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This course will define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) both as a primary disease state and as a co-morbid condition.

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.

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

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.

For many years, health care and social service workers have faced a significant risk of job-related violence. Assaults represent a serious safety and health hazard within these industries. OSHA’s violence prevention guidelines provide the agency’s recommendations for reducing workplace violence. 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a novel virus that causes respiratory disease in persons infected, which can range from mild symptoms such as a common cold to more severe diseases – even death. This course provides health care workers with both individual and workplace practices to help prevent the spread of transmission and ultimately keep patients, team members and the public safe.

LGBTQ individuals have faced many challenges that have kept them in the closet or forced them back into the closet because of discrimination and bullying from friends and family, health care workers, and the general public. This self-study will help health care staff understand LGBTQ terminology and ways to provide compassionate, LGBTQ-informed care.

In this course, learners will need to look not only at the systemic issues of racism in the health care industry, but also their own biases, prejudices, and influence on patients’ care. Becoming knowledgeable and more comfortable with often uncomfortable truths, acknowledging differences, and understanding the issues that both health care workers and patients face are steps in breaking down historical barriers and broadening one’s perspectives.

Health care workers in home care will learn the elements of effective communication, as well as techniques to implement within their workplace that will enhance their connections with colleagues and patients. Challenges to communication are addressed in this course as well as ways to best communicate with teammates and patients, and staff in other facilities or hospitals. Topics include considerations for personal preferences and identifiers, such as in persons with disabilities; cultural norms; inter- and intra-facility communication; and effective communication methods.

This course introduces you to spirometry. This measurement can help the clinician determine whether an individual has a disease in the lungs and help determine whether the disease is obstructive or restrictive. Because of the variety of spirometry systems and accessories on the market, this course will cover spirometry systems in the broadest generic terms. For specific information related to a particular brand of system, please consult the manufacturers. This course also includes a link to VGM Participating vendors of spirometry systems and accessories and of peak flow meters. You should complete the following courses before beginning this course: DMGT016 - Overview of Cystic Fibrosis, DMGT018 - Overview of Tuberculosis, RESP009 - Asthma Management: Interventions and Strategies, and RESP010 - Intervention and Strategies of the COPD Population.

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Diversity and inclusion are two important components of improving equality and advancement in the workplace. One cannot fully prosper without the other. This course is designed to provide both health care workers and employers a deeper understanding on the topic, a review of applicable federal laws, and guidance on how to implement the concepts of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

This course provides an introductory overview of OSHA.

This course discusses the use of portable fire extinguishers and fixed fire extinguishing systems in the workplace.

To identify ways to promote environmental safety in the health care setting. Every facility should be safe for their patients/residents and staff. This course will review some of the basic elements of environmental safety for long-term care facilities. Key points on the topics of fire safety, hazard communication, lockout/tagout, internal disaster preparedness, and water management are included. U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the federal agency responsible for oversight of employee safety. The guidelines in this course are based on OSHA regulations.

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

To enhance the participant’s awareness of workplace violence, risks, risk factors, and prevention strategies.

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