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• Airway Management

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • COVID-19 Patient Airway Management Outside the Operating Room (PAMOOR) - Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) Tutorial
  • COVID-19 Patient Airway Management Outside the Operating Room (PAMOOR) - SOP Personal Protective Equipment for Airway Management - Doffing
  • COVID-19 Patient Airway Management Outside the Operating Room (PAMOOR) - SOP Personal Protective Equipment for Airway Management - Donning
  • COVID-19 Patient Airway Management Outside the Operating Room (PAMOOR) - COVID-19 Airway Management
  • COVID-19 Patient Airway Management Outside the Operating Room (PAMOOR) -COVID-19 Code Management

  New England Journal of Medicine

  • Laryngeal Mask Airway in Medical Emergencies

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Airway Management
  • Airway Assessment and Management

  YouTube

  • Glidescope video (Video laryngoscope)
  • McGrath MAC video (Video Laryngoscope)
• Cardiac

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • 12 Lead EKG Interpretation
  • EKG Interpretation and Response (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • EKG Interpretation and Response: Anatomy of the Heart (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • EKG Interpretation and Response: Ventricular Dysrhythmias (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • EKG Interpretation and Response: Sinus Dysrhythmias (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Sinus Dysrhythmias (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Ventricular Dysrhythmia (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN):

  • Commonly Used IV Cardiac Medications for Adults Pocket Reference Card
  • Dysrhythmias Recognition Pocket Reference Card

  American Heart Association

  • Managing Hypertension

  Practical Clinical Skills

  • Online ECG Training

  SimLEARN

  • Infusion: Heparin - Didactic
  • Infusion: Heparin - Scenario

  SkillStat

  • Interactive ECG Simulator

  YouTube

  • Cardiac Output
• COVID-specific Clinical

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN):

  • AANC Coronavirus Updates

  New England Journal of Medicine

  • The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
• Disaster Training

  SCCM Training Modules

  • ICU Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response
  • Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster
  • Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resources
  • Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside the Traditional ICU
  • Biohazard Disasters: Natural and Intentional Outbreaks
• General

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Communication with Older Adults
  • Physical and Mental Assessment of the Older Adult
  • Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) for Direct Care Providers
  • Safe Patient Handling and Mobility for VA Employees
  • What is Culture Transformation?
  • Cultural and Age Specific Competence
  • VISN 16: Collaborative Safety Planning for Older Adults
  • Abuse, Neglect of Older Adults (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Assessing Elder Abuse (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Transport of the Infectious Patient within the Healthcare Facility Checklist
  • Transport of the Infectious Patient within the Healthcare Facility Cognitive Aid

  • IV Start and Antibotic Administration - Didactic
  • IV Start and Antibotic Administration - Scenario

  • IV Start and Blood Administration - Didactic
  • IV Start and Blood Administration - Scenario

  • GI Abdominal Assessment and Labs - Didactic
  • GI Abdominal Assessment and Labs - Scenario

  • Falls, Inpatient - Didactic
  • Falls, Inpatient - Scenario

  • Post Operative Anaphylaxis - Didactic
  • Post Operative Anaphylaxis - Scenario

  • Post Operative Transfusion Reaction - Didactic
  • Post Operative Transfusion Reaction - Scenario

  • Inpatient End of Life - Didactic
  • Inpatient End of Life - Scenario

  • Medication Interruptions - Didactic
  • Medication Interruptions - Scenario
  • Medication Administration: Metered-Dose Inhalers (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Nasogastric Tube: Insertion, Irrigation and Removal INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Urinary Catheter: Condom INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Suprapubic Catheter Care INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Care INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Straight and Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Insertion anf specimen collection (Male) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Straight and Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Insertion anf specimen collection (Female) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Handling and Moving Patients Safely (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Handling and Moving Patients Safely (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Proning an ARDS Patient

  Access Medicine

  • Pocket Guide to POCUS: Point-of-Care Tips for Point-of-Care Ultrasound

  Age-Friendly Health Systems

  • What Does it Mean to Be Age-Friendly?

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN):

  • Commonly Used IV Cardiac Medications for Adults Pocket Guide
  • Additional resources: Top 5 AACN Clinical Education Resources

  Anatomy TV

  • Anatomy TV (Need Unity player installed)

  Bates

  • Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination (need Open Athens account)

  CDC

  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance in 2019

  The Center for Aging Research and Education

  • Geriatric Simulations Tookit

  Clinical Key

  • Implementation of a Nurse-Driving Cauti Prevention Algorithm
  • Caring for the Veteran, Military and Family Member Nursing Competencies
  • Point of Care Ultrasound

  HealthinAging

  • The 5Ms of Geriatrics

  Institute for Safe Medication Practice

  • Medical Abbreviations That Have Contradictory or Ambiguous Meanings
  • Start the New Year Off Right by Preventing These Top 10 Medication Errors and Hazards

  Lippenscott

  • Interdisciplinary Care Plans: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

  National Institutes of Health

  • COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines - Introduction

  NCBI

  • Ten Principles of Good Interdisciplinary Team Work

  Ovid

  • Pathophysiology (requires Open Athens logon)

  Point of Care Elsevier

  • Nasogastric Tube: Insertion, Irrigation and Removal INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Urinary Catheter: Condom INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Suprapubic Catheter Care INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Care INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Straight and Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Insertion anf specimen collection (Male) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Urinary Catheter: Straight and Indwelling (Foley) Catheter Insertion anf specimen collection (Female) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  Portal of Geriatrics Online Education

  • The Geriatric Patient with Dementia in Long Term Care: Assessing and Managing Behavioral Disturbances
  • Cognative and Behavioral Disorders (CBD) Assessment Tool Kit
  • Assessing and Managing Swallowing Issues: An Interprofessional Approach
  • GeriPod: Management of Behavior Problems Associated with Progressive Dementia
  • The Skin Show: Aging Dermatology and Disease
  • Geriatric Functional Assessment - Balance Tests
  • Geriatric Functional Assessment - Gait (1)
  • Geriatric Functional Assessment - Gait (2)
  • Your Role in Delirium Detection and Treatment: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  • End of Life Care 1: End of Life Overview
  • End of Life Care 2: Effective Communication in End of Life Care: General Principles
  • Elder Care a Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Perceptions in End of Life Issues
  • Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Differentiating Palliative Care and Hospice Care
  • Hospice and Pain Management

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Recognition and Assessment of the Seriously Ill Patient
  • Critical Care of the Older Adult

  YouTube

  • Bright Spots - The Victory Lane Story (Huddles Focusing on the Positive

  SimLEARN

• Mechanical Ventilation

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • COVID-19: Prone Positioning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARD):
    Handout
    Presentation

  University of Toronto

  • Quick ICU Training - University of Toronto has the most experience with severe SARS, and has produced these excellent videos.

  Access Medicine

  • Indications of Mechanical Ventilation

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN):

  • COVID-19 Pulmonary
  • ARDS and Ventilator Resources
  • Prone Positioning for ARDS Patients
  • Standard vs Alternative Ventilator Modes

  Journal of the Intensive Care Society

  • VAP Bundle

  Lippincott Nursing Center

  • Caring for the Mechanically Ventilated Patient

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Mechanical Ventilation 1
  • Mechanical Ventilation 2
  • Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation
  • Prone Positioning

  Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) “Critical Care for the Hospitalist”

  • Mechanical Ventilation Part I – The Basics
  • Mechanical Ventilation Part II – Beyond the Basics
  • Mechanical Ventilation Part III – ARDS

  UpToDate

  • Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Consequences of Mechanical Ventilation

  YouTube

  • End Tidal Capnography
  • Respiratory Failure & Indications of Mechanical Ventilation
  • Inline Suctioning
  • Intro to Mechanical Ventilation
  • Ventilator Basics for Nursing Students Part 1
  • Ventilator Basics for Nursing Students Part 2
  • Ventilator Modes
• Mental Health
  • Disruptive Behavior: Withdrawal - Didactic
  • Disruptive Behavior: Withdrawal - Scenario

  Point of Care Elsevier

  • Wound Exudate Management: Pouches INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
• Metabolic

  Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) “Critical Care for the Hospitalist”

  • Fluid Resuscitation in the Critically Ill
• Neurologic

  Department of Veterans Affairs - SimLEARN

  • Stroke: Hemorrhagic - Didactic
  • Stroke: Hemorrhagic - Scenario

  • Stroke: Ischemic - Didactic
  • Stroke: Ischemic - Scenario

  • Chest Pain - Scenario
  • Chest Pain - Didactic

  • Telehealth Cleaning Materials & Factsheet
    Be Fast 911 (mp4)
    Cleaning of Telestroke Equipment - COVID19 Considerations
    Protected Stroke Code Special Report
    Stroke and COVID19 Fact Sheet
  • Sexuality and Intimacy After Disability
  • Interdisciplinary Approach to Optimize Resources in Assistive Technology
  • VA / DoD CPG for Management of Concussion / Mild TBI Summary Guide
  • Managing the Agitated Brain Injury Patient's Behavior in a Rehab Setting
  • Oxygenation in Rehab
  • CSP Caregiving During COVID-19 Tips

  • Delirium
    Acute and Post Acute Care for COIVD Related Delirium
    Altered Mental Status (Delirium) in COVID-19 Cognitive Aid
    Understanding Delirium
    Osmosis (YouTube) Delirium-causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, & pathology
    

  • Airway Care: Tracheostomy Care, Tube Change, and Artificial Airway Cuff Management (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Meeting Oxygenation, Fluid and Electrolyte Needs (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Pain Management: Physical and Cognitive Treatment, and Treatment for Special Populations (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Pain Management: The Pain Process, Patient Assessment, Pharmacological Treatment, & Classification of Pain (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Infection Control in Healthcare: Precautions (w/Video) (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • The Control of Infectious Diseases (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • The Human Immune System: Overview of Anatomy and Function (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • The Human Immune System: The Immune Response (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • The Human Immune System: When It Turns Against the Body (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Healthcare Workers (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Healthcare Workers Part 1: History and Virology of Pandemic Influenza (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Healthcare Workers Part 2: Recognizing Influenza, Treatments, and Patient Education (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Healthcare Workers Part 3: Infection Control and Public Health Measures (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Psychotropic Medications: Antianxiety Agents (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Psychotropic Medications: Antidepressant Agents (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Psychotropic Medications: Antipsychotic Agents (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Psychotropic Medications: Mood Stabilizing Agents (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • The Confused Resident: Strategies for Quality Care (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Communications: Nurse-Patient Relationship (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Communications: Peer Relationships (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • SARS and Other Emerging Diseases (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  • Anti-Infective Medication Therapy: Antifungal and Antiviral Agents (w/Video) (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Anti-Infective Medication Therapy: Assessment of an Infection (w/Video) (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Anti-Infective Medication Therapy: Assessment of an Infection and Nursing Implications (w/Video) (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  Veterans Affairs (VA) Intranet Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care (GEC) (internal to VA use only)

  • General overview of delirium risk factors, signs and symptoms, screening tools and mitigation strategies

  • VA COVID-19 Employee Support Toolkit

  Washington VAMC

  • Home Rehabilitation Program for COVID-19 Patients

  Academy of Acute Care Physical Therapy

  • Leveraging New Models in Addressing Hospital Deconditioning and Physical Impairment to Establish a COVID-19 Hospital Throughput Framework

  American Heart Association

  American Delirium Society

  • List of validated delirium screening instruments
  • Spot a Stroke Poster
  • What is Cardiac Rehabilitation?

  Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information & Improving Care of Older AdultsExchange

  • The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-born

  Chinese Medical Journal

  • Recommendations for Respiratory Rehab in Adults with COVID-19

  Clinical Key

  • Disability - Level of Consciousness
  • Caring for the Veteran, military and family member nursing competencies: Strategies for integrating content into nursing school curricula
  • Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: recognition and management (CG91)

  The Gerontological Society of America

  Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center

  • Delirium Prevention and Safety: starting with the ABCDEFs
  • Perspectives on the Delirium Experience and Its Burden: Common Themes Among Older Patients, Their Family Caregivers and Nurses

  The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

  • The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

    • Delirium: The Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

    The John A. Hartford Foundation

    • Dissemination Center - Dedicated to Improving the Care of Older Adults
    Family in the Rehab Process

  The Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

  • Lab Test Changes in the Elderly

  Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting

  • Geriatric Syndromes and their Implications for Nursing

  Medline Plus

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation

  National Institutes of Health

  • Stroke Scale
  • Delirium Screening and Management in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
  • The Neuropathic Pain: An Overview of the Current Treatment and Future Therapeutic Approaches
  • Geriatric Syndromes: Clinical Research and Policy Implications of a Core Geriatric Concept

  Nursing 2020

  • Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders (NICHE)

    • "Need to Knows" for Delirium
    Caring for Patients with Delirium

  Professional Care Management

  • Supporting the Support System

  SAGE Journals

  • Nurses, Patients, and Family Caregivers Perceptions of Compassionate Nursing Care

  Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation

  • Role of Family in the Process of Rehabilitation of Older Adults Hospitalized in a Nursing Home

  UpToDate

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs
  • Geriatric Assessment (IPT)
  • Normal Aging

  Wiley Online Library

  • Acute Care transfers and Functional Outcomes

  YouTube

  • Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
  • Mobility Assessment
  • John Morley: Physical Assessment
• Nutrition/Diabetes

  Department of Veterans Affairs - SimLEARN

  • Diabetes - Didactic
  • Diabetes - Scenario

  Clinical Key

  • Hyperglycemia Management
  • Hypoglycemia

  Hormone Health Network

  • Hypoglycemia

  Point of Care Elsevier

  • Blood Glucose Monitoring INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
• Pediatrics

  CDC

  • Care of the Pediatric Patient

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Assessment of the Critically Ill Child
  • Cardiovascular Evaluation and Pediatric Shock
  • Cardiovascular Evaluation and Pediatric Shock
  • COVID-19 Rapid Resource Center Pedatric Case Presentation

  UpToDate

  • COVID-19 Considerations in Children

  YouTube

  • Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Respiratory Assessment
  • Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Airway - Personnel Controlling Airway
  • Lecturio Pediatric Primary/ Secondary Survey
  • Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric IO Insertion
  • EZ-IO Insertion Pediatric
  • Boston Childrens' Hospital Pediatric Trauma Assessment
• PPE

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • PPE and Respiratory Protection While Caring for COVID-19 Patients:
    CSP Masks in Health Care Setting PDF
    Sequence for Putting on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE PDF)
    Competency Checklist for COVID19 PPE (N95 FACEMASK) DOCX
    Competency Checklist for COVID19 PPE (PAPR) DOCX
    VHA COVID19 PPE Guidance (V19 05272020) PDF

  • Donning & Doffing Interactive Avatar Training (must use Google Chrome browser)
  • Donning & Doffing Powered Air Purifying Respirator - PAPR (must use Google Chrome browser)
• Procedures
  • Moderate or Procedural Sedation: Patient Assessment and Monitoring (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Moderate Sedation 1 (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Moderate Sedation 2 (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Thoracentesis (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  New England Journal of Medicine

  • Chest-Tube Insertion
  • Thoracentesis
  • Placement of an Arterial Line
  • How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen
• Respiratory

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Basic Oxygen Administration (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Nasal Cannula or Oxygen Mask Application (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Oxygen Therapy and Oxygen Delivery (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Pulse Oximetry (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)

  • Evidence-Based Early Recognition and Management of ARDS Drives Outcomes: The Why and How
  • Pulmonary Management Pocket Card

  My American Nurse

  • Chest Tube Care Article

  NPJournal

  • Pulse Oximetry: Uses and Limitations Article

  Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation

  • Pulse Oximeters and Oxygen Saturation

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure
• Resuscitation

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) - Overview
  • Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) - Semiautomatic Mode
  • Atrial and Junctional Dysrhythmias and Heart Block (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY
  • Atrial Dysrhythmias (NFED) INTERNAL TO VA USE ONLY

  American Heart Association (AHA)

  • CPR resources
  • Oxygenation and Ventilation of COVID-19 Patients

  Garden City Hospital

  • ABCDs During a Code Blue Response in an Adult Patient

  LUCAS

  • AutoPulse Competency Checklist (Individual)
  • AutoPulse Script for New Deployment Training
  • LUCAS 2 Chest Compression Instructor Guidebook
  • LUCAS 2 Chest Compression System Cognitive Aid
  • LUCAS 2 Chest Compression System Performance Evaluation
  • LUCAS 3 Chest Compression System Instructor Guidebook
  • LUCAS 3 Chest Compression System Cognitive Aid
  • LUCAS 3 Chest Compression System Performance Evaluation

  NCBI Cureus

  • Mock Code: A Code Blue Scenario Requested by and Developed for Registered Nurses

  UpToDate

  • Carbon Dioxide Monitoring (Capnography)

  Zoll AutoPulse

  • Zoll AutoPulse Resuscitation System Model 100 CPR 100 User Guide
  • Zoll AutoPulse Resuscitation System Model 100 CPR 100 Quick Reference Guide
  • Zoll AutoPulse Resuscitation System Model 100 CPR 100 Prep for Use
• Self Care

  Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Whole Health Self Care Resources

  Department of Veterans Affairs - Health Prevention

  • VHA Health Promotion Disease Prevention Programs

  Department of Veterans Affairs - PTSD

  • Resources for Managing Stress

  Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Library

  • Keys to Managing Stress
  • Stress Management

  NCBI

  • Levels of Stress and Its Determinants Among Intensive Care Unit Staff
• Shock

  American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)

  • Hemodynamic Management Pocket Card

  SCCM Training Modules

  • Diagnosis and Management of shock

  YouTube

  • Vasopressors
• Wound Care

  Department of Veterans Affairs - SimLEARN

  • Wound Care - Didactic
  • Wound Care - Scenario