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Expected August: NIHSS Courses Expiring
As a reminder, our partnership with APEX Innovations is ending, and these courses will permanently expire on August 5, 2026:
- APEX Innovations: NIH Stroke Scale Training and 1-Year Certification (free course)
- APEX Innovations: NIH Stroke Scale Training and 2-Year Certification (free course)
With just one month remaining, now is the time to ensure your organization is fully transitioned to the updated NIHSS course options available within HealthStream.
Actions to Take Now
- Review current assignments and learner progress tied to APEX NIHSS courses
- Begin transitioning learners to the updated NIHSS courses
- Update any curricula or assignments to reflect the new offerings and take advantage of Certification-Based Assignment (CBA) functionality now available
To help ensure a smooth transition, a transition guide is available in the HealthStream Community and your hStream Success Manager is available to assist with planning and rollout by emailing hStreamSuccess@HealthStream.com.
If you need assistance with the transition from the Apex NIHSS course to the HealthStream version, we are hosting a webinar this month to assist you.
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Updated Content Listings: Dynamic Health & Medical Product Training
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- If you contract for Dynamic Health, we recommend regularly reviewing our Master List as it updates monthly with the latest course additions, retirements/replacements, etc.
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- Included with your hStream subscription, access these Medical Product Training courses via the Services tab. Just “Accept” relevant content, and then choose your preferred publishing settings.
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Upcoming Maintenance & 2026 Schedule
Regularly scheduled maintenance is Friday, July 10, from 8pm — 4am Central Time. Click here to view the 2026 system maintenance schedule. |
Expected Summer 2026: Checklist Application
The new Checklist Application has been in active development and is progressing steadily toward launch. This enhancement will improve how evaluators search for students and complete competencies, simplifying the process of validating multiple skills for multiple individuals. Key features will include the ability to validate multiple skills in a single workflow and complete checklists or skills validations on demand.
We’re planning a limited beta release with a small group of customers during summer with feedback informing any final refinements before full market release. We look forward to sharing more details as development progresses. |
Live: New CE Unlimited Courses from Positive Approach to Care®
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We're excited to announce that 12 new Positive Approach to Care® courses were added to the CE Unlimited library on July 1st! These titles bring valuable expertise from internationally acclaimed dementia care educator Teepa Snow and her Positive Approach to Care® methodology.
New Titles Include:
- Advanced Care Skills in Late Stage Dementia
- Challenging Behaviors in Dementia Care: Recognizing and Meeting Unmet Needs
- Dementia Care Provision: Reducing Risk by Changing Care Strategies
- End of Life Care and Letting Go
- Lewy Body Dementia (Sessions from PAC 2020 Conference)
- Living at Home with Mid-to-Later Stage Dementia
- PAC Skills Make the Difference
- Understanding Frontotemporal Dementias
- Understanding Vascular Dementia
- It's All in Your Approach
- Making Visits Valuable
- The GEMS® Brain Change Model
Topics and Competencies Covered: Learners will build practical dementia care skills, including Positive Physical Approach™ and Hand-under-Hand® techniques, effective communication across stages of brain change, and compassionate strategies for managing challenging situations. The new courses also cover key conditions such as Lewy body, frontotemporal, and vascular dementia, along with late-stage and end-of-life care. Learners will strengthen their ability to recognize unmet needs, reduce risks, support daily activities, and adapt care to each individual. |
Live: Implicit Bias for Clinicians Course
We’re pleased to share that the Implicit Bias for Clinicians course is now available again in CE Unlimited with ANCC accreditation. We are currently pursuing reaccreditation through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and will provide an update as soon as this accreditation becomes available for the course. |
Live: New Assessment Notification & Courses in the Graduating Nurse Pathway
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- New Assessment Notification: This enhancement adds an email notification that will be sent to learners when a Jane Assessment is assigned to them. Immediate assignments will send an alert in near real-time. Assignments with future start dates will send an alert on the start date of the assignment.
- New Courses in the Graduating Nurse Pathway: Two new courses have been added to the Graduating Nurse Pathway and are now part of the CJA Development Plan. Developed in partnership with Galen College of Nursing, we have added two courses, one on Compassionate Care and one on Professionalism. These courses are designed to enhance students' knowledge and reinforce the foundational behaviors and values essential to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care as they prepare to enter the nursing profession.
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Live: Control Pathfinder Updates
The Nurse Residency Pathfinder has been redesigned to deliver a more actionable and clinically informed reporting experience.
Key updates include:
- Updated navigation and filters: A left-hand sidebar with filters relocated to the top of the page for improved usability.
- Redesigned stage tiles: Exact resident and cohort counts displayed alongside a completion donut chart for at-a-glance progress visibility.
- Confidence trend view: Domain-level confidence scores across all four surveys presented in a single view with benchmark comparison.
Jane Assessment integration:
The Pathfinder now includes a Jane Assessment tab, bringing Knowledge Assessment and Clinical Judgment results directly into the dashboard for the first time. Educators can view first and best score comparisons, gaps against national benchmarks, score distribution by performance bucket, and a resident-level list for targeted outreach—all without leaving the platform.
Enhanced reporting views:
- Progress to Completion: Updated to assignment-based tracking rather than cumulative totals, enabling true completion percentages and a student-level drill-down showing individual progress, scores, and in-program completion status.
- Confidence: Preserves existing domain and demographic views and adds conditional formatting to flag scores ≤ 2.00 and declines from prior surveys.
- Retention Rate: Now includes national benchmark comparison alongside 1-year and 2-year rates, plus a Retention Impact section quantifying nurses retained above benchmark and estimated cost savings.
Together, these updates enable a tighter signal-to-action workflow for educators and support more defensible documentation for PTAP, Magnet, and Pathway to Excellence® program evaluation. |
Live: Quality OB Content Revisions
The following Quality OB courses were revised and new versions released on May 8, 2026. Learners currently in progress with current versions need to complete by August 12, 2026.
- Quality OB: Evaluating Fetal Wellbeing
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 04
- Quality OB: EFM - Tracing Activity 05
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 06
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 07
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 08
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 10
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 11
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 22
- Quality OB: EFM – Tracing Activity 24
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Live: Quality OB Qualifies for ABOG Part IV Continuing Certification Credit for OB/GYN Diplomates
For Quality OB customers utilizing the courseware for OB/GYN physicians, all Quality OB courses are now approved as a quality improvement activity eligible for Part IV Practice Improvement credit for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Continuing Certification (CC) program. |
Expected August: New Version of Essentials of Pediatric Acute Care Orientation (EPACO)
If you contract for Essentials of Pediatric Acute Care Orientation (EPACO) from Pediatric Learning Solutions (PLS), version 4.0 is expected to release in early August – key details below. Learners in progress with current version modules should complete by expiration date of August 31, 2026.
- Overall update: Changes include updated images, interactivities, and content to improve understanding and visual appeal.
- Pediatric Nutrition: The Pediatric Nutrition Overview course will be split into two lessons to improve learner engagement and retention.
- Pediatric Nutrition Overview: this lesson will cover the fundamentals of pediatric nutrition including age-specific nutritional needs, obesity prevention and management and risk factors for malnutrition
- Modalities of Pediatric Nutrition (NEW): this lesson will focus on nutritional support and modalities of nutrition for the pediatric patient including age-appropriate formula and/or food choices, oral supplementation and parenteral nutrition
- Child Abuse and Neglect: Adding content to address Munchhausen’s “factitious disorder” and human trafficking. Two topics that were identified as gaps by PLS’s pediatric advisory committee.
- PLS App Supplemental Learning Activity: Case Study for Medication Administration Safety will be added to the PLS App to create a digital experience that allows clinicians to apply their knowledge of medication safety by making decisions and observing outcomes related to adverse signs and symptoms during medication administration.
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Live: AACN ECCO Content Updates and Extended CE Credit
A new update for AACN Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) 4.3 is now available to all existing ECCO customers. This release includes content enhancements across several modules along with an extension of the course's Continuing Education credit:
- Extended CE Credit — The CE expiration date has been extended to July 1, 2029, allowing learners to continue earning the full contact hours (up to 75.45 for the ICU track and 67.72 for the PCU track).
- Neurologic Disorders, Part 1 — Content updates and enhancements
- Renal Disorders, Part 1 and Part 2 — Content updates and enhancements
- Endocrine Disorders — Content updates and enhancements
- Global Perspectives in the Care of Critically Ill Patients, Part 2 — A priority correction to the "Prioritizing and Organizing Your Nursing Care" assignment (ICU and PCU tracks), clarifying content on the ABCDE Bundle
These updates have been applied automatically, and no action is required on your part. The course structure, total CE hours, and accreditation remain unchanged. |
Live: OASIS-E1 to OASIS-E2 Updates
We’re excited to share that the full OASIS Section-by-Section series has been updated to align with OASIS-E2 and is now ready for use. Since every section in the series was updated, this release should be viewed as an entirely new series rather than a partial revision. Throughout the series, you’ll find updated guidance, revised item definitions, and clearer direction on assessment and scoring rules to support OASIS-E2 requirements. For a closer look at the item-level changes, click here to view the OASIS-E1 to OASIS-E2 updates resource. |
Live: ENA Content Revision
If you contract for ENA Content - Introduction to Trauma: Caring for Pediatric Patients 3.0, this course will be undergoing a revision. The old version of the course will be inactivated on 7/11/2026. The change in versions is that the new version now includes references and is available now for new enrollments/assignments. |
Live: Six New AAMA-Accredited Courses for MAO
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Six new AAMA-accredited courses launched on June 18 and are now available to all existing Medical Assistant Orientation (MAO) customers:
- MAO: Clinical Practice, CLIA Regulations
- MAO: Clinical Practice, Techniques for Phlebotomy and Specimen Processing
- MAO: Clinical Practice, Techniques for Suture and Staple Removal
- MAO: Clinical Practice, The Gastrointestinal System
- MAO: Leadership, Skills and Techniques for Preceptors
- MAO: Wound Care, Types of Wounds and Interventions
These additions strengthen MAO’s support for clinical onboarding, regulatory education, hands-on skills development, and preceptor preparation. For additional information about the new courses, including course descriptions and learning objectives, please review the updated MAO Courseware Catalog. |
Coming Soon: A Refreshed MAO Community
Be on the lookout for a refreshed MAO Community page launching in the coming weeks. The updated Community will serve as a central resource for practical course use cases, implementation guidance, product updates, and opportunities to ask questions and learn how other organizations are using MAO.
We look forward to providing customers with more ways to connect, exchange ideas, and get the most value from their MAO programs. |
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