Mandatory Training - Available Courses

Available Courses

1. Emergency Preparedness provides guidance to employees so they can act effectively in emergency situations, such as internal and external disasters, including electrical outages, bomb threats, hostage situations, and other situations where patients, staff or both are in danger.
2. Bloodborne Pathogens explains bloodborne diseases in hospitals, workplace exposure to these pathogens, and preventative measures as they relate to the OSHA standard addressing this concern. 
3. Body Mechanics explains basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply to the workplace and provides guidelines to prevent injury.
4. Fire Safety reviews fire safety concepts (the fire triangle, building design, fire detection and prevention including suppression systems) and what to do if a fire occurs.
5. Handling Hazardous Materials provides guidelines for handling hazardous materials including compressed gas cylinders, infectious waste, and hazardous materials spills as well as guidelines for eyewash stations and respiratory protection programs and reviews hazardous communication procedures in healthcare facilities.
6. Electrical and Medical Device Safety provides an introduction to general safety measures including the no smoking policy and electrical safety guidelines and procedures, reporting policies, medical equipment management systems, machine and equipment services, maintenance, and OSHA lock-out/tag-out safety.
7. Healthcare Facility Security reviews basic security-related policies and procedures to improve employee awareness of security needs.
8. Understanding Infection Control provides a simple overview of the basic principles of infection control and the importance of following safety guidelines.
9. Patient Confidentiality in Healthcare Facilities (HIPAA) defines patient confidentiality and provides general guidelines for maintaining patient confidentiality of information in patient medical records, photographing patients, and media relations as outlined by HIPAA.
10. Recognizing Signs of Abuse describes forms of abuse employees should recognize and provides guidelines for reporting abuse.
11. Understanding Tuberculosis defines TB by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment. Explains how TB is transmitted and prevented and the steps necessary if exposure to TB occurs.
12. National Patient Safety Goals defines and describes the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals and applies them to patient care situations.
13. Pain Management provides an overview of pharmacologic pain management and focuses strongly on nonpharmacologic approaches to manage pain, including general comfort measures (such as positioning) and complementary therapies (such as distraction, acupuncture, and cutaneous stimulation.)
14. Moderate Sedation defines conscious moderate sedation and explains its indications, procedures for administering the medications, where it is administered, patient monitoring required during and after the procedure, and possible adverse affects.
15. Restraint Use reviews current guidelines for restraint use and explains the restraining criteria.
16. Blood Transfusion reviews the procedures for administering a blood transfusion, stressing the precautions required for a safe transfusion.

Behavioral Health Facility Mandatory Courses

1. National Patient Safety Goals defines and describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals applying them to patient care situations.
2. Pain Management provides an overview of pharmacologic pain management and non pharmacologic pain management focusing strongly on non pharmacologic approaches including general comfort measures such as positioning, and complementary therapies such as distraction, acupuncture, and cutaneous stimulation.
3. Restraint Use reviews current guidelines for restraint use in behavioral health facilities.
4. Handling Hazardous Materials provides guidelines for handling hazardous materials including compressed gas cylinders, infectious waste, and hazardous material spills as well as guidelines for eyewash stations and respiratory protection programs and reviews hazard communication procedures in behavioral health facilities.
5. Fire Safety reviews fire safety concepts (the fire triangle, building design, fire detection and prevention including suppression systems) and what to do if a fire occurs.
6. Bloodborne Pathogens explains bloodborne diseases in behavioral health facilities, workplace exposure to these pathogens, and preventative measures as they relate to the OSHA standard addressing this concern.
7. Body Mechanics describes basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply to the workplace and provides guidelines to prevent injury.
8. Emergency Preparedness provides guidance to employees so they can act effectively in emergency situations such as internal and external disasters including electrical outages and, bomb threats, hostage situations, and other situations where patients and/or staff are in danger.
9. Understanding Tuberculosis defines TB by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment. Explains how TB is transmitted and prevented and steps to take after exposure.
10. Understanding Infection Control provides a simple overview of the basic principles of infection control and the importance of following these guidelines. Topics covered include: handwashing, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and post-exposure concerns.
11. Recognizing Signs of Abuse describes signs of abuse and provides guidelines for recognizing them.
12. Understanding the Middle Childhood Patient covers middle childhood patients ages 6 to 12 in behavioral health facilities. Specifically, physical development in middle childhood, cognitive development in middle childhood, psychosocial development in middle childhood, and common psychiatric disorders that occur during middle childhood are covered.
13. Understanding the Adolescent Patient covers adolescent patients ages 13 to 18 in behavioral health settings. Specifically, physical development in adolescence and how it affects puberty, sleep, nutrition, and physical health; cognitive development in adolescence, including aspects for formal operational thinking, moral reasoning, and academic success and failure; psychosocial development, and common psychiatric disorders that occur during adolescence are covered.
14. Understanding the Adult Patient covers adult patients ages 19 to 64 in behavioral health settings. Specifically, physical development in adulthood, cognitive development in adulthood, psychosocial development in adulthood, and common psychiatric illnesses that occur during adulthood are covered
15. Understanding the Geriatric Patient covers adult patients ages 65 and older in behavioral health settings. Specifically, physical development in adulthood, cognitive development in adulthood, psychosocial development in adulthood, and common psychiatric illnesses that occur during adulthood are covered.
16. Principles of Good Documentation covers the critical components of good documentation, the difference between observation and opinion, the clinical implications of documentation and the illegal implications of documentation in the adult behavioral health facility.