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Apollidon Learning Stress Management for Pharmacists
Provided by: Apollidon Learning
Work related stress in pharmacists is a significant cause of medication errors, occupational ill health, staff turnover and poor performance. This online, 5-hour course, offered through OSU’s College of Pharmacy, provides pharmacists and pharmacy managers with practical tools to help them understand, manage and mitigate stress in the workplace. ...
Inquisit DNV Healthcare: Update of Standards, Revisions and Key Survey Findings
Provided by: Inquisit
As most of you are aware, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have revised the Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines within the State Operations Manual. DNV is set to release an updated revision of their accreditation requirements and has addressed numerous sections to refine many of their standards and interpretive guide...
Inquisit Healthcare Reform Changes Affecting Stark Law and Operational Challenges
Provided by: Inquisit
This presentation will provide an overview of the various changes to the Stark Law due to healthcare reform. The presentation will also discuss proposed modifications to the Stark Law due to healthcare reform’s development of Accountable Care Organizations. The presentation will discuss general operational challenges to implementing the Stark Law...
Inquisit Advocacy = Safety: Strategies for Preventing CLA-BSI’s on your Watch
Provided by: Inquisit
Healthcare acquired infection (HAI), a preventable injury, is the fifth leading cause of the death in the United States. HAI’s are estimated to kill over 90,000 people per year while adding over five billion in excess cost to our healthcare system. As of October 2008, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services no longer reimburse hospitals f...
IACP / International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) How to Survive a DEA Inspection Series: Pharmacy Records and Security (Part One of a Four-Part Series)
Provided by: IACP / International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP)
Part One of a Four-Part Series. Today’s compounding pharmacists will need to familiarize themselves with stringent laws and regulations enforced by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) through their Office of Diversion Control (Diversion). Since the focus of any DEA investigation of a compounding pharmacy is the prescription, the initial...
ASiM Management of Macular Edema: An Evidence-Based Approach
Provided by: ASiM
With the abundance of new evidence guiding the treatment of patients with retinal vein occlusions (RVO) and diabetic macular edema (DME), ophthalmologists and retina specialists are particularly in need of interpretation of this data and how it will impact daily decision-making in clinical practice. This breaking information mainly comes from clini...
IACP / International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) FDA Inspections of Compounding Pharmacies – Planning, Preparing & Surviving
Provided by: IACP / International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP)
It’s a typical Monday morning… phones are ringing non-stop, prescriptions are arriving fast and furious, patients are calling with questions. Just as you grab your mug of now-cold coffee, you look up to see a man in a dark suit with a badge. He’s from the FDA and he’s here to inspect your pharmacy. Do you panic or are you prepared? Do you k...
Harvard School of Public Health The Time-Scarcity Problem: Strategies and insights on human capital preservation for health care professionals
Provided by: Harvard School of Public Health
Hospitals, on average, expend between 40 and 70 percent of their budgets on salaries and benefits, greatly surpassing supply chain as a hospital’s largest expense. Even with this major investment in human capital, it is still the rate-limiting factor on the delivery side of health care. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act will exacerbate th...
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Provided by: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
DESCRIPTION This CME activity on DVD is based on lectures presented at the Johns Hopkins Tenth Annual Conference on Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, held November 6 – 7, 2010. This DVD series is intended as a practical overview for pathologists who encounter gastrointestinal specimens in daily practice. Interpretation of biopsies of the up...
Inquisit Effective Use of Your Wound Care Nurse: Setting Up and Implementing a Wound Care Program
Provided by: Inquisit
This session will provide the wound care nurse the necessary training to help her/him ensure the wound care program meets F314 regulations. The session will provide the wound nurse training on how to set up a skin care prevention and treatment program as well as how to set up effective wound care teams and meetings.  This session will also cov...
RXinsider (RXpreceptor) TAACCCT Technology Support Package
Provided by: RXinsider (RXpreceptor)
The mission of RXinsider’s TAACCCT Technology Support Package is to provide proven technology supporting Round 3 TAACCCT grant recipients. The package consists of three integrated technologies which support community colleges in all six TAACCCT Core Elements and the college’s overall Program Strategy, including: - - Management and support of e...
Primary Issuesâ„¢ by Primary Care Network Your Destination for CME - Branson
Provided by: Primary Issuesâ„¢ by Primary Care Network
You all have them, you can’t avoid them, and you may not even like them. Studies have shown that up to 15% of patient encounters are perceived as difficult by the clinician that is treating them. As a primary care clinician, you are most often the entryway to patients for their healthcare, even the most “difficultâ€