Courses Included
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The courses included in this certification review bundle cover topics such as NY Mandated Infection Control for Healthcare Professionals and Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment for New York.
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NY Mandated Infection Control for Healthcare Professionals
The goal of this three-part program is to update healthcare professionals’ ability to apply scientifically accepted infection-control principles to reduce transmission of pathogens. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:
- Recognize the benefits of adhering to standards of infection control and describe the professional’s responsibility to adhere to these practices and the consequences of failing to comply
- Recognize the professional’s responsibility to monitor infection-control practices of those for whom he or she is responsible and intervene as necessary
- Describe how pathogenic organisms may be spread in healthcare settings, identify factors influencing the outcome of exposure, list strategies for preventing transmission of pathogenic organisms, and describe their application in practice
- Define engineering controls and work-practice controls and identify a hierarchy of exposure-prevention strategies
- Describe specific practices and settings that raise exposure potential to healthcare workers and patients and identify work practice controls that prevent exposure
- Recognize the circumstances that require the use of personal protective equipment and identify these specific barriers
- Identify a professional’s responsibility for maintaining a safe patient-care environment and recognize nonspecific disease findings that prompt evaluation of healthcare providers
- Recognize the role of occupational health strategies in protecting healthcare providers and patients as well as the importance of the correct application of reprocessing methods
- List specific occupational health strategies for preventing HIV, hepatitis B virus, and TB in healthcare providers, and identify resources for evaluation of healthcare workers infected with these conditions
- Describe the signs and symptoms of sepsis, and relate the importance of rapid identification and management
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MSN, RN, CIC
- Contact Hours: 3
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Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment for New York
The goal of this course is to educate nurses, physicians, social workers, and psychologists on how to identify and report child abuse and mistreatment. After taking this course, you should be able to:
- 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.
- Contact Hours: 2
Goal and Learning Outcomes
- Define the preventative-protective continuum of care used by New York’s CPS and what to do if there is more than one mandated reporter with “reasonable cause to suspect” abuse.
- Describe how emotional abuse can affect children and their developmental growth.
- List the physical and behavioral indicators of sexual abuse.
- Define what constitutes abuse, maltreatment, and neglect, and identify the corresponding physical and behavioral indicators.
- Describe what constitutes “reasonable cause to suspect” abuse and identify situations when healthcare professionals must report suspected cases.
- Describe the circumstances that require the use of personal protective equipment and identify these specific barriers.
- List specific occupational health strategies in preventing HIV, hepatitis B virus, and TB in healthcare providers and identify resources for evaluation of healthcare workers infected with these conditions.
- Define engineering controls and work practice controls and identify a hierarchy of exposure prevention strategies.
- Identify a professional’s responsibility for maintaining a safe patient care environment and recognize nonspecific disease findings that prompt evaluation by healthcare providers.
- Describe the signs and symptoms of sepsis, and relate the importance of rapid identification management.
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Course Summary: New York RN/LPN License Renewal CE Package: 5 Hours - Fulfills State Requirements
Course Title Course Hours
NY Mandated Infection Control for Healthcare Professionals 3
Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment in New York 2
Total Hours 5
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
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.
