Employment Management - From Hiring to Termination
Janice Janssen, RDH, CFE
1 Hours
Do you have your hiring protocol from A to Z? Where do you start looking for new employees? What paperwork do you need to have the new employee fill out? Do you know who to handle conflict among your employees? This Employment Management course From Hiring to Termination will address all of these concerns you may have for your p....
Basics of Extracranial Carotid Artery Duplex Ultrasound
Nathan Liang, MD
Cerebrovascular disease is a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and results from carotid and vertebral stenosis in the setting of atherosclerotic disease. When left untreated, progression of this disease can lead to occlusion, embolization, or plaque rupture, causing neurologic sequelae such as transient ische....
How Physicians Lead Change
Paul Tahari, MD, MBA in collaboration with the American Association for Physician Leadership
1.00 Hours
How Physicians Lead Change answers three fundamental questions about leadership – what is it? How is it used? And what type of change can effective leaders create? Physicians who explore the content in this course will have access to the step-by-step process that leaders use to initiate, validate and perpetuate positive change f....
Improving Recognition and Management of Bipolar Disorder
Josephine Anderson and Philip Mitchell
More than 200,000 people in Australia live with bipolar disorder throughout their adult lives, and poor management of this episodic illness significantly impairs social, emotional and economic wellbeing, to the detriment of both the patient and the community. GPs are key to an integrated biopsychosocial approach to bipolar disor....
Foot Problems in Older People
Paul Dearden and Andrew Wines
Age-related fat pad atrophy, bony deformities such as hallux valgus (bunions) and hammer, claw and mallet toe, Morton’s neuroma, toenail disorders and arthritis are common foot problems in older people. Resulting foot pain, deformity and loss of function can significantly compromise an older person’s mobility and independence.
Journal Club October 2012
Tarquin Robinson, Campbell S, Woods M, Sankey, J
This month's article reviews the status of chronic kidney disease (CKD) within Australia and examines how the primary health care framework can be incorporated into the nursing care of people with CKD.
Journal Club March 2013 - Online Learning Package
Jenny Beavis, Eric P. Sorensen, Mark J. Sarnak, Hocine Tighiouart, Tammy Scott, Lena M. Giang, Beth
Rates of cognitive impairment in maintenance haemodialysis patients
Journal Club June 2012
Andrew Booth, Frank Gesek, Jennifer Desmond
This month's article investigates treatment options that are available for people with CKD that will contribute to improved outcomes.
Journal Club December 2011
Tarquin Robinson, Annette Davis
This month's article by Annette Davis provides an overview of some of the more common adult blood tests routinely ordered for patients with renal disorders.
Collaborative Oncology
Dr. Daniel Lander, ND, Dr. Martina Trinkaus, MD, FRCPC&, Dr. Akbar Khan, MD and Kathy Vu, BScPharm,
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) and the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OAND) are hosting a series of panel discussions on collaborative care. The first panel titled Collaborative Oncology will consist of a naturopathic doctor, two medical doctors, and a pharmacist who will explore the challenge....
Module 1: Demographics, Psychographics, and Site Analysis
Mr Scott McDonald
Module 1 covers what every new dentist needs to know about advertising best practices and theory. It is not possible nor practical to turn doctors into adverting and public relations professionals. Nevertheless, the demands of dental practice require that doctors be familiar with this aspect of their practices in order to ma....
Module 5: Social Media, New Media & internet Marketing
Mr Scott McDonald
Module 5 covers internet marketing, social media, and new media tools for young doctors. It is not possible nor practical to turn doctors into adverting and public relations professionals. Nevertheless, the demands of dental practice require that doctors be familiar with this aspect of their practices in order to make good deci....
Joint Vibration Analysis
Ms Tiffany Jensen
On behalf of T&S Therapy Centre International A Comparison of Before and After Treatment JVA’s in the for Craniofacial Pain, OSA (Adults and Children), Orthodontics and Prosthodontics At the completion of the webinar, you will be able to identify the following on a JVA trace: Normal, Inflammation, Disc Displacement and Osse....
6 Common Charting Mistakes to Avoid
Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
1 Hours
In nursing, Documentation is a key factor in our role and responsibility as a patient care advocates. It is critical for determining if the standard of care was provided to a patient to defend prior nursing actions. Failure to chart, omissions, and poor communications are hard to defend.
Elderly Nutrition for CNAs (SCORM)
Ms Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
4 Hours
Are you working with elderly patients? How is their nutritional status? Are they eating adequately? This content provides a comprehensive course on the nutritional needs of elderly. Topics include the science of food nutrients, nutritional status assessment, risks and prevention of malnutrition.
H1N1
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
5 Hours
To date, human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been confirmed in residents of California, Texas, and Mexico. Illness signs and symptoms have consisted of influenza-like illness - fever and respiratory tract illness (cough, sore throat, runny nose), headache, muscle aches - and some cases have had vomiting....
Do Not Resuscitate
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
4 Hours
On the medicine wards, you will come across patients who have a "Do-Not-Resuscitate" order on their chart. You will also be in situations where you are asked to discuss with a patient whether they want to or should have resuscitation following a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia. Like many other medical decisions, de....
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis- Diagnosis and Treatment
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
7 Hours
Many acute and chronic lung disorders with variable degrees of pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis are collectively referred to as interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) or diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (or cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis) (IPF or CFA) is one of several idiopathic interstitial pneu....
Leadership at the Point of Care Part 2: BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESSFUL CLINICAL SUPERVISION AND TEAMWORK
Ms Ruth Hansten BSN, PhD, MBA, RN, FACHE
Building from a thorough knowledge of nursing professional practice in teamwork with assistive personnel, Part 2 of this 3-part series carries individual nursing practice to unit-level practices and shared mental models of care. After a review of the 5 Rights, the students discuss how teamwork effectiveness is measured in terms....
Flu Jab Refresher Course
Mohammed Ibrahim
This course is aimed at Community Pharmacists in England. It can also be used by nurses and other healthcare professionals that are authorised to administer the influenza vaccine under the NHS patient group direction. Whilst the course covers the NHS service specification for community pharmacy in England, the other aspects....
Medical Errors
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3 Hours
Most Americans have grown up having the utmost respect for the medical profession and what it has accomplished over the decades. The family doctor who could fix anything became a fixture in our society. If “doc” said you needed something, then that is what you got. People not only didn’t worry about the their healthcare, they di....
Domestic Violence and Children
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3 Hours
This course summarizes the current knowledge to date regarding the prevalence and effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence. The course describes current responses to this problem by the multiple service systems with which children exposed to domestic violence have contact, and addresses what we know about how well the....
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Overview
Alison Swain
0.5 Hours
This session addresses the long-acting reversible methods of contraception, including their effectiveness, thus ensuring knowledge of how to access these methods of contraception for our patients.
Effective Communication with People Who Have Learning Disabilities
Jo Corbett
0.5 Hours
The session aims to provide a range of information and ideas that can be used to improve communication when consulting with people who have learning disabilities.
Endocrine Problems in Primary Care - An Overview
Berenice Lopez Specialist Registrar, North Bristol
0.25 Hours
This session considers three important abnormalities of the endocrine system and how they might present in primary care.