eLearning—Sep. 26, 2011
APS and PeriGen Partner in OB Patient Safety
PeriGen and APS partner to provide accredited, perinatal safety courses to clinicians through the PeriBirth® clinical decision support system and the PeriCALM® electronic fetal monitoring...[learn more]
eLearning—3/6-9/2012
HealthStream Summit
At HealthStream Summit In Nashville this March, APS will showcase their online clinical education and assessment tools to over 600 healthcare executives and educators.
eLearning—Apr. 01, 2011
Case Study: Lompoc Valley Medical Center
At the Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC) in California, all physicians and nurses working in LVMC’s labor and delivery department completed the APS Perinatal Safety Curriculum. [learn more]
eLearning—Feb. 03, 2011
HCA and APS Improve Patient Safety
HCA spearheaded a broad initiative to improve safety by creating uniformity in processes and procedures, supporting team behavior, viewing cesarean delivery as a process alternative rather than as...[learn more]
eLearning—Feb. 03, 2011
CRICO/RMF and APS Reduce High Severity Cases
Harvard's Risk Management Foundation has achieved significant performance improvements within Harvard's CRICO system through a program including online...[learn more]
eLearning—Apr. 01, 2011
Perinatal Safety Series
The APS Perinatal Safety Curriculum addresses fundamental questions in the practice of obstetrics: When is intervention necessary? Why do clinical teams sometimes fail to recognize or respond to worsening...[learn more]
APS eLearning
Clinically relevant, highly individualized, team-focused lifelong continuing medical education.
APS eLearning modules reflect currently accepted standards and protocols as well as the expertise of renowned experts for continuing medical education (CME). Through these courses, clinicians can practice their decision-making skills in a safe environment and benefit from feedback provided by highly respected leaders in their field.
APS online CME and CE courses are designed to suit the learning styles and busy work environment of clinicians. We engage these clinicians in managing a wide range of case scenarios and dealing effectively with other members of a clinical team. A flexible, learner-centric design ensures that our courses can satisfy the needs of clinicians with different levels of expertise and different roles. These key principles reflect the APS approach to online continuing medical education:
Highlights
- Courses reflect currently accepted standards/protocols
- Authored by renown experts
- Learner-centric design
- Collaborative practice model
- Lifelong CME (continuing medical education)
"At APS we focus on identifying the gap—such as common technical errors with a particular procedure or breakdowns in teamwork during a shoulder dystocia case. We then apply adult learning principles to select the best components and course design based on the patient safety issues we have identified. The bar we set for ourselves is to fill the gap through the excellence of the courseware we create. Anything less is not worth our time."
—Elizabeth Collins
Senior Instructional Designer,
Advanced Practice Strategies
Long-term partnerships
Our long-term partnerships with organizations such as Stanford and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) ensure that our courses address critical issues of national import.
Renowned clinical experts
We partner with physicians and nurses who are leaders in their fields. As a result, our continuing medical education content is medically accurate and directly relevant to the challenges clinicians face.
Collaborative practice model
We integrate content for both nurses and physicians into our courses. Our flexible design allows clinicians to focus on the content most relevant to them. At the same time, however, by teaching physicians and nurses together, we reinforce a collaborative practice model. A nurse needs to understand the rationale for a physician’s decision, for example, in order to implement it well and protect the patient’s safety.
Competency maintenance
Everyone requires frequent review and reassessment to keep their skills sharp. APS provides half-hour competency maintenance modules on a subscription basis for this purpose.
Content chunked for easy access
Presentation and structure matter in online CE and CME education. Learners need to be engaged in relevant content within a few minutes, or they mentally turn off and simply click through to finish a requirement. APS courses are highly interactive and designed so that clinicians can work through them in 10- to 15-minute chunks of time.
Universal access
Our universal access delivery option, while highly convenient for administrators, also ensures that learners with different experience and knowledge can move through the programs at their own pace.
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