Updated: 07/14/2004

Contents:

• CMS Offers Continuing Education Program To Primary Care Physicians
• Nursing CEUs
• Physician CEUs
  
• Public Health Foundation

• Quality Insights of Delaware is holding a live audioconference on Wednesday, August 25, 2004, from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in their office at 3411 Silverside Road, Wilmington, on How to Identify and Respond to Resident Falls.  For a complete discription of the audioconference, learning ovjectives, agenda, and faculty biographies, go to www.hcmarketplace.com/prod.cfm?ID=2683&s+EZ28744A.

2.00 Contact hours have been approved for Nursing Contact Hours by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

CMS Offers Continuing Education Program To Primary Care Physicians

The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a national program designed to help primary care physicians earn credit for their efforts to improve care.  Participating physicians can earn up to thirty (30) Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits per year based on their involvement in quality improvement projects developed by Quality Insights of Delaware.  These projects are focused on care provided in physician offices and/or outpatient clinics in each of three clinical areas: diabetes care, adult immunizations, and breast cancer screening.  Additional clinical areas may be added in the future.

To receive CME credit, the physician must:

Enroll in the program with Quality Insights of Delaware.

Implement a quality improvement intervention system change in one or more clinical areas designed to improve performance on specified quality indicators.

Implement an ongoing measurement process to assess clinical performance and evaluate the impact of the interventions system changes made in selected

processes of care.

Periodically review the data and make additional changes as indicated.

This program is part of a national pilot project by CMS, the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians to evaluate the impact of CME on quality improvement.  Quality Insights of Delaware, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, will administer the pilot program in Delaware.  To obtain more information about the CME program, contact Edward R. Sobel, DO, Director of Health Care Quality Improvement Projects, at 1-866-475-9669, extension 112.

Nursing CEUs

• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has a section of their web site devoted to CEUs.  For more details, go to http://www.aacn.org/aacn/conteduc.nsf/vwdoc/GlobalCEWELCOME?opendocument

• Corexcel.com offers a wide range of nursing CEUs online.  They have been approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and therefore are approved by the Delaware Board of Nursing.  To visit their web site, click here or go to http://www.corexcel.com.

• The nursing profession is ever changing, but now a new Web site sponsored by an honor society of nurses is helping nurses stay up to date on the latest innovations in their field.   "Nurses worldwide now have a one-stop resource for the knowledge they need to practice evidence-based nursing, develop their careers, increase leadership skills and earn continuing education credits. Powered by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, Nursing Knowledge International (www.nursingknowledge.org) will help make a difference in the lives of nurses - and every life nurses touch," explained Marty Lanus, public relations consultant with Sigma Theta Tau International. 
  

Public Health Foundation

The Public Health Foundation has a web site dedicated to distance learning courses in public health.  The site has over 350 individual courses listed, many with continuing education credits -  http://www.trainingfinder.org

If there is some information which you would like to see added to this page, please contact Christine Pauley at the Delaware Healthcare Association at christinep@deha.org