Keeping employees trained appropriately and their skills and competencies up-to-date is a constant challenge for hospitals and health care providers. Add on the expenses associated with developing curriculum and difficulty of scheduling and it’s easy to understand why health care providers are looking for alternatives to traditional training. careLearning offers an education management solution.

The Nebraska Hospital Association, in cooperation with over 40 other state hospital associations and the American Hospital Association, has developed careLearning.com, an Internet-based education management solution. Its sole purpose is to develop and deliver a range of just-in-time training and education for health care providers and the ability to manage and track employee; physician and other non-employee records. careLearning.com enhances the capabilities of your health care organization to obtain timely, relevant, cost-effective education. Because careLearning is continually updating and adding to its course offerings, your organization has the opportunity for improvement of health care delivery through the enhanced competencies of health care leaders, clinicians, professionals and other employees participating in educational activities at their convenience.

careLearning offers something for everyone:

• Mandatory- Access to 13 of the most commonly required courses for health care employees.

• Continuing Education- Courses that meet mandatory licensure and certification requirements.

• Compliance-Courses on changes in regulations and health care policy. 

• Networking Communities-Networking with others across the country with common interest or issue.

• Private Courses- Courses added to the careLearning Learner Management System that are written and produced by your organization for the sole use of your organization.

For Learners:

• Convenient access to education 24 hours a day-7 days a week.

• Cost-effective method of obtaining continuing education to meet or enhance competencies.

• Learning at an individual pace.

• Training records follow the learner wherever they are employed.

For Health Care Facilities:

• Efficient and cost-effective system for managing training regardless of the organization’s size.

• Comprehensive and easy-to-use learner tracking and management system.

• Course content development by subject matter experts.

• Course designed for specific staff as well as the entire organization.

• Reduction in resources needed for developing and providing mandatory training.

• Limits obstacles associated with organization wide training.

• Increases employee satisfaction and enhances retention.

• Utilizes technology that appeals to today’s workforce.
  

The extensive catalog of courses includes education on nursing, patient care, business management and compliance. These courses are available to all health care professionals without organizational membership and can be customized to the needs of each facility.

Series of courses are also offered that are designed to increase quality and compliance in health care. These topics include:

• HIPAA
• Nursing Assistant Professional Development
• Dietary Training
• Bioterrorism
• Materials Management
• Risk Management

To view the catalog of courses visit www.careLearning.com 

Does your organization struggle with how to efficiently and effectively offer mandatory training? careLearning provides a series of 13 health and safety training modules to assist your organization in complying with JCAHO and OSHA requirements. As a bonus, this subscription package also includes access to a state-of-the-art management system to track employee progress.

The health and safety modules include:

• Abuse and Neglect
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Electrical Safety
• Hazardous Substances
• Patient’s Rights
• Slips, Trips and Falls
• Tuberculosis Prevention • Age-Specific Care
• Disaster Prevention
• Fire Safety
• Moving and Lifting
• Restraints and Seclusion
• Standard Precautions

careLearning has developed a cutting-edge system to make record tracking simple. The Administrative Management System (AMS) is a software-based system that careLearning administrators receive as users of the careLearning courses. The goal of careLearning is to make the employee enrollment process as simple as possible for your organization. This has been accomplished with the use of the AMS. The AMS allows organizations to:

• Track professional licenses, licensure renewal and certificates: including the capability to run reports by license type and expiration date utilizing the Track It feature.
• Use the program as a complete meeting management package to store demographic information and print rosters, name badges, certificates and mailing labels for educational events presented at your organization.
• Use the ID badge scanner to simply scan an individual’s ID badge or the event roster to record attendance.
• Print employee specific reports that include all careLearning courses, live events and license and certificate information.
• Use the automatic curriculum feature to determine what courses are appropriate for an employee by department and job code.
• Coordinate all e-learning activities and all community and non-employee education.
• Track physician education and more.
 
The AMS was designed to meet the needs of organizations and is free with the purchase of the Health and Safety Compliance Series.

For more information about careLearning or to receive a free 30-day trial of a course, contact Jon Borton, Sr. Director of Education at (402) 742-8147 or jborton@nhanet.org