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Course Description This course will provide nurses and other healthcare professionals with information about the risk factors that make a person susceptible to contracting COVID-19 as well as its clinical ...

Course Description This course will discuss ostomy management after hospital discharge such as teaching of stoma assessment to patients, emptying pouches, and changing pouching systems. Training on how ...

Course Description This course will review stoma care, review common issues associated with ostomy care such as skin irritation, discretion of pouch systems, and emptying of pouches. Proper interventions ...

Course Description This course will identify essential components of a pouching system and options for specific cases. Further discussion includes features of the pouching systems, options for barriers, ...

Course Description This course will review anatomy of the abdomen, types of ostomies, characteristics of normal stomas, and identify disease processes or injuries that are typically associated with stoma ...

In hospitals, patients who are immobile and bedridden, have a high risk of hospital acquired conditions including: falls, pressure injuries, increased length of stay and ventilator associated pneumonia. ...

Phlebotomy is one of the most common procedures performed in healthcare today. This course will provide a refresher on phlebotomy for clinical professionals who already hold the appropriate certification ...

When our patients come to the hospital, their hope is for a return to health. Each year millions of patients check into US hospitals, and unfortunately some of them will get a hospital-acquired infection. ...

The purpose of this program is to examine some of the pros and cons of receiving hospice care in the patient's home or in a long term care facility. The material is organized around the following categories: ...

The purpose of this program is to provide certified nursing assistants with an understanding of the proper procedures needed to provide a tub bath, shower, shampoo and perineal care. The material is organized ...

The purpose of this program is to provide certified nursing assistants with an understanding of the proper procedures needed to provide a bed bath. The material is organized around the following categories: ...

Care providers must often assist persons with impaired mobility to walk, move to wheelchairs, toilets and beds. But to protect yourself and those you are providing care to, the nursing assistant must master ...

The purpose of this program is to provide certified nursing assistants with an understanding of the proper procedures for moving and turning residents both with and without a lift sheet, and the proper ...

Steam sterilization is the most common form of sterilization used today in both hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers. This course is offered through our partnership with course creator Nancy Chobin ...

Basically, there are three conditions than can compromise sterility; moisture, soil and physical damage. All of these events are affected by the storage and handling of the packages after sterilization. ...

This course covers specialty testing of steam sterilizers and best practices for decontamination. There are four types of specialty testing of sterilizers: 1. Routine BI Testing 2. Qualification Testing ...

The effective SPD technician must clearly and thoroughly understand his or her roles and responsibilities. To achieve the necessary level of competence, the technician should study the various functions ...

AAMI ST-79 recommends routine biological monitoring of steam sterilizers weekly, preferably daily. Biological monitoring with a process challenge device (also known as PCD) containing live bacterial spores ...

Surgical instruments must be thoroughly cleaned, properly assembled, carefully inspected and tested, correctly packaged and effectively sterilized to ensure patient safety and positive patient outcomes. ...

The enemies are the various microbes we face on a daily basis. The danger is that we cannot see them so we tend to ignore or forget about them. We are at war with the enemies! Warfare requires a systematic ...