Methodist Welcomes CE Direct Earlier this year, The Methodist Hospital System began offering CE Direct to nurses and allied health staff. Through our first three months, our housewide utilization rate is at 16 percent. We are encouraging our nursing and allied health staff members to review the information below and discover how having immediate access to CE Direct can enhance your professional practice and individual goals. CE Direct, an online tool that delivers continuing education, quality/safety courses, a certification review program and more. CE Direct is the only vendor in the nation to be recognized for CE excellence and has proven to be highly successful in offering unlimited access to more than 2,400 top quality Gannett Education courses available in a variety of formats, including: online self-study courses, webinars, audio courses and printed courses in Nurse.com magazines. This dynamic educational system will increasingly help to fulfill CE requirements for a number of service lines and specialty areas throughout each of our Methodist facilities.
Available To:
• Registered Nurses/LVNs • Nursing Support • Dietitians • Radiology/Imaging/Radiotherapy Technologists • Rehab
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Respiratory Therapy Social Workers Case Managers Speech Therapists
Multiple Modes of Access: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Online anywhere — from work, home or wherever you have Internet access Audio access via iPod or MP3 player. The 50 most recent courses are kept in audio format Webinar access provides interactive learning at live webinars. Webinars are also archived Print access for RN subscribers to the Nurse.com Nursing Spectrum or Nurse.com NurseWeek magazine to take, free of charge, a CE course is in each publication
Content Library:
• More than 700 online ANCC accredited courses with more than 1000 contact hours available • 170+ CME AMA PRA Category 1 Credit courses are available including state-specific CME • Most of the CE courses include Clinical Vignettes to apply knowledge learned
Certification Review Program:
• More than 70 certification review programs to prepare nurses for their specialty exam • All review courses are ANCC accredited • Digital Nursing Clinical Textbook is included with the program. This online textbook has more than 600 of the most frequently encountered at bedside conditions/diseases • Each online textbook chapter includes an exam to earn one ANCC contact hour plus each chapter has a patient education handout
Frequently Asked Questions:
New Hires – It can take up to three weeks for a new hire to gain access to CE Direct. New hires in designated job codes are automatically given access. Our Human Resources Department notifies these new hires of CE Direct through an email communication with information on how to access the program. If they are not able to access CE Direct after 3 wk, then please let me know and I’ll investigate what might be causing the delay. Unable to Access – Be sure to select the appropriate facility when signing on. Directions for sign-on can be found on TMH Homepage. Simply look under Reference Information and click on CE Direct. User ID Cards - The user ID cards issued earlier this year were a one-time promotional item for the roll out of CE Direct and are not being provided on an ongoing basis. They are not necessary to access CE Direct! For questions or concerns, please contact Roberta (Bobbi) Musgrove at rsmusgrove@tmhs.org or call CE Direct’s toll-free number: (877) 226-5953.