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Transitional Planning to Support Value-Based Reimbursement
Toni Cesta, Ph.D., RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
Case management associations and payers identified the importance of effective transitions throughout a patient’s movement across the continuum. With value-based reimbursement, there is an increased need for case management leaders to communicate and collaborate with other members of the interdisciplinary care team to ensure cos....
Utilization Review Programs: CMS CoPs
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 UR standards to avoid penalties from the recovery audit contractors and the Office of the Inspector General. During this program, attendees will learn about what inf....
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Breastfeeding Advice to Mothers in Situation of COVID 19
jhpiego
Breastfeeding Advice to Mothers in Situation of CORONA VIRUS (COVID 19)
Intraligamentary Anaesthesia
Jennifer Harte
This session provides an overview to intraligamentary anaesthesia. It also describes the method of administration, the indications for use and the advantages and disadvantages of this technique. This session was reviewed by Kathy Wilson in May 2015.
Nutrition Across the Life Course in Malawi: Priorities in Children, Adolescents, and WRA
NUTRITION FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Assessing, Managing and Promoting Child, Adolescent & Maternal Nutrition
This course provides health professionals in Malawi with a thorough understanding of nutrition for infants, children, and adolescents, emphasising its impact on long-term health. It covers key influences on adolescent health and teaches the HEEADSSS psychosocial interview to explore these factors. The course also highlights nutr....
Unit 4. Sexuality, Marriage and Family Life and their relationship to NFP
Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB)
Unit 4: Natural family planning enable couples appreciate and understand that sexuality is a factor that gives human beings traits distinguishing them from each other.
Unit 5. Menstrual Cycle
Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB)
Unit 5: Menstrual cycle will help to understand the organs and hormones and signs of fertility that a woman needs to look out for in order to practice NFP.
Partial Agonists and Inverse Agonists
Catriona Felderhof
This session describes the dynamics of drug receptor interaction with partial and inverse agonists. It describes how the presence of these drugs affect the log (dose) v response curves when they occur in isolation and when a partial agonist acts in the presence of a full agonist.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Foot - Session 1
Kevin Harvell, Kathy Dewar
This session will look at injuries related to the toes, metatarsals and the tarsal bones. It will focus on identifying anatomy demonstrated on both diagrams and radiographs, and offer examples of radiographic technique. Mechanisms of injury will be discussed to develop a knowledge base in clinical presentations.
Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade
Elizabeth Flockton and Chris Parker
This session reviews both the assessment of residual neuromuscular block and the mechanism of action of the chemical agents that antagonise it.
Aminosteroid Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
RG Craig and CJ Parker
This session explores the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the aminosteroid neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs). It explores: the relationship between the chemical structure of these agents, their potency and their route of elimination; the relationship between potency and rate of onset; the use of neuromuscul....
Non-Depolarising Muscle Relaxants: General Properties
Elizabeth Flockton and Chris Parker
This session introduces the action of non-depolarising muscle relaxants.
Assessment and Management of Agitation and Delirium
Annabel Price
This session provides a framework for recognising and managing agitation in patients with advanced illness. It was reviewed by Felicity Wood and Sarah Hanrott and last updated in May 2023.
Electro-oculography
Dorothy Thompson
This session covers the underlying physiological changes measured by electro-oculography (EOG), clinical indications, how the test is carried out and the interpretation of an EOG report.
Understanding and respecting patient confidentiality
Bob Price
1.00 Hours
Nurses face a particular challenge in respecting the confidentiality of patients in a world where information is quickly shared and where information about illness can be sensitive. We have a duty of care towards patients. That duty includes maintaining privacy (protecting them from undue intrusion), and confidentiality (by the....
Effective presentation skills for nurses
Mark Foulkes
This learning module emphasises the importance of effective presentation skills. Such skills allow nurses to share knowledge and expertise and to communicate clearly in a range of workplace scenarios. Nurses are increasingly being asked to present in formal and informal situations, such as conferences, poster presentations, job....
Managing malnutrition in patients (and residents) with dementia
Liz Anderson and Carolyn Best
As dementia progresses, an individual may experience increasing difficulties in eating and drinking safely. Evidence suggests that admission to hospital may exacerbate these problems. This learning module aims to familiarise readers with some of the issues associated with providing good nutritional care for a patient with dement....
Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices
Heather Gluyas
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....