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This course explains the importance of proper discharge planning in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Ambulatory surgical discharge planning includes essential tasks such as assessing patient vital signs, level of consciousness, pain control, home care instructions like wound care and dressing change, discussing with the patient any follow-up care and appointments, and ensuring there is a responsible adult to escort the patient home.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a web-based training that provides an overview of the Resident Mood Interview (PHQ-9) for skilled nursing facility (SNF) providers. Item intent and rationale, steps for assessment, and coding instructions will be reviewed.
This course discusses the Resident Mood Interview (PHQ-9) and Total Severity Score. Item intent, rationale, steps for assessment, and coding instructions will be reviewed. Emphasis on interview techniques that promote resident engagement and interview accuracy will be examined. Participants will have an opportunity to apply coding principles using interactive exercises and videos to code practice scenarios.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a web-based training that provides an overview of the assessment and coding of K0200. Height and Weight and K0510. Nutritional Approaches. Item rationale, steps for assessment, and coding instructions will be reviewed. The instruction provided within this training is intended to assist Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) providers in coding the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI). This course discusses the items in Section K related to height, weight, and nutritional approaches for SNF residents. Item rationale, steps for assessment, and coding instructions will be reviewed. Knowledge checks will be provided to emphasize specific coding tips and instructions. Participants will have an opportunity to apply coding principles using interactive exercises to code practice scenarios.

This course provides an overview of implementing protocols for continuous monitoring and evaluation of Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement, commonly known as QAPI, plans and projects. It also correlates the use of the nursing process steps to guide the implementation of QAPI plans and projects. This course also provides and reviews useful tools and resources provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help agencies and organizations implement and monitor QAPI.

This course provides healthcare professionals working in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) with a comprehensive overview of occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gases (WAGs). It examines the sources and characteristics of anesthetic gas exposure in environments such as the operating room (OR) and post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), as well as the potential health effects associated with both acute and chronic exposure. The course also reviews current regulatory guidance and best practices, including OSHA and NIOSH recommendations, and outlines engineering, administrative, and work-practice controls to minimize exposure risks.

This course provides an overview of critical incident reports in a hospice and home health environment. We discuss how to identify reportable critical incidents, explain best practices for writing and filing critical incident reports, and discuss the benefits of reporting critical incidents.

A crisis, known as a disruption or breakdown in a person’s or family’s routine pattern of functioning, can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. A comprehensive and integrated crisis network is the first line of defense in preventing civil rights violations, wasted resources, and death. This course provides an overview of mobile crisis intervention and response and how it helps improve the management of the behavioral health of people in crisis. The course also defines crises and their causes, typical emergencies that may require mobile crisis intervention, the impact and limitations of mobile crisis intervention, national guidelines for behavioral health crisis care, requirements, and phases of critical incident stress debriefing.

This three-part video series details OIGs work that examined IHS patient protection policies and implementation of those policies, OIGs investigations, and how to report abuse should you suspect it. An IHS speaker covers IHSs commitment to, and policies for, protecting patients. This series is intended for all audiences, including those who work in settings that provide direct health care services to patients.
This course is one of nine of the Compliance modules published by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services by their Office of Inspector General website. Additional compliance courses are listed below:
Compliance 101
Compliance 201 for Health Care Providers
Compliance for Governing Boards
Fraud, Waste and Abuse for Health Care Providers
Using Internal Controls
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Combating the Opiod Epidemic in Indian Country
Protecting Patients in AI/AN Communities
Quality of Care in IHS

Typically, emergency situations in healthcare revolve around medical emergencies. In addition to recognizing medical emergencies, home healthcare workers must be aware of protocols in the case of environmental disasters. When disaster strikes, it is necessary to have a plan.