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Healthcare is such a hot topic nowadays. What everyone can agree on is that it’s important to keep your employees safe and healthy and your organization in compliance. And that’s where TrainingToday’s Healthcare libraries can help. From healthcare worker safety to HR’s role in healthcare, our libraries are full of timely training topics designed to save you time and money so you can focus on what matters most.

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Administering Your OSHA Program

The Administering Your OSHA Program course will help both new and seasoned OSHA safety officers, administrators, managers, and safety committee members in medical or dental facilities understand the latest OSHA compliance requirements, as well as help organization’s establish an effective OSHA safety program. This advice-rich online learning course covers a wide variety of topics from accident investigation to employee training to new GHS updates. Participants will learn how to:

Learn the role both employer and employee plays in regard to OSHA regulation compliance.
Evaluate facility hazards that may put employees at risk for exposure to bloodborne pathogens and hazardous chemicals, as well as the training requirements for prevention in these areas.
Develop comprehensive training to educate employees on bloodborne pathogens and hazard communication regulations.
Ensure that proper engineering and safe work practice controls, as well as personal protective equipment, have been implemented and applied.
Demonstrate proper employee training documentation for self-audits, hepatitis B virus vaccinations, fire drills, and other employee exposures.
Build a legally compliant OSHA manual that meets compliance guidelines.
Integrate a top to bottom safety culture at your facility.

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Basic OSHA Training for New Hires in Medical Facilities

The Basic OSHA Training for New Hires in Medical Facilities course covers the training needed to get new employees up to date with the safety policies and regulations they must follow to stay in compliance. This course will help participants understand their OSHA requirements and how to apply them to their day-to-day functions. Topics covered include fire safety, handwashing, bloodborne pathogens, chemical spills, fire safety, handwashing, OSHA recordkeeping, and more. This course also meets the latest GHS awareness requirements by covering Safety Data Sheets, pictograms, and the new labeling systems.

Participants will learn how to:

Discuss OSHA’s role in promoting worker safety.
Respond to smoke or fire in the work area.
Prevent exposures to bloodborne pathogens, including HIV, HBC, and HBV.
What to do if exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material.
Ensure that engineering controls, safe work practice controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE) are in place for all identified hazards.
Locate the OSHA Safety Manual.
State which chemicals are hazardous and how to prevent exposure.

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Corporate Compliance Online Learning Library

The Corporate Compliance Online Learning Library addresses the best practices for reporting and responding to risks. The courses cover essential topics that will help keep your organization compliant with federal and state laws and regulations.

Topics include:

Compliance strategies.
Easy-to-understand explanations and practical advice to prevent violations of the False Claims Act, Stark Law, HIPAA, anti-kickback statute, False Claims Act, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, and more.
Descriptions of the role and importance of compliance programs in hospitals.
Guidelines for reporting suspected acts of fraud or regulatory violations.
Whistleblower protections.

Each course in this advice-rich library is tailored for your organization so each employee gets the education needed to maintain compliance.

Continuing Education Credit

ACCME: HCPro is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. HCPro designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AHIMA: This program has been approved for 1 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

AAPC: This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 1 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.

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Corporate Compliance Online Learning Library: Course Listing

The Corporate Compliance Online Learning library includes the following courses:

Corporate Compliance for Coders, Billers, and the HIM Staff
Corporate Compliance for Nurses and Clinical Staff
Corporate Compliance for Nutrition, Environmental Services, and Volunteer Staff
Corporate Compliance for Physicians
Corporate Compliance for the Executive, Administrative, and Corporate Staff
Corporate Compliance for the Registration and Front Office Staff

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Fire Safety

The Fire Safety online learning course will teach employees in medical and dental settings how to prevent and respond to fires in the facility. Participants will learn when to fight a fire or if they should evacuate, as well as preventive measures to take to ensure electrical safety. In addition, proper storage of hazardous chemicals and reviews of the different types of fire extinguishers will also be addressed.

You’ll learn how to:

Summarize your organization’s evacuation plan.
Demonstrate the fastest evacuation route.
Respond to fire or smoke in your work area.
Decide whether to fight a fire or evacuate.
Locate your facility’s portable fire extinguishers.
Describe procedures for using a portable fire extinguisher and distinguish between the different types.
Verify that hazardous chemicals are properly stored.

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HIPAA Privacy and Security Online Learning Library

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Online Learning Library is fully updated to reflect the newest provisions of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, including:

Patient medical record access.
Uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) that require authorization.
Fundraising and marketing rules.
Definition of breach and the Breach Notification Rule terms.
Fines.

This advice-rich library’s courses includes content that is specific to each audience’s role in protecting patient health information.

Key Features/Benefits

Testing, remediation, and case studies to see if you’re applying policies and regulations correctly.

“Test Your Knowledge” exercises to check your understanding at every step.
Second-year “refresher” series are available for ongoing refresher education needs.
Role-specific case scenarios apply regulations to real-life settings and ask how your would handle a situation. At the end of each scenario, you’ll learn the appropriate way to react to the given situation.
Video-based scenarios show the “wrong way” and “right way” to handle a situation, increasing engagement.
Design and audio narration offers different ways to navigate through the course so you are guided through interaction, not simple reading.
A certificate of completion allows you to prove that employees successfully completed training.

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Contributor Bio

Chris Apgar, CISSP, CEO, and president of Apgar & Associates, LLC and former HIPAA Compliance officer for Providence Health Plans, is a nationally recognized expert and educational instructor on information security, privacy, HIPAA, the HITECH Act, state privacy law and electronic health information exchange.

Chris served for eight years as a member of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Board of Directors. He is co-chair of the WEDI Regional Affiliates Workgroup and the HIE Workgroup. He is the secretary and member of the Oregon & S.W. Washington Healthcare, Privacy and Security Forum Board of Directors and has been a member for the past thirteen years. On a local level, Chris develops and conducts educational webinars for the Oregon Medical Association (OMA), assisting physicians and other medical professionals with privacy and security and regulatory compliance. His clients range from small to large health plans, physician groups and hospitals, healthcare clearinghouses, vendors, non-profits, government agencies, and healthcare associations.

Continuing Education

ANCC

HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity for 1.5 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro.

HCPro has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters, planners, or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

ACCME

HCPro is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

HCPro designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

HCPro has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters, planners, or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

AHIMA

This program has been approved for 3 Continuing Education Units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

AAPC

This program has prior approval of AAPC for 1 Continuing Education Unit. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes AAPC endorsement of the program, content, or the program sponsor.

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HIPAA Privacy and Security Online Learning Library: Course Listing

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Online Learning library includes the following courses:

HIPAA Privacy and Security for Executive, Administrative, and Corporate Staff
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Business Associates
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Nutrition, Environmental Services, and Volunteer Staff
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Coders, Billers, and the HIM Staff
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Nurses and Clinical Staff
HIPAA Privacy and Security for Physicians
HIPAA Privacy and Security for the Registration and Front Office Staff

Course Objectives

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Online Learning Library will enable learners to:

Describe how the HITECH Act affects covered entities and business associates
Summarize how to protect patient privacy
Explain patient rights for accessing, amending, and updating their medical information
Determine whether disclosures of PHI are acceptable
Protect confidential health information by following proper security procedures both in the organization and off-site
Create effective passwords to protect electronic information
Identify which information is protected by HIPAA
Prevent identity theft by identifying red flags as required by the Red Flags Rule

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HR for Healthcare

The HR training for Healthcare library covers important laws and regulations that HR and HC administrators need to know in order to best manage staff. From healthcare compensation and benefits to handling claims, each course in this library is interactive, engaging, and quick — all sessions are less than 30 minutes. Most sessions include helpful attachments and handouts to increase learning retention, as well as quizzes to keep track of how trainees are doing.

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Compensation and Benefits in the Healthcare Industry

In this overview of Compensation and Benefits in the Healthcare Industry, you will learn about different compensation plans and benefits as they relate to health insurance, retirement, and leave programs. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare facility administrator, to be aware of the benefits offered at your facility.

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Employee Retention and Morale for Healthcare Administrators

In an industry where decisions can mean the difference between life and death, the excessive turnover rate that often plagues the healthcare industry is a serious problem. Today, we’ll discuss how your facility can beat that trend by reducing turnover and increasing employee morale. You’ll learn what causes high turnover and why it’s bad for your organization. You’ll also learn how to retain great employees and simple ways to keep them happy and engaged.

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Employee Training for the Healthcare Industry

Good training practice is critical in health care, because employee performance has a direct impact on the well-being of your patients. During this session, we’ll discuss how to assess training needs and how to develop effective training sessions. You’ll also learn best training practices when it comes to training new employees before they begin work, when they first begin work, and beyond.

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HIPAA Privacy Rule: What Healthcare Workers Need to Know

By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, identify covered entities, determine basic requirements of the rule, follow policies and procedures to protect patients’ health information, and use the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect your own health information.

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HR Laws in Health Care: An Overview

This training session is an overview of HR Laws in Health Care. During this session, we’ll discuss the human resources (HR) laws and regulations that you must be familiar with in order to effectively do your job as a healthcare facility administrator. The HR laws we are going to discuss in this training session fall under nine basic categories. Not complying with these laws can lead to costly lawsuits and noncompliance fines, so it’s important that you know and understand them.

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Handling Claims in a Healthcare Setting

This training session will help you understand why the most effective way to handle claims is to prevent them. We’ll look at how you can do that, as well as the differences between employment-based claims and insurance claims. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare administrator, to be familiar with the laws that protect your facility and your workers.

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Hiring Legally for Healthcare

This training session focuses on hiring legally in the healthcare industry. During this session, we’ll discuss how to evaluate job applicants based on job-related criteria and how to conduct all phases of the hiring process to avoid discrimination. We’ll also discuss the importance of various fair employment laws and why handling all aspects of your hiring practice fairly and appropriately will go a long way to improving the success of your organization.

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NLRA and Unions in Healthcare

Unions can have a big impact on the healthcare field, so it’s important that those in Human Resources as well as supervisors and managers understand employer rights and restrictions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This course will explain the laws and regulations surrounding unions and what you need to know to protect your facility and also protect the rights of your workers.
By the end of this training session, you will be able to identify the basic provisions and prohibitions of the NLRA, distinguish the rights of employers and employees under the Act, recognize the influence of unions in the workplace, and understand how the NLRA and union contracts may affect your relations with employees.
Duration: 18 minutes.

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Performance Evaluations for Healthcare Workers

In the healthcare field, where decisions have a direct impact on the lives of your patients, conducting performance evaluations is one of the most valuable tools you can use to not only track your staff’s competence but also to help them grow and develop as great employees. In this session, we’ll discuss how to prepare for your staff’s performance evaluations and how to measure their performance. You’ll also learn how to conduct an evaluation meeting and how to handle employee performance moving forward.

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Personnel Counseling for Healthcare Workers

During this session, we’ll discuss the pressures of working in the healthcare field, the mental health issues that can arise from those pressures, and the benefits of personnel counseling when it comes to dealing with them. You’ll understand what it takes to build a successful counseling program and then learn a little about stress and how to deal with it. You’ll also learn about making your staff aware of your counseling program before finally learning how to handle staff complaints—along with the importance of ethics in counseling.

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Recruiting for the Healthcare Industry

During this session, we’ll discuss all the aspects of good recruiting practice. In an industry as important as health care, where workers are responsible for caring for others, good recruiting practice is critical. We’ll discuss not only how to find employee prospects but also how to find those who will be the best fit. We’ll also discuss the hiring process on through to getting your new hire on board. Duration 15 minutes.

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Safety and Sanitation in Health Care

As an administrator, safety is a huge concern and a tremendous responsibility for you. In this session, we will look at safety risks in your healthcare facility—including how to identify infectious medical waste, how to handle and dispose of it, and how to prevent and react to hazardous exposures. Duration 21 minutes.

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Tracking Credentialing and Training of Healthcare Employees

In this training session on tracking credentialing and training of healthcare employees, we’ll discuss your staff’s training and continuing education responsibilities as they relate to keeping their certifications and licenses current. Then you’ll learn how to keep track of your staff’s credentials by properly collecting, organizing, and verifying them. Duration 18 minutes.

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OSHA Annual Retraining for Medical Facilities

The OSHA Annual Retraining for Medical Facilities course satisfies OSHA’s annual bloodborne pathogens retraining requirements for healthcare employees exposed to this hazard. It covers safety best practices on topics including biohazardous waste, vaccinations, decontaminating equipment, working with hazardous chemicals, and more. Participants will be able to identify potentially infectious materials, protect themselves from hazardous chemicals, and describe how their organization’s OSHA program helps prevent exposure to safety hazards. The course also meets GHS awareness requirements by covering Safety Data Sheets, pictograms, and the new labeling systems.

You’ll learn how to:

Respond to smoke or fire in your work area.
How your organization works to prevent exposures to bloodborne pathogens, such as HIV, HBC, and HBV.
What to do if exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material.
Ensure that engineering controls, safe work practice controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE) are in place.
Locate the OSHA safety manual.
Identify which chemicals are hazardous and how you can protect yourself from exposure.
Demonstrate how to use labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)/Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to protect yourself from hazardous chemicals.

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OSHA Online Training Pack

With the OSHA Online Training Pack and online training courses, you can keep your employees safe and maintain OSHA compliance with training on crucial topics, including new GHS updates.

Designed specifically for healthcare workers, the OSHA Online Training Pack includes three courses that will fulfill all your training needs and meet OSHA training requirements:

Administering Your OSHA Program will help new OSHA safety officers, administrators, managers, or safety committee members in medical or dental facilities, understand OSHA requirements and establish an OSHA safety program.

Basic OSHA Training for New Hires in Medical Facilities covers initial OSHA training for new hires and will acquaint new employees with the safety policies and regulations they are required to follow to ensure compliance.

OSHA Annual Retraining for Medical Facilities satisfies OSHA’s annual bloodborne pathogens retraining requirements for healthcare employees exposed to this hazard, and takes a best practices approach to hazard communication retraining.

Learning Objectives

This course will help you:

Identify processes to protect your organization from bloodborne pathogens and hazardous chemicals.
Describe the procedures needed to activate emergency plans.
Locate safety equipment, including personal protective equipment, spill cleanup kits, and fire extinguishers.

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OSHA Training for Dental Facilities

The OSHA Training for Dental Facilities course covers OSHA bloodborne pathogens and hazard communication standards for dental facilities, as well as general facility safety best practices. This course meets mandatory requirements for initial and yearly retraining for oral surgeons, dentists, assistants, and hygienists. The course covers topics, including OSHA standards, universal precautions, and work area restrictions, as well as specific dental topics such as common dental chemicals with permissible exposure limits.

You will learn how to:

Discuss OSHA’s role in promoting worker safety.
Respond to smoke or fire in your work area.
Prevent exposures to bloodborne pathogens, such as HIV, HBC, and HBV.
Respond if you are exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material.
Evacuate or respond to an emergency situation.
Define biohazardous waste and list items that go in biohazard containers.
Ensure that engineering controls, safe work practice controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE) are in place.
Read and interpret a Material Safety Data Sheet/Safety Data Sheet.
Identify which chemicals are hazardous and how you can be exposed to them at work.
Demonstrate how to protect yourself from hazardous chemicals at work.

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Safety for Healthcare Workers

Health care is such a hot topic nowadays, especially since 2010, when President Obama signed the new federal healthcare reform law. And now, eight years later, the debate continues. What everyone can agree on is that it’s important to keep your employees safe and healthy and your organization in compliance.

The Safety for Healthcare Workers library contains a variety of helpful courses designed to help with safety in the healthcare workplace.

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Bloodborne Pathogens—Healthcare Workers

This training session will teach your employees to identify risks of bloodborne pathogen (BBP) exposure, understand the requirements of the facility’s exposure control plan and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, prevent exposure by taking proper precautions, and take effective action in the event of an exposure.

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Electrical Safety for Healthcare Workers

The main objective of this session is to help employees and supervisors recognize electrical hazards on the job, take the proper precautions to protect themselves from electrical shocks and burns, and to protect the facility from electrical fires. Participants will learn how to identify electrical hazards, prevent shocks, prevent electrical fires, respond to problems with electrical equipment, understand why lockout/tagout is necessary and how it is performed, and respond effectively in an emergency involving electricity.

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Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Workers

This course teaches your staff to identify workplace hazards that could cause an emergency, report emergencies promptly, carry out emergency responsibilities, evacuate quickly and safely, and respond to emergency situations effectively.

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Ergonomics for Healthcare Workers

This interactive course helps employees identify ergonomic risk factors on the job, recognize the signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), lift and carry objects safely, and take other precautions to prevent ergonomic injuries.

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HIPAA Privacy Rule: What Healthcare Workers Need to Know

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Handling Medical Waste

The main objective of this session is to help you handle medical waste safely and dispose of it properly. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand medical waste risks, identify types of medical waste, handle wastes safely and dispose of them properly, take appropriate steps to prevent exposures, and report exposures and get a medical evaluation.

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Hazard Communication Training for Healthcare Workers

This online hazard communication training course is designed for healthcare workers who may be exposed or potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals. This course will teach employees about the possible dangers of the hazardous chemicals that they use on the job and how they can protect themselves against those hazards. Healthcare facilities contain many different chemicals and chemical products, many of which can pose health hazards as well as present physical hazards, such as fires and explosions.

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How to Lift and Transfer Patients Safely

In this online training session, employees will learn how to identify patient-handling hazards, understand basic rules for safe patient lifts and transfers, use mechanical lifting and transferring equipment to avoid back injuries, prepare properly for patient lifts and transfers, and use safe techniques in a variety of patient life and transfer situations.

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How to Prevent Slips, Trips, and Falls for Healthcare Workers

The main objective of this session is to help you avoid slip, trip, and fall hazards and prevent accidents. By the time this session is over, you will be able to recognize slips, trips, and falls as a serious safety problem; identify slip, trip, and fall hazards on the job; avoid and eliminate slip and trip hazards; use stairs and ladders safely to avoid falls; and minimize injuries if you do fall.

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How to Prevent Workplace Violence—A Guide for Healthcare Workers

By the time this session is over, you should be able to realize the risks; identify risk factors; understand the effects of workplace violence; take effective measures to prevent violence; recognize signs of impending violence; and protect yourself in violent situations.

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Lab Safety for Healthcare Workers

The main objective of this session is to make sure that you know what you need to do to protect your safety and health on the job. By the time this session is over, you should be able to understand the Chemical Hygiene Plan, identify laboratory hazards, take proper precautions to protect yourself, and act effectively in an emergency.

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PPE for Healthcare Workers

The main objective of this session is to provide you with the information you need to use personal protective equipment (PPE) effectively to protect against job hazards. By the time the session is over, you will be able to recognize the importance of PPE to your safety and health; identify job hazards that require the use of PPE; select appropriate PPE for the task you’re performing; inspect and fit your PPE properly; remove and dispose of PPE safely; and maintain PPE in good, safe condition.

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Pandemic Flu—How to Prevent and Respond

The main objective of this session is to make you aware of the risks of flu pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep yourself and your family safe. By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand what a pandemic is, recognize the risks, identify flu symptoms, prevent the spread of infection, prepare for and deal with a pandemic at work and at home, and know what to do if you get sick.

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Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers

By the time the session is over, you should be able to recognize respiratory hazards in your job; identify and use appropriate respiratory protection; get a good, safe fit when using a respirator; and inspect, maintain, and store respirators properly. Duration 17 minutes.

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Stress Management (Multimedia)

The main objective of this session is to help you better manage the stress in your life. By the time this session is over, you should be able to identify the causes of stress, recognize the different types of stress, understand how stress affects you, and manage stress effectively. Duration 25 minutes.

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Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care in California: What Employees Need to Know

Can you identify the signs of workplace violence and the risks of a violent incident happening at your workplace and know how to defuse the situation? Workers in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings face significant threats of violence, and there are factors that contribute to this risk, including working directly with people who have a history of violence or who may be delirious or under the influence of drugs. This presentation will train workers in healthcare facilities in California to recognize the signs of violence and the risk factors that can lead to violent acts and deal effectively and safely with threats and incidents of workplace violence. This course is designed to meet the requirements of California’s Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care rule, but it can be adopted by any healthcare facility that adopts the California rule as their own policy. When the training is completed, trainees will be able to identify the risks and causes of workplace violence, recognize potential perpetrators of violence, spot the signs of violence, respond effectively to threats and violent acts, and report any violent or uncomfortable situation immediately. Duration: 23 Minutes

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Selecting and Evaluating Safety Sharps

The Selecting and Evaluating Safety Sharps online training course will help you comply with OSHA’s bloodborne pathogen standard by focusing on safety sharps and needlestick prevention. The course covers topics , including OSHA’s bloodborne pathogens standard, a three-step compliance method for compliance, and what to do if a needlestick occurs. Participants will learn the features of an effective safety needle, the requirements of OSHA’s regulation, and how to foster a culture of safety within the facility.

You’ll learn how to:

Explain the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard and amendments to that standard.
Identify the types of sharps and the procedures that cause the highest number of needlestick injuries.
Establish a method for evaluating and implementing new safety products in your facility.
Take an active approach in soliciting.
Solicit employee feedback about safety devices and foster an environment that values safety.

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