About The Course TIDE is designed to give faculty and practitioners a flexible tool to teach and learn immunization delivery and evaluation. It grew from a need to improve both the content and the teaching methods of more traditional curricula. WHAT IS TIDE: Teaching Immunization Delivery and Evaluation - A non-traditional web-based interactive curriculum
- Clinical scenarios to trigger problem solving and discussion
- Clinical practice evaluation tool for quality improvement
- Continuing education credits are available for professional practitioners
Educational Objectives The curriculum is organized as four self-contained modules including all the resources need for learners. The main goal of this curriculum is to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills that are likely to change provider behaviour in clinical settings, leading to increased immunization rates for children. Each module covers a different aspect of immunization delivery - Module A: Childhood Immunizations - presents sample cases requiring the learner to make correct decisions for pediatric patients' vaccinations
- Module B: Assessing Immunization Rates - leads the learner through a chart audit to measure practice immunization rates. This is the first step to increasing immunization rates
- Module C: Improving Immunization Rates in Your Practice - presents ways to bring about change in office routines to improve immunization rates
- Module D: Adolescent Immunizations - presents sample cases requiring the learner to make correct decisions for adolescent patients' vaccinations
Authors of the Program Paul Darden, MD
Editor - Medical University of South Carolina Terry Davis, PhD
LSU Medical Center, Shreveport, LA Ben Gilbertson
Web-site Developer - Medical University of South Carolina Diane Kittredge, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH Viking Hedberg, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH Sharon Humiston, MD, MPH
University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY Carol Lancaster, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina Diane Langkamp, MD, MPH
Children's Hospital of Akron, OH Mary Mauldin, EdD
Medical University of South Carolina
Course Fee CE credit available at no charge
Accreditation
The Medical University of South Carolina is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Nursing Contact Hours 1.0 Nursing Contact Hours for each Module
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About the College
Effective November 1, Teresa Kelechi will assume the role of Department Chair. Employed at MUSC for 22 years, Teresa joined the College of Nursing faculty in 2001. She is a board certified gerontological clinical nurse specialist and a certified wound care nurse. Teresa takes over the reins of Department Chair from Elizabeth Erkel who will retire at the end of the year.
