Expanding Access to Advance Care Plans with HIE
Carol Robinson, DNP, MS, BSN, RN, CHPN and Doug Dietzman
1 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....
Empowering Data-Driven Health
Kevin Ross, PhD
1 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....
Leveraging HIE for Disaster Preparedness and Response
Samuel Schaffzin, MPA and Thomas Novak
1 Hours
Current HIE models facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide safer, more timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered care and when utilized effectively have been found to be useful to Public Health authorities to assist in analyses of the health of the population. This session will explore ways....
Educating the Next Generation of Physician Informaticians
Bruce Levy, MD, CPE
1 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....
Healthcare Transformation Led and Enabled by Disruptive Cloud Technology
Scott Floyd and Rattan Singh
1 Hours
This session provides a perspective on the ‘Post Modern ERP’ era and the various cloud capabilities and cloud drivers that are revolutionizing today’s healthcare industry. By driving progressive healthcare organizations to not only prepare for but also adapt to the changing application eco-system, the intent is for them to beco....
Improving RFID Security in a Healthcare Environment
Mitchell Parker, MBA, CISSP
0.75 Hours
RFID is an exciting technology. It allows organizations to drastically improve their inventory and tracking processes, saving time and money. It has also been used for everything from ID and door badges to fare cards. However, the implementation of this promising technology has not had a corresponding set of recommendations....
From Implementation to Optimization: Moving Beyond Operations
Scott E. Aikey, MS-HSA
1 Hours
As organizations move beyond large scale EHR implementations and the subsequent stabilization period, there is a need to evolve the thinking and processes around maintaining long term operational support. This session will describe the process that our organization went through to evaluate the current governance, process and st....
Intrapreneurship and the Approach to Innovation from Within
Sam Hanna, MBA, CISA, CBCP, CRSC
1 Hours
Entrepreneurship is often thought of as going out on your own and starting a business. While that is mostly true, there is ample opportunity to do just that within the confines of an organization. In this session, we will discuss and examine key concepts in "Intrapreneurship" and the skills and resources required to create ven....
Improving Outcomes in Obesity Management - Module C: Treatments & Interventions in Obesity Care
Ann K. Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN
1.5 Hours
This course offers current standards of care for the patient with obesity and is presented in four modules: Module A: Prevalence and Pathophysiology Module B: Assessment Module C: Interventions
How Useful Are Discharge Documents for Care Coordination?
Erin Sparnon, MEng and Patrice D. Tremoulet, PhD
1 Hours
When patients follow-up with their primary care physicians after receiving acute care, the physicians may have to rely upon the patients’ discharge documentation for care coordination, particularly if a physician’s practice is not in the same network as the acute care facility. Recognizing that this use of discharge documents is....
Improving Outcomes in Pain Management - Module D: Pain Management: Types of Chronic Pain
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS
2 Hours
Our five Modules offer the current standards of care for the patient with pain. Our Course is organized as follows: -Pathophysiology of Pain -Acute Pain -Chronic Pain Overview -Types of Chronic & Persistent Pain -Cancer Pain Management
Improving Outcomes in Pain Management - Module E: Pain Management: Cancer Pain
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS
1.5 Hours
Our five Modules offer the current standards of care for the patient with pain. Our Course is organized as follows: -Pathophysiology of Pain -Acute Pain -Chronic Pain Overview -Types of Chronic & Persistent Pain -Cancer Pain Management
Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention - Module A: Societal Views, Prevalence & Economic Impact
Betsy B. Waterman, PhD, CAS, MS, BS and Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP
1.5 Hours
The purpose of Improving Outcomes in Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention is to educate case managers about suicide so that they may be aware of early warning signs and empowered to intervene and support the efforts of other interprofessional practice team members, including other health care professionals, patients and fami....
Improving Outcomes in Sepsis Care and Resource Management - Module D: Prevention & Treatment
Debra Siela, PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CNE, RRT
1.25 Hours
This course will focus on sepsis care and resource management. The five course modules describe the prevalence and pathophysiology, assessment, sources and predisposing conditions, prevention and treatment and the case manager’s role in Sepsis planning and treatment goals.
Improving Outcomes in Sepsis Care and Resource Management - Module E: Case Manager's Role
Debra Siela, PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CNE, RRT
1.25 Hours
This course will focus on sepsis care and resource management. The five course modules describe the prevalence and pathophysiology, assessment, sources and predisposing conditions, prevention and treatment and the case manager’s role in Sepsis planning and treatment goals.
LGBT Issues in Substance Abuse
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3 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....
Holistic Counseling Seminar 2: Counselor/Client Contact and Contractual Agreement
Jim Morningstar PhD.
1.5 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....
DSM 5: Integrating a Nursing Wellness Perspective
Dr Clare Steffen
This course will discuss the many diverse elements to mental health, the history, medical updates, studies to the complexity of human behaviours, mental disorders, cultural beliefs and developments including substance abuse, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, Neurodiversity, sleeping disorders, gender and the treatment/ diagnosis pr....
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.....
Nasogastric Intubation and Enteral Feeding
Mr Hamza Shehade
This course intended to provide all what nurses have to know pertaining nasogatsric intubation and enteral feeding as well. material derived from up-to-date literature, hints, tricks and experience built up at work field.
How to Deal with Different Characters and Positive Approach
Mr Hamza Shehade Rn, BSc, MSc, Staff Development Coordinator and Clinical Educator
This training material discusses different characters and how to tackle each and achieve positive approach
Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
Mr Hamza Shehade
This course describes infants who develop necrotizing enterocolitis. Disorder characteristics; How to closely assess such infants, what to observe, and how it could be managed.