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Package Includes

  • Infection Control: State of New York (4 Contact Hours)

    Kim Matthews, Ron Orth RN; Course Expiration Date: 03/31/26

  • Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment for New York (2 Contact Hours)

    Monica Caicedo Orellana, Cassandra Shine RN, Amanda Weissman; Course Expiration Date: 12/31/25

Goals and Learning Outcomes

  • State the legal requirements for the education of infection prevention and control practices for healthcare providers in NY State.
  • Identify responsibilities related to infection prevention and control practices, and the consequences of failing to comply.
  • Discuss the mechanisms of disease transmission and factors that influence the outcome of exposure.
  • Describe engineering controls, safe injection practices, and work practice controls.
  • Summarize strategies for preventing pathogen transmission of HIV, HBV, and HCV.
  • Explain the circumstances that require the use of barriers and PPE.
  • Differentiate the correct use and strategies for cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization.
  • Describe occupational health strategies in protecting healthcare workers and patients.
  • Discuss the basics of sepsis and related evaluation and management strategies.
  • Explain how physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect are defined and indicators of each.
  • Recall risk and protective factors associated with both perpetrators and victims of child abuse.
  • Describe the reporting requirements for mandated reporters in the state of New York.
  • Define a mandated reporter and “reasonable cause to suspect” child abuse.

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Accreditation Information

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

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.

 

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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, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered 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.