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Medication Error Prevention
Medication errors and substandard care occur often in today’s complex healthcare organizations. High-reliability organizations remain alert to potential errors and ways in which they can be prevented, regardless of how few adverse events occur. Healthcare organizations with a culture for patient safety focus on identifying the cause of errors and applicable prevention strategies rather than blaming or punishing the people involved in an error. Organizations that focus on patient safety in this manner have higher rates of error reporting and are better positioned to address problems at the systems level.
The goal of this course is to educate healthcare professionals about approaches to prevent medication errors.
Discuss how a culture of patient safety influences reporting and resolving errors.
Define the types of medical errors and their impact on healthcare.
Explain strategies to reduce medication errors.
Best Practices in Documentation for Rehab Providers
Documentation is a critical component of therapy services. Your documentation is used to communicate with other healthcare professionals, evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, and substantiate billing by justifying the care provided. Individuals who review your documentation in the medical record will never see the therapy sessions, so you have to “tell the story” by including the necessary components to justify services for reimbursement. This course covers general guidelines for documentation, components to improve documentation, and special considerations. Practical examples are provided to help you incorporate best practices into your documentation.
Identify five required components of therapy goals.
Determine at least three ways to improve documentation through the use of evidence-based practice and demonstration of skilled need and medical necessity.
Recall at least four documentation requirements across all settings.
Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: Core Elements
Antibiotic stewardship is a movement to improve antibiotic use through evidence-based practice. Team members become the stewards of antibiotics. This helps these medications continue to effectively fight infections. Antibiotic stewardship follows core elements to improve the use of antibiotics and their outcomes. This course discusses the core elements and benefits of an antibiotic stewardship program.
Describe the elements of an antibiotic stewardship program.
Identify at least three benefits of antibiotic stewardship.
Medical Approaches to Identifying and Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
Alcohol use disorder is a primary health condition that interacts with and complicates many other health problems and psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, only a small number of people with alcohol use disorder receive appropriate treatment for substance use issues. The incorporation of screening for alcohol use disorders in a general medical setting can significantly increase the number of individuals with alcohol use disorders who are identified and treated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 4 medications to treat alcohol use disorder, making treatment in primary care and other general medical settings a viable alternative to specialty care. This course will give you valuable information about these medications as well as several medications used off-label.
Identify strategies you can use to more effectively identify alcohol use disorder in a medical setting.
Recall factors that indicate someone may be a good candidate for medication-assisted treatment of alcohol use disorder as well as factors that suggest this approach is contraindicated.
Discuss the common medications used to treat alcohol use disorder, their benefits, and potential side effects.
Overview of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
The current opioid use epidemic has had devastating consequences for those impacted by it. Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is an effective, yet underused, approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder. By taking this course, you will have information that you can share with your clients and their family members about what MOUD is, its risks and benefits, and the types of medications used in MOUD. The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings with an overview of what MOUD is, how it can help individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), and the medications used by providers that treat OUD.
Describe how opioids affect the brain and can become habit-forming.
Discuss the role of medications to treat opioid use disorder.
List the medications typically prescribed to treat opioid use disorder and the side effects and risks associated.
Medication Administration
This course will cover an overview of topics surrounding medication administration including pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, safety standards, and legal and ethical guidelines for practice. The learner will use case scenarios to gain a deeper understanding of the foundational practice.
Apply and differentiate between basic pharmacology principles.
Infer and separate various ethical principles and patient safety considerations.
Accurately perform computational pharmacology.
Discern the implications of proper storage, handling, and disposal of medications, and delegation of medication practices.