Session 6
Safe Patient Handling and Patients with Limited English Proficiency
Objectives: Students will be introduced to concepts associated with safe patient handling as well as patients with limited english proficiency (LEP).
Instructions: Review the weblinks, topics, and video below. In addition, complete Session 6 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: OSHA | Safe Patient Handling
Topic 1: Injuries related to patient handling
Topic 2: Industries where patient handling tasks are typically performed
Topic 3: Hazards and solutions (transfer, repositioning, and lifting devices)
Review Weblink 2: NIOSH | Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
Topic 4: Patient handling hazards
Topic 5: Patient handling ergonomics
Watch Video: American Nurses Association | Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
Review Weblink 3: AHRQ | Improving Patient Safety Systems Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients in Hospitals
Topic 6: What we know about patient safety and LEP
Topic 7: Why focus on LEP and patient safety?
Topic 8: Adverse events for LEP and culturally diverse patients
Topic 9: Systems and strategies to improve safety for LEP Patients
Session 6 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Read: OSHA | Safe Patient Handling Program Checklist
2. Read: NIOSH | Safe Patient Handling Training for Schools of Nursing
3. Read: AMA Journal of Ethics | Vignette of Patient with Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
4. Complete Session 6 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard: Respond to LEP scenarios
Session 7
Introduction to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Naloxone Bystander Training
Objectives: Students will be introduced to hands-only CPR.
Instructions: Review the weblinks, topics, and video below. In addition, complete Session 7 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: CDC | The Hero Within: Knowing Hands Only CPR & How to Use an AED can Save Lives
Review Weblink 2: American Heart Association (AHA) | Hands-Only CPR versus CPR with Breathes
Review Weblink 3: AHA | Hands Only CPR
Review Weblink 4: AHA | Hands-Only CPR FAQ
Watch Video: AHA | Hands-Only CPR
Watch Video: AHA | Opioid Education for Non-Clinical Staff and Lay Responders
Session 7 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Read: NYS DOH | Community Strategies for Post-Opioid Overdose Interventions
2. Review: CDC | Naloxone Training
3. Complete Session 7 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard: Respond to posted questions on CPR and/or Opioid education
Session 8
HIPAA, Confidentiality, and Informed Consent
Objectives: Students will learn about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), confidentiality, and informed consent
Instructions: Review the weblinks and topics below. Then, complete Session 8 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: CMS | HIPAA Basics for Providers
Topic 1: HIPAA privacy rule and protected health information (PHI)
Topic 2: HIPAA security rule
Topic 3: HIPAA breach notification rule
Topic 4: Who must comply with HIPAA rules?
Review Weblink 2: UW Medicine | Patient Confidentiality
Topic 5: Importance of confidentiality
Topic 6: Duty of confidentiality
Topic 7: Appropriateness of disclosure
Review Weblink 3: UW Medicine | Informed Consent
Topic 8: Elements of informed consent
Topic 9: Patient’s decision making
Topic 10: Informed consent and children
Topic 11: When informed consent is not possible
Session 8 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Read: Case studies in Weblink 2 – UW Medicine | Patient Confidentiality
2. Read: Case studies in Weblink 3 – UW Medicine | Informed Consent
3. Complete Session 8 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard: Respond to questions about confidentiality and/or informed consent case studies
Session 9
Employee Stress and Burnout
Objectives: Students will gain an understanding of healthcare worker stress and burnout and their impact on safety.
Instructions: Review the weblinks, topics, and videos below. Complete Session 9 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: HHS | Health Worker Burnout
Topic 1: How to help a health worker who is experiencing burnout
Topic 2: Ways health worker burnout affects patient care
Topic 3: Assessing worker burnout
Topic 4: What hospitals can do to prevent health worker burnout
Review Weblink 2: Journal Article | Confronting Health Worker Burnout and Well-Being
Topic 5: Signs of health worker burnout
Topic 6: Causes of health worker burnout
Topic 7: Ways to address health worker burnout
Watch Video: Creating Caring Cultures in Health and Social Care
Watch Video: Health Worker Burnout
Session 9 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Read: HHS | Addressing Health Worker Burnout (pages 7-30 only)
2. Complete Session 9 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard: Respond to posted questions about health worker burnout
Session 10 Exam 2 – Scheduled to be taken during class time
Exam 2 and Workplace Violence
Objectives: Students’ knowledge of key terms and concepts presented during Sessions 5 through 9 will be assessed with Exam 2. In addition, workplace violence will be covered.
Instructions: Exam 2 will be completed on Blackboard. Also, complete Session 10 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Session 10 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Read: OSHA | Healthcare Workplace Violence
2. Read: NIOSH | Violence Occupational Hazards in Hospitals
3. Watch Webinar: Joint Commission | Workplace Violence Prevention
4. Complete Session 10 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard: Respond to posted questions about workplace violence
