LabCoP’s Waste Management ECHO session, held on 7 Dec 2023, focused on sustainable healthcare waste management. Having a comprehensive waste management system backed by competent policies/guidelines, competent staff, appropriate technologies chosen, deployed, and properly maintained is an obligation of every institution. Janita....
"In 2017, Midwifery supervision changed and the employer-led Advocating and educating for quality improvement (A-EQUIP) model of supervision was launched. The Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) role was introduced to implement the model. These elearning sessions were originally designed to support the launch of the A-EQUIP....
This session gives a framework for assessing and managing loss of appetite (anorexia), weight loss and cachexia in patients near the end of their lives. This session was reviewed by Alice Gray and Richard Kitchen and last updated in January 2021.
This session provides a framework for the assessment of mood as an essential first step to appropriate management of depression.
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Oral problems can impact greatly on the quality of life of patients receiving end-of-life care. This session provides a framework for the assessment and management of a sore mouth and other oral problems.
This session identifies issues when providing palliative and end-of-life care for people with learning disabilities and how these can be addressed.
This session discusses the role of cultural influences and patients’ individual preferences on symptom management and care plans.
This session provides a framework for the assessment of physical and cognitive deterioration in function in end-of-life care patients.
This session provides a general approach to the assessment of symptoms, an essential first step before a plan for symptom management and care can be started.
This session discusses how to deal with transition points and crises, both in terms of initial management options and how these options can be explained and discussed with patients approaching the end of life and their relatives and carers. The ways in which these transition points and crises influence decision-making in symptom....
As the end of life approaches, patients with either advanced cancer or other progressive life-limiting illnesses may experience a reduction in their cognitive function, such as forgetfulness, confusion or agitation. This session provides a framework for the management of diminishing cognitive function.
Pharmacists Call the Shots: Immunizations Review 2020
This course covers tobacco, nicotine and vaping prevention and treatment.
This guided discussion deals with COVID-19 and return to school. The role of the Home School Visitor / School Social Worker is discussed, as well as updates on legislation impacting the field.
This chapter begins by defining what complicity is, and how to differentiate it from other wrongs committed with other people. It will then analyze what the doctor’s responsibility is regarding complicity. Because a doctor’s duty is to work in the interest of her patients, the chapter will highlight cases where ethical questions....
Knowledge-based: Designed to acquire factual knowledge. This information must be evidence-based and drawn from guidelines, research and published literature recognized by the health care professions. The minimum credit for these activities is 30 minutes or 0.5 contact hour.
Knowledge-based: Designed to acquire factual knowledge. This information must be evidence-based and drawn from guidelines, research and published literature recognized by the health care professions. The minimum credit for these activities is 30 minutes or 0.5 contact hour.
This is the CPAA Covid-19 Tax Update for September 2020