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Learning Without Limits: The Advantage of Unlimited CEs

June 21st, 2024
June 21st, 2024

Intentional strategies designed to engage, support, and retain your current staff and recruit additional staff are essential in a healthcare environment where staffing shortages remain a top priority for healthcare leaders. Solutions to help simplify onboarding, cross-train staff, and help staff easily meet licensure renewal requirements can help healthcare organizations stand out as the employer of choice.

A recent HealthStream webinar offered practical solutions for leaders wishing to develop their professional teams. The webinar was moderated by HealthStream’s Meghan Ficarra, Senior Product Manager, CE Unlimited and featured presenter, Heather Blackburn, RN, BSN, Senior Customer Success Manager, HealthStream.

Learning Without Limits – The Value

Blackburn reminded leaders that healthcare is continuing to evolve and become more complex, and as that occurs, it is critical to ensure that healthcare providers are competent and have full access to continuing education and professional development resources to create an environment of professionalism and improve retention. Blackburn went on to remind leaders that ongoing education and experience also serve to reduce a nurse’s exposure to risk and prepares them to make better, more informed decisions.

Ongoing development and certifications will also help your team validate their expertise and position them for recognition and advancement. It can also lead to improved confidence and satisfaction with their work and enhance their contributions to the organization.

Learning Without Limits – The Obstacles

While the value of a culture of lifelong learning is clear, that does not mean that there are no obstacles to creating that environment. Blackburn shared some of the most prevalent obstacles:

 

  • Some states do not require CEs.
  • Time constraints make it difficult to near impossible for staff to participate in professional development.
  • Financial constraints can make it hard to provide educational resources.
  • Adding development activities may make it more difficult to create a healthy work-life balance.
  • Dissatisfied and/or disengaged employees may simply lack the motivation to pursue professional development activities.

HealthStream’s CE Unlimited – An Overview

Blackburn shared that HealthStream’s CE Unlimited empowers nurses and other clinicians to take charge of their own professional development with a library that includes more than 2,000 courses and 40 specialty certification study aids. CE Unlimited is flexible. Courses can be assigned or learners may choose to self-enroll in them.

Individual learning preferences are important when considering the needs of adult learners and CE Unlimited is able to support those preferences. Learning formats include interactive eLearning, on-screen simulations, evidence-based best practice articles, and micro-learning to help learners digest bite-sized courses designed to improve focus and retention.

CE Unlimited – Library Overview

The CE Unlimited library has content from industry-leading partners as well as content that has been authored and published by HealthStream. Four trusted partners offer a variety of courses to support your clinician’s educational journey.

 

  • ALEA: The Assisted Living Education Academy provides courseware focused on assisted living, home health, disabled care, and senior care settings. Developed by subject matter experts, the content is appropriate for CNAs, home health aides, and other direct support professionals.
  • Echelon: This content provides a review of basic anatomy, physiology and electrophysiology and covers heart structure and function. Echelon also provides content to support imaging professionals. In addition, Echelon also offers their Critical Care Nursing Program (CCNP). It includes over 20 courses focusing on essential topics such as diagnoses and disease states and other highly relevant courses for critical care nurses.
  • Home Care Pulse (HCP): This content is focused on the fundamentals of person-centered care across various settings and across the disease continuum. With a focus on home care and hospice settings, its content is appropriate to home health aides and CNAs.
  • EBSCO: The nation’s leading provider of evidence-based clinical information has over 1,000 courses in CE Unlimited. EBSCO’s content comes in the form of evidence-based articles and interactive learning formats. They also offer accreditations to support nursing case managers, physical therapists, occupational therapists and social workers.

 

In addition to these trusted partners, HealthStream has a rigorous process for developing its own content. Blackburn shared that HealthStream has a highly experienced content development team that includes clinicians, educators, educational design experts, writers, editors, graphic designers, and an accreditation team. The content team has created additional libraries.

 

  • DigitalMed: This content is organized into collections that will support unit and organizational initiatives for nursing and other healthcare professionals across a wide range of areas of practice.
  • mySmart Healthcare: Blackburn describes these courses as highly interactive eLearning focusing on anatomy, physiology and routine clinical skills.
  • Outcomes and Indicators: Developed at the request of HealthStream customers, this library includes 12 interactive courses that address core measures and value-based outcomes.
  • Care Essentials: This library includes content that will help upskill talent and retain staff with professional development and personal growth resources.
  • Pre-hospital Care: This library includes content that will support pre-hospital providers to meet continuing education requirements through the use of case studies and clinical judgement-based questions.

CE Unlimited – The Mobile App

The mobile app is focused on the 40+ certification preparation resources available on CE Unlimited. Learners can complete practice tests and review study cards at a time and place that is convenient for them thanks to the app. This resource can help optimize success rates and makes it easier for staff to engage with the content.

CE Unlimited – Engaging Staff

Blacburn also talked about the ways in which leaders can encourage staff adoption of these excellent resources. She shared an example of a customer who was working to incorporate this solution into their career advancement program and leveraging CE Unlimited to meet the need for contact hours. She also shared that the solution can create the opportunity for employees to share knowledge through such options as Lunch and Learns and journal clubs. In addition, the HealthStream Community offers a forum in which participants can share ideas, ask questions and collaborate with other users.

CE Unlimited’s vast content and rich reporting and tracking features make it easier than ever to support learners with continuous education and licensure resources. Thanks to HealthStream’s trusted content partners and HealthStream’s own content, you can be sure that your staff are receiving the best and most up-to-date content. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how to invest in your team’s development.

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