Society of Invasive
Cardiovascular Professionals:
A New Online RCIS Review Class

Managers like the accountability of college classes. Although it is a pass-fail class, each student receives an evaluation which can be placed in the employee file. Many managers pay for their staff to take the 2 courses for continuing education documentation for JCAHO. The cardiology manager below uses the online class to upgrade her staff:

"The online RCIS classes are invaluable to a cardiac program that needs to increase knowledge of their staff in a cost and time efficient manner. In summary, all you need are motivated, interested staff and online RCIS class."
Jan Schmidlkofer,
cardiology manager,
Deaconess Hospital, Spokane, WA

The class relies heavily upon student interaction. Those with strengths and experience in specific areas (radiology, pharmacology, patient care, etc.) share with other students online, and discuss problems common to cath lab staff. This sharing is evident in the discussion boards. Before you know it, the class becomes a group, working together with comradery, which really dissolves turf boundaries between nurses and techs. See Figure 3 (modified from www.vascularsci.com), which illustrates how the patient suffers when teamwork fails.

Participants need access to a computer and modem to get online, and the required Todd CD, which is available to participants at $80. Tuition is $176 for each of the 2 eleven-week quarters, which can be taken in any sequence. For more information, see Wes Todd's classes To register, call SCC (509)533-8010.

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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 13 July - Issue 7 -
July 2005 - Pages: 22 - 23