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                CDC Course WB4450 – NIOSH Pub. No. 2023 – 135
                This course provides science and evidence-based information for healthcare workers with a focus on six competencies designed to increase knowledge about work-related hazards and address organizational and personal strategies to promote a safe and healthful work environment.
                OBJECTIVES:
                 1. Describe the importance of safety culture in health care settings.
                 2. Identify common work-related risk and hazards.
                 3. Explain strategies to prevent/control work-related injury/illness.
                 4. Identify leadership strategies that lead to continuous improvement of safety culture for health care workers.
                 5. Describe the Occupational Safety and Health Act as legal framework for worker safety and health.
                 6. Describe ethical principles of safe working that guide health team members’ professional practice.
                There are five knowledge modules each 20-30 minutes long along with a list of resources that healthcare workers can utilize. Upon successful completion of all five modules in the course, participants will receive a certificate and continuing education credits. Note: If you must stop before the end of the course, be sure to remember the module number and section where you stop so you do not have to start the course from the beginning when returning.
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                  Course Description
                          This course provides science and evidence-based information for healthcare workers with a focus on six competencies designed to increase knowledge about work-related hazards and address organizational and personal strategies to promote a safe and healthful work environment.
                          Competencies
                           1. Define an effective safety culture in healthcare settings and factors that help to create a culture of safety.
                           2. Identify common healthcare work-related risks and hazards that can result in worker injury and/or illness.
                           3. Describe strategies for the prevention, reduction, and control of work-related injury and illness in healthcare settings.
                           4. Describe leadership’s role in establishing, applying, and sustaining a safe work environment.
                           5. Identify employer and employee legal and ethical roles and responsibilities that promote and maintain safe working conditions.
                           6. Utilize resources that can assist healthcare workers with maintaining a safe and healthful job and work environment.
                  Course Accreditation Statements and Instructions
                          In support of improving patient care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
                          CME: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
                          CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this activity for 1.5 nursing contact hours.
                          CEU: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 CEU’s for this program.
                          DISCLOSURE: In compliance with continuing education requirements, all planners and presenters must disclose all financial relationships, in any amount, with ineligible companies during the previous 24 months.
                          CDC, our planners, and content experts wish to disclose they have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
                          Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.
                          CDC did not accept financial or in-kind support from ineligible companies for this continuing education activity.
                          Instructions for Obtaining Continuing Education (CE)
                          To receive continuing education (CE) for Safety Culture in Healthcare Settings, WB4450, please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps before 05/22/2025.
                           1. Register for and complete the course.
                           2. Pass the post-assessment at 71%.
                           3. Complete the evaluation.
                           4. Visit Your Learning to access your certificates and transcript.
                          FEES: No fees are charged for CDC’s CE activities.
                  Author Information & Acknowledgements
                          Authors
                          Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, COHN-S, LNCC, FAAN
                          Consultant and Project Director
                          National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
                          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
                          Adjunct Professor Environmental Sciences and Engineering
                          Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
                          Megan Casey, RN, BSN, MPH
                          Nurse Epidemiologist
                          LCDR, United States Public Health Service
                          National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
                          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
                          Michelle Martin, MS
                          Health Communication Specialist
                          Respiratory Health Division
                          National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
                          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
                          Ruth Francis, MPH, MCHES
                          Senior Policy Advisor, American Nurses Association
                          Pamela Dembski Hart, BS MT(ASCP) CHSP
                          Health, Safety and Infection Prevention Compliance Specialist
                          Founder and Principal, Healthcare Accreditation Resources LLC
                          Amanda Hessels, PhD, MPH, RN, CIC, CPHQ, FAPIC, FAAN
                          Assistant Professor of Nursing, Columbia University, School of Nursing
                          Nurse Scientist, Hackensack Meridian Health
                          Tony Hilton, DrPH, RN, MSN, FNP, CRRN
                          Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) National Program Manager
                          Veterans Health Administration
                          Acknowledgements
                          External Reviewers
                          Jacqueline Agnew, PhD
                          Johns Hopkins University
                          Kimberly Brinker, RN, MSN, MPH
                          Kaiser Permanente Washington
      Last Reviewed: May 4, 2023
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      * Training Information plus icon
          + Introduction
      * Module 1: Safety Culture plus icon
          + Why a Culture of Safety is Important
          + The Sociotechnical Model
          + Definition Examples of Safety Culture and Overlap with Safety Climate
          + Key Attributes and Joint Benefits of Safety Culture
          + Common Features of Positive Healthcare Worker Safety Culture
          + General Measurable Elements of a Safety Culture
          + Tools to Measure Safety Culture and Climate
          + A Snapshot of Safety Culture in U.S. Hospitals
          + References
          + Quiz 1
      * Module 2: Work-Related Risks and Hazards plus icon
          + Biological Hazards plus icon
              o Chain of Infection Components
              o Risk Factors of Biological Agents and Unsafe Practices
          + Chemical Hazards
          + Enviromechanical Hazards
          + Physical Hazards
          + Psychosocial Hazards
          + Hazard Assessment/Determination
          + Case Study
          + References
          + Quiz 2
      * Module 3: Prevention and Control of Work-Related Injury and Illness plus icon
          + Hierarchy of Controls
          + Elimination: Physically Remove the Hazard
          + Substitution and Engineering Controls
          + Administrative Controls: Change the Way People Work
          + Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Protect the Worker with PPE
          + Donning and Doffing PPE: Proper Wearing, Removal, and Disposal
          + References
          + Quiz 3
      * Module 4: Leadership and Safe Work Environments plus icon
          + Commitment to Workplace Safety as High Priority and Through Role Modeling
          + Policies and Procedures and Safe Patient Handling
          + Hazard Analysis and Safe Staffing Workloads
          + State-of-the-Art Training and Handling Patients
          + Engage Healthcare Worker Champions and Observe Work
          + Transparency, Training, and Staff Safety Rounds
          + References
          + Quiz 4
      * Module 5: Legal-Ethical Considerations to Promote Safe Working Conditions plus icon
          + The Occupational Safety and Health Act and OSHA Standards
          + OSHA Healthcare Standards
          + OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and OSHA Guidelines
          + What Workers Can Do
          + Ethics and Healthcare Worker Exposure Considerations
          + Ethical Principles
          + References
          + Quiz 5
      * Safety Culture in Healthcare Settings: Resources
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