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Coastal HealthTrain Launches 11 New eLearning Courses

Virginia Beach, VA05 Sep 2008Learning NewsDuPont Sustainable Solutions

Coastal HealthTrain is proud to announce the release of 11 new healthcare e-learning courses covering ambulatory care, home healthcare, long-term care, and general healthcare issues. Like Coastal’s other e-learning titles, these programs deliver customized, consistent and trackable training anytime and anywhere.

Virginia Beach, VA, September 5, 2008 – Coastal HealthTrain is proud to announce the release of 11 new healthcare e-learning courses covering ambulatory care, home healthcare, long-term care, and general healthcare issues. Like Coastal’s other e-learning titles, these programs deliver customized, consistent and trackable training anytime and anywhere.

The latest additions bring the total of HealthTrain’s online titles to 38. Each new program examines critical topics such as cultural competency, infection control, safety, fall prevention, violence, fire prevention, and HIPAA compliance.

New releases include:

Cultural Competency: Just Good Healthcare illustrates how cultural and religious attitudes influence treatment and how healthcare staff can provide patient-sensitive care by recognizing and respecting these beliefs.

Lila’s Story looks at customer service in a healthcare setting. Using the story of a veteran healthcare worker, the program explains how healthcare employees can make a good impression, meet customer expectations, and provide superb service.

Fire Safety: Operating Without Fires explores the unique fire risks in an operating room. It cites causes of fires, preventive methods, response measures, and after-fire procedures.

HIPAA: Privacy In Home Healthcare clarifies the subtle requirements of the HIPAA rule: patient authorization, privacy rights, patient notices, non-compliance, and the dos and don’ts of PHI use and disclosure.

HIPAA Privacy: Compliance Scenarios surveys the tricky nuances of HIPAA for general healthcare. It explains the minimum necessary rule, PHI use and disclosure, authorization, patient rights, personal representatives, and violation reports.

Preventing Patient Falls In Hospitals examines the critical components of an effective fall-prevention system. It discusses types of falls, fall-assessment procedures, preventive measures, and risk communication.

Home Health Safety Orientation presents an overview of safety measures for slips, trips and falls, back injuries, electrical hazards, fire risks, infection control, PPE, and worker safety.

Be Safe At Work: Safety Orientation For Long-Term Care explores the various safety issues on the job: falls and back injuries, fire and electrical safety, medical waste disposal, housekeeping, PPE, and hazard communication.

Managing Healthcare Stress equips workers with practical tips to beat stress. It explains various “stressproof” habits and cites seven “stressbuster” methods.

Home Healthcare Violence: Be Smart, Be Safe describes how healthcare staff can protect themselves at work. It explores the various stages of the violence cycle, alerts healthcare professionals to the dangers, and trains them to respond accordingly.

Combative Residents: Mirror Their Reality provides techniques to understand, manage, deal with, and prevent patient aggressive behavior.

These eleven courses offer a multimedia training experience, courtesy of Coastal’s ClarityNet HD^®. This award-winning and user-friendly e-learning format brings training to life with crisp, clear widescreen video. It delivers 900 courses in six key content areas using instructional design concepts, superb audio and superior graphics─all to increase retention and facilitate a more effective learning.

With 30 storyboard template styles and six different “skins,” ClarityNet HD features customizable material that can meet site-specific needs. It allows users to add, modify or delete media (MP3, Flash video, etc.) and uses toggle exercises, click & drag and multiple questions per storyboard for a more interactive training experience.

ClarityNet HD also provides individual self-paced training, and is equipped with a centralized learning management system via the Coastal LMS to control, assess and document progress. The Coastal LMS records, sorts and examines the data through various reporting formats: the use of test scores, planned-versus-completed training charts, and most-missed-questions data, etc.

All in all, the result is first-class service and a powerful mastery of material.

For more information on the new healthcare e-learning courses, call 800-729-4325, fax 757-306-2534, e-mail sales@training.dupont.com or visit www.training.dupont.com.

Coastal Training Technologies Corp. is one of the world’s leading publishers of safety, industrial skills and employee development training programs for healthcare, business, industry, government and education. Since 1984, more than 200,000 training professionals have relied on Coastal’s award-winning products to enrich the lives of more than 30 million employees worldwide. To receive a product catalog, request FREE 7-day previews, or for more information, contact Coastal HealthTrain, 500 Studio Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23452; Phone, 800-729-4325; Fax, 757-306-2534; email sales@coastal.com; or visit us on the web at www.training.dupont.com.