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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
Featured course
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.
Thursday, May 6, and Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | The power of one: Design your practice to maximize patient outcomes
Presented by
Kathleen Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCNS, FAAN
Earn 1 CE credit
Patient safety is a fundamental driver in shaping our nursing care. In our work cultures, basic nursing care activities and communication strategies designed to prevent harm are frequently seen as just tasks to be completed before the end of the shift.
This session places a new meaning on the word SAFETY. Using a mnemonic of SAFETY, the participant will go on a journey of self-reflection and growth to help design their practice.
Thursday, May 6:
Wednesday, May 12:
Tuesday, May 18 | SARs-CoV-2 is not the only enemy
Presented by
Patti DeJuilio, MS, RRT-ACCS; NPS
Earn 1 CE credit
Objectives:
- Describe best practice; data that supports decreasing HAPs.
- Review history of SARs-Cov-2.
- Describe increased risk of HAPs in COVID-19 patients.
- Understand implications and impact of COVID-19 and clinical care.
Tuesday, May 18:
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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