First
Quality® and Penn College® have partnered to offer online
CEU Programs that are available to First Quality® customers
and noncustomers. The programs are also available in a classroom
setting for those who prefer one-on-one training.
About
Penn College...
Pennsylvania
College of Technology became an affiliate of The Pennsylvania
State University in 1989, after establishing a national reputation
for education supporting workforce development, first as a technical
institute and later as a community college.
Today, Penn College® is a special mission affiliate of Penn
State, committed to applied technology education.
Penn College® attracts the second-highest enrollment in
the Penn State system; over 6,500 students are enrolled in associate-
and bachelor-degree programs relating to more than 100 different
career areas.
Programs
Offered...
Continence
Management - (Applicable to all Staff)
Course
Description: This presentation discusses the physiological
process of urination and the types of incontinence, the
assessment and promotion of urinary continence, the selection
of incontinence products, and the proper product application.
Cost
vs. Quality - (Applicable for Nursing Management & Administrators)
Course
Description: This presentation discusses the components
of a continence management program and reviews the cost
containment of quality products versus lower quality products.
This presentation is designed to help organize incontinent
procedures in Long Term Care, concentrating on resident
screening, proper choices of continence products, and staff
education. Specific examples of cost savings realized by
organizing an incontinent program will be discussed.
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learn more about First Quality's Online CEU Programs
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GOJO
Clean Hands: A 30-Day Program to Lasting Improvement
As
a professional responsible for hand hygiene compliance, you
know the statistics on healthcare associated infections (HAIs).
You’ve seen firsthand the impact HAIs have on patients,
your peer healthcare workers (HCWs), and your facility. You
understand that proper hand hygiene is a fundamental practice
of any healthcare organization, and the single most important
action to help reduce the spread of infection.
Today,
there is more pressure than ever to produce results in
building and maintaining compliance with hand hygiene
standards. However, traditional approaches to education
and hand hygiene promotion yield poor results with compliance
rates averaging 40% across various clinical studies.1
Changing behavior is difficult and usually occurs gradually
over time. Healthcare facilities are complex environments
with many hand hygiene opportunities. Brief training sessions
that touch on hand hygiene often don’t address the
importance of the right technique, new pathogens, and
advice of how to overcome obstacles to good hand hygiene.
GOJO
Clean Hands was developed to help you educate your facility
on hand hygiene best practices, while promoting behavior change
through self-assessment and improvement planning. GOJO Clean
Hands is a self-administered online education program with
four primary learning objectives:
•
Review the fundamentals, challenges, and best practices
of good hand hygiene
• Perform self-assessment against
hand hygiene guidelines
• Define individual improvement
areas
• Incorporate hand hygiene improvements
into daily practice
As HCWs move through the program, they receive friendly email
reminders and hand hygiene tips to help them achieve their
improvement goals. The tips and reminders are specific to
the hand hygiene moments the HCW has chosen to improve. Participants
can track their progress through the program and see changes
in individual self-assessment and quiz scores on the site
dashboard. Each HCW who finishes the program gets a certificate
acknowledging their commitment to improved hand hygiene.
GOJO Clean Hands is a flexible tool that
you can use in many ways depending on your facility’s
needs.
•
Action plan in response to an outbreak or cluster of infections
• Annual training or competency
program
• New employee orientation
• Tier on a clinical ladder
• Behavior modifying intervention
for non-compliance
• Risk assessment tool to determine
strengths and weaknesses in your hand hygiene program
1Boyce
JM, Pittet D. Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory
Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/ISDA Hand Hygiene Task
Force. Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings.
MMWR 2002;51:22. Available at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5116.pdf
For
more information on the GOJO Clean Hands Program
Email us at sales@cwiquality.com
