Fit to Perform: Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed to provide continuing education for Florida Nurses and Nurse Practitioners. It fulfills the continuing education requirement for those licensed in the state of Florida.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
It is an employer responsibility to address any behaviors or situations that compromise workplace safety. The immediate manager or supervisor is generally assigned this responsibility. The manager or supervisor must consider job duties and job expectations and then document any deviations. Any gap between expected job performance and observed or reported job performance is a concern that must be addressed. Aside from addressing specific performance
concerns, managers and supervisors must consider questions related to both timing and safety of the job performance

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
-Define fitness for duty in the healthcare workplace.
-Recognize the impact of poor job performance and substance use on quality care and overall safety.
-Review specific indicators of poor job performance related to substance use, mental and emotional conditions, physical compromise and cognitive decline.
-Develop strategies to promote safety and provide assistance to an unsafe healthcare employee.
-Explain how the Intervention Project for Nurses (IPN) and the --Professional Resources Network (PRN) in Florida assist healthcare professionals identified as unsafe practitioners.

METHOD OF PARTICIPATION
In order to receive credit, participants should read the entire downloadable monograph. Once you have read the monograph, you will continue to the online self-assessment test and evaluation. You must score at least 70% on the self-assessment test to receive credit. AKH Inc. allows for one (1) re-test at no additional charge; additional re-tests must be purchased again at the full cost. Certificates will be available in your transcripts upon successful completion of the self-assessment test and evaluation. If you have questions about this CE activity, please contact AKH Inc. at jgoldman@akhcme.com.

DISCLOSURE DECLARATION

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The faculty must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are resolved by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity and may include any of or combination of the following: attestation to non-commercial content; notification of independent and certified CME/CE expectations; referral to National Faculty Initiative training; restriction of topic area or content; restriction to discussion of science only; amendment of content to eliminate discussion of device or technique; use of other faculty for discussion of recommendations; independent review against criteria ensuring evidence support recommendation; moderator review; and peer review. AKH Inc. planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

DISCLOSURE OF UNLABELED USE AND INVESTIGATIONAL PRODUCT
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

DISCLAIMER
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaims responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participant's misunderstanding of the content.