Safety for Healthcare

Healthcare facilities, such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, dental practices, blood banks, veterinary hospitals/clinics, and medical research facilities and laboratories, generate medical wastes. As a healthcare worker, you may be exposed to medical wastes on the job. For example, patient care workers, housekeepers, maintenance personnel, and others may all be involved in handling medical wastes or at least come in contact with these materials. Some medical wastes can be hazardous to your health. This course is designed to explain the hazards of medical wastes, the precautions you can take to protect yourself from harmful exposures, and the procedures you must follow to protect yourself and your facility coworkers from the hazards of medical wastes.

Learn how to identify patient-handling hazards; understand basic rules for safe patient lifts and transfers; use mechanical lifting and transferring equipment to spare your back; prepare properly for patient lifts and transfers; and use safe techniques in a variety of patient lift and transfer situations.

During this session, we’ll discuss all the aspects of good recruiting practice. In an industry as important as health care, where workers are responsible for caring for others, good recruiting practice is critical. We’ll discuss not only how to find employee prospects but also how to find those who will be the best fit. We’ll also discuss the hiring process on through to getting your new hire on board.

In an industry where decisions can mean the difference between life and death, the excessive turnover rate that often plagues the healthcare industry is a serious problem. Today, we’ll discuss how your facility can beat that trend by reducing turnover and increasing employee morale. You’ll learn what causes high turnover and why it’s bad for your organization. You’ll also learn how to retain great employees and simple ways to keep them happy and engaged.

By the time the session is over, you should be able to understand the purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, identify covered entities, determine basic requirements of the rule, follow policies and procedures to protect patients’ health information, and use the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect your own health information.

Mass shootings have become all too commonplace, whether they are due to acts of terrorism, hate, or mental instability. This training course is designed for healthcare workers who could find themselves in an active shooter situation before law enforcement arrives and describes methods to limit the damage and save lives both before and during these traumatic incidents.

During this session, you’ll learn what an active shooter is, how to prepare for one, how to respond to one, and how to recognize warning signs of potential violence. (20 minutes)

The main objective of this course is to make you aware of the risks of pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep you, your family, and your patients safe.

This training session will teach your employees to identify risks of bloodborne pathogen (BBP) exposure, understand the requirements of the facility’s exposure control plan and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, prevent exposure by taking proper precautions, and take effective action in the event of an exposure.

A little bit of stress can keep us on our toes and give us the adrenaline we need to get through tough situations. But when stress becomes persistent or excessive, it can create problems—both at work and at home. And even worse—it can take a toll on your physical and mental health. During this session we’ll learn about what causes stress, how much is too much, and lots of things you can do to make it more manageable for you.

This training session is an overview of HR Laws in Health Care. During this session, we’ll discuss the human resources, or HR, laws and regulations that you must be familiar with in order to effectively do you job as a healthcare facility administrator. The HR laws we are going to discuss in this training session fall under nine basic categories. Not complying with these laws can lead to costly lawsuits and noncompliance fines, so it’s important that you know and understand them.

The main objective of this session is to help you avoid slip, trip, and fall hazards and prevent accidents. By the time this session is over, you will be able to recognize slips, trips, and falls as a serious safety problem; identify slip, trip, and fall hazards on the job; avoid and eliminate slip and trip hazards; use stairs and ladders safely to avoid falls; and minimize injuries if you do fall.

During this session, we’ll discuss the pressures of working in the healthcare field, the mental health issues that can arise from those pressures, and the benefits of personnel counseling when it comes to dealing with them. You’ll understand what it takes to build a successful counseling program and then learn a little about stress and how to deal with it. You’ll also learn about making your staff aware of your counseling program before finally learning how to handle staff complaints—along with the importance of ethics in counseling.

This interactive course helps employees identify ergonomic risk factors on the job, recognize the signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), lift and carry objects safely, and take other precautions to prevent ergonomic injuries.

In this overview of Compensation and Benefits in the Healthcare Industry, you will learn about different compensation plans and benefits as they relate to health insurance, retirement, and leave programs. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare facility administrator, to be aware of the benefits offered at your facility.

In the healthcare field, where decisions have a direct impact on the lives of your patients, conducting performance evaluations is one of the most valuable tools you can use to not only track your staff’s competence but also to help them grow and develop as great employees. In this session, we’ll discuss how to prepare for your staff’s performance evaluations and how to measure their performance. You’ll also learn how to conduct an evaluation meeting and how to handle employee performance moving forward.

Unfortunately, workplace emergencies are a fact of life. Fortunately, they don’t happen often. But when they do, the result can be very bad for us and for our patients. To minimize injuries, loss of life, and damage to the facility, we must all be prepared to act effectively in a variety of possible emergency situations.

This course will help you recognize respiratory hazards in your workplace and show you how to use and maintain respirators to keep yourself safe. By the end of the training, you will be able to identify common respiratory hazards and explain why respirators are necessary to protect against these hazards; describe how a respirator operates and recognize the capabilities and limitations of each type of respirator; safely wear and use your respirator; properly inspect, maintain, and store your respirator; recognize emergency situations and medical symptoms that limit the effective use of respirators; and summarize your employer’s obligations under the Respiratory Protection Standard. This course does not address the requirements for employees who voluntarily use respirators or for interior structural firefighters.

The main objective of this session is to make you aware of the risks of flu pandemics, the potential problems we could all face should we be hit with a pandemic, and the precautions you would need to take to keep yourself and your family safe

This course is designed to meet the requirements of California’s Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care rule, but it can be adopted by any healthcare facility that adopts the California rule as their own policy. When the training is completed, trainees will be able to identify the risks and causes of workplace violence, recognize potential perpetrators of violence, spot the signs of violence, respond effectively to threats and violent acts, and report any violent or uncomfortable situation immediately. Duration: 23 Minutes

This training session will discuss the hazards of electricity and how to prevent exposure to electrical hazards. By the end of the training session, you will be able to understand the hazards of electricity, identify and avoid common electrical hazards, and follow safe work practices around electrical equipment.

This course will help you recognize respiratory hazards in your workplace and show you how to use and maintain respirators to keep yourself safe. By the end of the training, you will be able to identify common respiratory hazards and explain why respirators are necessary to protect against these hazards; describe how a respirator operates and recognize the capabilities and limitations of each type of respirator; safely wear and use your respirator; properly inspect, maintain, and store your respirator; recognize emergency situations and medical symptoms that limit the effective use of respirators; and summarize your employer’s obligations under the Respiratory Protection Standard. This course does not address the requirements for employees who voluntarily use respirators or for interior structural firefighters.

Good training practice is critical in health care, because employee performance has a direct impact on the well-being of your patients. During this session, we’ll discuss how to assess training needs and how to develop effective training sessions. You’ll also learn best training practices when it comes to training new employees before they begin work, when they first begin work, and beyond.

This training session will help you understand why the most effective way to handle claims is to prevent them. We’ll look at how you can do that, as well as the differences between employment-based claims and insurance claims. We’ll also touch on why it’s important for you, as a healthcare administrator, to be familiar with the laws that protect your facility and your workers.

As an administrator, safety is a huge concern and a tremendous responsibility for you. In this session, we will look at safety risks in your healthcare facility—including how to identify infectious medical waste, how to handle and dispose of it, and how to prevent and react to hazardous exposures. Duration 21 minutes.

Unions can have a big impact on the healthcare field, so it’s important that those in Human Resources as well as supervisors and managers understand employer rights and restrictions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This course will explain the laws and regulations surrounding unions and what you need to know to protect your facility and also protect the rights of your workers. By the end of this training session, you will be able to identify the basic provisions and prohibitions of the NLRA, distinguish the rights of employers and employees under the Act, recognize the influence of unions in the workplace, and understand how the NLRA and union contracts may affect your relations with employees.

By the time this session is over, you should be able to realize the risks; identify risk factors; understand the effects of workplace violence; take effective measures to prevent violence; recognize signs of impending violence; and protect yourself in violent situations.

The main objective of this session is to provide you with the information you need to use personal protective equipment (PPE) effectively to protect against job hazards. By the time the session is over, you will be able to recognize the importance of PPE to your safety and health; identify job hazards that require the use of PPE; select appropriate PPE for the task you’re performing; inspect and fit your PPE properly; remove and dispose of PPE safely; and maintain PPE in good, safe condition.

Hazard communication is a requirement of state and federal law. The standard, which is also referred to as the worker right to know standard, makes sure that you know all about the possible dangers of hazardous chemicals that you may come into contact with as a healthcare worker and gives you the information to protect yourself from those hazards. Your employer is required to provide you with this information for the hazardous chemicals present in your workplace.

In this training session on tracking credentialing and training of healthcare employees, we’ll discuss your staff’s training and continuing education responsibilities as they relate to keeping their certifications and licenses current. Then you’ll learn how to keep track of your staff’s credentials by properly collecting, organizing, and verifying them.