careLearning
Education and Training Solutions for Hospital Staff
Ensuring hospital staff are properly trained and their skills remain current is an ongoing challenge in today’s healthcare environment. The rising cost of curriculum development, the difficulty of finding qualified instructors, and the time required to train employees often make traditional education models unsustainable. As a result, hospitals are increasingly turning to more flexible, cost-effective education alternatives that meet the evolving demands of healthcare.
The Iowa Hospital Association partnered with 40 other hospital associations and the American Hospital Association to create careLearning, a not-for-profit, internet-based education delivery and management solution for hospitals.
Ongoing education is essential in healthcare, but traditional training methods can be time-consuming and costly. That’s why hospitals turn to careLearning—a trusted platform offering convenient, high-quality education tailored to the needs of today’s healthcare workforce. Here’s what sets careLearning apart:
- Convenient: Access online education programs anytime, from anywhere. Whether at work or at home, healthcare professionals can complete training on their own schedule.
- Professional: Each educational module is designed by experts and delivered in engaging multimedia formats, including professional narration and animation, ensuring content is not just informative, but also compelling.
- Interactive: Learners stay engaged by actively participating in the experience—answering questions, making decisions, and reacting to realistic scenarios that mirror actual on-the-job situations.
- Competency-Based: Every module begins with a pretest that allows learners to demonstrate existing knowledge and potentially skip ahead. A post-test at the end measures mastery of the material to ensure educational goals are met.
- Transcript-Based: CareLearning maintains secure, online transcripts for each learner. Administrators can easily track progress and compliance, and users can carry their training records from hospital to hospital, even across state lines.
- Comprehensive and Cost-Effective: Choose individual modules or a subscription package to meet your organization’s training needs. CareLearning makes continuing education accessible and affordable while supporting compliance with regulatory requirements.
Offered by careLearning, careSkills is a comprehensive competency-management system that helps hospitals identify and understand the skills needed to be successful in their organizations through competency and performance courses.
CareLearning has populated careSkills with proficiencies required for successful performance by clinical and nonclinical employees, and they are easy to customize. The system creates automated assessments, making collecting and tracking employee competence easy and eliminating misplaced documents.
CareSkills helps organizations in each step, from setting goals to feedback and review, so the appraisal reflects what happens throughout the year.
careLearning's Passport Program provides education to students participating in clinical rotation programs. The program orients them quickly and effectively for sites they may report to. This program has no fees to the health care facility or college. Each student pays $10 through careLearning or their respective schools. The program can:
- Consolidate the requirements of students
- Create consistency
- Further student knowledge and skill
- Lower resource costs for health care organizations and clinical rotation partners
- Provide a reliable, trusted source to keep education up to date
- Reduce coordination and resources at colleges and universities
- Save time for students, colleges and facilities
For more information about careLearning, call IHA at 515-288-1955.