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Our platform offers competency-based learning modules aligned with current industry standards, including infection prevention, perioperative safety, medication management, sterile processing, emergency preparedness, patient rights, and specific regulatory guidelines. Courses are developed by experienced healthcare educators and clinicians, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and practical application in the Healthcare and Surgical Center Environments.

With flexible online access, progress tracking, annual competency updates, and customizable training pathways, the program helps centers streamline onboarding and meet Accreditation education requirements, including those of Triple A, CMS, or your accrediting body.   Reduce compliance risk and maintain a highly skilled, survey-ready workforce. Our goal is to empower ASCs with a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective education solution that supports excellence in outpatient surgical care.

New to our program, 3 AORN Continuing Nursing Education Credits for Nurses are included. See below for the choices of courses that you can choose for the 3 credits.

The price is $65 per user/365 days or $7.00 per individual course per user/45 days.  We have 48 courses that are regularly updated to ensure compliance.    

We offer Facility Leads a 5-day free pass upon request. Email our program Instructor, Laura Smith, directly at lsmith@medicalphysicstraining.com or call us directly at 1 (586) 808-3058.  

If ready now, quick start your program by emailing us your staff names and emails for each student to lsmith@medicalphysicstraining.com.  We will sign up your students, send out welcome emails, and invoice you. 

1.     Administering Medications Safely in an Ambulatory Surgery Center:  Part 1 – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Direct Patient Care Staff.

• Improve drug safety in your ASC.
• Comply with accreditation and regulatory drug safety standards.
• Learn the common reasons for drug errors.
• Learn methods to improve drug safety and avoid errors.
• Understand the importance of medication reconciliation.

 2.     Administering Medications Safely in an Ambulatory Surgery Center: Part 2 – Course for: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Direct Patient Care Staff.

• Review adverse drug events to promote positive patient outcomes.
• Explain ways to reduce the risk of drug interactions in patients to increase patient safety.
• Explain ways to increase the safe use of high-risk drugs in patients to increase patient safety.

 3.     Administering Medications Safely in an Ambulatory Surgery Center: Part 3 – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Direct Patient Care Staff.

• List methods for limiting your exposure to hazardous drugs to help ensure healthcare worker safety.
• Explain methods to increase the safe use of medical gases in patients to increase patient safety.
• Review with staff the importance of working purposefully.

 4.     Bloodborne Pathogens and Standard Precautions: – OSHA Training Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Direct patient care staff, anyone handling or working around blood or tissue specimens. 

• Summarize the primary bloodborne pathogens and how they spread, increasing the risk of infection to healthcare workers.
• Identify safeguards against bloodborne pathogen exposure to protect healthcare worker safety.
• Describe OSHA standards and Universal Precautions used to protect against bloodborne pathogen exposures.
• Explain how to respond to ensure healthcare worker safety after a bloodborne pathogen exposure.

 5.     Care of the Pediatric Patient – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, direct patient care staff.

• Explain diverse needs of different pediatric age groups.
• Explain the different healthcare practices for different pediatric age groups.
• Describe ways healthcare personnel prove age-specific pediatric competencies.
• Describe how ASCs assess age-specific pediatric competencies.

 6.     Care of the Adult Patient – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, direct patient care staff.

• Distinguish the needs, characteristics, and healthcare practices for patients of all ages – pediatric, middle-aged, and senior adults as they relate to healthcare facilities for clinical care.
• Determine different learning styles of patients.
• Recognize how to meet the healthcare needs of adults at every period of their life.
• Summarize how to evaluate age-specific competencies in Healthcare facilities.

 7.     Overview, Diagnosis, Treatment, Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV/AIDS – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers.

• Explain the difference between HIV and AIDS.
• Describe the routes of transmission for HIV.
• Identify populations/epidemiology at risk for HIV.
• Identify tests that are used to diagnose and monitor HIV.
• Explain strategies for preventing HIV and treatment of individuals who are infected and exposed to healthcare workers.

 8.     Fire Prevention in Ambulatory Surgery Centers – OSHA Training Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Discuss the importance of fire safety.
• List common causes of fire in the ASC setting.
• List methods of preventing fires.
• Identify high-risk areas for fires.
• Identify how to contain a fire.
• Discuss OSHA Exit route standards.
• Recognize how to effectively use a portable extinguisher to fight a fire.
• Identify methods of evacuating patients to safety.
• Develop suggestions for patient evacuations during fires.

 9.     Preventing Operating Room Fires in an Ambulatory Surgery Center – Course for: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Staff present in the procedure rooms.

• Describe how to prevent surgical fires.
• Explain how to respond to surgical fires.
• Explain the fire triangle and how it relates to surgical fires.
• State how to reduce the risk of surgical fires by keeping components of the fire triangle from interacting in ways that might lead to a fire.
• Identify how to respond to surgical fires.

 10.  General Safety Concerns for Workers in the Ambulatory Surgery Center – OSHA Training Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Identify different types of safety hazards in the healthcare setting, including chemical, electrical, noise, psychological, fire, and environmental hazards.
• Interpret Safety Data Sheets.
• Explain how to guard against different typical hazards in a healthcare setting (radiation, falls, noise, electrical, stress, chemicals, biological, environmental).
• Standard Precautions: Hand hygiene, PPE, cough etiquette, sharps/injection safety, sterility, disinfection.
• Discuss Ergonomic, Mechanical, and Lifting Hazards.
• Review Basic Fire Safety and Prevention.
• Learn how to use structured language to voice concerns.
• Review OSHA basic workers' rights.

 11.  Use of Radiation in an Ambulatory Surgery Center– Course for: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Staff present in the procedure rooms.

• Recognize different Radiation Safety Units.
• Compare several types of radiation exposures from diverse types of radiation procedures. 
• Explain the different Clinical effects of Radiation Exposure.
• Describe different Radiation Dose reduction techniques for staff and patients.
• Review Personal Protective Equipment for Radiation Use, and how to ensure it is properly tested annually.
• Identify Healthcare staff annual Radiation dose limits and what to do if over limits.
• Discuss Healthcare staff Pregnancy and Radiation use.

 12.  HIPAA Training for Ambulatory Surgery Center Professionals – Course For: All staff or Volunteers.

•  Identify covered entities as defined by HIPAA.
• List eight electronic health transactions covered by HIPAA and the medical code sets to be used for these transactions.
• Specify safeguards required by HIPAA to ensure the security and integrity of electronic health information.
• Identify the unique employer identifier used under HIPAA.
• Distinguish between uses and disclosures of health information that are and are not allowed under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
• Identify changes to HIPAA as they impact security and privacy rules, new penalties, and enforcement.

 13.  Identifying and Assessing Domestic Abuse Victims for Ambulatory Surgery Center Professionals – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers.

• Define key elements, signs and symptoms, and types of domestic violence. 
• Identify the barriers that contribute to victims staying in abusive environments. 
• Discuss health care provider responsibilities related to screening, intervention, documentation, and reporting of domestic violence.

 14.  Latex Allergies – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, All Clinic staff.

• Identify groups of people at increased risk for latex sensitivities and allergies.
• Identify latex allergy causes and sources of latex in the ambulatory surgical center (ASC) setting.
• Distinguish the three diverse types of latex and latex-associated reactions.
• Describe specific strategies for managing latex sensitivity in the ASC.
• Explain latex anaphylaxis and treatments.

  15.  Malignant Hyperthermia in your Ambulatory Surgical Center – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Identify individuals who may be at risk for malignant hyperthermia.
• List the trigger agents that can start a malignant hyperthermia reaction.
• Describe the changes that occur during an episode of malignant hyperthermia.
• Describe the preparation for staff for a possible malignant hyperthermia episode.
• Describe the necessary response efforts to resuscitate and care for someone from a malignant hyperthermia event.
• Review the MHAUS.org website and suggestions.

 16.  Monitoring Ambulatory Surgery Patients During Moderate Sedation/Analgesia – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Discuss Informed Consent.
• List the levels of sedation on the continuum in typical patient care scenarios. List six levels of the Ramsey Sedation Scale.
• Identify the critical features of moderate sedation related to patient care.
• Review airway assessment and the Modified Mallampati Scale.
• Distinguish nursing responsibilities before, during, and after moderate sedation as they relate to patient care.
• Discuss typical patient release criteria.

 17.  Postoperative Pain Management for Ambulatory Surgery Center Patients – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Differentiate basic pain types/levels to assist in effective pain management and improve patient outcomes.
• List benefits of treating pain to improve patient outcomes.
• Identify the components of a pain assessment necessary for pain management.
• Identify best practices for safely treating pain to improve patient care quality and outcome.

 18.  Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Influenza in Ambulatory Surgery Centers – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Explain the role a healthcare worker plays in the transmission of influenza in an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)
• Appreciate healthcare worker vaccinations and their potential to prevent influenza.
• Explain the benefits for a healthcare worker who is vaccinated for prevention of influenza infection in an ASC.
• Identify three best practice strategies that assist the health care worker in the prevention of influenza infection in an ASC.
• Describe symptoms of the influenza vaccine.

 19. COVID-19 Bonus Course in this section – Course For: All facility staff. 

• Discuss a Brief History of COVID-19.
• Review known symptoms of COVID-19.
• Discuss Key Facts for providing COVID-19 healthcare.
• Review COVID-19 infection control and prevention.

 20.  Providing Culturally Competent Care in an ASC includes (Ethnic, LGBQT+, Linguistics competence) – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Define & identify cultural and linguistic competency. List examples of cultural, ethnic, and LGBTQ+ differences. Discuss common assumptions and myths.
• Explain implicit bias, indirect discrimination, and microaggressions.
• Discuss Information on implicit bias, equitable access to health care, serving a diverse population, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and cultural sensitivity.  
• Explain the skills that healthcare professionals and staff must develop to be effective in the changing healthcare industry.
• Discuss an overview of social determinants of health and barriers to providing care.
• Provide examples of best practices to improve patient and facility outcomes.  Discuss a welcoming and safe environment.
• Explain the importance and need for translator services.

21.  Providing Safe Patient Handling and Movement in an Ambulatory Surgery Center – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Identify the risks of manual patient handling and how this can endanger healthcare staff safety.
• Describe methods of retaining patient safety while moving and positioning patients.
• Identify different patient positions and risks of each.
• Classify appropriate types of equipment and devices available to lift and transfer patients and ensure staff members’ safety.

 22.  Workplace Violence – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Recall risk factors and warning signs for workplace violence.
• Recognize workplace violence prevention practices.
• Define techniques to manage workplace violence or threats.
• Identify safe ways of responding to violence during and after an event.
• Active Shooter Training and response.
• Choose elements of an adequate security plan.

 23.  Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Recognize the legal definition of sexual harassment.
• Identify the two forms of sexual harassment.
• List the responsibilities of employers and employees for preventing and handling sexual harassment.

24.  Compliance, Fraud & Misconduct Programs in Healthcare – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• List the important laws and regulations for the Healthcare industry.
• Recognize the features of each law and the penalties for violating each.
• Recognize the benefits of a compliance program.
• List and recognize the parts of an effective compliance program.
• Discuss and review the Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Fraud, Waste & Abuse, and Stark Law training.

25.  Hand Hygiene Compliance – Course For: All staff or Volunteers.

• List current guidelines for hand hygiene.
• Explain why hand hygiene in the healthcare setting is important to control the spread of infection.
• Discuss best practices for hand hygiene to control the spread of infection and improve patient outcomes.

 26.  Preventing Needlesticks and Sharps Basics in a Healthcare Setting – OSHA Training Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Discuss why Sharps injuries are a problem.
• Learn how Sharps injuries occur.
• Recognize how to prevent these injuries. 
• Discuss the concept of a culture of safety and how sharps injury prevention fits into a positive and strong culture of safety.

 27.  Infection Control in Healthcare – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Discuss Infection Control and how it relates to patient safety in Healthcare.
• Explain how infection spreads in a healthcare setting.
• Identify methods for decreasing the spread of infection in Healthcare.
• List methods staff can use to reduce the risk of infections to patients in Healthcare.

 28.  Understanding Antibiotic Resistance – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Discuss how antibiotics reduce patient safety risks.
• Indicate the process of how bacteria and antibiotics interact.
• Summarize how antibiotic use can increase resistance.
• Discuss the best practices for the effective use of antibiotics that assist in improving patient safety.

 29. Basics of Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities - Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.

• Define the science of microbiology.
• Recognize the difference between High-Level Disinfection (HLD) and sterilization.
• Identify the process steps necessary for HLD of instrumentation. 
• Identify the process steps necessary for sterilization of instrumentation.
• Discuss the types of sterilization monitoring methods. 

 30.  Human Trafficking – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers

• Recognize signs and identify victims of human trafficking in a health care setting.
• Define types of human trafficking.
• Recognize common indicators of human trafficking.
• Identify the warning signs of human trafficking in health care settings for adults and minors.  
• Identify ways healthcare providers can intervene if human trafficking is suspected.
• Understanding the types and venues of human trafficking in the USA.

 31.   Medical Waste – Course For: General Medical Waste

• Explain what medical waste is.
• Understand how medical waste is generated, disposed of, and then treated.
• Identify medical waste potential hazards in healthcare for medical personnel.
• Learn how to make and use an Exposure Control Plan to minimize the risks of medical waste.
• Identify both administrative and planning controls available to reduce hazards associated with handling and working with medical waste.

32.  Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulated Medical Waste – All employees who participate in the shipment of hazardous materials should receive initial Security Awareness and in-depth training, as well as refresher training (every 3 years), as part of our regular DOT hazardous materials training, as required by 49 CFR 172.700. 

• Explain General awareness/familiarization training – to provide familiarity with DOT regulations for shippers and recognize and identify hazardous materials.
• Understand Function-specific training – Specifically related to the function the employee performs.
• Describe Safety training – Emergency response information and measures to protect employees.
• Explain Security awareness training – Enhance security and how to recognize and respond to threats.
• Understand In-depth security training – If required to have a security plan, must be trained in it.
• Discuss OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200 on labeling of chemicals and how it is aligned with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS).

 33.  Compressed Medical Gases – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff, anyone who handles a medical gas.

• Discuss what medical gases are and the types of medical gases.
• Explain the Chemical Hazards of several types of Oxidizing, Inert, flammable, and Toxic Medical Gases.
• Review cylinder identification requirements.
• List physical hazards of cylinders and explain how to protect yourself and the facility from these hazards.
• Describe proper cylinder storage methods.
• Discuss proper cylinder safety methods and procedures for use.
• Explain what to do if a cylinder is damaged.

 34.  Emergency Preparedness and Action Plans – OSHA Training Course for:  All Staff or Volunteers.

• Discuss Disasters that would be common to their areas.
• List potential emergencies and rank them in likelihood.
• Discuss the four phases of emergency management.
• Discover available resources for emergency management tips and recommendations.
• Review the details of an emergency plan for their facility.
• Discuss the importance of testing a disaster plan. 
• Review disaster recovery and aftercare.

 35.  Medical Laser Safety – Course for:  Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, hands-on patient care staff, anyone who works around or with a laser. Does not qualify alone as Laser Safety Officer training.

• Understand the ANSI Z136 and Federal standards and regulations that apply to laser environments.
• Learn about regulations and consensus standards and required controls that apply in a medical setting.
• Learn laser classifications and abilities.
• Discuss laser safety issues and hazards, including laser hazards and protection for the eye and skin.
• Understand what a laser protection area is and the required types of postings for several types of laser classifications.
• Discuss laser controls and entryway controls.
• Review engineering controls designed and built into laser equipment to provide safety.

 36.  Email Phishing, Malware, and Internet Security – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers.

• Discuss information security and how it affects us all.
• Learn about Malware prevention to protect medical information.
• Discuss Phishing and how to avoid it.
• Learn to spot fraudulent emails.
• Learn what to do if you suspect a problem.
• Learn about public Wi-Fi and Security.

 37.  Patient Rights & Responsibilities, Informed Consent and Advanced Directives – Course For: All Staff or Volunteers.

• Explain the origin of Patient’s Rights.
• Discuss Informed Consent and what it is.
• Review examples of Patient Care Rights.
• Review examples of Patient Responsibilities.
• Discuss a Medical Power of Attorney.
• Review Health care Advanced Directives.

 38.  Stress and Anxiety Management in Medical Facilities – Medical Professionals experience stress like no other profession. This course explores coping skills and practices to reduce stress and anxiety and help you manage the responsibilities of your life and work.

• Explain the difference between stress and anxiety.
• Discuss ways to reduce stress and anxiety, both in life and at work.
• Review suggestions for work relaxation techniques.
• Learn about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with example therapy techniques.
• Review the seven main types of anxiety disorders: GAD, SAD, OCD, Phobias, PTSD, Panic Disorders, & Agoraphobia.
• Discuss why it is important to ask for help, and that it is OK.
• Review techniques for dealing with difficult patients.

 39.  Sterile Processing – Course For: Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Hands-on patient care staff.   (Complimentary lecture to #29 Basics of Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare)

• Describe the importance of sterilization to patient care.
• Review the three key points of a sterilization process.
• Describe sterilization methods used, application, limitations, and risks of each.
• Explain the parameters associated with each method of sterilization.
• Discuss common clinic issues that contribute to improper sterilization.
• Describe proper monitoring and record-keeping requirements.

 40.  CLIA POCT Urine Pregnancy Testing – Course for: staff who perform POCT Urine Pregnancy Tests

• Explain the basics of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and Certificate of Waiver Laboratories (COW), and define POCT.
• Discuss Pregnancy Testing Basics.
• Explain the three types of urine pregnancy tests, the purpose, and the limitations of each type of test.
• How to prepare to perform a Urine Pregnancy Test.
• Review Urine Pregnancy Test Specifications.
• Explain the four time points of Urine Pregnancy Testing.
• Review how to interpret the results of a Urine Pregnancy Test.
• Discuss the Urine Pregnancy Test QC/Quality Standards.

 41.   CLIA POCT Diabetic Testing – Course for:  Staff who perform POCT Diabetic Tests

• Discuss the basics of Diabetes.
• Explain the types of Diabetic tests and the purpose and limitations of each type of test.
• Review Diabetic test specifics:  Preparing the patient, preparing the meter, preparing the test site, and collecting blood.
• Interpret the results of Diabetes results. 
• Discuss Diabetic Testing Best Practices.
• Discuss Diabetic Testing Infection Controls and Quality Standards.
• Explain the basics of CLIA certificate-of-waiver laboratories and what POCT is.

 42.  Risk Management

• Discuss what Risk Management is in Healthcare.
• Discuss Malpractice in Healthcare.
• Describe a Near Miss.
• Recognize why reporting and learning from a Near Miss is so important.
• Explain an Adverse incident and a Sentinel event.
• Discuss the evaluation methods of problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis.
• Review How to Report Professional Misconduct.

 43.  Safe Receiving & Storage of Frozen Surgical Specimens

• Discuss what a frozen specimen is.
• Review the proper temperatures for surgical specimens.
• Review potential hazards when working with Specimens.
• Summarize the Hazards of working with Dry Ice.
• Identify how to Work Safely with Dry Ice.
• Review unpacking a Frozen Specimen Package.

 44.  No Surprises Act Billing Disclosures

• Explain the No Surprises Act and how this affects healthcare consumers and providers.
• Discuss Balance billing or Surprise Billing.
• Explain how Emergency Departments, Healthcare facilities, and Ambulatory Surgical Centers must comply with the No Surprises Act.
• Explain a “Good Faith Estimate.”
• Describe how a consumer can dispute a bill they believe is in violation of a Good Faith Estimate or No Surprises Act.

 45.   Tuberculosis (TB) in Health care

• Identify the Routes of Transmission of TB in Healthcare.
• Discuss the Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnosis of TB.
• Describe Latent TB and TB Disease and options for Treatment.
• Review Occupational Exposure Risks for Medical Staff.
• Discuss TB Infection Control Measures and PPE.
• Review TB Screening in Healthcare Personnel.
• Review Reporting and Monitoring of TB Cases.