CNE Provider Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2014 CNA and ANCC Updates The CNA Approval Board is actively recruiting new members! If you are interested in joining the Approval Board, please contact Kasey Grohe at kgrohe@nurses-co.org. The CNA website is going through a make-over. Please be patient as we work through this process. Should you have any problems accessing items on the website, please contact Kasey Grohe. Effective January 1, 2014 the fees for application for approval increased. The fee for Application for Full Providers increased to $2000.00. Individual Activity fee increased to $400.00 for the first 10 contact hours reviewed. Approval Board Members Kasey Grohe, MS, RN, CNE Administrator Kathy Brown, MS, RN-BC Chair Susan Clarke, MS, RNC-NIC, CNS, CPN Deb Craven, BSN, RN, CEN Jennifer Disabato, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, AC Connie Pardee, PhD, RN-BC Annual Report requests have been sent out to all Providers. Providers who offered any activities during the 2013 year are required to complete the annual report and returned required documents by February 15, 2014. Upcoming Events The Quest for Quality: Monitoring and Measuring Outcomes in Continuing Nursing Education The Approver Units at Ohio Nurses Association and Montana Nurses Association are jointly presenting a three part series on Outcome Evaluation. Session 1: Outcomes for Learning Activities. Objective: Examine strategies for development of learning activities that produce measurable outcomes. Session 2: Selecting Provider Unit Outcomes Measures Objective: Determine appropriate outcome measures to guide the work of your approved provider unit. Session 3: Monitoring and Measuring Outcomes for Provider Unit Effectiveness Objective Examine approaches to data collection and analysis related to the effectiveness of a provider unit in improving patient care and enhancing nursing professional development. Session 1: January 9, 2014 11:00 am EST Repeated, January 21, 2014 2:00 pm EST
Session 2: February 12, 2014 11:00 am EST Repeated, February 18, 2014 2:00 pm EST Session 3: March 11, 2014 11:00 am EST Repeated, March 19, 2014 2:00 pm EST Speaker: Pam Dickerson, PhD, RN-BC. President, PRN Continuing Education and CE Director, Montana Nurses Association. Registration Fee: $15.00 per person per session. You can register at: https://onawp.memexonline.com/events/quest-for-quality/ Contact Hours: Each session will be awarded 1.0 contact hours for successful completion. To receive continuing education credits, each individual nurse must register for the webinar separately and complete the online evaluation verification of their attendance. The Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the 39 th Annual Conference: Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions January 15 18, 2014 Orlando, FL More information available at: www.acehp.org Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between an Approver and Provider of CNE? We continue to see issues on applications and within the forms and documents submitted that contain Approval Language. Approval as a provider on Continuing Nursing Education is recognition of a provider unit s capacity to award contact hours for continuing education activities. These activities must be assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated by the approved provider unit. Under no circumstance may the approved provider act as an approval unit or approve activities. The approved provider unit may offer an unlimited number of educational activities during the three year period of approval. Your organization, upon achieving approval as a provider unit, is authorized to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate continuing education activities according to the criteria and rules and award contact hours for those activities. Provider units never have the authority to approve their own or anyone else s activities. The words approved, application, or applicant should never be used in connection with any activity your provider unit plans and presents.
Can contact hours be offered for BLS? Contact hours may not be awarded for the BLS course. There has been some confusion over this topic. Contact hours may be offered for the advanced courses including ACLS, PALS, NRP, etc. Your organization may choose to not award contact hours for any or all of these courses. Common Errors on Applications Organizations seeking approval to become an Approved Provider often have difficulty with the Outcomes criteria. The Approval Board recommends attending the training session being offered by the Ohio Nurses Association mentioned above. Tips for Providers Learner Feedback What does it mean? An ANCC document Learner feedback What does it mean? As part of the educational design planning process, providers are required to develop ways in which learners will be provided feedback during the educational activity. Strategies to provide/incorporate feedback may include but are not limited to question/answer sessions, self-check questions embedded within the activity, completing pre-test/post-test questions, self-reflection with discussion time, or engaging learners in active dialogue. Evidence has demonstrated that employing on-going feedback within educational activities improves participant engagement in the learning process and creates an environment that is more likely to induce behavior change. Strategies to provide/incorporate learner feedback may be documented on the overall activity planning documentation form or may be embedded within an individual speaker s educational design table. The strategies should be congruent with the purpose, objectives, and teaching/learning methods for the activity. For example, documenting Q&A as the learner feedback method for an enduring material print article would not make sense. Embedding self-check questions in a print article would make sense. Providers should also ensure that sufficient time is included within the educational activity for learner feedback, and the time is calculated as part of the overall contact hours awarded for the activity. What is interprofessional continuing education? An ANCC document As ANCC accredited organizations view the future landscape of continuing education, there is much discussion about interprofessional continuing education (IPE). Defined by the World Health Organization in 2010, IPE is when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. The goal of IPE is to improve interprofessional collaborative practice in the health care setting, and positively impact teamwork, care delivery and patient outcomes.
When planning interprofessional educational activities, the planning process must integrate members of the professions for which continuing education credit will be awarded. An interprofessional planning process is not a parallel planning process, i.e. each profession evaluating needs for and planning educational activities that happen to take place at the same time. Additionally, an interprofessional activity is not defined by members of professions who happen to attend or participate in an educational activity. To be classified as an interprofessional educational activity, the planning process must 1.) be an integrated process that includes health care professionals from two or more professions; 2.) be an integrated process that includes health care professionals who are reflective of the target audience members the activity is designed to address; 3.) demonstrate an intent to achieve outcome(s) that reflect a change in skills, strategy or performance of the health care team and/or patient outcomes; and 4.) reflect of one or more of the interprofessional competencies to include: values/ethics, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and/or teams/teamwork. When planning interprofessional continuing education activities, planners must assess and document the professional practice gaps of the members (professions) of the healthcare team, and design educational activities to address those gaps. It is important to note that planners should not assess the needs of one profession then extrapolate those needs to another profession without clear evidence that the needs are similar. A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the positive impact that interprofessional continuing education can have on both team performance and outcomes. When planning your next CE activity, consider including members of other professions that might be critical to achieving your CE outcome goals. Current Full Providers Banner Health Western Region Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Campbell Community Hospital Children s Hospital Colorado Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence Colorado Chapter Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Comanche County Memorial Hospital Craig Hospital Denver Health and Hospital Authority Denver Prevention Training Center Diabetes Education Support Services Duncan Regional Hospital Eating Recovery Center Jane Phillip s Medical Center Kaiser Permanente MEG Associates Consulting Group Memorial Health System Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City OU Medical Center Poudre Valley Hospital Regis University St. John Medical Center St. Mary Corwin Medical Center (Centura Health) St. Mary s Hospital Regional Medical Center University of Colorado College of Nursing University of Colorado Hospital
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing Valley View Hospital University of Oklahoma Office of Perinatal Quality Improvement Current Single Offering Providers Ambrose, Inc Center for Legal Studies Certified Management Group Colorado Society for Clinical Specialists in Psychiatric Nursing Corinthian College DART Front Range Community College Health Care without Harm HIPAA Training Institute International Loving Touch Foundation Lincoln Surgical Hospital Medical Group Management Association Midwest Region American Red Cross Nebraska Academy of Eye Physicians Sandhill Scientific Society for Vascular Nursing Subconscious Change Wyoming Council for Advanced Practice Nursing You are receiving this newsletter as an approved provider of continuing nursing education through the Colorado Nurses Association Approval Board. If you have questions regarding this newsletter, please contact Kasey Grohe at (303) 757-5048 or kgrohe@nurses-co.org. The CNA CNE Provider Newsletter will be sent out quarterly and is available upon request. Please let us know if you have any questions or if there is additional information you would like to see included.