e-Modules

Lack of advance care planning places patients at risk of receiving care misaligned with their values, goals, and preferences as well as increased patient and family distress at end-of-life. This results from a variety of barriers at the provider, patient, and system levels of care including lack of provider knowledge, limited patient awareness, and time constraints. Current completion of Advance Directives and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (AD &POLST) in patient files is 50%...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) play a major and lifelong role in the difficulty, effectiveness, and cost of adult medical practice, and are the major origin of numerous important public health, medical, and social problems. In all of these areas, the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult well being ordinarily goes unrecognized.

The purpose of this education is to improve advanced advanced cardiac life support (AACLS) in order to increase neuro-intact survival of patients who suffer out of hospital cardiac arrest.

Vicarious Trauma (VT), coined by Laurie A Pearlman and Karen W Saakvitne in 1995, describes a significant shift in a helping professional’s world view when they work with individuals who have experienced trauma. The purpose of this e-module is to help healthcare professionals identify, address, and or prevent vicarious trauma.

It is important for healthcare workers to provide trauma informed care when they see a trauma patient. Trauma patients may require a different approach, resources and care. The purpose of this e-module is to discuss the PEARR Tool and its application in a clinical setting as well as provide valuable resources.

Sepsis is life-threating organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.  Its is the #1 cause of death, readmission, and highest healthcare cost in hospitalized patients. The purpose of this e-module is to address the early management of sepsis in the emergency department.

This course if intended for use by individuals involved in the design and/or conduct of human subjects’ research at Sharp HealthCare.

Humans have multiple systems to deal with acute stressors that threaten their existence. In this e-module we explore the neurobiology of trauma as well as brain structures, neurotransmitter pathways, hormonal systems, and immune systems.

Intended to ensure surgeons are cognizant of strategies to reduce the risk of HAIs, compliance with legislative requirement, and The Joint Commission Requirements,

This session will be an introduction to culinary medicine with a cooking demonstration of some simple, healthy recipes.  Focus of the session will be the ability to use healthy cooking as an opportunity for improved health, wellness and connection. This fun cooking class hopes to bring a physician community together by connecting us through food in a fun interactive cook-along session.