Note from the Associate Editorial Director: The midway point of the podcast year
by Linnea Archibald
It’s hard to believe that next week’s ACDIS Podcast episode will mark the halfway point of our episodes for 2024. Every other week, a member of the ACDIS team (or sometimes a few members of the team!) get to sit down in front of the microphone and discuss a CDI topic with an industry expert. It’s one of our favorite things to do around here at ACDIS because it lets us connect directly with our guests and you, our listeners.
Our aim with the ACDIS Podcast is that it fuels your professional development and daily work. To do this, not only do we try to provide information aimed at illuminating a facet of CDI work, but, in 2023, we also started offering the opportunity to claim 0.5 ACDIS CEU for listening within the first two days after an episode publishes.
While we know many of you already take advantage of these opportunities, I just wanted to highlight it because we’re often asked about where to find free CEU opportunities and listening to the Podcast is a great answer: in fact, if you listen to all the episodes in a calendar year, you can claim 13 free CEUs! That means over the two-year recertification period for the CCDS or CCDS-O, you could earn 26 out of the necessary 30 CEUs toward your recertification. We hope you’re taking advantage of that!
Though we still have one episode left before we officially mark the middle point of the podcast year (June 19), I wanted to spend a bit of time highlighting the 12 episodes and all the topics we’ve already covered. Though the CEU period for each of these episodes has closed, there’s still plenty to learn from our guests and I’d encourage you to catch up on anything you may have missed or to dive deep on topics of particular interest.
- January 3, 2024 | 2023 CDI Salary Survey preview
- January 17, 2024 | Denials and organizational clinical criteria
- January 31, 2024 | More than a job: CDI as a profession
- February 14, 2024 | Clinical deep dive: Acute kidney injury (AKI)
- February 28, 2024 | AI’s impact on CDI work
- March 13, 2024 | Pediatric deep dive: Behavioral health reviews
- March 27, 2024 | Ethical CDI practice
- April 11, 2024 | Quality deep dive: PSIs and HACs
- April 24, 2024 | Listener questions: AKI, MI, encephalopathy, provider engagement, and more!
- May 8, 2024 | Outpatient CDI: Annual wellness visits
- May 22, 2024 | Advisory Board welcome: CDI and length of stay
- June 5, 2024 | CDI and power dynamics
As we mark this halfway point, I hope you’ll tune in for our June 19 episode and claim your 0.5 ACDIS CEU. We’ll be discussing all things PSI 15, so you don’t want to miss out!
We say it every other week on the podcast, but please do send us your ideas, topic requests, and feedback on the show. We would love to continue to serve you for the rest of 2024 and beyond! Send us an email at info@acdis.org anytime. Also, if you have a question you’d like to hear addressed on a future “listener questions” episode, please fill out this form as well! We’re planning another questions episode soon, so we’d love to answer your CDI quandaries.
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Happy listening, everyone!
Editor’s note: Archibald is the associate editorial director, publications and membership, for ACDIS. Contact her at linnea.archibald@hcpro.com.