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Health care personnel will increase their understanding of the safeguards used to protect themselves and others against the health hazards, which can result from exposure to blood and certain body fluids containing blood-borne pathogens.

Health care personnel will increase their understanding of the safeguards used to protect themselves and others against the health hazards, which can result from exposure to blood and certain body fluids containing blood-borne pathogens.

Health care personnel will increase their understanding of the safeguards used to protect themselves and others against the health hazards which can result from exposure to blood and certain body fluids containing bloodborne pathogens.

To enhance the participant’s knowledge of blood-borne pathogens and needlestick injuries so that they can be minimized or eliminated.

The HIPAA & Infection Control course bundle contains the following two VGMU courses:

To enhance the manager’s/supervisor’s knowledge of bloodborne pathogens and needlestick injuries so that they can be minimized or eliminated in the home care environment.

Essentially Women and VGM Education offer a bundle of courses commonly required by various accreditation bodies to be completed by staff on an annual basis. Courses cover HIPAA requirements, proper precautions to take against bloodborne pathogens, preventing Medicare fraud, recognizing and ethically responding to workplace discrimination, and developing emergency action plans.

CE Solutions offers more than 100 nursing hours covering a variety of health care topics. The topics include dementia care, legal aspects of nursing, endocrinology, mental health care, and autoimmune diseases.

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This course provides an overview of health care workers’ roles in preventing needlesticks and other sharp object injuries, and what to do if such an event occurs. The lesson also illustrates how to implement a sharps injury prevention program.

To review safe infection control practices utilized in the healthcare setting.

This course is a brief study of general toxicological principles to the extent that you may understand and guard against the toxic effects of the materials found in the workplace or job site.

This is the second of a two-part series of courses that discusses a wide range of issues related to workplace safety. In this second part, we’ll address procedures to report and investigate accidents and other emergencies; basic safety rules and standards your company should consider adopting; how to handle hazard communication, bloodborne pathogens, safe electrical procedures, and process safety management.

This course provides an overview of hepatitis B, how it is spread, its symptoms and diagnoses, and its vaccination.

To assure that facilities develop, implement, and maintain an Infection Prevention and Control Program in order to prevent, recognize, and control the onset and spread of infection in the health care facility.

Upon completion of the Safety Fair Series the participant will have an in depth review and understanding of regulatory and compliance topics; many which are required annually. The following courses are included in the Safety Series: Employee Safety (1.0 HR); Environmental Safety (1.0 HR); Infection Control (1.0 HR); Resident Rights (1.0 HR).

Health care professionals will review and gain knowledge of current and emerging infection control procedures, common health care related infections, and infectious disease outbreaks.

Nursing home administrators will review and gain knowledge of current and emerging infection control procedures, common health care-related infections, infectious disease outbreaks, and how to develop effective infection control programs within a health care facility.

To increase the participant’s awareness of occupational hazards that can occur in the home health care setting and measures that can be taken to prevent injury should hazards occur. Hazards addressed include occupational stress; workplace violence infectious diseases; and exposure to unsanitary work conditions, environmental temperature extremes, travel risks, falls, and chemical hazards.

This course provides an overview of HIV, how it is spread, its symptoms and diagnoses, and its vaccination.

To be aware of general safety issues and how to prevent injuries in the workplace.

Health care providers and others employed within health care facilities will learn about infection control measures including precautions, transmission-based (isolation) precautions, handwashing, personal protective equipment, sterilization, and disinfection.

This course provides health care providers with an overview of infection control measures including standard precautions, transmission-based (isolation) precautions, handwashing, personal protective equipment, sterilization, and disinfection.

The purpose of this course is to inform health professionals and food service workers about foodborne illness and the many pathogens that can cause it, the symptoms, how it is transmitted, how to prevent it, and how to treat it. 

This course contains two articles addressing needlestick prevention: one describing the needlestick injury (NSI) prevention activities at a California hospital and the other describing safe practices for health care providers and individuals with diabetes.

Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) are a set of regulations enforced by the FDA that apply to the manufacturing, filling, transfilling, cascading, etc., of medical gases (both compressed and cryogenic). In this course we will review the controls, testing, and records that must be adhered to in order to meet CGMP guidelines.