Advanced Practice Strategies
Advancing Knowledge. Empowering Caregivers.
Company Overview
APS is devoted to improving the lives of both patients and their caregivers through effective, innovative education solutions.
Our flexible eLearning programs developed with partners like the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions have helped hospitals and clinicians reduce risk and enhance patient safety across the country. Our Demonstrative Evidence Group is the nation's leading provider of medical illustrations for courtroom defense against medical malpractice claims. Read more »
Featured Case
Gastric Bypass Leads to Lawsuit
This suit was filed by Charlie Weis, head coach of the football team at the University of Notre Dame, in the wake of a laparoscopic roux-en-Y gastric bypass performed on 6/14/2002. In this case, two well-known complications, intra-abdominal bleeding and leakage, occurred in the postoperative period. Read more »
JUST LAUNCHED
APS and AORN Announce
Surgical Safety Partnership
APS is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) to promote surgical safety. The new OR Safety Series is online courseware designed with AORN perioperative professionals to empower nurses in surgical settings, improve surgical teams' communications, and reduce the risk for surgical errors.
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Competency Maintenance
in Obstetrics
As with all skills, if you don't use it, you lose it. Obstetric and EFM skills are no different. Everyone requires frequent review and reassessment to keep their skills sharp and their patients safe. It is also important to practice the communication and team coordination principles that are essential to successful labor management.
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