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HIPAA: Do's and Don'ts of Social Media and Electronic Communication
Social media and other forms of electronic communication allow people to instantly share pictures and messages with anyone, anywhere. But as the opportunities to share information online have increased, so have the challenges for keeping information private.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was designed to protect individuals’ rights and their personal healthcare information. HIPAA applies to both the storage and transfer of electronic protected health information, so these electronic communications must be handled carefully.
Describe at least three ways to avoid HIPAA violations when using electronic communication.
Supervisory Skills: The Basics
Healthcare supervisors and managers are presented daily with challenges. These challenges present as process failures or those surrounding staff behaviors. An organization’s management team maps a path to support their supervisor’s success in dealing with these challenges. The approach is defined by proven characteristics, skills, and experiences. This course discusses the basic tools needed for supervisors and managers to be successful in their roles.
Identify two qualities of good leaders, motivators, and coaches.
Describe at least three approaches used to enhance communication.
HIPAA: Security Rule
The use of technology has bloomed in the healthcare industry. While technology’s use has improved the delivery and continuity of care, it increases the chance that an unauthorized person will be able to access individuals’ protected health information, or PHI. Therefore, to protect electronic PHI, your organization is required to follow a specific HIPAA rule, known as the Security Rule.
The goal of this course is to describe the Security Rule and ways you can prevent breaches.
Describe the HIPAA Security Rule.
Identify at least three ways to prevent breaches of the HIPAA Security Rule.
Sexual Harassment: What Employees Need to Know
Sexual harassment in the workplace creates an uncomfortable working environment for employees and can also create hardships for employers. This course will explain to staff working in any healthcare setting what sexual harassment is and what they can do about it.
Define sexual harassment.
Describe how sexual harassment affects employees and organizations.
Explain at least three ways to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Culture and Mental Health
Culture affects how individuals talk about and recognize their mental health symptoms. It also affects how providers conceptualize and work with individuals with diverse backgrounds. It is important to recognize how culture influences the ways individuals and providers approach mental health. Healthcare providers should be encouraged to use interventions and strategies that assist in delivering culturally competent care.
This course will examine the reasons for healthcare disparities among culturally diverse individuals, how both the cultural backgrounds of patients and their providers can impact patients’ mental health outcomes, and what kinds of actions providers can take to provide more effective care to patients of diverse cultures.
Distinguish between some of the different assumptions and values that mental health providers and individuals hold, which influence their approaches to mental health. Explain why patients of diverse cultures with mental health needs are encountering disparities. Select assessment and intervention strategies that promote culturally competent care.
An Overview of Trial of Labor After Cesarean Section
This course provides an overview about the safety of patients undergoing a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC). Research evidence has influenced where VBACs are performed, which women are eligible and how the practice is conducted, including the safe use of induction/augmentation medications. The safety of VBAC for mother and newborn always remains the primary underlying principle that guides care.
Identify three risk factors and benefits associated with TOLAC and recommendations for safe TOLAC.
Recall essential components of nursing education, informed consent, safe medication administration, and fetal assessment related to TOLAC.
Clinical Management of Uterine Atony
A case of obstetrical hemorrhage due to uterine atony, requiring medical and surgical interventions and blood component replacement therapy is presented. Emphasis: A review of obstetrical hemorrhage, etiologies, and treatments is provided. The importance of early recognition and response to excessive blood loss is stressed. Medical and surgical interventions for uterine atony are reviewed. Current recommendations for blood component replacement therapy for massive hemorrhage are discussed.
List common risk factors for OH.
Review medical treatments for uterine atony.
Identify pre-surgical and surgical treatments for uterine atony.
Describe blood component therapy for massive hemorrhage.
Fetal Heart Tracing Pattern Evolution
Intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring is an integral part of modern day obstetrics and when properly interpreted, may provide valuable insight into the fetal metabolic state. During labor, the physiologic stress posed by regular uterine contractions and maternal expulsive efforts may adversely impact the fetal acid-base status, leading to changes in the fetal heart rate pattern.
This module aims to review and apply essential FHR content in several clinical scenarios to highlight an important Clinical Pearl: Management of the laboring patient requires that the FHR pattern trends are interpreted in context with the clinical scenario and progress of labor.
Consistently apply 1997 and 2008 NICHD definitions when describing intrapartum fetal heart rate patterns.
Identify the importance of FHR variability evolution when assessing the FHR pattern.
Review the importance of FHR tracing trend assessment when managing the abnormal intrapartum FHR tracing.
Recognize the importance of clinical scenario, FHR pattern evolution, and stage of labor when managing the Category II tracing in labor.
Obstetric Hemorrhage: Mitigating Risk to Improve Outcomes
Two cases are presented. Risk factors, including recurring and nonrecurring, for obstetrical hemorrhage, are reviewed. Delivery preparations and preventative strategies are discussed. Methodologies that better quantify blood loss, allowing for earlier recognition of excessive blood loss, are presented. Management of the patient experiencing obstetric hemorrhage, including a review of current guidelines for blood component replacement therapy, are reviewed.
List recurring and nonrecurring risk factors for obstetrical hemorrhage. List the four Ts of OH.
Identify low, medium and high risk patients for OH.
Review blood component therapy for large volume blood loss.
Shoulder Dystocia: Teamwork and Training
This content is intended for all members of the obstetric team and is based on the educational theory that team performance is enhanced when all members of the team have the same understanding of the task and procedure to be performed.
Enhance situational awareness for patients at increased risks for shoulder dystocia (SD). Design a team-based SD simulation drill. Improve obstetrical team performance through enhanced cooperation in deliveries complicated by SD. Review methods to enhance communications with teams.