Overview: Today’s health professionals face intense pressures to provide health care for increasing numbers of children and their families, including many with complex medical and behavioral problems. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Bright Futures, and others have recommended providing expanded health promotion and preventive services to meet these challenges. Yet, the average time for a pediatric health visit remains 14.2 minutes. In today’s health care environment, time management skills are essential tools for providing effective health supervision. The goal of this module is to introduce learners to overall time management principles, describe time-saving strategies at the individual and systems level, and demonstrate health promotion techniques through a five-step Bright Futures model for integrating effective time management techniques into health supervision.
Objectives: After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Apply the five-step Time Management model.
- Prioritize goals for the health visit.
- Explain the role of collaboration and partnership when setting priorities for the health visit.
- Use the Bright Futures Encounter Forms for Families as a time management tool to identify family needs and concerns, help the family prepare for the health visit, and provide guidance on important health topics.
- Use the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Well Child Visit Documentation Forms as an effective time management tool.
Length: This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Learning Activities: To complete this online module, you must read text on the screen and link to resources provided for your review. The module includes video and/or audio clips to enhance learning, as well as Self-assessments and/or Progress Checks that will help you identify areas of understanding. An online "Journal" is available for you to (1) record your personal responses to reflective questions designed to enhance your comprehension of the content and (2) provide a place where you can take notes. In addition, there is a centralized online "Briefcase" for you to save items that you would like to access later. At the end of the module you will be directed to an evaluation.
Accreditation: The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(TM). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This educational activity carries 0.5 contact hours.
Registration: The content on Pediatrics in Practice is accessible at no charge to registered users only, with a small charge if you wish to receive credit. Free registration provides you with unlimited access to all resources and interactive instruction found on this website. Registration also ensures you can interrupt an activity and resume it at a later time. In addition, your registration helps us to understand usage patterns so we can continually improve the Pediatrics in Practice experience. |
