Topsail Clinical — continuing education for post-acute care
You knew in March. The referral went out in September. One hour of CE on recognizing hospice eligibility while there is still enough time left to do something with it.
1.0 contact hour
Certificate issued on completion
Built for any registered nurse who has to decide whether a declining patient goes back to rehab or finally gets a goals-of-care conversation.
Written for any registered nurse who watches a patient decline and has to decide what comes next, not for the hospice team on the receiving end of the referral.
Submit payment. The course opens right away — no waiting on a cohort, no scheduled webinar.
Read the module (about 60 minutes) — three cases, the two baseline criteria, and the disease-specific indicators reviewers actually look at.
Score 80% or higher on the 10-item post-test and complete the evaluation. Your certificate is issued immediately with the ONA activity number on it.
This continuing education activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an Ohio Board of Nursing approver. (OBN-001-91) Assigned ONA Activity Number: 2023-0000001469.
Provider: Topsail Clinical. Nurse Planner and author: Ashley Courtheyn, RN. Content reviewer: Tara Miller, BSN, RN. 1.0 contact hour, enduring material (self-study). Expiration date: July 1, 2028; contact hours will not be awarded after this date.
No one with the ability to control content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company.
Department licensing for hospitals, SNFs, home health and hospice agencies.
Your case managers decide, every day, whether a declining patient goes back to rehab or finally gets a goals-of-care conversation. Hospice eligibility criteria are not in anyone's orientation — not in nursing school, not at hire — which makes it one of the few gaps in your organization that closes in an hour.
A department license lets you assign this as onboarding for new case management staff, or as annual education for the whole team. Each learner takes it on their own time, passes the post-test, and gets their own certificate with the ONA activity number on it — so it counts toward licensure for them, and it goes in your education file as documentation for you.
Each seat is one of your own employees. They get their own login, their own post-test, and their own certificate. Hospice and home health agencies: this works the same way for your liaisons, admissions nurses and IDG members — your staff, your license.
We do not sell seats to a provider to hand out free to its referral sources. A free contact hour has real value to a licensed clinician who has to buy CE anyway, and regulators treat that value as remuneration — see OIG Advisory Opinion 22-14. So we sell to the organization that employs the learner, or to the learner directly. It is the version that holds up under review.
Email us about department licensingLate referrals are rarely a knowledge failure at the hospice end. Hospice eligibility criteria live in the Medicare benefit rather than in any orientation curriculum, so the window narrows before anyone is taught what it looks like.
1.0 contact hour
Certificate issued on completion
The 418.76 POC Monitoring Kit is eight monitoring instruments for hospice aide and homemaker services, built for teams that need a plan of correction to hold after the surveyor leaves. Beyond the tools, Topsail runs survey readiness as a mock survey before the real one, plan of correction consulting, and pre-acquisition clinical due diligence.