Continuing Education for Healthcare Professionals

Physicians:

• Medical Society of Delaware - www.medicalsocietyofdelaware.org
• American Medical Association - www.ama-assoc.org
• American Academy of Family Physicians - Web site
• American College of Emergency Physicians Web site

Nurses:

• Quality Insights of Delaware, Delaware's Quality Improvement Organization - Web site
• Delaware Nurses Association (DNA) - www.denurses.org
• Delaware Organization of Nurse Executives (DONE) - www.delawareone.org
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) - www.aacn.org
• Nursing Knowledge International web site, powered by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.

All Healthcare Professionals:

• Public Health Foundation Web site
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Web site, a component of the Military Health System.
• Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry Web site.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site.
• AHRMM Online Materials Management Courses Web site.

Free Online Programs for Continuing Education:

Worker's Compensation Continuing Education

Workers’ Compensation Continuing Education Available - Delaware Workers’ Compensation certified health care professionals are required to take an on-line continuing education course to maintain their certification. The training course is now available and can be found at www.delawareworks.com .

The Health Care Advisory Panel designed the on-line course to take approximately two hours to complete. The course allows you to bookmark, if you need to step away and come back to it at a later time. Once you fill out the same provider certification information you initially filled out (this helps update records), you will read short passages of material regarding the Workers’ Compensation Health Care Payment System followed by exams that contain from 1 to 6 questions. The course contains 41 questions and provides prompts if you are unsure of certain answers. Once you correctly answer all the questions, you may access a certificate of completion. The course will also automatically add your information to a report the Office of Workers Compensation will use to update your certification date.

If you have trouble finding the link or navigating through the course, please call the Office of Workers’ Compensation Medical Component at 302-761-8200 for assistance.

Free CME/CE: Real Talk About Influenza Vaccine Safety - Be Informed and Be Prepared Course

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Immunization Safety Office is pleased to offer a free online continuing education (CME and CE) activity on Medscape titled, “Real Talk About Influenza Vaccine Safety – Be Informed and Be Prepared.” The CME/CE features a roundtable discussion with three vaccine safety and influenza prevention experts. The course is intended for clinicians who routinely administer influenza vaccines and who evaluate and treat patients experiencing adverse events following influenza immunization. Healthcare providers interested in this course may include physicians, nurses, physicians’ assistants, and nurse practitioners in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology.   The 30-minute, web-based program is designed to educate clinicians about the following:

• The safety profiles of licensed influenza vaccines.
• Safe administration of influenza vaccines and screening for contraindications and precautions.
• Resources available for communicating benefits and risks of influenza vaccination.
• Accurate and timely reporting of any adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

To participate in this free CME/CE activity, please visit www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety and click on the quick links to the course.

ACEP Hospital Evacuation: Principles and Practices

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is proud to announce the release of its newest training, Hospital Evacuation: Principles and Practices. Healthcare facilities must be ready to tackle anything that comes their way. In times of disaster, natural or technological, they must remain open, operational, and continue carrying out their functions. When the situation escalates to a level that endangers the health and/or safety of the facilities patents, staff, and visitors’ evacuation of the endangered areas is necessary. Safety and continuity of care among evacuees during a disaster depend on planning, preparedness, and mitigation activities performed before the event occurs. At the completion of the course, hospitals and other healthcare providers with inpatient or resident beds will have basic training and tools to develop an evacuation plan. This one-hour course will take the participant through the stages of preparing for a facility evacuation. It begins by performing an assessment of possible vulnerabilities and the resources available to a facility. Next, the course walks the learner through the development of a functional plan for a healthcare facility, and identification of key personnel positions implemented when a facility evacuates and the roles and responsibilities of each. The course concludes by addressing recovery issues, both plan development and operational. The training can be found at http://tinyurl.com/hospitalevacuation.

If you know of any other resources you would like to have added, please send them to Christine Pauley.  Thank you!