I've received JCAHPO credit for this type of course without an RN or MD. Their
policy for physician-only lectures is :
D. FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS
Disease, Medical Diagnosis, Medical Treatment, or Surgery
A course that involves disease, medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or
surgery must be taught (classroom) or principally authored (distance learning)
by a medical doctor (MD) or a doctor of osteopathy (DO).
If a course is presented or authored on disease, diagnosis, treatment, or
surgery with a non-MD as a co-instructor, an MD or a DO must play the major
role in the development and delivery of the course.
There are a great number of photogs that are doing their own injections, and
having to also image patients at the same time- some of us for many years. I
think their perspective would be more relevant to photographers than from an RN
that is only performing the IV. Again, I get that the OPS doesn't want to
appear as "promoting" this type of practice. But what's the difference? If
someone sits in a lecture on IV FA and goes back to their practice thinking
they are OK to inject, it doesn't matter if an RN or a photog gave the lecture.
As an aside- as someone who applies for CEC through JCAHPO, OPS, ANA, ASORN
multiple times a year, it is becoming more and more frustrating dealing with
organization's interpretation of their speaker qualifications and what they
deem relevant and meaningful.
Just my 3 cents...
Darrin A Landry, CRA, OCT-C
Ophthalmic Consultant
Bryson Taylor, Inc.
207-838-0961
www.brysontaylor.com
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From: "Sarah Moyer" <smoyer@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:46 AM
To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optimal] Re: Seeking Educational Talk for Injection Techniques during
FAs
Darrin- Great question! In order to receive JCAHPO CECs, JCAHPO requires an
RN or MD to give this talk.
Sarah
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Darrin Landry <darrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: Just curious- why do you need an RN to give this talk? I'm not trying
to stir things up, but for those of us that are legal to inject fluorescein in
our state, why not ask within the OPS? I'm sure that whoever gives the talk
will need to precede it with an OPS disclaimer.
Darrin
Darrin Landry, CRA, OCT-C
Ophthalmic Consultant
Bryson Taylor Inc.
darrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 22, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Adeline M Stone <adelinemstone@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello-
This is a call to any potential RN's that would be interested in giving a talk
to the OPS annual education meeting, about injection management, FA reactions.
If you are interested and available about this course please contact me
directly.
Thanks for your interest,
-- Adeline Stone, COT, CRA, CDOS
2017 Education Chair- New Orleans
48th Annual Education Program
The Ophthalmic Photographers' Society
P: 509-385-2629
F: 360-838-0966
E: adelinemstone@xxxxxxxxx
