Hours
Roseanne is rushing to get ready for work. She finishes helping 3 year old Matthew get dressed and gives him some breakfast. She grabs the baby from her crib and a shooting pain stabs her in the right shoulder. With the pain comes the memory of last night. Roseanne's husband Jack got home late last night-he had been drinking and....
Evaluation and Advice on Good Inhaler Technique
Swapna Manda
0.50 Hours
This session will show you how to assess your patients’ inhaler techniques, and describes the different range of inhalers that are available and when different types of inhalers or a nebuliser should be prescribed.
Impact of Postnatal Mother and Baby Separation
Dr Ambalika Das
0.25 Hours
This session provides evidence which emphasises the importance of avoiding mother and baby separation in the postnatal period. It provides best practice guidance to healthcare staff on how to support an optimal outcome for both mother and baby by keeping them together.
LGBT Issues in Substance Abuse
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
GLBT Issues in Substance Abuse is a substance abuse counselor's introduction to substance abuse for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Serving as both a reference tool and program guide, this unit provides statistical and demographic information, prevalence data, case examples and suggested interventions, treat....
Nutrition and Health
Annabel Alder and Ruth Kander and Mary Hickson
0.50 Hours
This session identifies the reciprocal relationship between health state and nutritional status.
Emergency Contraception - Cases
Anne Webb
0.50 Hours
This session focuses on applying the knowledge acquired from the session Emergency Contraception to example clinical situations.
Managing Side Effects/Complications - Cu-IUD/LNG-IUS
John Bland
0.50 Hours
This session explores the assessment and initial management of complications in intrauterine contraceptive users after fitting.
Management of Chronic Pain
Ben Thomas
0.50 Hours
This session describes the complexity of chronic pain and the potential dire consequences of untreated long-term pain.
Elbow Soft Tissue Injuries
Thomas V. Gocke, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA
0.75 Hours
This video-based activity focuses on evaluation and treatment of conditions commonly associated with medial and lateral Epicondylitis, Cubital tunnel, and Olecranon bursitis.
Babesiosis Infection
Andrew McNulty, PhD
This course will discuss microscopic parasites that infect red blood cells, going into detail of Babeiosis infection. This activity will discuss the epidemiology, risk factors, characteristics of patients and treatments to this disease. This course will also review ways to prevent and control the disease with various examples.....
Fit to Perform: Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace
Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN
2.00 Hours
It is the employer’s obligation to discover, uncover, and address any employee behaviors that may indicate unsafe job performance. Impairment due to chemical, physical or psychological disease interferes with fitness for duty and is evidenced by effective job performance (Marquis & Huston, 2017). When addressing impairment the....
Federal Guidelines for Opioid Treatment Programs
Industry Specialist
6.00 Hours
This CE course describes the expectation of how the federal opioid treatment standards are to be satisfied by opioid treatment programs. In consideration of these standards, the following topic areas will be discussed: telemedicine; administrative organization and responsibilities of individual practitioners; program sponsor an....
Clinical Use of Extended-Release Injectable Naltrexone in Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Industry Specialist
3.00 Hours
This CE course provides a review of current evidence on the effectiveness of available medications for the treatment of an opioid use disorder and guidance for clinical practice. Topics covered: assessing the need for treatment; initiating medication-assisted treatment; monitoring patient progress and adjusting the treatment pl....
How to care for a patient after death in the community
Kathleen Greenway and Paula Johnson
This article provides nurses with information about how to care for a patient after death, and support their family and loved ones in the community setting. Care after death involves supporting the family and significant others, and providing personal care to the patient. It is important to ensure privacy, dignity and respec....
Heart Failure: Where's the Evidence
John Paguntalan, MS, APRN-BC
2.00 Hours
This course will discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, management and treatment, and important studies related to heart failure.
Faith and Communities Partner to Prevent Crime
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
This CEU course provides useful strategies for building capacity, developing partnerships, and seeking grant opportunities. Topics of focus are: building capacity within faith-based organizations; partnering with organizations to prevent crime; and effective and efficient grant acquisition and management.
HIPAA: Secure Electronic Health Records
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
2.00 Hours
Everyone has a role to play in the privacy and security of electronic health information. This CEU course helps social workers better understand how to integrate federal health information privacy and security requirements into their practices.