A patient-centered medical home is a redesigned practice that has shifted from focusing on “episodic treatment of disease” to the holistic care of a patient. Outcomes of patient-centered healthcare medical homes include reduction in emergency department visits and hospitalizations, improvements in quality of care and patient experiences, and cost savings in total healthcare expenditures.

Protecting the confidentiality and privacy of healthcare information is of great importance. In this course, you will learn about parts of HIPAA, especially as they concern nursing and other health professionals and the protection of healthcare information. Because you play a key role in the production of healthcare information, you play a key role in its protection.

The growth of the nursing profession depends on developing scientific principles upon which to base practice. This two-contact hour CE activity focuses on the development and conduct of nursing research in the clinical setting for direct bedside application.

Multidisciplinary, interprofessional and transdisciplinary team designations, often used interchangeably, refer to different groups in healthcare that operate with varying degrees of interaction among team members regarding patient care responsibilities. This program increases healthcare professionals’ knowledge about the skills required to work effectively in interprofessional teams.

Having sound critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills makes the difference between keeping patients safe and putting them in harm’s way. This educational activity addresses the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for critical thinking and clinical reasoning. It reviews results from key studies and gives strategies for developing the thinking skills needed to function as a 21st century healthcare professional.

Leadership skills have not necessarily been a part of basic nurse education and are needed by all nurses to be partners in this change as well as to be effective clinicians in the healthcare environment. This comprehensive 6.80 contact hour course provides nurses with practical strategies that can help them establish personal plans for developing their leadership potential.

Shared governance is an organizational model that provides a structure for shared decision making among professionals about practice and clinical outcomes. Shared governance legitimizes nurses’ decision-making control over their practice while extending their influence to some administrative areas previously controlled by managers.

Evidence-based practice is a vital part of enhancing critical care nursing practice, which is essential for providing quality care to patients. The first step in the EBP process is cultivating a culture to incorporate EBP in the organization. Establishing structure for implementation of EBP leads to higher quality of care and reduces costs. This module describes EBP and gives several examples of how it can be applied to improve outcomes.

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