A new mandatory training course for VHA and VBA clinicians titled “Assessing Deployment Related Environmental Exposures” is now available in VA TMS.
The course, developed in partnership by the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) and EES, is intended to increase clinician knowledge and to inform learners about how to recognize the role and importance of deployment-related exposure assessment; identify steps for determining deployment-related environmental exposures; provide available post-deployment health resources; and describe approaches to communicating deployment-related exposure issues to Veterans, their caregivers and their family members.
A recent memo from Secretary Denis McDonough stated, “VA remains committed to honoring our Nation's Veterans by ensuring a safe environment to deliver exceptional health care. Toward that end, I am directing VBA and VHA compensation and pension providers and VHA clinicians to complete, as a one-time requirement, the 1.5-hour module titled: ‘WRIISC MOD 1-Assessing Deployment-Related Environmental Exposures.’ VHA and VBA clinicians, specifically, physicians, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, psychologists, social workers and physician assistants, who may see or care for Veterans with concerns about military environmental exposures, are required to complete this course by Dec. 31, 2022.”
More information on this and other related courses in this series can be found on the WRIISC provider training page. A White House fact sheet on this topic is also available.
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Are you a 1990-91 Gulf War Veteran with questions or concerns about Gulf War Illness? The VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses (RACGWVI) subcommittee will host two virtual Veteran Engagement Sessions (VES) on April 6 and 7.
Family members and caregivers are also welcome.
The focus of these listening sessions is to ask for Gulf War Veterans’ (GWV)’ input on four questions: What health issues are of greatest concern to GWV? How can research improve the treatments available to GWV? What health issue(s) could the VA address to improve GWV quality of life? What would you like the VA secretary to know about the health of GWV?
To allow adequate time for all, those who wish to address the committee should send their name, preferred meeting date and the topic(s) you would like to address in advance to varacgwvi@va.gov. Questions or comments from those who do not respond in advance will be taken as time allows.
To attend one of these Webex sessions, see information below:
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April 6 at 4 p.m. ET – Password: GWVets1991! or join by phone: 833-558-0712 (toll free), access code is 2762 977 6702
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April 7 at 11 a.m. ET – Password: GWVets1991! or join by phone: 833-558-0712 (toll free), access code is 2760 574 2032
The RACGWVI is a Congressionally mandated committee under the VA Federal Advisory Committee Act. It meets several times each year to provide advice and make recommendations to the VA secretary on proposed research studies, plans and strategies related to understanding and treating the health consequences of military service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. All RACGWVI and VES meetings are open to Veterans and their family members, physicians, scientists and members of the public.
More information is available on the RACGWVI website.
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Welcome to the latest issue of the Simulation Exchange newsletter. Each issue highlights stories and current initiatives in simulation-based clinical education. Simulation Exchange is brought to you by VHA’s SimLEARN program.
Please share this message, publication and the stories with simulation, education, front-line clinical staff, support staff and others at your facility with an interest in the latest developments in VHA clinical simulation education.
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In this issue:
- Director’s Corner: Expanding Innovation Through Simulation in 2022
- Simulation-based Health Care Design Testing Aimed at Proactively Improving Veteran Care
- The Big 3: Mask Up, Social Distance and Wash Your Hands
- Simulation Course Used to Help Care for Critically Ill Patients at VA Puget Sound
- Did You Know? Two Leaders Connected to SimLEARN Earn AMSUS Awards
- Fellows Unite: SimLEARN Fellowship Graduates Support Each Other’s Work at IMSH 2022
- Make’em Sweat: Creating Sweat for Medical Simulation
- Building a Digital Asset Management System
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Spring into training this March with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Learning Connection featured courses and earn free CE.
- Learn COVID-19 vaccination guidance for people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised and review data on extended intervals between mRNA vaccine doses in Updated Guidance for Clinicians on COVID-19 Vaccines.
- We can make progress toward tuberculosis (TB) elimination. Learn the basics of TB transmission, testing and treatment with TB 101.
- Does your work involve clinical laboratory testing? Learn about the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and how to ensure lab testing quality with Introduction to CLIA.
- Up to 100,000 people in the United States die each year from venous blood clots. Learn how to assess, treat and educate patients at risk of clots in Stop the Clot.
Sign up for the newsletter to stay informed about quality public health trainings from CDC and partners.
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Date: March 22 at 3 p.m. ET
Description: This knowledge-based VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, program is focused on increasing the knowledge, competencies and skills with respect to specific hematology-related and health care access issues among clinical staff and health care teams from a range of disciplines and specialties. This session will discuss platelet abnormalities.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and pharmacists
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, ACPE, JA IPCE
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Date: March 23 at 11 a.m. ET
Description: This VA-Extension for Community Health Outcomes, or ECHO, program is focused on increasing the knowledge, competencies and skills with respect to specific acute renal issues and chronic kidney disease, including health care access problems among clinical staff from a range of disciplines and specialties. This session will discuss the top 10 medication errors in nephrology.
Audience: Physicians, nurses and pharmacists, among others
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, JA IPCE
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Date: March 23 at 1 p.m. ET
Description: This course will give an overview on VisualDx, which is a visual-based differential diagnosis tool designed for the point of care. Users can search by disease or quickly build a differential based on chief complaint, medication or travel finding. It includes more than 40,000 images and 2,700 diseases across general medicine. The course will also discuss how the national subscription now includes DermExpert (part of the VisualDX app), which allows a clinician to use a mobile device to take a photo of a skin condition and immediately analyze the patient’s skin lesion type to assist in making an accurate diagnosis at the point of care.
Audience: Virtual conference (webinar)
Modality: On-demand video
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): None
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Date: March 24 at 2 p.m. ET
Description: Primary Care VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, provides a primary care provider-led, evidence-based trainings via a live, online forum where clinicians throughout VA are brought together into a virtual community of practice. This regularly scheduled series offers a didactic presentation format integrated with clinical case reviews. The focus of this session will be updates from 2021 that clinicians may have missed.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ANCC, ACCME-NP, ACCME, ACPE, JA IPCE
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Date: March 25 at 11:30 a.m. ET
Description: The educational focus of this VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, program is to address gaps related to common conditions related to liver and gastroenterology. Session topics are selected based on clinical relevance, direct participant requests and surveys of the target audience, faculty and staff. This session will offer a review of celiac disease.
Audience: Physicians, nurses and pharmacists, among others
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.25
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, JA IPCE
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Description: This two-day, VA-Extension For Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, course was designed to provide the VA clinician with an overview of the most common cancers in the Veteran population, treatments and side effects, and a rehabilitation approach through all phases of cancer care, from rehabilitation to survivorship.
Audience: Physicians, psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, nurses, speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists, among others
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 4.5 each day
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, APA, ASWB, APTA, AOTA, ASHA, JAIPCE, NYSED, NYSED-P
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Date: April 7 at 3 p.m. ET
Description: The purpose of this live, knowledge-based webinar is to provide an updated review of modern perioperative anesthesia care, acute pain management and the use of multimodal analgesia techniques to promote opioid sparing analgesia, when appropriate. This course will identify and address the educational gaps that may exist in VA medical centers regarding modern acute pain management strategies. The lecture will demonstrate the benefits of opioid sparing techniques and regional/neuraxial anesthesia.
Audience: Physicians and nurses
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, JAIPCE
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Date: April 25 at 3 p.m. ET
Description: The purpose of this live, knowledge-based webinar is to address the relationship between chronic pain and smoking, present findings from a recently completed comparative effectiveness trial among Veterans and provide recommendations about treatment.
Audience: Physicians, psychiatrists, registered nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ADA, ADA/CERP, ANCC, APA, ASWB, JAIPCE, NBCC, NYSED, NYSED-P
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Description: The purpose of the recorded, virtual conference is to standardize best practices in terms of documentation and clinical practice with complex clinical situations. Sessions will offer education on modernization from individual to group interventions through the telehealth modality, creating an awareness on emerging technology that impact the blind and low vision Veteran population.
Audience: Blind rehabilitation specialists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, optometrists, certified counselors, certified therapeutic recreation specialist, speech language pathologist and rehabilitation specialists
Modality: On-demand video
Credits/Hours: 9.75
Accreditation(s): ACVREP, ANCC, AOTA, ASWB, COPE, JA IPCE NBCC, NYSED-SW
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Description: In the context of the current COVID-19 crisis, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is an extremely attractive treatment option as it can be delivered via telehealth, which significantly improves access and availability. This recorded, knowledge-based presentation will demonstrate this in the context of an ongoing VA-funded clinical trial using CBT-I for patients with a history of concussion.
Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, social workers and counselors
Modality: On-demand video
Credits/Hours: 1.25
Accreditation(s): AAPA, ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, ASWB, JAIPCE, NBCC, NYSED, NYSED-P
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Description: This session discusses seven common types of guided imagery (GI), considerations for using each and how GI styles used affect listeners. The program presents the phases of Epstein GI and compares methods for implementing GI.
Audience: Physicians, psychiatrists, pharmacists, dentists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, physical therapists, social workers, dietitians, kinesiotherapists and certified counselors
Modality: On-demand video
Credits/Hours: 3.25
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ADA, ANCC, AOTA, APA, APTA, ASWB, CDR, COPSKT, JAIPCE, NBCC, NYSED-P, NYSEDSW
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Date: March 21 at 4:30 p.m. ET
Description: The purpose of this virtual, knowledge-based training is to address brain injury and amplify ideas supporting the complex heterogeneity of neurotrauma and those it affects.
Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, physical therapists and researchers interested in neurotrauma
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.5
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, APTA, JA ICPE
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Date: March 24 at 3 p.m. ET
Description: This training is on the Clinical Case Registries (CCR). The CCR provides a series of clinically focused and flexible population health reporting tools, which can access information regarding labs, prescriptions, procedures, diagnoses and several other aspects of clinical care.
Audience: Clinical staff
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 0.5
Accreditation(s): None
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Date: March 25 at noon ET
Description: This webinar series is a collaboration between VHA and the Danish Ministry of Health that will facilitate discussion between subject matter experts on identified topics. Each virtual, knowledge-based training will discuss evidenced-based practices for the treatment of PTSD and TBI, as well as shared lessons learned from the implementation of primary care mental health integration and expansion of telehealth during COVID-19.
Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists and social workers
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.5
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, JA IPCE NYSED-P, NYSED-SW, ASWB, AAPA
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Date: April 15 at 2 p.m. ET
Description: The purpose of this live, knowledge-based webinar is to provide guidance to health care teams, including VHA radiation safety officers (RSOs) and others, on methods for optimizing computed tomography dose, as well as the RSO's role in the optimization process, with the goal of reducing unnecessary radiation dose to patients.
Audience: Physicians and nurses performing or supervising fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures, vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists and interventional cardiologists
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, ASRT, JAIPCE
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Description: In this episode, the presenter will discuss moments of redirection and reroutes throughout her career and the risk of failure during these times. The episode examines the importance of deciding to look inward to determine if growth is worth the risk of failure.
Audience: VA staff, VA clinicians, Veterans and the general public
Modality: Podcast
Credits/Hours: 0.25
Accreditation(s): None
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 TRAIN is one of the most widely used public learning management systems and is a free service of the Public Health Foundation. Access hundreds of free courses from other Federal and state agencies here.
Description: This session will explore the power dynamics inherent in public health data collection and how data integration platforms can functionally do no harm.
Audience: Administrators, managers, frontline staff and general public health staff
TRAIN ID: 1097343
Learning Option: Web-based learning (eLearning)
Credits/Hours: 1.5
Accreditation(s): None
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Description: In this course, learners will consider change from a leader's perspective and develop skills for leading change successfully. This session focuses on the critical role you play as a leader and how to help your team envision change successfully.
Modality: Web-based training (eLearning)
Credits/Hours: 0.5
Accreditation(s): None
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