Telemedicine is any kind of interactive healthcare work being done from a distance and is a growing facet of the modern healthcare landscape with the majority of American hospitals supporting some form of telemedicine. Telemedicine promotes continuity of care, reduces healthcare costs, and improves patient self-management and clinical outcomes. Yet more research is required to assess its overall impact on patient safety. A healthcare team approach, using telemedicine, can be effective when managing chronic diseases, such as diabetes, especially in rural communities. Although caring for people from a distance is not a new practice, the technological options associated with telemedicine have expanded considerably, and healthcare professionals may not be aware of or understand them.
The American Nurses Association has long estimated that misuse of chemical substances among nurses parallels that of mainstream society; however, recent statistics from the CDC reveal that mainstream society substance abuse of illicit drugs or misused prescription drugs is higher. Research indicates nurses with substance use disorder often begin misusing drugs, including alcohol, before finishing their nursing education and can make an entire work group dysfunctional. Use of labels such as impaired can result in stigmatization of the behaviors, making it more difficult for the nurse to seek help or for peers to report them for intervention. All but 7 states in the U.S. have programs to address substance abuse and impaired practice in nursing stressing alternatives to traditional disciplinary actions and criminal prosecution. This activity will help you to recognize and support colleagues who may be suffering from substance use disorder while protecting patient safety.
While much of the responsibility for nurse retention has been placed on the administration hierarchy, nurses themselves must take an active role in understanding why colleagues choose to remain in their jobs. Nurses must also actively help develop a work environment that promotes retention of nurse colleagues. It is well known that workload, scheduling flexibility, compensation, access to continuing education, and opportunities for career growth influence nurse retention, but nurses play a vital role in developing and implementing strategies that create an engaging and rewarding work culture. New nurse graduates and mature nurses require special retention strategies to meet specific needs, but the majority of nurse retention efforts are shared mutually among nurses and administration to develop and maintain a work culture that promotes overall nurse retention.
Suggestion, rather than persuasion, threat, or force, is a powerful way to influence behavior change. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, healthcare staff members constantly offer both beneficial and negative suggestions. Preliminary evidence indicates that hypnosis and the power of suggestion can have positive impacts when used in healthcare. They can be used to manage or reduce perception of pain in adults and children, as well as accomplish behavior change involving a variety of psychological conditions. This course will provide information to help clinicians use suggestions to help patients achieve positive outcomes. It also will provide information on the increased use of hypnosis and self-hypnosis in complementary and alternative medicine.
The course will be discontinued on April 15, 2019. Please plan to finish the course by April 14th if you wish to earn credit for it.
Almost three-quarters of nonphysician healthcare professionals use mobile devices to provide patient care. Some nursing schools now require their students to use mobile devices that are equipped with software that allows them to access the most up-to-date medication information, including dosing information, drug interactions and lab tests. Healthcare systems are beginning to provide mobile devices to their staff or implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs to enhance the care of their patients and meet the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandate to have electronic health records in place. This continuing education program will inform and update clinicians regarding developing technology and the expanding use of mobile technology in nursing, particularly at the point of care.
Nursing informatics supports nurses, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all healthcare settings to achieve desired outcomes. This course provides a better understanding of how nursing informatics and technology impact quality patient care. Information structures, processes, and information technology (IT) are all components of nursing informatics that directly affect the care provided by the healthcare team. The course discusses current systems in use, the importance of teamwork, management of change, and the future of nursing informatics to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how informatics affects outcomes.
Over the course of history in the United States multiple public health programs have been initiated. However, the predominance of quality, coverage, and affordability issues are emerged more strongly in the 21th century. Health policy is an increasingly significant priority at the state and national level due to the unsustainable cost of healthcare. The goals of healthcare reform and the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been to increase healthcare coverage and access to the vast majority of Americans and to improve both the quality of healthcare outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. This course will help nurses understand healthcare reform and be informed participants in its implementation.
Nursing theory refers to the body of knowledge that supports nursing practice and research. In practical terms, nursing theory is the organized way in which nurses think about what they do and why they do it. Without a theoretical foundation to guide activities, nurses end up approaching each situation as a completely new encounter, without any basis for decision making or action. Theory provides a way to organize knowledge and a starting point for each nursing encounter. Individual members of a profession also need to have a unified view of what comprises the heart of their practice. Theory provides nurses with a solid foundation of knowledge and, when organized into a specific framework, it also offers clarity of purpose, strengthens professional identity, and guides research and professional development. Many nursing theories have been developed in the past, and nurse scholars continue to propose new models that promote continuing excellence in practice and research.
This course will be discontinued on October 13, 2019, because a new course with similar content (60262 HCAHPS Series: Value-Based Purchasing) is now available.
'The Affordable Care Act required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement a hospital value-based purchasing program that rewards hospitals for the quality of care they provide as demonstrated by their \\"performance\\" or \\"improvement\\" on measures of care quality. This module will provide information on value-based purchasing, what brought it about, how it works, the measures involved and the scoring of those measures, the impact of scores, and the nurse's role in obtaining high scores.
Lean is a process improvement methodology that began in the manufacturing industry and is now being used at some healthcare facilities. Lean focuses on reducing waste in processes, improving efficiency, and focusing on what is valuable to the patient with regard to care while eliminating steps that do not add value. Lean practitioners are common on the front line and other levels of the organization. They involve all stakeholders, communicate widely, analyze a process, test solutions, and implement changes to solve problems.
Feeling overwhelmed with your client's lack of compliance despite your best efforts? Using the \\"expert approach\\" and telling clients what to do does not work and can be an energy drain. While there is not one cookie-cutter approach to enabling client change, using the "coach approach" could be a game changer. This webinar offers practical tools to activate clients' motivation to change while increasing your productivity. Self-care tips also will be provided so you can end each day feeling energized and professionally fulfilled!
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