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Overview
Overview
This course provides information on how age-related changes in the immune system increase the risk and severity of common infections in older adult patients.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
As the older adult population increases, healthcare providers across disciplines will be caring for more acutely ill older adult patients. Many will have infectious diseases because older adults are at an increased risk for acquiring infectious diseases and developing associated complications. The increase in the aging population is an enormous challenge for healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals must be equipped with the appropriate knowledge to understand how age-related changes in the immune system increase the risk for and severity of common infections in older adult patients. The goal of this course is to help healthcare professionals understand how age-related changes in the immune system increase the risk and severity of common infections in older adult patients.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • List three reasons elderly patients are more likely to develop an infection than younger patients
  • Describe what happens to the immune system as we age
  • Explain why it is so important that healthcare workers of various disciplines be vaccinated for influenza to protect their elderly patients
  • Identify at least three reasons older adult patients are more likely to develop an infection than younger patients and describe what happens to the immune system as we age.
  • Identify frequent causes, presentation, and management of serious illness or infection in the older adult population.
  • Indicate why it is so important that healthcare workers of various disciplines be vaccinated to protect older adult patients, and what healthcare professionals can do to encourage health and wellbeing in the older adult population.

Course Termination Date: 09/07/24

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/24

Course Originally Released On: 09/01/21
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Course Originally Released on : 9/1/2021

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Course Author

Ann Marie Pettis

BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC

Laura Bell

BSN, RN, CCRN

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NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

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Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.