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Medical Staff Services

Moderate Sedation Training

Online Moderate Sedation Training Now Available

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The Medical Center’s new online Adult Procedural Sedation Course is now available to all Medical Center staff (nursing and LIPs) requiring initial and ongoing training in moderate sedation through our online HealthStream (HS) Learning Center™ (HLC). It is available in the HLC as optional training under the Catalog tab in the Clinical category on the employee’s course page. This applies to all Attendings, Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants who request/are approved for Moderate Sedation Privileges.  (NOTE:  Attendings who are board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Neonatology and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery are not required to take this course; however, other criteria noted below apply.)

If the Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIPs such as Resident/Fellow, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife or Physician Assistant) is an employee of UPI or UMMC, they have a user ID and password in Health Stream and can access it through the HS link on the Intranet home page or they can access it at home from www.healthstream.com/hlc/umms.* See below for login instructions.

The course is designed for physicians and registered nurses, who are not anesthesiologists or anesthetists, who manage patients receiving moderate sedation. In these settings, these clinicians assume the role of the anesthesia provider by providing pre-sedation assessment, formulation (LIPs) or review (nurses) of the sedation prescription, intra-procedure sedation monitoring, and monitoring during recovery from sedation. Carrying out these practices requires training beyond what most clinicians get in their basic educational programs.

The online course is broken into three parts and each part requires about 15 to 20 minutes each to complete. The entire course can be completed in about 50 to 60 minutes and ends with a comprehensive test.

The course objectives are designed to enable the participant to:

  1. Prepare patients for sedation, including performing a pre-sedation assessment, acquiring consent, and developing an individualized plan for sedation;
  2. Perform procedural sedation safely and effectively adhering to regulatory guidelines
  3. Plan for and address special patients’ needs and appropriately respond to emergency situations;
  4. Monitor patients during post-sedation recovery to ensure safe emergence from sedation, and
  5. Discharge patients appropriately after recovery.

Moderate Sedation Education and Competency Assessment

Our hospital policy on moderate sedation requires new LIPs to:

  1. complete an age-appropriate educational seminar on the critical elements of Moderate Sedation provided by the University of Maryland Department of Anesthesiology - this new online course is this seminar for LIPs who practice with adult patients; (LIPs who practice with pediatric patients should view the Pediatric Moderate Sedation Course on DVD, available in Medical Staff Services – call 8-2902 to obtain)

    NOTE:  Attendings who are board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Neonatology and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery are not required to take this course.

  2. maintain a BLS card, and

  3. supervised performance of five satisfactory procedures requiring moderate sedation.

Also, our policy stipulates that assurance of on-going moderate sedation competency for LIPs requires completion of this online moderate sedation module once every two years, maintenance of their BLS Healthcare Provider status, and successful demonstration of ongoing competency.

Directions for Health Stream:

Login:

UPI Physicians/Affiliate Staff: You should have received a login and password in order to complete your compliance training. In most cases, your login will be the first initial of your first name, and the first 6 letters of your last name. Your password is your full last name. You will also need to enter the 3 character abbreviation of your department/specialty. See attached for detailed login instructions.

UMMC Employees:  Your login is your hospital ID number. Your password is your last name.

Volunteer Faculty:  Please email Allison Andrus at aandrus@umm.edu who will obtain your login information.

After Logging In:

Once logged in, click on “Catalog” which should be the 3rd tab.

In the Search box, type “Adult Procedural Sedation” and Enter

Select “Adult Procedural Sedation”

Click on “Enroll in this Course”, then select the first module, “Introduction, Overview and Pre-Sedation Assessment, Consent and Plan”.

When you have completed all 3 modules and passed the exam, please print your certification and fax it to Medical Staff Services at 8-6433.

Healthstream Login Instructions UPI Physicians/Affiliate Staff

Website:  http://www.healthstream.com/hlc/umms/

User Name: NOT Case-Sensitive

List of Abbreviated Practice Codes:

Practice
3-letter Code
Anesthesiology ANE
Dermatology DER
Emergency Medicine EME
Family Medicine FAM
Medicine MED
Neurology NEU
Neurosurgery NES
OBGYN OBG
Oncology ONC
Ophthalmology OPH
Orthopaedics ORT
Otorhinolaryngology OTO
Pathology PAT
Pediatrics PED
Psychiatry PSY
Radiation Oncology RAO
Radiology RAD
Shock Trauma STA
Surgery SUR
University Care UCA

Password: BEWARE!  The password is case-sensitive!

Trouble-shooting:


This page was last updated on: December 7, 2009.

For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).