Stop Sepsis | Sepsis Toolkit For Skilled Nursing & Long-Term Care

Stop Sepsis | Sepsis Toolkit For Skilled Nursing & Long-Term Care

Sepsis remains the #1 diagnosis for admissions and readmissions and is the #1 facility-acquired infection related to hospitalization in North Dakota and South Dakota.  Understanding the early signs or the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is vital for all...
Ensuring Nursing Homes Residents are Free of Any Significant Medication Errors

Ensuring Nursing Homes Residents are Free of Any Significant Medication Errors

Medication errors can have serious – and, even, deadly – impacts on nursing home residents. Nevertheless, they are a common problem in too many nursing homes. Too often, medication is given to residents in a manner that conflicts with manufacturer’s instructions or...
CDC COCA Call: Overdoses Involving Xylazine Mixed with Fentanyl: Clinical and Public Health Implications

CDC COCA Call: Overdoses Involving Xylazine Mixed with Fentanyl: Clinical and Public Health Implications

During this COCA Call, presenters will discuss the epidemiology of overdoses involving xylazine mixed with fentanyl, the current understanding of health risks related to these overdoses, and acute treatment strategies. The non-opioid drug xylazine has been found in...
2024 Webinar Series – Rural to Urban Partners: Working Together on Antimicrobial Stewardship

2024 Webinar Series – Rural to Urban Partners: Working Together on Antimicrobial Stewardship

View Lynde Monson, PharmD, BCPS, as she navigates us through the latest immunization updates and details how immunizations prevent antibiotic use. The recording is available to be viewed on the CAP Center website and there is CE available! Access the Recording  ...
Buprenorphine Prescribing Update: Waiver Elimination (MAT Act)

Buprenorphine Prescribing Update: Waiver Elimination (MAT Act)

Announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, clinicians no longer need a federal waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder. However, clinicians are still required to register with the federal Drug Enforcement...
Call to Action: Implementing Medication-Assisted Treatment in the Emergency Department

Call to Action: Implementing Medication-Assisted Treatment in the Emergency Department

As we continue to explore emergency department (ED) visits by individuals struggling with behavioral health concerns, we cannot miss the fact that many of these visits are related to opiate use. The research overwhelmingly supports the need to start medication...
New Project Firstline Micro-Learn Training

New Project Firstline Micro-Learn Training

Clostridioides difficile is formerly known as Clostridium difficile – and often called C. difficile or C. diff. – is a germ (bacterium) that causes diarrhea and colitis (an inflammation of the colon). Most cases of C. diff infection occur while an...
Improve Antibiotic Use, Improve Health Equity | U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week

Improve Antibiotic Use, Improve Health Equity | U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week

U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) provides the opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic and antifungal use and the threat of antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum. One Health is an approach that recognizes that...
CDC COCA Call: Overdoses Involving Xylazine Mixed with Fentanyl: Clinical and Public Health Implications

Preventing Medication Errors is Key to Patient Safety: The Five Rights 

Medication errors can be avoided. The 5 R’s of medication administration were put in place to protect both those administering medicine and the person taking medicine/s, alongside reducing the harm that can be caused by medication errors. Following the 5 rights is the...