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...
Start this course! Course Description All patients should feel comfortable providing information necessary for their care and should be treated with dignity and respect. Caregivers, nurses and other healthcare professionals are responsible for providing a level of high-quality care...
Start this course! Course Description The goal of this program is to define HIPAA and provide an overview of its guidelines and requirements, including those resulting from enactment of the HITECH Act of 2009 and the act's Final Rule announced in...
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. In addition, CDC and WHO guidelines will be presented to help healthcare...
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. This can lead to extra days in the hospital, significant delay in their overall recovery,...
Start this course! Course Description In end-of-life care, the caregivers will need effective communication, cultural competence and the inclusion of family and loved ones. These can all be crucial factors in easing a person's fears and distress during the final phase of life. This...
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...
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,...
Start this course for nurses! Start this course for clinical laboratory professionals! Course Description According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, “Bloodborne pathogens are infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans....
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...
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