This on-line module provides Registered Nurses with the knowledge and skills needed to give an effective and efficient bedside shift report. Bedside Shift Report can have an impact on improved patient care outcomes, patient care quality, patient safety, improved communication and the patient experience.

• Faculty: Hussein Tahan
• ID: Pr-017526

This MedStar Health on line education, “The Deteriorating Patient Condition” was developed in response to nursing peer review showing lack of identification of the deteriorating patient and failure to rescue. Through scenario based learning the module emphasizes tracking and trending, using the Cerner MedConnect System, to visualize subtle vital sign changes over time and identify when a patient is deteriorating. The module then incorporates the next steps of knowing how to escalate care when needed and the use effective communication techniques.

• Faculty: Amabelle Grace Aureus
• ID: Pr-018019

This module covers MedStar's Drug Diversion Prevention program.

• Faculty: Rodney Benson
• ID: Pr-025547

This module reviews the proper use of the C-SSRS tool.

• Faculty: Cassandra Graziano
• ID: Pr-026340

This online course defines what Hazardous Drugs are where they are found in the healthcare environment, and how they are classified. In this module there are interactive ways to classify hazardous drugs as low or high risk, and emphasis is placed on what precautions the healthcare worker,patient and family should take when handling  these drugs. 

• Faculty: Patricia Filomena
• ID: Pr-027529

MedConnect FirstNet Nursing LaunchPoint Module

• Faculty: Lydia Burke
• ID: Pr-029733

Oxygen Tank Storage and Use

• Faculty: Staci Day
• ID: Pr-030376

This presentation provides an overview of the Zoll R Series defibrillator

• Faculty: Elizabeth Gonder
• ID: Pr-030934

This module is for training purposes for the ZOLL R series Defibrillator. It is a requirement for participation in a hands-on session at your entity.

• Faculty: Elizabeth Gonder
• ID: Pr-030935

This presentation provides information on how to properly pace using the Zoll R series defibrillator

• Faculty: Elizabeth Gonder
• ID: Pr-030936

This presentation provides an overview of how to monitor using the Zoll R series defibrillator

• Faculty: Elizabeth Gonder
• ID: Pr-030937

Best practices review for CAUTI prevention.

• Faculty: Staci Day
• ID: Pr-031117

This presentation is a video designed to instruct associates on when and how to perform a nurse swallow screen for stroke patients.

• Faculty: Karen Poole
• ID: Pr-031311

MedConnect Nursing: Medication Administration and Specimen Collection Module

• Faculty: Lydia Burke
• ID: Pr-032997

Bridge Transfusion Administration

• Faculty: Lydia Burke
• ID: Pr-035078

Rapid lowering of blood pressure and/or use of IV antihypertensive agents has been identified as a safety risk for patients in the ED and inpatient settings. MedStar has established new guidelines for the safe management of markedly elevated blood pressure in adult patients presenting to the emergency department and inpatient settings. This activity reviews the new guidelines and how it will affect nursing associates in both the inpatient and emergency department settings.

• Faculty: Kristie Dutrow
• ID: Pr-036187

This education is part of a series on online education for associates to meet annual stroke education requirements. This module focuses on after a patient has had a stroke and preventing a secondary stroke.

• Faculty: Karen Poole
• ID: Pr-036459

MedStar Health Stroke Overview

• Faculty: Karen Poole
• ID: Pr-036460

About this Course: This inter-professional enduring material includes online education on ischemic stroke subtyping and the secondary prevention of ischemic strokes. The purpose of this education is to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to identify, evaluate, and manage stroke patients effectively, thereby optimizing stroke care. This online module also supports the Joint Commission accreditation requirements for stroke education for MedStar Health healthcare providers.

• Faculty: Karen Poole
• ID: Pr-036461

Interprofessional education providing evidence-based information on identification, evaluation, management, and secondary prevention patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.

• Faculty: Karen Poole
• ID: Pr-036479

In this module, the ED nurse will learn about universal screening in the ED, medication-based treatment (MBT) initiation in the ED, and the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) assessment.

• Faculty: Stephan Riddle
• ID: Pr-036744

This module offers 0.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education credits for nurses. To claim the credits, the course must be completed prior to June 30, 2025. Once your evaluation is complete, under Main Menu in SiTEL click on the CloudCME link and click on My CE/ Transcript to find the credits the next business day. About this Module: The safety of every blood transfusion relies on positive patient identification, accurate documentation, and strict adherence to procedure at each of these steps in the process: Ordering the transfusion Collecting and labeling the pretransfusion sample Testing the pretransfusion sample Obtaining blood from the Transfusion Service Transporting blood to the patient care site Checking blood at the bedside Monitoring the patient during transfusion Completing the transfusion Responding to transfusion reaction signs & symptoms that develop during or shortly after transfusion

• Faculty: Justina Pangallo
• ID: Pr-038015

This presentation discusses the indications, dosing, administration, and nursing responsibilities for low dose continuous lidocaine in the perioperative setting and inpatient units

• Faculty: Joy Ann Burke
• ID: Pr-033512

This course/content offers Continuing Professional Education credits. To claim the credits, the course must be completed prior to 10/30/2023. Once your evaluation is complete, log on to https://medstar.cloud-cme.com and toggle to your Transcript to find the credits the next business day. This presentation includes education and training around how to most effectively educate patients and their families on their medical condition using the ASK Me 3 and Teach Back method.

• Faculty: Karen Corson
• ID: Pr-029858

This course/content offers Continuing Professional Education credits. To claim the credits, the course must be completed prior to 5/2/2027 . Once your evaluation is complete, log on to https://medstar.cloud-cme.com and toggle to your Transcript to find the credits the next business day. The presentation is designed for nurses, physicians, case managers, social workers, therapists, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team who are responsible for delivering care to patients and their families in the new coordinated manner. The course includes explanations of the IMOC absolutes - checklist-based interdisciplinary care rounds (IDRs), physician and nurse bedside rounding together, five-minute sitting with patient and/or family, and estimating the date of the patient's discharge - and video presentations of what these “look like” in practice. This course has CE credit.

• Faculty: John Yosaitis
• ID: Pr-030866