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Overview
Goals and Outcomes
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Accreditations
Overview
Overview
About one in five Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days of discharge at a cost of $26 billion a year. Three-quarters of those readmissions are considered potentially preventable, representing an estimated $12 billion in Medicare spending. While not a new problem, the Affordable Care Act has provisions targeted at changing this long-standing problem that affects patient outcomes and increases healthcare system costs. This continuing education program will familiarize nurses with the concept of care transitions and ways to improve outcomes and decrease avoidable readmissions.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this continuing education program is to familiarize nurses with the concept of care transitions and their impact on patient outcomes and avoidable readmissions. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:
  • Describe “transitions of care” and their impact on patient outcomes and readmissions
  • Identify common causes of ineffective transitions of care
  • Discuss current transitional care models and their approaches for improving transitions of care
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 11/11/2013

REL-ACU-0-CE696

Course Author

Elizabeth Chapman Shaid

MSN, RN, CRNP

Christine Bradway

PhD, CRNP

Accreditations
Accreditations

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.

CEBroker
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.