Internet Training Takes Stroke Education Around The Globe

Main Category: Stroke
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Article Date: 14 Sep 2007 - 14:00 PDT

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National Stroke Association and i3CME have partnered to deliver free National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) exams using an innovative trainingcampus.com platform.

The online NIHSS exams provide a free and easily accessible form of continuing education for emergency physicians, neurologists, nurses, clinical researchers and medical students. This is the first curriculum to focus on the NIH Stroke Scale education, validated and developed specifically for global internet use.

"Leveraging the internet to distribute the NIH Stroke Scale will bring this important tool to healthcare professionals across the nation, ultimately influencing National stroke Association's mission to reduce the incidence and impact of stroke," Jim Baranski, Chief Executive Officer, National Stroke Association.

The NIH Stroke Scale is a series of questions administered with patients to assess acute stroke and determine the severity of the stroke before treatment is decided upon and administered. Use of the NIHSS includes documentation of neurologic status and outcome, data collection for planning safe nursing care and standardization of information exchanges between nurse caregivers and other health care professionals.

To access the NIHSS exams in English, practitioners can go to http://nihss-english.trainingcampus.net/.

About national stroke association

National Stroke Association is the only national organization in the United States that focuses 100% of its efforts on stroke. National Stroke Association achieves its mission to lower the incidence and impact of stroke by developing compelling community outreach programs, calling for continued improvement in the quality of stroke patient care, and educating both healthcare professionals and the general public about stroke.

http://www.stroke.org

About i3CME

i3 CME develops and delivers certified educational activities for health care professionals that are high-quality, fair-balanced, evidence-based, and grounded in demonstrated methodologies. The goal of all i3 CME activities is to effect change in participant behavior that has a positive impact on health care outcomes. i3 CME offers educational methods and formats that meet the multiple needs of the adult learner and designs educational initiatives at the global, national, regional, and local levels while recognizing that the needs of the learner are central to the design process.

i3 CME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide CME for physicians and is also approved as a provider of CE in nursing by the Utah Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation, and in psychology by the American Psychological Association. Additionally, i3 CME cosponsors with the University of Florida College of Pharmacy (UFCOP), which is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education. These affiliations allow i3 CME to offer certified educational activities to a broad range of health care providers.

About trainingcampus.com

TrainingCampus.com provides free turnkey educational platforms and tools to the healthcare and clinical research industry. Established in 1999, TrainingCampus.com developed a single sign-on platform for the International Electronic Education Network™ (IEEN) in order to provide standardized diagnostic clinical scales through a proprietary database platform. Internationally, the TrainingCampus™ platform now delivers hundreds of independent and multi-therapeutic educational programs from governments, for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

http://www.trainingcampus.com

National Stroke Association