Welcome to Neonatal Education WebPage of Cape Fear Valley Hospital System. This page is dedicated to providing educational and patient care information for staff working in the perinatal and neonatal areas. Inside this WebPage you’ll find
February 1, 2010
The process for securing contact hours for each of the educational offerings is in the midst of a major overhaul. As such, for at least the next 4 weeks, due to changes from the NC Nurses Association, Continuing Education Committee, contact hours for all of the educational offerings have been suspended. You may continue to read the material but no Contact Hours will be available.............I apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone. I will continue to update you as I work through this process and will enable individual contact hours as soon as they are received. Look for the list here.
Thank you so much for your support and participation. I look forward to resolving this issue as quickly as possible and restore not only existing contact hours but add additional educational material. Stacey
All on-line educational tests have an associated printable certificate. When you are successful with your test, please PRINT out this CERTIFICATE for your records. This is the only certificate that will be issued. You may print as many certificates as you wish.
Thank you,
Stacey
Educational opportunities
Self Study Modules:
These are texts of selected neonatal
topics covering applicable embryology, risk factors, clinical presentation,
medical, pharmacological and/or surgical management, nursing care, and parental
issues. Each module is
learner-directed and has received Continuing Education Hours; credit varies with
the modules length and/or complexity. After reading a module,
complete the accompanying computerized test on-line and submit it.
The test is graded electronically and you are notified of your success or
failure. If you are successful, you are prompted to print out the accompanying
Continuing Education Certificate (you may print as many copies as you'd
like). If you are unsuccessful, you are encouraged to re-read the material
and retest. There is NO fee for these educational offerings.
Pea Pod
presentations: These are slide (outline)
presentations covering applicable embryology, risk factors, clinical presentation,
medical, pharmacological and/or surgical management, nursing care, and parental
issues. Each Pea Pod is
learner-directed and has received Continuing Education Hours; credit varies
with the presentations length and/or complexity. Again, after reading
the presentation, complete the accompanying computerized test
on-line and submit it. The test is graded electronically and you
are notified of your success or failure. If you are successful,
you are prompted to print out the accompanying Continuing Education
Certificate (you may print as many copies as you'd like). If you are
unsuccessful, you are encouraged to re-read the material and retest.
There is NO fee for these educational offerings.
Patient Care information
Baby
Book files: These documents provide baby
care information generally needed by the current or former NICU infant (e.g..
medication information, diagnoses) but may be used by anyone. They are
intended as a parent teaching/learning tool and are written on a 5th-6th grade
level.
The
outreach letter is published at various times throughout the year. It
serves as a source for the various regional perinatal and neonatal staffs about upcoming educational programs that I am aware
of; a
brief "thumb-nail" educational offering and acknowledgement of area
facility activities. It has also been used to post questions/concerns that
one facility has and is seeking input from others.
This
area has the Orientation Written Evaluation for the Experienced neonatal nurse
as well as the Orientation Written Evaluation for the new
graduate/inexperience nurse Intern who are joining the Cape Fear Valley NICU
staff --- yes, "the test." But remember...you've worked
hard and learned a lot. This is the final step. Congratulations!!!! and Good Luck!!!
Visit our site on a regular basis to find new and/or updated offerings and information. If there’s a particular topic you’d like to see on the WebPage please let us hear from you. We welcome your comments and/or suggestions to improve the quality of our site. Let us know what you think!
Neonatal
Educator Cape
Fear Valley Hospital System
PO
Box 2000
Fayetteville,
NC 28302
Office:
910-615-4713 Fax:
910-609-5355 Email:
Stacey
Cashwell, RN, MSN
Cape Fear Valley Health System, Training and Development Department, is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
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