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IMPROVING OUTCOMES THROUGH POINT OF CARE TESTING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM |
Available for sale: January 1, 2013
Sold Until: December 31, 2013
Program Access Available: January 1, 2013-July 15, 2014
Do you know the benefits and challenges associated with POCT? The courses in this certificate program introduce some of the areas where POCT is making an impact and improving patient, safety, health, financial, and process outcomes. The program is composed of eight courses, listed below, which can be completed online in 1 to 2 hours each. Each course contains a lecture, required reading, and a quiz. There are opportunities for interaction with faculty and other participants using the certificate program’s discussion boards. The courses that make up this certificate program are:
- Introduction
- Point of care testing for creatinine
- Point of care testing for cardiac markers
- Implementation and outcomes of Point of care testing in the emergency department
- Point of care diagnosis of infections
- Point of care diabetes management and glycemic control in outpatient and ICU settings
- Point of care testing for infectious diseases
- Improving the standard of care for disaster medicine
You can earn 12 ACCENT® continuing education credits for completing the entire program. To receive the certificate, you must successfully complete all eight courses by the program end date.
Certificates are awarded online upon successful completion of the program. Graduates are recognized at the AACC Annual Meeting and are listed on a register located on the certificate program web page and the AACC Critical and Point-of-Care Testing Division web site.
The use of point of care testing is rapidly expanding. With this new growth comes new challenges and new opportunities for advancement. This program provides participants with a chance to learn about the many circumstances under which point of care is being done and the cutting edge technology that is shaping where point of care technology may go next.
The CPOCT Division developed this eight-course certificate program as a resource for laboratory professionals with an interest in learning how point of care is making an impact. The program concentrates on the use of point of care to improve outcomes for specific conditions and diseases, with specific tests, in contexts such as natural disasters and the emergency room, as well as for diagnosis, management, and implementation of best practices.
Participants who complete this certificate program will be able to:
- Discuss the need and benefits of POC in different settings
- Describe different types of outcomes and the areas in which POC is making an impact
- Discuss data or cite research from recent studies about how POCT is improving outcomes
- List limitations for creatinine and other POCT methods
- Describe unique quality issues in molecular diagnostics, which will impact their use at POC, such as contamination, inhibition, sampling
- List and discuss the challenges and innovations in POCT during and after natural disaster with examples from the earthquake in Kobe, Japan, the earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina in the United States
The program’s expert faculty are experienced educators who have extensive knowledge of point of care and the associated issues. The following individuals developed the Improving Outcomes Through Point of Care Testing Certificate Program and contributed to content in this program:
- James Nichols, PhD, Chair
Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, TN
- Sheldon Campbell, MD
VA Connecticut and Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Rob Christenson, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Gerald Kost, MD, PhD
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
- Kent Lewandrowski, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Richard F. Louie, PhD
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
- Nam Tran, PhD
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
The faculty thank for the following people for their image or presentation contributions: Corbin Curtis, James Januzzi, MD, Stephanie L. Sumner, BS.
This program is sponsored by the AACC Critical and Point-of-Care Testing Division and is supported by Abbott Point of Care.
Open Enrollment: January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
Program Access Available: January 1, 2013-July 15, 2014
- 12 ACCENT® continuing education credits
- Eight online courses in the program
- Fee: $225 AACC Member/$450 Non-member
- Course Number: 7740
- If you purchase the program over the telephone, the online access information will be emailed within 1 week of enrollment. If you purchase the program online, the login information will be on your confirmation page. If you have not received your access information, please contact AACC Customer Service.
- If you purchase the program via mail or fax, please allow 2 weeks for processing.
- Participants can begin their course work on January 1, 2013, but it is not available prior to that.
ACCENT® credit will be offered. AACC is an approved provider of continuing education for clinical laboratory scientists in the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.