Partners is committed to working with the facilities we service to address the educational
needs of the facility staff and help them adapt to the changes occurring in the healthcare industry. Please view
our Education Calendarfor upcoming events, many of these programs offer participants CEU’s and CME’s.
Additionally Partners offers clients free access to our extensive lending library of educational videos, CD ROMs
and audiotapes are available for 30-day loans.
Education First
Videos, courses, and textbooks are available on a monthly basis with no cost to all facilities serviced. This free
program provides resources to the facility to assist in staff development and education.
Regional Education Programs
Education seminars are provided on a variety of topics throughout the State. Many provide CEU’s and
certificates of attendance. Programs are available for Administrators, Medical Directors, Physician Assistants,
Nurse Practioners, Directors of Nursing Services, Nursing Staff, CNAs and LPN’s.
Inservices
Available at your facility, often provided by our QA Nurse or Consultant Pharmacist on key issues. Please contact
the Pharmacy to schedule.
Infusion Therapy Education Programs
Provides IV certification and recertification to your facility staff. Contact the pharmacy for a schedule of
upcoming classes. The educational component of Partner’s Infusion Therapy Program consists of:
 On-site educational programs
pertaining to appropriate use of  .infusion therapy supplies
On-site educational programs
pertaining to the use of all .infusion therapy devices approved by the facility
On-site intravenous and
intravascular certification programs .for the facility’s RNs including didactic and clinical components
Intravenous and intravascular
certification programs for the .facility’s RNs including didactic and clinical components
Resident Education
Partners' associates are responsible for inservices based on the needs of the residents in the nursing homes or
residential/assisted living facilities that we service. Each facility serviced by Partners is also provided the
opportunity to receive educational materials (pamphlets, videos, posters, etc.) for their residents.
Physician Education
A physician-based educational effort is one of the key components of Partners’ Therapeutic Strategies and
Outcomes Program. The program incorporates:
Facility-based educational
programming and training for .Medical Directors and attending physicians in developing and .implementing cost-reduction strategies for your
facility
Educational programs for
physicians and other mid-level .prescribers on exciting, geriatric-focused, topics
Consultation to your
physicians by experts on the Partners’ .Medical Advisory Board
Lending Library
Partners’ maintains a comprehensive educational lending library created exclusively for our valued customers.
Facilities serviced by Partners can access a large selection of videos, CDs, and books that cover a wide variety of
topics pertinent to long-term care. For example:
Alzheimer's Disease: One
Question at a time...One Day at a .Time
Antibiotic Use and
Resistance
Diabetes A to Z
Health Care Practitioner's
Guide to Drug Interactions in the . .Elderly
Wound Healing: Focus on the
Chronic Wound
Pain in the Elderly:
Recognition and Management
Joint Commission Readiness
Planner
Manual of Rating Scales for
the Assessment of Geriatric Mental .Illness
These items, and many others,
are available for no-charge loan . to facilities serviced by Partners
Each Facility may borrow up to two videos/CDs/books etc. for a one-month period.
Materials can be delivered to the facility with the regularly scheduled pharmacy delivery and are returned to
Partners in a special bag supplied with the delivery.
Please email the Partners' Education
Department for more information on Partners' Lending Library
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