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2021 Avera vLEAD Leadership Series: The Resilient Leader (Enduring Material)
Release Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), General Attendance (1.00 hours), Social Work (SD Board of Examiners) (1.00 hours), Nursing Facility Adminstrator (SD Board) (1.00 hours)

Avera's vLEAD Leadership Development Series is just-in-time content for your leadership development needs. These sessions are based on content intended to equip you with skills, insight, and knowledge to empower you to Lead Myself, Lead My Team, and Lead Avera. This session focuses on resiliency in leadership, specifically on how leaders are able to maintain resiliency amidst challenge and also ways to show the power of vulnerability in building resiliency when leading teams through great change and challenge.

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Pharmacy Pearls for Prescribers- Hypertension
Release Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), Nursing (Pharmacotherapeutic) (1.00 hours)

Pharmacy Pearls for Prescribers provides up-to-date information on medications, developed by a multidisciplinary group of AMG primary care physicians and pharmacists from Avera Health and Avera Health Insurance Division. This series covers hypertension management.

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What is Palliative Care?
Release Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), General Attendance (1.00 hours), Social Work (SD Board of Examiners) (1.00 hours), Nursing Facility Adminstrator (SD Board) (1.00 hours)

Basics of Palliative Medicine/Care

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Pediatric Management Heated High Flow
Release Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (0.75 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (0.75 hours), Non-Physician CME (0.75 hours)

The use of Heated High Flow has been increasing over time as equipment has become more widely available and indications for use have grown.  HFNC is easy to apply and well tolerated by most patients.

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eCare: Process for Constant Observation of Suicidal and High Risk Patients
Release Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2021
End Date: Friday, December 31, 2021

Target Audience:
Credits: Nursing (ANCC) (0.75 hours)

Patients are at risk for personal safety, self harm or suicide.  The Joint Commission and CMS have detailed requirements for ensuring safe and secure environments for patients at risk for suicide in hospital settings.  This educational activity will explain those processes and requirements.

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Pharmacy Pearls for Prescribers- Heart Failure
Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience: Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), Nursing (Pharmacotherapeutic) (1.00 hours)

Pharmacy Pearls for Prescribers provides up-to-date information on medications, developed by a multidisciplinary group of AMG primary care physicians and pharmacists from Avera Health and Avera Health Insurance Division. This series covers heart failure management.

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Avera vCNE Ambulatory Care Series - Cultivating a Healthy Microbiome for Optimal Wellness (Enduring Material)
Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience: Credits: Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours)

The vCNE Series is specially designed to update health care team working in acute and ambulatory care settings on hot topics, evidence based practice and Avera’s current strategic initiatives. This session focuses on specific information on gut health and the microbiome, and how cultivating a healthy microbiome impacts overall health and wellness.

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eCare: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2021
End Date: Friday, December 31, 2021

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), General Attendance (0.00 hours)

This course provides an in-depth look at the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) for compliance. Areas reviewed include the EMTALA process, violations and penalties, and the importance of EMTALA compliance.

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eCare Senior Care: Delirium (Enduring Material)
Release Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.00 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.00 hours), General Attendance (1.00 hours), Social Work (SD Board of Examiners) (1.00 hours), Nursing Facility Adminstrator (SD Board) (1.00 hours), Nursing (Pharmacotherapeutic) (1.00 hours)

Delirium is an acute disorder of attention and cognition of people >65yrs of age and prevalence is estimated to be between 11-42% on medical wards. Prevalence is also high in long term care facilities. It can be a life threatening condition and can lead to complications such as malnutrition, pneumonia, pressure ulcers, weakness and decreased mobility and decreased function, falls and combative behavior, wandering and getting lost. This educational activity will review definitions, epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, recognition/diagnosis, practical treatment strategies and challenges/future research.

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eCare: The Role of Nurses in Rapid Sequence Intubation RSI
Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2021
End Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022

Target Audience:
Credits: Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™) (1.50 hours), Nursing (ANCC) (1.50 hours), Non-Physician CME (1.50 hours), Nursing (Pharmacotherapeutic) (1.50 hours)

Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is an airway management technique that produces inducing immediate unresponsiveness (induction agent) and muscular relaxation (neuromuscular blocking agent) and is the fastest and most effective means of controlling the emergency airway

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