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FocusRN will help you stay informed on the latest, evidence-based best practices and professional guidelines.
You can also discover implementation and assessment tools and explore interactive CE modules and customized workshops.
The course offerings are developed in conjunction with our panel of clinical experts to produce relevant, evidence-based content. FocusRN allows you to track your progress and provides transcripts of completed CE courses to enhance your record-keeping for licensure renewal.
We recognize that fulfilling education requirements can be difficult – but we’re committed to providing motivating, high-quality continuing education courses that will advance your knowledge and help improve care.
Clinical topics
Featured course
Strategies to Reduce the Incidence and Complications of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
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Safe patient handling
- Safe patient handling
- What the experts say: Staff injury risk due to turning & repositioning
- CDC: VHA safe patient handling and mobility guidebook
- OSHA: Busting the myths
- OSHA: Program checklist
- CDC & NIOSH: Safe patient handling curricular materials
- OSHA: Caring for our caregivers
- OSHA: A self-assessment
- OSHA: Learn from the leaders
- OSHA: Know the facts
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a patient repositioning system for preventing workplace injury
- Safe patient handling initiative results in reduction in injuries and improved patient outcomes for pressure ulcer prevention
- Evaluation of a New Procedure for Boosting Critically Ill Patients in Bed
- Protecting skin while saving butts, backs and bucks
- Implementation of a cost-effective practice for reducing both pressure injury and healthcare worker injury during patient repositioning
- The body at rest: The consequences of immobility
- Society of critical care medicine: ABCDEF bundles
- Fast track to early mobility
- Helping nurses achieve the objectives for early mobility
- Enhancing compliance to the seated portion of a hospital mobility bundle: A mixed method case study
- Early mobility program results in improved patient outcomes and cost savings
- Innovative seated positioning device: Improves safe patient handling while reducing risk factors for pressure ulcers and falls
- Heat, moisture, and the skin interface: the importance of microclimate management
- Pressure injury prevention workshop
- What the experts say: Incontinence care and pressure injury prevention
- What the experts say: Pressure injuries
- What the experts say: Reduce the risk of heel pressure injury in the OR and the ICU
- Pressure ulcer prevention education brochure
- Four years of heel pressure ulcer prevention
- Safe patient handling initiative results in reduction in injuries and improved patient outcomes for pressure ulcer prevention
- HAPI reduction: A 3-Year story
- Protecting skin while saving butts, backs and bucks
- Pressure injury (PI) reduction initiative in hemodynamically unstable patients
- Implementation of a cost-effective practice for reducing both pressure injury and healthcare worker injury during patient repositioning
- Evidence-based quality improvement initiative and nursing/physical therapy collaboration results in decreased hospital-acquired heel pressure ulcers
- Intensive care unit quality improvement initiative decreases incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers
- Ongoing continuous quality improvement efforts at a veterans Health Administration hospital result in decreased incidence of pressure injuries
- O.R. safety series: Retained surgical items
- Literature matters: Supra-aural gossypiboma
- Literature matters: Which type of reaction in retained surgical sponges is more dangerous?
- Literature matters: Infected textiloma
- Using a data-matrix-coded sponge counting system across a surgical practice: Impact after 18 months
- The hidden costs of reconciling surgical sponge counts
- O.R. safety series: Enhanced visualization
- Assessment of penetrating thermal tissue damage/spread
- Retrospective chart revivew of nipple sparing mastectomies with and without an enabling intracavity illumination and visualization system
- Evidence-based outcomes of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Nipple Sparing Mastectomy Registry
- Avoiding damage to transvenous leads - a comparison of electrocautery techniques and two insulated electrocautery blades
- Use of the saber yankauer™ handheld illuminator in anterior approach total hip arthroplasty surgery
Live webinar schedule
Webinars are free and open to all nurses. Registration is required.
Tuesday, September 21 | Operating Room Air Quality and Risks, including COVID-19
Presented by
Maureen Spencer, M.Ed., BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Earn 1 CE credit
This session will explore the correlation between the environment of the OR and infections involving implantable devices, with emphasis on the contribution of contaminated air, pathways for reduction of risk and new evidence on emerging technology shown to reduce aerosolized bioburden and SSI.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate the relationship between the environment of the OR and infection involving implantable devices, with emphasis on the contribution of contaminated air
- Examine evidence of the role of air decontamination in reduction of SSI
- Explore strategies to reduce the risk of airborne bacteria
Tuesday, September 21:
Tuesday, October 19 | Safe Patient Handling for the Emergency Department
Presented by
Guy Fragala, Ph.D., PE, CSP, CSPHP
Earn 1 CE credit
This presentation will consider caregivers in Emergency Departments and explore the occupational risks they face each day. Risk factors will be identified and discussed. Strategies for finding solutions will be presented with examples of specific solutions suggested.
Objectives:
- Recognize occupational risk factors contributing to musculoskeletal disorders
- Discuss strategies to reduce occupational risk to caregivers working in Emergency Departments
- Investigate application of specific technology solutions and evaluate potential risk reduction achieved
Tuesday, October 19:
Stryker is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider number CEP 15927).
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