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Change Management: Leading Change
In this Change Management 2: Leading the Implementation of Change course, you will explore strategies for planning and implementing change, as well as guiding your team through the change process. You will gain an understanding of the common reasons why most change efforts fail. You will learn how to effectively overcome these challenges and have the opportunity to assess the change readiness of your team. Successful change implementation requires a focus on the behaviors and attitudes of your team and employees to ensure they adapt to, and support, the change. You will identify the four stages of change and learn how to help your employees adapt to change effectively. The goal of this course is to provide managers and supervisors with strategies for planning and implementing change, as well as for guiding their team through the change process.
Recognize the reasons why most change efforts fail, and how to avoid failure.
Identify effective ways to plan, and prepare for, change.
Determine methods for guiding your team through the stages of change.
Apply best-practice strategies for implementing change within your team and department.
Infection Prevention Strategies for Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals are responsible for implementing infection prevention techniques. This course reviews how pathogenic organisms spread in healthcare settings, infection prevention strategies for healthcare professionals, and occupational health strategies to control the spread of infectious and communicable diseases.
The goal of this course is to provide nursing and medical assistant professionals in the healthcare setting with a general overview of infection prevention strategies.
Indicate how pathogenic organisms may be spread in healthcare settings.
Recall infection prevention strategies healthcare professionals should employ in the work setting.
List occupational health strategies specific to preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and tuberculosis (TB) in healthcare providers, and resources for evaluation of healthcare professionals infected with these organisms.
Ethics for Licensed Professionals: 1 Hour
Ethics are a significant part of high-quality clinical practice. This one hour course presents ethical principles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with an awareness of how ethics impact clinical practice and an approach for analyzing ethical issues in clinical practice.
Identify definitions, similarities, and differences of common ethics terminology and concepts.
Describe the four healthcare ethical principles and their implications for clinical practice.
Apply an ethical decision-making model to ethical issues and dilemmas.
Responding to Employee Incidents
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in 2019, 5,333 work-related injuries resulted in death. These numbers show a 2% increase over 2018 figures and represent the most significant one-year increase since 2007 (BLS, 2020a). This course discusses the story behind the statistics. The key to reducing incidents and injuries in your organization is to prevent incidents from happening. To prevent incidents, you must understand what causes them. This course will help you to understand the significant role you play in incident investigation and prevention.
Describe the importance of workplace safety.
Explain the process in investigating an incident.
Identify the importance of timely, accurate, and through incident investigations.
Sexual Assault and Rape for Healthcare Professionals
Survivors of rape and sexual assault will experience a variety of physical and emotional comorbidities as a direct result of their experience. This means survivors will enter the healthcare system through a variety of specialty clinics in addition to their primary care provider. It is important healthcare providers of all disciplines, be familiar with the signs that a patient may have been raped or sexually assaulted in their past. This course will provide the legal aspects of rape and sexual assault, the emotional and physical trauma associated with the experience, and how to identify and care for survivors.
Recall important aspects of sexual assault and its impact on the survivor.
Indicate the role of the healthcare provider in identifying and caring for survivors of sexual assault.
IV Therapy Complications
Nurses deliver infusion therapy to millions of patients in hospitals, home healthcare settings, long-term care facilities, outpatient clinics, and physicians’ offices annually. Nursing professionals perform many daily activities involving peripheral catheter insertion and safe delivery of intravenous (IV) fluids and medications. The use of vascular access devices and IV therapy are commonplace in the acute care setting. With that said, clinicians must take caution due to the potentially serious and fatal complications that can occur from inappropriate IV fluid or drug delivery. Patient safety requires that nurses institute safeguards to avoid complications associated with IV treatment.
Discuss the maintenance and complications of peripheral IV (PIV) therapy.
Identify drugs that can cause tissue damage if extravasation occurs.
Recall the components for documenting a peripheral IV insertion.
Management of Needlestick Injuries
Needlestick injuries continue to pose a threat to all healthcare professionals (HCPs). While HIV was once the most concerning organism, today, hepatitis B and C take precedence (King & Strony, 2022). Regardless of circumstances, more than 90% of sharps injuries are preventable (International Safety Center [ISC], n.d.). Therefore, all healthcare clinicians must be diligent to avoid injury even in busy and stressful working conditions. This module will review the current literature on managing the most common bloodborne pathogens (BBP) transmitted by needlestick injuries and evaluating post-exposure prophylaxis.
Discuss procedures to follow after a needlestick or sharps injury.
Identify factors that can lead to a needlestick or sharps injury.
Identify factors that can prevent a needlestick or sharps injury.
The Impact of Psychedelics
This course will provide healthcare professionals in the acute care setting with an introduction to the use of psychedelics for the treatment of behavioral health conditions. Healthcare professionals will learn about the types of agents used, their indications, benefits, and their associated risks and side effects.
The goal of this course is to provide health care professionals in the acute care setting with an introductory review of novel therapeutic agents used to treat behavioral health conditions.
Recall how psychedelics are used to treat behavioral health disorders and how they impact symptoms of behavioral health disorder.
Identify the potential risks and side effects of psychedelics.
Recognize whether an individual is a good candidate for psychedelic treatment for behavioral health symptoms.
Culture and Women's Health
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, minority groups will outnumber what is now considered mainstream culture by the middle of this century. Healthcare professionals need to heighten their awareness about the importance of role, culture, and tradition in preventing and treating women’s unique healthcare problems. When there is a lack of cultural sensitivity in communication, patients are less likely to be content with their healthcare experience, increasing the likelihood of miscommunication and possible cultural disparities. These factors can also cause non-compliance with treatment, worse health outcomes, and a higher incidence of adverse events.
The goal of this course is to equip healthcare professionals with knowledge of the impact of culture on women’s health beliefs and practices and their responses to current approaches to care.
Recall different cultural practices that impact women in various stages of life. Identify two cultural practices that interfere with women’s health. Recognize ways to provide culturally competent care to women.
Controlled Substances: Chronic Pain Management
Chronic pain is a common condition for which healthcare providers often prescribe controlled substances, such as opioids. Prescription opioids can alleviate pain in certain patients, but the risk of misuse, abuse, and overdose means providers need to evaluate the risks and benefits for each patient. This course will educate healthcare providers on the role of prescription opioids along with other therapies for chronic pain, using recommendations from current national guidelines.
The goal of this course is to educate healthcare providers on methods for the safe and responsible use of controlled substances for the management of chronic pain.
Indicate treatment options for patients with chronic pain.
Identify safe strategies to initiate or change opioid analgesics.
Name patient factors and characteristics that can make prescribing opioids unsafe.