| Quality
Improvement
Courseware Titles
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Patient Safety
Reducing Medication Errors
Infection Control
Organizational Performance
Improvement
Competency for Quality Care
Patient Rights
Patient Education
Documentation for Quality Care |
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Courseware Descriptions |
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Patient Safety |
The courseware covers national
patient-safety goals and initiatives, as well
as common medical errors now endangering your
patients. It also covers sentinel-event
reporting, error-analysis and reporting, plus
continual improvement planning and doing.
Fully customizable for your specific
policies. |
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Reducing Medication Errors |
This courseware covers
error-statistics and common types of
medication errors, recommendations for
reducing errors and the key elements of
med-management policies and procedures. It
also covers the nurse's preventive role,
critical questions to ask patients and tips
from the Agency for Healthcare Research &
Quality (AHRQ). Fully customizable for your
specific policies. |
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Infection Control |
This courseware covers the
transmission of infectious organisms, the
four conditions needed for an infection to
spread, Joint Commission-mandated risk-reducing
standards, and infection control during
construction projects. The course also covers
the transmission and control of bloodborne
pathogens such as Hepatitis B and C and HIV
and airborne pathogens such as Influenza and
Tuberculosis. It covers standard precautions,
such as the use of personal protective gear
and CDC-recommended hand-washing
techniques. Fully customizable for your
specific policies. |
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Organizational Performance
Improvement |
This courseware
covers the importance of performance
improvement (PI) and the Plan, Do, Check, and
Act model (PDCA). It also covers other PI
models and sample measurement tools, plus
sample PI projects. Fully customizable for
your specific policies. |
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Competency for Quality Care |
This courseware covers Joint Commission's
competency standards, plus ongoing competence
assessment and training. It covers the
following competency areas: diverse patient
populations, communication barriers,
patient-age-related care-delivery mandates,
emotionally and psychologically-disturbed
patients, equipment use and maintenance
technique, plus diversity and sensitivity.
Fully customizable for your specific
policies. |
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Patient Rights |
This courseware covers patient rights
for advance directives, informed consent,
privacy and ethical care delivery. It reviews
the Patient Bill of Rights and HIPAA-mandated
rights, exceptions to a patient's privacy
right, plus rights enforcement. Fully
customizable for your specific policies. |
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Patient Education |
The courseware covers patient
education's role in improving outcomes and
patient satisfaction, plus Joint Commission
patient-education standards. It also covers
teaching topics such as patient
responsibilities and rights as well as
disease-specific education and support. Plus
the course covers assessment of individual
patient-education needs and potential
barriers such as cognitive/physical
impairments, language barriers and cultural
or religious values, and how to educate
patients. Fully customizable for your
specific policies. |
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Documentation for Quality Care |
This courseware covers the
best practices for medical documentation and
reviews Joint Commission documentation standards. The
course also covers accurate and complete
documentation for care continuity, plus legal
aspects of documentation. Fully customizable
for your specific policies. |
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