Ventilatory Failure and Oxygen Therapy
Marelize Van Gruenen
0.50 Hours
This session covers the physiology and causes of the different types of ventilatory/respiratory failure. The effect of ventilatory failure on blood gases, treatment options, oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity will also be discussed.
The Physiology of Hormones
Simon Fletcher
0.50 Hours
This session gives a broad overview of the hormone/endocrine system, including the key systems. It covers types of hormones, modes of action and a brief description of the assessment of hormonal function.
Starting and Using Barrier Contraceptives
Fiona Anderson
0.50 Hours
This session explores the choice of barrier contraception methods available and the risks and benefits associated with each method. It also describes information and counselling, management and follow up in relation to barrier contraception use.
The anaesthetic management of facial trauma and fractures
Nicholas J Chesshire and David J W Knight
0.50 Hours
In the field of maxillofacial trauma, the anaesthetist may be called upon to provide help in the treatment of the acutely injured patient on arrival to the accident and emergency department or in the semi-elective repair of fractures sustained previously. This article provides advice on the best approaches to dealing with these....
Surface Anatomy of the Neck and Clavicular Region
David Ashton-Cleary
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to help you gain a better understanding of surface anatomy relevant to everyday anaesthetic procedures such as central venous access and brachial plexus blockade.
Types of Tracheostomy Tube
Anne Whaley
0.50 Hours
This session will enable you to recognize the available tracheostomy tubes and choose the appropriate tracheostomy tube for a given setting.
Standards of Monitoring During Anaesthesia and Recovery
Baha Al-Shaikh
0.50 Hours
It is essential, for the safe administration of anaesthesia, that certain core standards of monitoring are used whenever a patient is anaesthetized. These standards should be uniform irrespective of duration or location of anaesthesia. This session provides an overview of the principles of the standards used to monitor patients....
Visualizing the Patient Experience Using an Agile Framework
Chris Mitchell
0.75 Hours
As the US healthcare market has shifted from a fee-for-service to a pay-for-performance reimbursement model, patient experience survey ratings are under more scrutiny than ever. Performance is not only positively correlated to financial performance and health outcomes - it can also shape perceptions that drive customer loyalty.....
Why Am I Taking This Drug? Incorporating Indications in CPOE
Gordon Schiff, MD and Pamela M Neri Garabedian, MS
1.00 Hours
Currently, medication orders lack information about the drug indication (the reason for taking the drug). Integrating indications could pave the way for a safer, more complete continuum of care for the patient and save time during prescribing and related tasks (e.g. medication reconciliation). Indications-based prescribing has t....
Social-Health Data Exchange Facilitates Chronic Disease Care
Yolande Pengetnze, MD, MSc and Teresa Jackson
1.00 Hours
The “Data Across Sectors for Health” (DASH) project deployed a technology platform between a hospital system and food pantries to facilitate improved care for food-insecure people with diabetes or hypertension. The social/health information exchange (S-HIE) enables inter-sectoral coordination/data sharing between hospital-based....
Turning Clinical Data Into Effective Action: A Case Study
Tim Putnam and Karin Abraham
1.00 Hours
This session will describe how a Critical Access Hospital in Batesville, Indiana is transitioning from guessing to wisdom through data from analytics and population health software. The session will present a case study based on the experience of Margaret Mary Health and describe how the facility finding success and participatin....
Privacy and Confidentiality
Ms Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; People’s right to privacy and confidentiality; Strategies and responsibilities to respect privacy and confidentiality; Managing personal information; Responsibilities under the Australian Privacy Law regarding the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) Scheme
Using SCIT vs. SLIT to Modify Allergic Disease
Stephen R. Durham (MA MD FRCP), Mohamed H. Shamji (PhD FAAAAI), and Giovanni Passalacqua (MD)
1.25 Hours
This course offers an in-depth explanation of using SCIT vs. SLIT to Modify Allergic Disease.
Sustainable Population Health: One Health System's Journey
Terri H. Steinberg, MD, MBA
1.00 Hours
Effective population health management comes down to two issues: scale and value. A strategic view is needed to transition from volume-based fee-for-service to value. Successful organizations will evolve from limited-scale population health programs to general adoption of effective business models that drive value-based care. F....
Understanding Dementia 5: Changed Behaviours
e3Learning
Working with people who have dementia is not easy. It can be upsetting, trying and challenging, but it can also be very rewarding and satisfying. This series is made of up five courses, each providing training in different aspects of dementia care. The aim of this is to provide an understanding of dementia, with the goal of:....
Symptom Management in People with Learning Difficulties or Mental Health Problems in Palliative Care
Regina McQuillan and Karen Ryan
This session identifies particular problems in providing end of life care for vulnerable patients with learning difficulties or severe and enduring mental health problems and it outlines how these problems can be addressed. This session was reviewed by Regina McQuillan and Christina Faull and last updated in December 2014.
Adult Sepsis
Alison Tavare
This session covers non pregnant adults and children aged 12 years and over. It is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will cover the subtle ways in which sepsis may present and highlight the history, examination and the managemen....
Term Newborn Babies at Risk of Respiratory Distress
Sue Macdonald, Tracey Jones and Kelly Harvey
0.75 Hours
This session provides a review of anatomy, applied physiology and a consideration of the factors that impact on the newborn respiratory well-being. It seeks to increase knowledge and skills to enable the practitioner to provide high quality care to the neonate, encouraging an integrated and seamless team approach to care.
Self Awareness in Communication
Carole Tallon
This session explains the importance of self-awareness and reflection in end-of-life care.
Oral and Dental Care
Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; Assessing, planning oral and dental care; Supporting independence with oral care; Caring for older people’s teeth and dentures; Oral care and dementia
Women and Girls
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3.00 Hours
Women and Girls is a basis for the development of core competencies in the substance abuse counselor serving women and girls. This unit offers a deeper look at a relational model of treatment, understanding trauma, family-centered needs, women's health care, interdisciplinary effectiveness, service-specific attitudes and attrib....
Emotional Intelligence: Leadership and career success
Jenny Bergin, BPharm, MBA, FACP
This educational activity was designed to discuss the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in health, wellbeing and work performance, and how to use it to improve relationships and leadership behaviours. This activity was developed and accredited in Australia and was designed to address competencies described by the Na....
VTE Prevention in Secondary Care
Roopen Arya and Lara Roberts
0.50 Hours
The prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalised patients is a top clinical priority in the NHS. The National VTE Prevention Programme provides a comprehensive, integrated and financially incentivised approach to prevent VTE. In this session, you will learn how to assess a patient's risk of VTE and choose a suitabl....