Start this course! Course Description The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first identified in China in late December 2019. Since then, it has spread rapidly and virulently throughout the world. In early March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic. This...
Start this course! 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 presentation for various age groups. Learning Objectives...
Start this course! Course Description Airway suctioning is a key component of airway management, both inside and outside of the intensive care unit (ICU). This course will discuss suctioning in acute and post-acute environments and review the latest American Association...
Start this course! Course Description This course will provide the different types of FDA-approved vaccinations, review the importance of prevention strategies, explain the use of the CDC's Transmission-based Precautions and guidelines for isolation of patients both at home and in...
Start this course! 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 presentation for various age groups. Learning...
Start this course! Course Description It is imperative that clinicians understand the importance of monitoring artificial airway cuff pressure and applying the current standards of care. This course will focus specifically on the regulation, clinical practice guidelines and factors...
Tracheostomies are a common procedure in healthcare today with over 100,000 tracheostomies performed every year in the United States. This makes tracheostomies and tracheostomy tube care a critical component of nursing care. This course will discuss the reason tracheostomies are performed,...
Up to 28 percent of mechanically ventilated patients develop Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia, or VAP. This course offers five steps based on the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, or IHI, Ventilator Bundle, with a goal of reducing the mortality of VAP patients. #Courses #Infection...
This program will assist clinicians to understand a ventilator associated event, identify acronyms related to ventilator associated events, and recognize surveillance techniques, new terminology and complications related to the ventilator. This course also reviews information from the Centers...
Healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, are an unfortunate complication of hospitalizations. It is estimated that 1 out of every 25 patients develops an HAI with approximately 650,000 HAIs in the US annually at a cost of billions of dollars. 2011 data indicates that infections related to...
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