Maryland Nursing Continuing Education and CEU Credits
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A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Science: The Minimum Entry Level for Nursing Practice – N19085
This course presents the history and controversies of the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) as the minimum entry into practice designation. The course reviews various perspectives related to the BSN as a gateway to enter clinical practice as a registered nurse (RN), as well as the long history of support and recommendations from various entities moving this initiative forward.
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A National Tragedy: Never Shake a Baby – N33917
Course expiration date: 6/2/2023
This course reviews the significance of pediatric abusive head trauma (PAHT), also known as shaken baby syndrome, and its cause, pathophysiology, risk factors, identification, and care strategies. Children less than 2 years of age are at the highest risk for this preventable and irreversible injury. Knowledge of risk, case identification, and care strategies are important to good evaluation and treatment.
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Acute Care Management of Stroke – N25307
Course expiration date: 9/30/2022
This course provides nurses with the latest information about stroke including updates in anatomy and assessment and management of the stroke patient in the acute care setting.
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Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: The Role of CT Angiography – N18976
Chest pain is a common complaint in the emergency department and requires meticulous history, exam and work-up. While chest pain may be due to non-cardiac complaints such as pulmonary embolism, the healthcare team must correctly identify when a patient is experiencing or at risk of developing acute coronary syndrome. This course is geared toward nurses interested in learning more about cardiac imaging for complaints of chest pain in the emergency department with a focus on computer tomography angiography.
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Addiction: When Patients Can’t Just Quit” – N19223″
Course expiration date: 7/18/2021
This course covers the epidemiology, causes and risk factors of addiction. It discusses the diagnosis of substance use disorders and offers a brief overview of medications used to treat withdrawal. The course gives detailed information on the medications used to treat opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder and tobacco use disorder.
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Advanced Practice Nurses Guidelines for Safe and Effective Controlled Substance Prescribing – N28835
Course expiration date: 9/20/2022
This course provides an overview of the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances for advanced practice nurses and all nurses who are responsible for the safe and effective prescribing practices for controlled substances. The course presents three of the most common disease states that warrant more frequent prescribing of controlled substances.
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America’s Illicit Drug Crisis – N20728
Course expiration date: 12/5/2021
This course provides an overview of select illicit substances and their use in the United States, signs and symptoms of these drugs use as well as immediate and long-term interventions.
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An Epidemic: Vaping and E-Cigarette Use in Teens and Young Adults – N29557
Course expiration date: 10/7/2022
This course will familiarize nurses with the current epidemic of vaping, including the types of chemical and drug exposures that may occur with vaping, health consequences, and strategies to curb the use of vaping. The course includes steps that have been taken to curb this epidemic and strategies the health care community can implement to safeguard against vaping.
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An Overview of Dietary Supplements for Nurses
Course expiration date: 1/11/2024
Nurses in many practice settings are likely to encounter patients that are using dietary supplements – some appropriately – whereas in other instances, not. This course is designed to provide an overview of these products that will empower nurses to guide their usage safely and effectively. Dietary supplements of many types are widely used by Americans. As a result, it is likely that nurses, in a variety of settings, will encounter patients who use these products.
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An Overview of Geriatric Care – N33531
Course expiration date: 4/18/2023
This course presents common health conditions, care needs, and concerns associated with aging, including issues related to elder abuse, age-related memory changes and disease processes, and end-of-life issues.
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Antibiotic Resistant Diseases: New Clinical Challenges – N25306
Course expiration date: 7/8/2022
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Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Therapy – N19048
Course expiration date: 7/13/2021
This educational program illustrates the critical role of blood clotting in maintaining vasculature integrity and various pathologies that can result when inappropriate coagulation occurs. An overview is provided giving insight to the use of representative antiplatelet, anticoagulation and thrombolytic agents to counter improper clotting.
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Anxiety and Panic – N25305
Course expiration date: 5/20/2022
Stress and anxiety are very prevalent in today’s society. This course describes information provided by the DSM-5 regarding panic disorder, its incidence, prevalence, risk factors, impact, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care for the adult client affected by panic disorder.
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Anxiety Disorders: Recognition and Management – N8757
Anxiety is an emotion that is experienced universally: Anxiety disorders are among the most commonly diagnosed mental health conditions in the United States population. It is more than probable that all nurses will, at some time in their careers, care for a patient with an anxiety disorder. The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with up-to-date information about the most common anxiety disorders, criteria for diagnosis, differentiation of levels of anxiety, appropriate assessment and screening tools for patients that present with anxiety, communication tips for working with anxious clients, and non pharmacologic and pharmacologic treatments commonly used for anxiety.
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Assault: It’s Not in My Job Description – N18977
Healthcare workers dedicate their lives to the care and the treatment of their patients. In doing so, they sometimes must put their own safety and health at risk. In 2013, it was estimated that there were 9,200 nonfatal violence-related injuries among healthcare workers. Over the past decade, healthcare workers have accounted for up to 2/3 of violent workplace injuries—a total of more than 67% of all industries and professions—that resulted in time off from work. This education program provides information on how to identify potentially violent patients, describes techniques to manage patients with violent behavior, and discusses interventions to encourage a safe work environment.
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Assessing and Preventing Falls – N32056
Course expiration date: 1/30/2023
This course provides information that facilitates the development and initiation of a fall assessment program that includes preventive strategies to safeguard patients and others from the danger of falling.
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Assessment and Prevention of Suicide for Healthcare Professionals
Course expiration date: 12/15/2023
This course is intended for all healthcare professionals who care for individuals and veterans at-risk for suicide or who are survivors of suicide. The course discusses the background, statistical data, etiology, risk factors for, and treatment and management of suicide in the United States. Risk of imminent harm with communication strategies is presented with a special focus on the veteran and healthcare workers populations.
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Assessment of Pain in Special Populations – N21710
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course provides the learner with knowledge about pain and nursing care for premature infants, older adults, and patients with developmental delays. The course also presents the pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of acute and chronic pain for patients in these special populations. With this knowledge, the learner will be able to educate diverse patient groups about pain and advocate for safe and effective pain treatment based upon scientific evidence.
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Autoimmune Diseases and Pregnancy – N19410
Autoimmune diseases affect a great deal of the population,women more so than men. A good number of these individuals desire pregnancy and childbirth, but their autoimmune conditions present challenges to pregnancy. Most autoimmune diseases improve during pregnancy and worsen postpartum, but some women still experience symptoms or flares during their pregnancies.
This educational course provides the background, diagnoses and testing, as well as the effects on conception, pregnancy, delivery, postpartum, and breastfeeding considerations for patients with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, and antiphospholipid syndrome.
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Back to School: Nutritional Requirements for School Age Children – N29563
Course expiration date: 10/8/2022
This course provides nurses with evidence-based approaches for identifying the nutritional requirements for school-aged children. Additionally, factors that contribute to pediatric nutritional issues with solutions for management are presented.
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Basic ECG Recognition and Interpretation – N31978
Course Expiration Date: 3/2/2023
This course provides an overview of the most common, basic non-life-threatening rhythms to refresh your knowledge and increase confidence in your rhythm interpretation skills. The course reviews the normal sinus rhythms and the most common cardiac dysrhythmias to help you better understand the effects dysrhythmias have on patients and recommended nursing interventions.
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Basic Psychiatric Concepts in Nursing – N21711
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course presents nurses with a basic overview of psychiatric disorders, discussing the current trends in diagnosis, treatment modalities, and medications. The course covers therapeutic communication skills and cultural variances in the way mental illness is perceived and treated in adults and children.
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Beyond the Basics: Implications for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) – N21946
Atrial fibrillation is a common healthcare problem. This course reviews the concepts of cardiac output, risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF), classifications of AF, the pearls of obtaining a history and physical of a patient with AF, diagnostic testing, and the overall implications for pharmacologic management. Prescribing guidelines will be presented in subsequent courses. Nursing considerations and evidence-based practice guidelines are included in this course.
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Cancer in Women, 4th Edition – N5291
Course expiration date: 6/11/2023
This course provides nurses with evidence-based information to inform their practice when caring for women with a diagnosis of cancer, helping them to better understand the major cancers that affect women and the nursing care needs of these women and their families. Its comprehensive content serves as a foundation for competent and state-of-the-art nursing practice. The course covers the epidemiology of cancer in women, the impact of genetics and precision medicine in cancer care, psychosocial ramifications of cancer care, complementary medicine in cancer care, and reliable resources for patients and nurses and a discussion of the risk factors, diagnostic evaluation, and current treatments in breast, gynecologic, colon, lung, and skin cancers.
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Cardiac Complications in Long-Term Care: Detect the Subtle Clues – N18968
Course expiration date: 5/21/2021
Approximately 5 percent of the older populationlives in nursing homes, congregate care (in an assisted-living environment withmeals and special services provided), assisted-living, or board-and-carefacilities. This is expected to increase to 25 percent as people age and haveadditional comorbidities. With the growing agingpopulation, nurses in all areas, but particularly in long-term care (LTC)facilities, will need to be familiar with gerontology and the subtlepresentations of health-care problems, including cardiac status, in this agegroup. The goal of this continuing education offering is to provide nurses withcurrent information about caring for long-term care residents withhigh-risk cardiac complications.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluating the Patient with Elevated Troponin: Case Study Approach – N19007
Troponins have long since been the preferred biomarker of choice in detecting cardiac injury as seen in myocardial infarctions (MIs). The history and clinical context remain crucial in helping to identify the cause of the troponin rise; however, in most cases it is primarily the serial trend of the troponin levels, EKGs, and imaging that lead to a diagnosis. It is imperative that nurses are able to incorporate analysis of troponin levels into their assessment of patients with compromised cardiovascular systems.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluation of Abdominal Pain, A Case Study Approach – N19008
Abdominal pain is a common reason patients present in an acute-care setting, representing around 10 million emergency department visits in 2013, according to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Abdominal pain can be accompanied by other symptoms or may exist in isolation. Using a case study approach, this education program provides information to help nurses accurately evaluate abdominal pain and take appropriate nursing action.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Fatigue, a Case Study Approach – N18979
Course expiration date: 6/13/2021
Fatigue is a very broad andgeneral symptom that can be present in a host of diseases. It is present inhealthy and nonhealthy individuals alike, and there is no one event that causesit. Most people do not seek acute medical attention for fatigue. However,fatigue can be representative of a serious underlying condition, and it isimportant to stress to patients that prolonged symptoms of fatigue, despiteadequate rest, nutrition, and perceived health should not be ignored. Thiseducation program uses a case study approach to help nurses evaluate fatigueand intervene effectively.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluating Cough, A Case Study Approach – N18983
According to the most recent National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey in 2013, a chief complaint of cough represented around five million visits to the emergency department per year (Rui, Kang, & Albert, 2013). It is imperative that nurses are able to thoroughly and accurately assess cough. This course provides information about the clinical significance of cough, how to assess patients who present with cough, and how to facilitate the diagnostic process pertaining to cough.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluating Shortness of Breath, A Case Study Approach – N11577
Most people associate chest pain with heart-related conditions, but in many instances, it is related to other causes. Only 30 percent of patients presenting with chest pain have a cardiac origin for the pain. This education program is written in a case study format to help nurses accurately evaluate chest pain and intervene appropriately.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluating Syncope, A Case Study Approach – N11579
Most people associate chest pain with heart-related conditions, but in many instances, it is related to other causes. Only 30 percent of patients presenting with chest pain have a cardiac origin for the pain. This education program is written in a case study format to help nurses accurately evaluate chest pain and intervene appropriately.
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Cardiac Special Topics: Evaluation of Chest Pain, A Case Study Approach – N8867
Most people associate chest pain with heart-related conditions, but in many instances, it’s related to other causes. Only 30% of patients presenting with chest pain have a cardiac origin for the pain. This course is written in a case study format to help nurses accurately evaluate chest pain and intervene appropriately.
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Cardiovascular Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Care, 2nd Edition – N2111
Course release date: 7/1/2020
Course expiration date: 7/1/2023
About the Course
With the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, nurses must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to aid in promoting health and cardiovascular disease reduction. This comprehensive course provides information to support nurses working across all healthcare settings who care for patients at risk for or that already have cardiovascular disease. Beginning with a foundation of cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, the course then progresses into the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease. The content presented in the cardiovascular medications and risk factors chapter is referenced throughout the course as cardiovascular disease processes are discussed. Nursing application points in the clinical setting are integrated throughout to help in identifying key issues in the care of patients with cardiovascular disease.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of the basic structures of the heart and their physiological functions.
- Discuss the impact that epidemiology and behavioral/nonbehavioral risk factors have on the development of cardiovascular disease.
- Identify the significance of the comprehensive cardiovascular health history and physical examination.
- Discuss ways pharmacology is used to improve myocardial performance and increase myocardial oxygen supply for acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases.
- Discuss ways surgical interventions and implantable cardiac devices are used to improve cardiac performance for acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases.
- Differentiate acute from chronic cardiovascular diseases.
- Discuss the nursing considerations for common acute cardiovascular disease management throughout the continuum of presentation, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Discuss the nursing considerations associated with cardiovascular revascularization therapies and implantable devices.
About the Authors:
Leanne H. Fowler, DNP, MBA, AGACNP-BC, CNE, is an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and serves as the Director of Nurse Practitioner Programs at Louisiana State University Health – New Orleans, School of Nursing. Dr. Fowler has more than 13 years of nursing experience with specialty certification as a Critical Care RN and over five years’ experience as an AGACNP in Hospital and Emergency Medicine.
Sherry L. Rivera DNP, APRN, ANP-C, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner and an Instructor of Clinical Nursing at Louisiana State University Health – New Orleans, School of Nursing. Dr. Rivera has more than 29 years of nursing experience and more than six years as an ANP in nephrology practice.
Kendra M. Barrier, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, is the Assistant Dean for Student Services at Louisiana State University Health – New Orleans, School of Nursing. Dr. Barrier has more than 19 years of nursing experience, including nine years as an emergency room nurse and five in intensive care where she developed expertise in cardiac emergency care.
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Care, Compassion, and End-of-Life Issues – N33915
Course expiration date: 4/9/2023
The principles of end-of-life care focus on providing the best possible care and emotional support for patients and families with compassion and respect for the dignity of the patient. This course presents information regarding standards and competencies of palliative nursing practice, body changes as death nears, physical comfort measures at the end-of-life, factors relating to advance directives, and cultural considerations when providing end-of-life care.
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Challenges in Attaining and Maintaining Good Nutrition – N32640
Course Expiration Date: 2/21/2023
Teaching healthcare consumers about nutrition is an essential component of health maintenance and illness prevention and is within the nurse’s scope of practice. This course provides current information about nutrition best practices, as well as recommendations related to weight reduction and select eating disorders.
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Challenges in Managing Foodborne Illness: A Public Health Concern – N28905
Course expiration date: 10/16/2022
Nurses who interact with patients of all ages should be familiar with the assessment and teaching that is essential to prevention and treatment of foodborne illnesses. This course focuses on the significance of the problem, identification of the illness, treatments, nursing interventions, and – most significantly – prevention.
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Challenges in Pain Assessment and Management – N33536
Course expiration date: 3/20/2023
This course provides nurses with an overview of the physiology of pain and the differences between acute and chronic pain, focusing on assessment, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities, and the challenge of pain management for the persons experiencing pain.
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Child Abuse: Identification, Management, and Reporting – N32055
Course expiration date: 1/15/2023
This course presents the most common types of abuse, characteristics of each type of abuse, signs and symptoms, risk factors, and management of abuse. An overview of policies in the United States toward abuse and mandated reporting of child abuse is presented. The course will help nurses recognize the signs of child abuse so they can intervene in a timely manner to help save a child’s life.
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Childhood Obesity, 2nd Edition – N1759
Course expiration date: 8/31/2021
This course examines the complexities of assessing, preventing, and treating childhood obesity and includes nutritional recommendations across the pediatric age span and evidence-based treatment interventions. With an emphasis on addressing children at highest risk and the variety of factors that can influence obesity, the course also reviews family relationships and their role in obesity, as well as the role of media and marketing. Behavioral counseling and how it can be used to motivate patients and families to make changes is addressed.
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Childhood Obesity: Health Effects and Approaches to Treatment, 2nd Edition – N21713
Course expiration date: 8/31/2021
This course provides nurses with a comprehensive overview of the scope, health effects, and approaches to treatment of childhood obesity. Assessments for obesity, associated medical conditions, and the challenges clinicians face when promoting prevention strategies are discussed.
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Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment from Conception to Adolescence, 2nd Edition – N21714
Course expiration date: 11/30/2021
This course reviews factors from the prenatal period through late adolescence that contribute to obesity. Provides nutritional information for children in each developmental stage. Discusses family food choices, modeling behaviors, and evidence-based treatment approaches.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Identification and Drug Therapies – N29658
Course expiration date: 8/13/2022
This course provides a detailed review of the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for advanced practice nurses who have responsibilities that encompass all aspects of primary and specialized care.
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Chronic Pain: A National Problem – N23761
Course expiration date: 2/15/2022
This course provides current information about the pathophysiology of pain, the differences between acute and chronic pain, chronic pain assessment, and chronic pain management.
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Clinical Advances in Oral Antihyperglycemic Medication and Insulin Pump Therapies – N28950
Course expiration date: 11/20/2022
This medication rich course is for all nurses and advanced nurse practitioners responsible for prescribing oral antihyperglycemic medications and managing patients with diabetes. The course provides the latest in oral antihyperglycemic medications and treatment options, including insulin pump therapies.
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Clinical Update: Measles, Mumps and Rubella – N29559
Course expiration date: 11/14/2022
This course provides an update on the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) diseases; immunizations; treatments; and prevention of spread. Includes nursing interventions and teaching information for all nurses interacting with children and adults.
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Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
Course expiration date: 2/28/2022
The purpose of this course is to help nurses identify normal-aging memory changes compared to various types of dementia. This course provides specific nursing interventions used to assist the caregiver of the person with dementia, describes side effects that may occur with psychotropic medications, and identifies problems that dementia encompasses which are often challenging and exhausting for caregivers.
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Common Outdoor-Related Issues – N31977
Course expiration date: 1/2/2023
This course focuses on helping nurses expand their knowledge and improve patient care for those persons dealing with season-related disorders, outdoor disorders, and injuries.
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Communicating Effectively and Therapeutically with Patients with Mental Health Disorders – N19047
Course expiration date: 6/13/2021
This course reviews the techniques of therapeutic communication and presents best strategies for using these techniques when working with individuals who have mental health disorders.
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Communication and Team Building: A Patient Safety Consideration – N26584
Course expiration date: 5/20/2022
This course provides practical strategies that enhance professional communication and improve team functioning in the actual work setting.
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Communication in Healthcare – N21876
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course discusses the fundamentals of communication science, impediments to effective communication in healthcare settings, and evidence-based strategies to improve communication with patients. The course also presents nurses with evidence-based strategies to improve the effectiveness of their communication with patients, families, and colleagues.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) 101 for Nursing Professionals – N34861
Course expiration date: 9/11/2021
Coronavirus, caused by COVID-19, is a rapidly developing disease. As this disease continues to expand and engulf communities across the United States, it is critical that healthcare professionals become informed of the national standards of care provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other authorative agencies. This course provides the latest standardized information that is known about the identification, care, and prevention of the disease.
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COVID-19 Loss, Grief, and Bereavement – N44138
Course expiration date: 10/20/2023
This course is for healthcare professionals who want to identify ways to support grieving individuals because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Characteristics that influence COVID-19 grief, bereavement, and mourning are identified. Policies such as social distancing may mitigate the impact of contracting the virus but increase risk factors for mental health issues and complicated grief (prolonged grief disorder). The course presents major theories and models of mourning as they relate to coping with COVID-19 ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief.
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Crisis Resource Management for Nurses – N23099
After completing this course, the learner will be able to discuss how crisis resource management principles can be applied during an emergent situation.
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Depression: A Major Public Health Concern
About the Course
This course provides current, evidence-based information about depression for nurses from a variety of backgrounds. This includes: depression as an illness; the diagnostic criteria for different depression disorders; suicidal ideation and how to intervene; genetics and the brain; bipolar illness; the mechanisms of action of antidepressants, including potential adverse events and special considerations for the use of different medications; models of depression; different treatment approaches to help patients with depression; chronic illness and depression; substance use; anxiety disorders related to depression; and depression in special populations.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Relate the impact of depression on individuals and society, the cost and causes of depression, and the effects of depression stigmatization.
- Describe the symptoms of depressive disorders, the diagnostic categories, and the criteria for each disorder.
- Describe suicide and the power it has on individuals, families, and friends.
- Describe the influences of genetics and how the brain affects depression disorders.
- Identify key signs and symptoms of the diagnosis of bipolar and related disorders.
- Discuss the different theoretical models for explaining depression and bipolar disorders.
- Describe the actions of psychotropic medications to treat depressive, bipolar, and related disorders.
- Describe the treatment approaches to help patients suffering from depressive disorders or bipolar disorder.
- Contrast chronic illness with depression.
- Describe substance use disorders.
- Describe anxiety disorders and their relationships to depression.
- Describe the challenges and issues that special patient populations with depression and other mental health issues experience.
About the Author:
Reg Arthur Williams, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN
Reg Arthur Williams, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, is professor emeritus at the School of Nursing and Psychiatry, Medical School at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor of science in nursing in 1968 and then reported to activity duty in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Naval Hospitals in Pensacola, Florida, and St. Albans, New York. After active duty, he received his master’s degree in psychosocial nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1973 and then taught at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Psychosocial Nursing. He completed his PhD in higher education in 1980 and became chair of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at University of Michigan, where he taught undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. As a board-certified clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner in the state of Michigan, he continues to carry a small caseload of patients at the University of Michigan Depression Center, where he provides psychotherapy and medication management. He has conducted research on depression and was the principal investigator in research funded over a 15-year period by the Department of Defense, TriService Nursing Research Program, to examine stress and depression among young men and woman in military service. He has written four books and authored more than 80 journal publications.
Course release date: 2/21/2019
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
This course provides current, evidence-based information about depression for nurses from a variety of backgrounds. This includes: depression as an illness; the diagnostic criteria for different depression disorders; suicidal ideation and how to intervene; genetics and the brain; bipolar illness; the mechanisms of action of antidepressants, including potential adverse events and special considerations for the use o
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Diabetes Essentials for Nurses, 3rd Edition – N2110
Course release date: 2/26/2019
Course expiration date: 2/26/2022
About the Course
This course provides a comprehensive overview of diabetes for nurses practicing in a variety of settings to provide safe, evidence-based care. With this knowledge, nurses can assist patients with diabetes in learning successful self-management practices and becoming more aware of resources to help reduce the risk of long-term complications, thus improving their quality of life. Effective self-management requires that nurses learn the body of knowledge relevant to the disease state, weigh the benefits and risks of various medication options, understand a range of interventions/treatments that improve diabetes outcomes, and help patients develop skills (both physical and behavioral) to support these choices. With the management of diabetes becoming increasingly involved, keeping up to date on new treatment options and standards is critical as nurses play a major role in diabetes prevention, care, and management.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Describe the mechanisms of normal glucose metabolism and the physiologic changes and expected signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus.
- Discuss goals and strategies for including healthy meal planning.
- Discuss the role of physical activity and exercise in diabetes.
- Discuss current pharmacologic strategies used in managing diabetes and relevant nursing considerations.
- Discuss the use of insulin and injectable therapies.
- Discuss surveillance and monitoring techniques for optimal diabetes management and control.
- Discuss the use of complementary and alternative medicine.
- Discuss the major acute and chronic complications of diabetes and strategies for risk reduction.
- Recognize how illness affects blood glucose control and the strategies used for sick-day management.
- Discuss the emotional responses faced by patients living with diabetes.
- Describe teaching considerations to facilitate health behavior change.
- Identify issues related to diabetes management in the older adult population.
About the Author:
James A. Fain, PhD, RN, BC-ADM, FAADE, FAAN, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Graduate School of Nursing in Worcester, MA. He’s the recipient of the Allene Van Son Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Diabetes Educators and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Fain is board-certified in advanced diabetes management and is currently editor-in-chief of The Diabetes Educator, the official journal of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
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Diabetes in Children, 4th Edition – N2103
Course release date: 8/1/2020
Course expiration date: 8/1/2023
About the Course
Diabetes mellitus, both type 1 and type 2, is a complex, chronic metabolic disease that is becoming increasingly common in children. Nurses are increasingly functioning within an interprofessional team to provide chronic disease management in the chronic care model to improve outcomes in youth with diabetes. This course presents the complex metabolic, developmental, emotional, and social implications for a child with diabetes and the family. The course discusses the unique considerations for this population to help the nurse provide supportive and flexible care. Also critically important is the nurse’s role in providing education to the parents or caregivers, as well as education appropriate to the child’s developmental level.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this courrse, the learner will be able to:
- Review the primary care practices for the prevention and early recognition of diabetes in children.
- Describe the treatment and complications of acute hyperglycemia.
- Describe the pharmacologic management and treatment goals for children with diabetes.
- Describe the application of teaching, learning, and the adherence of diabetes self-management.
- Explain the various medical nutrition therapies for children with diabetes.
- Describe the major health benefits of physical activity for individuals with diabetes.
- Discuss the patterns and management of using glucose data to achieve glycemic targets.
- Recognize the patterns and use management strategies to manage hyperglycemia and hyperglycemia.
- Discuss the four major types of diabetic complications as well as the modifiable risk factors for each.
- Discuss the scope and implementation of using insulin pumps in pediatric diabetes.
- Describe the major medical and legal guidelines involved in caring for children with diabetes in school and daycare settings.
About the Author:
Cindy K. Lybarger, APRN, CDE
Cindy K. Lybarger, APRN, CDE, has been a pediatric nurse for over 30 years and a nurse practitioner for over 20 years. She began her career as a pediatric critical care nurse and has worked as a staff nurse, nurse educator, and clinical nurse specialist and is currently in full-time practice as a family nurse practitioner, diabetes educator, and diabetes program coordinator in the Children’s Diabetes Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Ms. Lybarger holds a faculty appointment in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology. She participates in an annual conference for school nurses, presents at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing to pediatric nurse practitioner students about managing diabetes in children, and actively precepts nurse practitioner students.
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Diabetes Mellitus: A Life-Changing Disease – N20089
Course expiration date: 11/8/2021
Approximately 30.3 million people of all ages in the UnitedStates had diabetes in 2015; this figureincludes 30.2 million adults 18 years of age and older. However, 7.2 million ofthese people were not aware of or did not report having the disease (Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention, 2018a). According to the World HealthOrganization (WHO) (2017), the number of people with diabetes throughout theworld has increased from 108 million people in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Clearly,diabetes is a significant health problem in the United States and throughoutthe world. It is imperative that the health care community take aggressivesteps to reduce the number of Americans who have the disease as well asproviding more effective treatment so that persons with diabetes can enjoytheir maximum quality of life. This education program presents information onboth the impact of the disease and how to provide effective nursing care tothose affected.
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Diagnosis and Management of Tick-Borne Illness – N33534
Course release date: 4/21/2020
Course expiration date: 4/21/2023
This course reviews the epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, workup, and management of three tick-borne conditions increasing in prevalence around the United States: Lyme disease, Powassan virus, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The course will help nurses distinguish between these tick-borne diseases and viral illness or erythematous rashes. Additionally, the course reviews post-Lyme disease syndrome, treatment of Lyme disease coinfections, and prevention of tick attachment.
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Diseases and Disorders of the Integumentary System – N19287
The integumentary system is the largest system in the body. Diseases of this system range from mildly annoying to serious and even life-threatening. It is imperative that nurses accurately assess the integumentary system, recognize diseases of the skin, and intervene to effectively facilitate treatment. This program will help nurses to improve their abilities in assessment, disease recognition, and treatment facilitation.
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Disorders of the Gastrointestinal System – N25299
Course expiration date: 11/11/2022
Diseases and disorders of the gastrointestinal system affect millions of individuals each year. This course reviews many of the more common problems, and presents patient assessment needs, current treatments, and best practices for nursing care.
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Documentation for Nurses, 3rd Edition – N1882
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course explores the underlying purposes of documentation, professional and regulatory requirements and processes, and best practices for adequate documentation to accurately reflect the patient’s severity of illness and transition for care.
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Domestic Violence in the United States – N21244
This course will provide information about the prevalence of domestic violence and the impact it has on individual patients and on society. Different forms of domestic violence and the sequelae on selected populations’ health care will be discussed. Also, national laws will be reviewed to enhance the reader’s knowledge on the resources available and the legal issues encountered by victims of domestic violence.
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Drug Abuse Crisis in America – N20397
Course expiration date: 11/26/2021
This course provides the statusof drug misuse in the United States and presents common substances, triggers,and interventions that are proving to have successful impacts.
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End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition – N23208
Course expiration date: 11/30/2021
This course presents essential information for nurses providing palliative and hospice care to seriously ill and dying patients and their families. Content on advanced care planning helps nurses become better communicators with patients and fosters a better understanding of the different settings and eligibility requirements for palliative and hospice care. Misconceptions and barriers to providing end-of-life care are also discussed.
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Erectile Dysfunction (ED): Drug Treatment Options – N29894
Course expiration date: 8/28/2022
This course provides thorough information to promote the understanding of this condition. In turn, this will greatly contribute to their patients’ sexual health and quality of life. As primary health care professionals, it is imperative that APNs clearly understand the pathology of ED and steps to reduce its impact.
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Essentials of Trauma Nursing, 2nd Edition – N1880
Course expiration date: 11/30/2021
This course provides nurses working in the trauma care continuum with current evidence-based practice in the initial assessment, interventions, and evaluation of the trauma patient. Concepts of trauma systems, triage, trauma to specific anatomic regions, psychosocial aspects of trauma care, and care of the recovering trauma patient are discussed.
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing – N29565
Course expiration date: 1/16/2023
This course will help nurses deal with many of the ethical issues they face in their professional practice, as well as legal considerations that may make an impact on the ethical issues of patient care.
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Facing Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing – N23767
Course expiration date: 4/10/2022
Legal issues in nursing are based on legislation, practice standards, and licensure. Ethical issues, on the other hand, are often based on subjective values of “right” and “wrong.” This course will help nurses deal with many of the ethical issues they face in their professional practice, as well as legal considerations that may impact on ethical issues of patient care.
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FDA Programs for Medication Safety – N33922
Course expiration date: 5/15/2023
This course provides an overview of available U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medication safety information, including drug labeling, black box warnings, Medication Guides, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMSs) programs, and available FDA medication safety communication and information for nurses and patients.
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Fundamentals of Mentorship – N44134
Course expiration date: 11/25/2023
This course explores the fundamentals of mentorship, offering insight into a phenomenon that supports and strengthens our development as professionals, motivates us to expand our capacities, and inspires us to reach our aspirations – in other words, to help us do all that we can.
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Fundamentals of Telehealth: Registered Nursing Practice in the Virtual Care Environment – N29561
Course expiration date: 5/13/2023
This course explores the basic telehealth concepts and technology applicable to the registered nursing telehealth arena, examining the role of the telehealth nurse, paying attention to legal and regulatory concerns, and temporary changes to regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course discusses how telehealth can be used in disasters, emergencies, epidemics, and pandemics and concludes with a review of the competencies for nursing telehealth practice so nurses can be knowledgeable and effective.
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Geriatric Syndromes
Course expiration date: 2/28/2022
This course discusses how to differentiate among the various geriatric syndromes, identify risk factors for falls and prevention methods, compare pressure treatment strategies and outcomes, and recognize the nutritional risks and preventions for older adults.
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Healthy Aging, 3rd Edition – N2104
Course release date: 5/12/2020
Course expiration date: 5/12/2023
About the Course
It is astounding to think that a little more than 100 years ago, the average life expectancy was 48 years. With the amazing advances in science, technology, and overall living conditions during the last century, the older adult population has grown substantially. Being aware of shifting demographics, leading causes of death and related preventive measures, and how to support seniors in adopting healthy behaviors is key to being able to maximally support the elders of the population to enjoy healthy living and aging. This course provides nurses and healthcare professionals with the additional knowledge to help encourage, teach, and guide older adults to actively practice healthy lifestyles for optimal living. The course presents the needs of the older adult patient to help healthcare professionals develop person-centered plans to provide satisfactory care and improve patient outcomes. Additionally, the course will set the stage for developing a healthier society for all to age well and successfully.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Examine key concepts for healthy living.
- Compare and contrast the key attributes for supporting the older adult to stay healthy.
- Examine the common health conditions associated with aging.
- Evaluate essential components of providing high-quality healthcare for older adults.
- Analyze key elements that constitute a safe environment for older adults.
Dianne L. Haas, PhD, RN, independent senior consultant, is a tenured healthcare professional with over 50 years of experience in the industry, serving in clinical, business, educational, research, and consulting roles. Her passion, experience, and education provide her with a strong background in the provision of high-quality consulting services. Dr. Haas has served in an educator role to nurses, healthcare administrators, physicians, health information management, and clinical documentation improvement staff, and most recently, senior citizens and their families who are seeking health advocacy support. She participates as a member of the Medical Care Advisory Committee for the State of Michigan, which provides advice to the director of the Michigan Medicaid program. She also serves as patient- and family-centered care adviser to Michigan Medicine for the University of Michigan Health System.
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Helping the Patient Who is Obese Find Success, 3rd Edition – N2105
Course release date: 2/25/2019
Course expiration date: 2/25/2022
About the Course
Two thirds of the adult population in the U.S. are overweight and more than one third are obese. Nurses are positioned to help obese patients develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle, thus reducing and preventing further developments of obesity and comorbidities. This course provides nurses with expert knowledge including communication techniques to foster therapeutic relationships to help patients manage their health and weight, meet their weight loss goals, and overcome obesity. The course reviews the topic of obesity, its etiology, and the associated health risks and techniques for assessing the patient’s specific problems. The course integrates learning with case studies and presents tools to apply concepts of behavioral factors, goal setting, and a supportive environment to help patients maintain success.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Define obesity and outline the methods used to measure obesity in adults and children.
- Identify risk factors and health consequences associated with obesity.
- Describe techniques used to measure resting metabolic rate, physical activity, and fitness.
- Identify the most common theories of behavior that relate to healthy weight management.
- Describe communication strategies that foster a therapeutic relationship with the patient.
- Identify evidence-based approaches to dietary modification.
- Describe non-dieting philosophies for obesity management.
- Describe the clinical application of pharmacotherapy and the use of commercial weight-loss supplements.
- Describe bariatric surgery and other treatment options for severe obesity.
- Discuss the means to facilitate lifelong weight loss maintenance in patients with obesity.
About the Author:
Wayne C. Miller, PhD, is the Dean of the College of Science, Department of Nursing, at Morehead State University. Dr. Miller was the program director for the Center for Rural and Community Health at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, where he also taught nutrition and physiology courses. Dr. Miller has published more than 70 research articles on obesity and metabolism and has authored ten books. Dr. Miller was the clinical director of three weight loss centers and continues to counsel patients who are overweight.
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HIV/AIDS 2021 Update: Prevention, Transmission and Treatment – N46740
Course expiration date: 12/17/2023
It is imperative that all healthcare professionals work to prevent HIV transmission and facilitate treatment among those infected. This course is designed to enhance healthcare personnel’s knowledge of the HIV/AIDS infection and provide information about the incidence of HIV/AIDS, prevalence, transmission, prevention, and treatments.
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Holistic and Integrative Nursing: Elements of Practice – N1815
Course expiration date: 8/31/2021
This course incorporates the five elements of practice defined as vital – energy, fire, air, water, earth, and ether – that have endured for centuries and provided a structural focus for sickroom management, creating healing environments, and the nursing care of whole patients. The course provides nurses with a broad understanding of how the five elements of practice are relevant today and guide them through the application of these elements to practice using various healing modalities. This in-depth understanding will provide a new perspective on clinical care, practice management, and quality of life for both the patient and the nurse.
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Home Health Care: An Overview for Nurses – N26526
Course expiration date: 10/25/2022
The course is intended for both new and experienced home health nurses, as well as those nurses who may be interested in pursuing a career in home health or who may work closely with home health agencies. The course reviews current trends driving and affecting home care, home care agency structure, and home health nurse attributes and skills. It also reviews the Medicare home health regulations and reimbursement system, home health nursing standards of practice, and home health quality and performance improvement initiatives.
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Horizontal Violence in the Workplace – N22527
Course expiration date: 1/28/2022
Bullying and horizontal violence in the workplace occurs far too often. Whether between professionals of a single discipline or among different disciplines, the consequences of bullying and horizontal violence are the same. This course will provide an overview of horizontal violence, characteristics of both abusers and victims, and how to reduce the prevalence of horizontal violence in the workplace.
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Human Trafficking – N29555
Course expiration date: 10/8/2022
This course discusses the scope of human trafficking including risks, common characteristics, and signs and symptoms of human trafficking. Intervention approaches and resources that help prevent and advocate against human trafficking are also presented.
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Human Trafficking in the United States – N33524
Course expiration date: 4/28/2023
This course provides a sensitive review of the issue of abuse in human trafficking and how it affects patients and their families. The course presents an introduction into this complex crime, focusing on sex and labor trafficking, the common signs, symptoms, and conditions that occur in people who have been trafficked, and insights into the facts surrounding human trafficking and relevant health risks for individuals.
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Humor as a Nursing Intervention, 3rd Edition – N23210
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course examines the holistic effects of humor on the health of individuals. The course provides foundational information on humor theories and discusses the effects of humor and laughter on disease outcomes. How humor may impact immune function is also considered. Suggestions of ways to add humor as an individual or as a facility are offered.
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Humor in Healthcare: The Laughter Prescription, 3rd Edition – N1764
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course presents foundational information about therapeutic humor, the difference between humor and laughter, the history of humor in health care, how humor develops as we mature, and how humor affects the biological, psychological, and sociological health of an individual.
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Hypothyroid Disease: Finding the Underlying Problem – N11580
Hypothyroid disease is a common finding in both primary and specialty-case settings. The majority of patients with thyroid disorder are unaware of their condition. Missed or inaccurate diagnosis can put patients at risk for other serious problems.
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Infection Control: Front and Center – N24933
This course focuses on helping nurses increase their knowledge of infection control practices and to use that knowledge to improve patient care and decrease infection incidence.
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Initial Physical Assessment of the Newborn, 2nd Edition – N23211
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course provides current evidence-based recommendations on how to perform an initial assessment of the newborn.
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Interprofessional Collaboration and Teamwork – N29232
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
The course provides the historical and contextual framework with current, evidence-based information for healthcare team members on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for successful interprofessional collaboration and teamwork. Core competencies for interprofessional collaboration are discussed. Interprofessional education is critical for ensuring that nurses are prepared to collaborate with team members across disciplines once they enter clinical practice and beyond.
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Leadership Development for Staff Nurses: Creating a Strategy to Accelerate the Transition – N19009
Course expiration date: 6/20/2021
According to Maxwell (2014), a leader does not need a title to strive to make thingsbetter. Each individual has the potential to be a leader with ingrained qualitiesthat require development. What makes a person a successful leader is theability to influence others. Effective leaders establish teams with a collaborativespirit directed toward a common purpose (Kouzes &Posner, 2017a). Leadership uses practices, behaviors, and skills to lead agroup to achieve goals (Kouzes & Posner, 2017a). Challenges in thehealth-care field, such as the continued effort to improve quality and safetywhile providing efficient and cost-effective care, require staff nurses to takea leadership role. In doing so, they will help patients reach their goals aswell as effect change within the work group and the organization.
Individuals are not born leaders, but rather develop skillsto become leaders. This course provides informat
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Legal Considerations in Nursing Documentation, 3rd Edition – N23213
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
This course presents the legal aspects of nursing documentation, including the use of consent forms in patient care, documentation techniques to mitigate risk, and the necessity of incident reports to document adverse events.
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LGBT Health: Improving Access to Care and Identifying Risk Factors – N19010
Course expiration date: 5/21/2021
Thiscourse will discuss the disparities in health care and increased health risksthat exist in the LGBT population, as well as ways to provide improved care forthis community.
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LGBTQ Competency for Healthcare Professionals – N29564
Course expiration date: 11/8/2022
This course provides health care professionals best practices for management of LGBTQ individuals. The course addresses LGBTQ terminology, health risks and disparities, and statistics nationwide. It also presents ways to increase access to care for LGBTQ patients and discusses suggestions for increasing staff knowledge of, and sensitivity to, LGBTQ patients.
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Life Threatening ECG Rhythms: Recognition and Interpretation – N33533
Course expiration date: 3/1/2023
This course serves as an overview of rhythms that may be life-threatening, either immediately or over the longer term for health care providers who have an understanding of cardiac structure, function, the basic features of the most common cardiac rhythms, and basic patient assessment skills. The course reviews many life-threatening dysrhythmias and the appropriate initial nursing interventions for each. Confidence in ECG rhythm interpretation skills will help you communicate accurately with other members of the health care team and provide excellent patient care.
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Loss, Grief, and Bereavement, 4th Edition – N1881
Course expiration date: 11/30/2021
This course provides essential information that nurses can use to help individuals, families, and communities cope with loss, grief, and bereavement or reflect on issues and practices related to death. The course presents the the role of palliative and hospice care in providing the highest quality end-of-life care and content on advance care planning.
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Management of Addiction, Withdrawal, and Overdose – N35032
Course expiration date: 5/18/2023
This course is beneficial for all nurses who care for the general population, particularly populations at risk for opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose. The course reviews common terminology related to opioid use and addiction, the basic pharmacology of opioids, the roots of the opioid epidemic, the theory of prevention model, and the unique points of potential intervention to help nurses prevent, identify, and treat opioid addiction.
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Management of Drug Challenges: Generic vs. Branded Drugs – N28952
Course expiration date: 8/20/2022
This course is appropriate for all nurses and advanced practice nurses who have responsibility for managing or prescribing medications for select individuals. The course addresses the history of brand versus generic drugs, the many controversies, the science behind the preparation differences, and the cost effectiveness of preventative care when using generic versus brand name drugs.
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Managing Polypharmacy in Older Adults – N29277
Course expiration date: 12/9/2022
This course presents the concept of polypharmacy, related definitions and concepts, its incidence, predictors of polypharmacy, consequences of polypharmacy, pharmacokinetic principles that relate to the elder population, drug classes and individual medications that cause the most risk, and evidence-based strategies to prevent and manage polypharmacy. Case studies are presented allowing for the application of concepts.
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Mandatory Reporting for Dependent Adult Abuse
Course expiration date: 12/08/2023
Health care professionals are in a unique position to identify and report dependent adult abuse. This course is designed to educate nurses on dependent adult abuse dynamics, indicators and risk factors, and prevention initiatives.
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Mass Casualty: Chemical Agents – N19011
Course expiration date: 6/13/2021
This course describes the scope of chemical disaster events that may create mass casualties and the role of nurses and others in preparedness, immediate response and recovery efforts to reduce injuries and loss of life. Chemical disaster events may range from an isolated poisoning situation to a wide-spread terrorist attack involving chemicals. The course provides descriptions of priorities and preparedness for mass casualty situations and chemical disasters affecting specific clinical practice areas.
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Maternal Newborn Nursing, 6th Edition – N2106
Course release date: 1/13/2019
Course expiration date: 1/13/2022
About the Course
This course presents information for nurses caring for women, children, and families in a variety of settings. The comprehensive content provides a chronological view of a woman’s journey from conception to post-delivery, the importance of self-care, care of the newborn, and how the nursing process guides the critical role of the nurse at each stage. Some content presented may be more applicable to nurses working in specialized clinical areas.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Discuss global and national trends in childbirth and infant mortality rates and current issues in maternal and newborn nursing.
- Discuss the importance of preconception and prenatal care and the nurse’s role in promoting positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Discuss the purpose of childbirth preparation and nurses’ role.
- Discuss the forces, stages, methods of delivery, potential maternal and fetal complications that may occur during labor, and related nursing interventions.
- Discuss the causes of pain associated with labor and childbirth and pain relief options.
- Identify physiological and psychological changes that normally occur after childbirth.
- Discuss the nutritional needs of the infant, factors to consider when choosing a method of feeding.
- Discuss characteristics of the newborn, nursing interventions relative to the newborn assessment, and key topics in mother/caregiver education.
- Describe the elements postpartum follow-up examinations and patient education.
About the Authors:
Elizabeth P. West, RNC, has been practicing in labor and delivery for more than three decades and is a nursing practice specialist for labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
Christine Just, RN, MSN, CNM, is director of the Provider Council for the South Shore Health System, Weymouth, MA and works as a certified nurse midwife and consultant with 25+ years of maternity care experience.
Michelle Doran, RN, MS, has 20 years of administrative and clinical practice in pediatrics and maternal-newborn nursing in various healthcare settings and the health plan industry and has authored several articles on women and children’s health.
Patricia Hojnowski-Diaz, MS, MBA, RN, is a clinician and leader with practice experience including quality and safety, the patient experience, women’s health, and pediatric care, with leadership roles in acute care and home care settings.
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Medical Consequences of Acts of Terrorism and Disaster: A National Perspective – N23226
Terrorism has become a fact of daily life in the United States and most of the world. It is not always obvious when a disaster is a terrorist attack and not all emergencies or disasters are terrorist attacks. Understanding the basics of a disaster and/or terrorist attack, as well as the role the nurse plays in dealing with the medical consequences, syndromic surveillance/reporting requirements, and treatment, are vital to successful mitigation and response in a disaster or terrorist attack.
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Medical Errors: Can They Be Prevented? – N23759
Course expiration date: 3/11/2022
Medical errors cost the health care system millions each year. They bring heartbreak to patients and families and they can ruin a professional career in a matter of minutes. This course reviews the most prevalent and costly errors and provides background and strategies to avoid such devastating events.
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Medical Marijuana: Use and Indications – N33919
Course expiration date: 4/1/2023
This course presents the latest information about medical marijuana and is designed to help nurses understand its use, history, risks, benefits, and related best practices. The course is intended for educational purposes only and in no way, encourages, endorses, or supports the use of marijuana.
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Medicare Interactive Pro: Level I – Medicare Basics – N33556
Course expiration date: 1/15/2022
This interactive course, organized into topic-specific courses, provides a gateway to understanding Medicare. You will learn common insurance and healthcare terms, gain an understanding of Medicare eligibility requirements, and receive a broad overview of the fundamental components of Medicare.
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Medicare Interactive Pro: Level II – Medicare Coverage Rules – N33557
Course expiration date: 1/15/2022
This interactive course, organized into topic-specific courses, expands on baseline Medicare knowledge and elaborates on specific coverage rules for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D. You will develop a better understanding of Medicare enrollment periods and Medicare coverage rules and learn important differences between Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans.
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Medicare Interactive Pro: Level III – Appeals and Penalties – N33558
Course expiration date: 1/15/2022
This interactive course, organized into topic-specific courses, provides advanced learners with in-depth information on how Medicare works with other types of insurances, and how to navigate enrollment into low-income assistance programs. You will learn about Medicare coordination of benefits and how to screen Medicare beneficiaries for low-income assistance programs.
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Medicare Interactive Pro: Level IV – Other Insurance and Assistance Programs – N33559
Course expiration date: 1/15/2022
This interactive course, organized into topic-specific courses, provides advanced learners with in-depth information on how Medicare works with other types of insurances, and how to navigate enrollment into low-income assistance programs. You will learn about Medicare coordination of benefits and how to screen Medicare beneficiaries for low-income assistance programs.
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Medication Management & Risk Reduction in Assisted Living – N19041
Course expiration date: 6/13/2021
This education activity will provide an overview ofassisted-living, as well as provide readers with information that will helpthem understand important aspects of working in this health-care arena. Medicationmanagement in assisted-living communities is one of the major tasks presentedto nurses. Improper management of medications can lead to polypharmacy, adverseincidents, inappropriate behaviors, injuries, long-term irreversible damage,and even death. This course will review the tools to properly managemedications, as well as information that will help the nurse train unlicensedstaff so they can contribute to risk reduction. As the role of the nurse inassisted-living expands to include higher levels of care, the nurse must have abetter understanding of how these levels of care affect the treatmentsprovided.
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Medication Management in the Older Adult
Course expiration date: 2/28/2022
This course highlights the basic physiological changes in the body that occur with aging and presents the way aging affects how a drug is metabolized in the body and how the body responds to the drug.
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Men’s Health Overview – N29233
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
This course presents the necessary information to expand the knowledge of registered nurses and advanced practice nurses on men’s health conditions.
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Mental Health Assessment of the Pediatric Patient, 2nd Edition – N23188
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course provides an overview of common pediatric mental health issues, including descriptions of the signs and symptoms for particular conditions, indicators of a psychiatric emergency, and appropriate treatment interventions for each case presented. Early diagnosis and intervention can critically affect positive outcomes of pediatric mental health disorders, making the accurate and comprehensive assessment of the pediatric patient’s mental health a crucial component of each pediatric examination.
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MRSA Infection: National Guidelines Should Direct Treatment – N19042
Course expiration date: 5/21/2021
This course defines the significance of MRSA in multipleenvironments as well as the cost, care and prevention strategies.
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Naloxone: Understanding its Use and Effects – N30069
Course expiration date: 11/4/2022
All health care professionals (HCP) have a responsibility to understand the current opioid crisis and how they can contribute to countering this threat. All HCP who come into contact with patients have the potential to encounter individuals in danger of narcotic abuse. Awareness will facilitate an appropriate intervention. Those who may be more directly involved such as pharmacists, first responders, and emergency department personnel should consider more in-depth training. A thorough understanding of opioids, their misuse, and potential solutions to this public health issue will greatly contribute to improved patient health and quality of life.
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New Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension – N7515
This course is intended to provide a hypertension treatment overview. Safe and effective prescribing decisions must be guided by an in-depth understanding of each agent: how it works, how to dose it, anticipated adverse events, drug interactions, etc. When combination drugs are included, there may be as many as 200 different pharmacological options (both individual agents, as well as combination products) that are approved by the FDA for treatment of hypertension. As a result, this course is designed only to highlight the major categories of therapeutics by identifying key products and characterizing them as a class. In an attempt to provide perspective, an effort was made to provide highlights of clinically meaningful outcomes studies for the various drug classes.
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No Room for Error: Promoting Medication Safety – N20090
Course expiration date: 11/8/2021
This education program is intended to help nursesenhance the safety of medication administration. To do so, they must not onlyadhere to the 10 Rights of Medication Administration, but implement accreditingbody standards regarding medication safety and provide excellent patient/familyeducation so patients continue the practice of safe medication administrationat home.
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Nonopioid Analgesics – N1926
The purpose of this course is to provide the learner with current knowledge about nonopioid treatment modalities for pain. The learner will be able to discuss the pharmacologic options for the management of pain and the role of nurses in caring for patients receiving nonopioid analgesics. The learner will also be able to discuss adjuvant analgesics and the nursing role in caring for persons receiving these medications. Lastly, the learner will be able to explain the role of interventional pain therapies in acute and chronic pain, the difference between sympathetic and nonsympathetic nerve blocks, and nursing interventions for patients receiving nerve blocks.
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Nonopioid Analgesics – N29921
Course expiration date: 4/30/2021
This course provides current information about nonopioid treatment modalities for pain to help nurses both educate patients about pain and advocate for safe and effective pain treatment based upon scientific evidence. The course discusses, in detail, acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including aspirin, nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitors, and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors. Adjuvant medications including tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, botulinum toxin, and anticonvulsants are also covered. Interventional pain therapies as therapeutic pain management tools are also presented.
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Nonpharmacologic Pain Management – N22515
Course expiration date: 4/30/2021
This course provides current content for non-pharmacologic treatment modalities of acute and chronic pain, including non-pharmacologic physical and cognitive behavioral modalities for pain management and indications for these therapies. With this knowledge, nurses will be able to both educate patients about pain and advocate for safe and effective non-pharmacologic pain treatment based upon scientific evidence.
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Nurse Practitioner’s Guide to Prescribing Controlled Substances – Focus on Opioids – N19225
Course expiration date: 8/24/2021
Appropriate prescribing practices are critical for all medications, but drugs that are considered controlled substances require additional attention. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), all have a role in determining the scheduling of prescription medications. As prescribers, it is critical that nurse practitioners understand not only federal but state requirements for prescribing all controlled substances. In addition, inappropriately prescribing opioids, resulting in their misuse and abuse, has led to many changes, including new safety and quality recommendations that must be considered. This course will provide a general review of federal and state controlled substance regulations and the prescribing of all controlled substances in general, as well as focus on clinical and safety considerations when prescribing opioid medications for acute and chronic pain not related to cancer.
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Nurse’s Role in Addressing Prescription Medication Abuse – N2205
This course describes the scope of prescription medication misuse in the United States, the pharmacology of commonly abused medications and potential indicators of prescription medication abuse. This course provides intervention, treatment, and prevention strategies nurses can use when prescribing medications or treating a patient that is misusing a controlled substance.
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Nursing Care of the Older Adult, 3rd edition – N2107 N
Course release date: 1/31/2019
Course expiration date: 1/31/2022
About the Course
Nursing care of the older adult is a challenging task requiring knowledge, skill, and a desire to work with this population. This course presents the basic principles, knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to provide nursing care to older adults and their families. The course reviews the major concerns and issues facing older adults, such as chronic conditions, common clinical problems and psychosocial issues, and methods to handle these concerns. Topics presented include issues affecting older adults and viewing the patient as a holistic individual. Additionally, the course discusses and dispels some common myths of aging.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Identify significant factors that can influence the aging process and health of older adults.
- Discuss theories of aging, including normal age-related changes.
- Describe basic principles of care for nurses working with older adults.
- Describe issues associated with drug therapy in older adults and implications for safe medication practices.
- Describe geriatric syndromes and their impact on the health of the older adult.
- Identify common cognitive changes of the older adult and strategies for behavioral management.
- Describe common chronic diseases of older adulthood and their implications for nursing practice.
- Describe changes that occur to the sensory system due to aging and their implications for nursing care of the older adult.
- Identify common mental health problems in the aging population and discuss their treatment.
- Identify how psychosocial factors affect the older adult’s overall well-being and health.
- Describe the importance of prevention and rehabilitative therapies to achieve and maintain the maximum level of functioning in the older adult.
- Discuss special issues in the older adult age group.
- Explore key issues of the older adult in different care settings.
- Describe legal issues that are pertinent to the older adult.
Cheryl A. Lehman, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, RN-BC, CRRN, is the clinical coordinator for the Hill Country Mission for Health, where she oversees all clinical activities and patient care. A nurse for 38 years, her clinical experiences include medical-surgical, rehabilitation, and geriatric nursing. She is board-certified as a rehabilitation, gerontological, and clinical nurse specialist. Dr. Lehman is the immediate past president of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) and is the author and editor of the ARN Rehabilitation Nursing Core Curriculum, 7th Edition textbook. From 2010 to 2016, she served as chair of the Data Safety Management Board for the Strong Star Consortium and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD research studies on post-traumatic stress disorder (funded by the U.S. Department of Defense) through the Department of Psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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Nursing Care of the Perimenopausal Woman, 2nd Edition – N23214
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course will help nurses take an individual approach to assisting women who are progressing through menopause and provide nursing care based on the most up-to-date standards and guidelines in order to help women make appropriate lifestyle choices.
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Nursing Care of the Postmenopausal Woman, 2nd Edition – N23189
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course provides nurses with the most up-to-date standards and guidelines to help postmenopausal women make appropriate lifestyle choices.
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Nursing Documentation in the Digital Age – N29236
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course discusses how nursing documentation has evolved in the digital age, including the types of documentation and their advantages and disadvantages.
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Nursing Leadership in Today’s Healthcare Climate – N2101
Course release date: 4/1/2020
Course expiration date: 4/1/2023
About the Course
Today’s nurse leader is not only required, but expected, to work in a rapidly changing, competitive, and complex, healthcare arena – an environment that embraces and demands the use of new, cutting edge medical knowledge, expertise, technology, and informatics. Some contemporary issues that nurse leaders face include the use of a variety of settings where care is provided outside of acute-care hospitals, greater diversity in both the patient and healthcare workforce, impacts on nursing healthcare providers’ (advanced practice nurses, clinical nurse specialists, clinical nurse leaders) roles and functions, and the need for healthcare professionals to work in interprofessional teams. This course provides an overview of today’s complex healthcare arena discussing the numerous contemporary issues nurse leaders must face on a daily basis. The course presents the various healthcare environments and structures and discusses and outlines required core competencies of nurse leaders. Detailed explanations, tools, examples, and resources are provided to help the learner appreciate, develop, and apply these core competencies and skills at their own practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Discuss how specific contemporary issues in healthcare impact nurse leaders.
- Discuss how various health care delivery systems impact nurse staffing and practice models.
- Explain the core competencies that nurse leaders need in order to be proficient and why.
- Compare and contrast the stages of conflict and the models of conflict resolution.
- Explain how leadership competencies are evaluated in clinical practice.
- Analyze economic, social, and demographic forces that drive the development of healthcare organizations.
- Discuss three components of teamwork and collaboration.
Antoinette Towle, EdD, MSN, APRN, PNP-BC, SNP-BC, is an Associate Professor at Southern Connecticut State University and an American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC) Board-Certified Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). Dr. Towle has worked as a professional nurse for 30+ years within a wide variety of capacities and healthcare settings. Presently, Dr. Towle teaches both graduate and undergraduate nursing students, with a focus on nursing leadership, understanding, respecting, and appreciating cultural diversity, health promotion, and integration of these key components into clinical practice. She was the first to create and continue to lead a nursing service-learning program abroad for students in Jamaica, China, Nicaragua, Peru, and Armenia.
Maria D. Krol, DNP, MSN, RNC-NIC, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at Southern Connecticut State University. She is faculty in the graduate program teaching transforming nursing leadership through policy and advocacy. Her expertise includes a leadership role in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, Case Manager at Bridgeport Hospital and Service Coordinator for patients admitted to burn unit, vascular service, and the entire maternal-child health line. In her 25+ year career, Dr. Krol has had various roles in medical, surgical, and public health nursing and is the president of Sigma Theta Tau (STT) International Honor Society of Nursing, as well as a founding member and Past President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses-CT Chapter.
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Nursing Management of Atrial Fibrillation – N29566
Course expiration date: 1/16/2023
Atrial fibrillation is a common healthcare problem. This course reviews the concepts of cardiac output, risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF), classifications of AF, the pearls of obtaining a history and physical of a patient with AF, diagnostic testing, and the overall implications for pharmacologic management. Prescribing guidelines are presented and nursing considerations and evidence-based practice guidelines are included in the course.
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Nursing Management of Sepsis – N33521
Course expiration date: 3/12/2023
This course will provide nurses with an overview of the progression and treatment of sepsis, as well as an overview of screening tools available to recognize early signs and symptoms that will improve patient outcomes and reduce mortality associated with sepsis.
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Nursing Management of Sleep Disorders – N33923
Course Expiration Date: 5/28/2023
This course provides a basic understanding of the assessment of sleep disorders, presenting the pathophysiology of common sleep disorders and how to recognize, diagnosis, and treat these disorders found in adults.
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Obesity and Eating Disorders: Challenges for Care – N24926
Eating disorders and obesity are problems nurses confront on a regular basis. This course provides current information about the disorders, triggers, and strategies to help clients recover from eating disorders and overcome obesity and achieve and maintain a normal weight for their height and age.
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Older Adult Immunizations: A Public Health Priority – N19044
Course expiration date: 7/3/2021
Age-related illnesses are a growing economic and societal burden in the United States (US) and contribute up to 50,000 deaths annually. Ninety-five percent of these fatalities occur in the adult population. Since the development of vaccines for illness prevention and the focus on pediatric population protection, morbidity and mortality rates have declined. This has improved overall public health and has decreased resource utilization and associated costs. However, while the goals to achieve pediatric immunizations have largely been met, the adult population over age 60 has fallen significantly short of reaching national objectives for all 15 recommended vaccines. In 2010, the impact of adult hospitalization and treatment alone for four preventable disease entities, including influenza, pneumonia, herpes zoster, and pertussis, have contributed to care costs in the US that have neared $15 billion. Through a multi-faceted approach that focuses on access to care and prevention through aggressive immunization practices, benefits to our senior population can be met.
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Oncology Nursing, 4th Edition – N2108
Course release date: 2/21/2019
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
About the Course
This course presents content for nurses caring for patients with cancer in any setting and provides updated information for certification preparation. The course will empower nurses to optimize patient outcomes, by incorporating into their practice, a solid foundation in their approach to care of patients with cancer. Further specialization in the many aspects of oncology nursing care can also follow this overview.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Describe cancer trends in the United States and worldwide based on epidemiologic statistics.
- Describe risk factors for cancer development and prevention and screening methods.
- Discuss methods used to diagnose the presence of malignancy,
- Discuss cancer treatment modalities, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and selected targeted and immunologic therapies.
- Differentiate complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies and their role in the support of cancer patients during their treatments and in their overall well-being.
- Describe ethical considerations important to conducting clinical research with human subjects who have cancer.
- Recognize the most common side effects associated with cancer treatment, signs and symptoms of oncologic emergencies, and nursing interventions.
- Describe epidemiologic trends relating to lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and leukemia and other malignancies
- Discuss important aspects of survivorship care, palliative care, the hospice model, pain management, and quality-of-life and end-of-life.
About the Authors:
Marcelle Kaplan, MS, RN, CNS, is an oncology nursing consultant and a 15-year member of the Cancer Institutional Review Board of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Contributing authors:
- Karen Conley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
- Diane G. Cope, PhD, ARNP, BC, AOCNP
- Catherine Glennon, RN, MHS, NE-BC, OCN
- Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN, AGN-BC
- Tina M. Mason, MSN, APRN, AOCN, AOCNS
- Anna Liza Rodriguez, MHA, MSN, RN, OCN.
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Opioid Use in the Treatment of Chronic Pain – N23074
Caring for patients with chronic pain is both challenging and complex. This course provides details of the best practices for prescribing and managing pain when using opioids and related products. Federal and state laws are being updated and best practices protocols are being developed.
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Ostomy Management, 3rd Edition – N29234
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
This course provides nurses caring for patients with an ostomy, or ostomates, with a synopsis of incontinent urinary and fecal diversion, with a brief discussion of continent diversions, and also serves as an ostomy management primer. The course includes a review of relevant gastrointestinal (GI) and urinary system anatomy, disease processes or conditions requiring the surgical formation of an ostomy are summarized, and a brief description of GI and urinary surgical procedures.
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Pain Management: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition – N1776
Course expiration date: 4/30/2021
This course presents current information about pain and nursing care for persons experiencing pain. The course will provide an understanding of the physiological mechanisms of nociceptive and neuropathic pain. Nurses will be able to describe pain assessment for patients across the lifespan and will be able to identify evidence-based assessment for patients whose cognitive impairment, age, or level of consciousness makes them incapable of reporting their pain. The course also provide an understanding of the pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of acute and chronic pain, as well as treatment of pain at end-of-life. With this knowledge, nurses will be able to both educate patients about pain and advocate for safe and effective pain treatment based on scientific evidence.
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Pain: Is More than a Four-Letter Word – N19274
Course expiration date: 9/4/2021
Pain is a complex phenomenon and is experienced differentlyby every person. The experience of pain and the way people react to it varieswith culture, age, and co-existing medical or mental health conditions. It isimperative that nurses have knowledge of the various types of pain, theirphysiologies, how to assess pain, and how to facilitate pain management. Thiseducation program provides an overview of pain, the physiology of pain, itsimpact on economic and personal status, and pain treatment.
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Patient Education for Older Adults: An Effective Encounter Requires Nurse Understanding – N19045
Course expiration date: 6/13/2021
Working with older adults is often a daily occurrence. Thiscourse reviews the developmental stages of these individuals as well as thebest techniques for communication and educating.
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Patient Safety: A Critical Practice Concern – N21203
Course expiration date: 12/17/2021
Safety comes first in patient care and inhealth-care environments. However, despite the focus on safety in health-careliterature and within health-care organizations, medical errors are the thirdleading cause of death in the United States. In fact, it is estimated that morethan 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical errors. It is imperative thatnurses and their interdisciplinary colleagues work together to establish a viableculture of safety in their organizations. This course presents the latestNational Patient Safety Goals as well as strategies to improve the safety ofhealth-care organizations.
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Pediatric Headaches: Recognizing the Warning Signs – N28946
Course expiration date: 11/4/2022
This course will help nurses who are experienced in pediatrics or are new to the pediatric population to identify those with serious or life-threatening causes or “red flags”. The course describes signs and symptoms specific to children, distinguishes between different types of pediatric headaches, explores recurrent headaches in children and adolescents, and considers headache prevention strategies.
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Pediatric Health and Physical Assessment, 3rd Edition – N2109
Course release date: 2/18/2019
Course expiration date: 2/18/2022
About the Course
Nurses, the primary caregivers in many pediatric healthcare settings, need specialized skills to accurately assess pediatric patients during health and illness, promptly identify potentially significant changes in a pediatric patient’s condition, and provide safe, quality care to children and adolescents. This course provides a collection of information for a comprehensive, subjective pediatric health history, performing a systematic physical examination, and understanding common pediatric conditions. The course not only provides an introduction to pediatric health assessment for nurses with limited pediatric experience, but also serves as a refresher course for nurses caring for children in a variety of healthcare settings.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Identify elements necessary for effective nurse-patient communication.
- Describe the anatomy and physiology of various body systems relative to the pediatric patient.
- List specific questions to be asked when conducting a comprehensive health history.
- Describe techniques utilized in performing a physical examination on a pediatric patient.
- Recognize common abnormalities that may be found when completing the physical examination of a pediatric patient.
- Identify psychiatric emergencies in children and adolescents.
About the Authors:
Mikki Meadows-Oliver, PhD, MPH, RN, is an associate professor at Quinnipiac University School of Nursing and has taught pediatric health assessment to nursing students for more than a decade. She has been a pediatric nurse since 1994 and a pediatric nurse practitioner since 1998. Dr. Meadows-Oliver has written several book chapters and articles and has presented both nationally and internationally on issues related to pediatric health. She is a past president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
Lisa M. Rebeschi, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, is an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Nursing and is currently the department chairperson and has previously held positions as undergraduate program coordinator and quality improvement coordinator. Dr. Rebeschi is credentialed as a certified nurse educator by the National League for Nursing (NLN) and has previously served on the Certified Nurse Educator Exam (CNE) Test Development Committee for the NLN. She teaches a variety of courses across the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral programs within the Department of Nursing.
Antoinette Towle, EdD, MSN, APRN, is an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), Department of Nursing. She has been an American Nurses Credentialing Center board-certified pediatric and school health nurse practitioner since 1999, working for more than 15 years with children and adolescents in a wide variety of community settings. Ms. Towle has extensive expertise in working with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties and in school-based health. She is currently teaching nursing to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students at SCSU.
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Pediatric Pharmacology: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – N31426
Course expiration date: 12/9/2022
This course outlines normally functioning blood and lymphatic systems and how divergences from this process can lead to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of childhood cancer. The course highlights the great progress made in understanding this disease and how to eradicate it and will provide an overview of the collateral damage that occurs with this disease from its pathology and its treatment.
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Pediatric Pharmacology: Asthma – N32053
Course expiration date: 1/13/2023
This course provides a review of the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of asthma and discusses the causes, associated symptoms, and complications of this medical emergency. The course also describes diagnostic measures and potential pharmacotherapeutic approaches to management.
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Pediatric Pharmacology: Diabetic Emergencies – N30995
Course expiration date: 11/19/2022
This course is intended for Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) who are responsible for the primary care of diabetics in their practice or who may encounter patients suffering from a diabetic emergency. The course presents a background on diabetic emergencies that may occur as a result of this disease and outlines how to manage such patients. To best illustrate the seriousness of these situations, a series of case studies are presented to further characterize diabetic emergencies, their management, and potential complications.
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Pediatric Pharmacology: Immunizations – N33530
Course expiration date: 3/2/2023
This course is designed to increase nurses’ knowledge of recommended pediatric immunizations in order to improve patient education and adherence to immunization schedules. Vaccine recommendations for children ages 18 years old and younger are discussed, including the diseases that vaccines prevent, the schedule for administration, safety, and effectiveness of vaccines.
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Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs): Some Whys and Hows – N19046
As individuals enter the health-care system sicker than in the past, PICC lines are becoming more common. Understanding when a PICC line is indicated, caring for a PICC line, and clinical indications for troubleshooting a possible problem are all standard nursing care.
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Pharmacological Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Focus on Rate Control Versus Rhythm Control
Course expiration date: 4/8/2022
This course provides best-practice and monitoring criteria for individuals with atrial fibrillation (AF). This includes the Vaughn Williams classification system, as well as first and second-line classes used for rate control in AF. The course describes the mechanisms of action of the first and second-line drugs, as well as drug side-effects and related nursing implications.
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Pharmacological Management of Chronic Kidney Disease – N46201
Course expiration date: 11/16/2023
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Pharmacological Management: Type 1 Diabetes in Children – N32057
Course expiration date: 3/11/2023
Managing type 1 diabetes means that the nurse provides not only direct patient care, but also education for patients and families. The nurse should be familiar not only with the ways in which to treat diabetes at home, but also with the warning signs and reasons for bringing the child or teen to the hospital for immediate emergency care. This course covers the symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, screenings, complications, and management of type 1 diabetes in the pediatric population.
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Pharmacological Management: Type 2 Diabetes in Children – N32059
Course expiration date: 3/11/2023
Nurses, as well as other health care professionals, have a responsibility to understand the key components of diabetes management in children and teens. This course will help nurses provide the direct patient care and education needed by patients and families. Nurses should be familiar, not only with the ways in which to manage diabetes, including diet, exercise, and medication, but also with the causes and complication risks if left untreated. The course covers the symptoms, risk factors, screening, diagnosis, complications and complication management, and management of type 2 diabetes in the pediatric population.
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Population Health: Contemporary Perspectives for Nurses – N32887
Course expiration date: 3/4/2023
This course will provide current and relevant information about population health as it applies to contemporary nursing practice. The course presents an overview of population health via definitions and practical applications. It will discuss public health nurse standards of practice and the skills and knowledge that clinicians need in order to address modern day health issues, along with methods and strategies for tackling such health problems. Throughout the course, case examples will illustrate how to employ a population health approach to improve outcomes, not merely for individuals, but for populations.
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Postcombat-Related Disorders: Counseling Veterans and Military Personnel, 2nd Edition – N23234
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course provides an overview of military culture, common deployment-related health problems, and an introduction to evidence-based treatments for these conditions. The course discusses cultural issues that affect treatment with military and veteran patients and those interventions and treatments shown to contribute to the largest and most enduring outcomes for this population.
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Prescription Medication Abuse: Scope, Prevention, and Management, 2nd Edition – N29235
Course expiration: 10/1/2021
The information presented in this course is applicable to all nurses, regardless of their practice setting or scope of practice, and defines the scope of the problem of prescription medication abuse. Nurses are positioned to mitigate this growing problem by identifying the most commonly abused medications, risk factors for substance use disorders, and methods of acquisition of these medications.
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Preventing and Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – N20366
Course expiration date: 11/21/2021
The purpose of this education program is to teach nurseshow to prevent and/or deal with sexual harassment as well as how to report suchharassment.
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Preventing Medical Errors – N29560
Course expiration date: 11/14/2022
This course addresses the essential information that every nurse should be aware of to prevent medical errors, including medication errors, central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), falls and immobility events, obstetrical adverse events, venous thromboembolism, pressure ulcers, and surgical site infections.
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Prevention of Surgical Site Infection – N35033
Course expiration date: 5/28/2023
This course provides operative and acute care nurse practioners working with patients undergoing surgical procedures with knowledge of SSI risk, identification of existing SSIs, and prevention strategies that are critical to providing safe, evidence-based, and optimal patient care. The course discusses the importance of reducing SSIs and how this reduction will lead to better patient health outcomes by reducing morbidity and mortality, as well as decreasing national healthcare costs.
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Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders: Clinical Challenges and Psychopharmacology – N23089
Course expiration date: 2/12/2022
This course is designed for both staff nurses, as well as advanced practice nurses (APNs). Staff nurses, including those working in medical areas, will see patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Due to medical and psychiatric comorbidities, these patients have complex prescription medication regimens. For APNs, this course will support and enhance your knowledge of diagnosing psychiatric disorders and increase your confidence for prescribing psychotropic medications to adult patients. In addition, the course addresses challenging clinical situations and strategies for appropriate interventions. Case studies, based on real patients are presented throughout, with recommended treatment and management strategies.
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Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care Nursing – N23233
Course expiration date: 3/31/2021
This course examines psychiatric disorders in primary care nursing using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) from the American Psychiatric Association. Substance use and depressive disorders are covered, focusing primarily on the more commonly encountered diagnoses.
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Psychiatric Nursing: Current Trends in Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition – N1757
Course expiration date: 8/31/2021
This course provides information to help nurses update their mental health skills and knowledge of current psychiatric treatments. The course discusses psychiatric disorders, treatment modalities, therapeutic communication skills, medications, and cultural variances in how mental illness is perceived and treated in adults and children. The broad categories of psychiatric disorders reflective of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) are also presented.
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Rapid Response Teams: An Overview of Contributions and Effects – N8868
The purpose of this course is to educate nurses on the use and benefits of Rapid Response Teams.
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School Safety: Injuries on the Playground – N29562
Course expiration date: 1/16/2023
This course discusses the scope, intervention strategies, and nursing assessment appropriate to playground injuries.
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Scope and Ethics of Prescribing Controlled Substances for Advanced Practice Nurses – N33537
Course expiration date: 3/11/2023
This course is designed to educate acute registered nurse practitioners who want to practice evidence-based care when treating patients with controlled substances.
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Skin and Wound Care: What You Need to Know – N20091
Course expiration date: 11/8/2021
This course provides current information aboutwounds and wound care. Nurses who workwith patients with existing wounds or health conditions that make wounds morelikely to occur, or nurses who have a desire to increase knowledge regarding theprevention, identification, and treatment of wounds will find this courseuseful.
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Social Determinants of Health for Health Care Professionals
Course expiration date: 12/08/2023
The purpose of this course is to identify the categories of social determinants of health (SDOH) for healthcare professionals, explain the differences and relationships between social determinants and behavioral factors and the possible effects on health, review population health and population management, and discuss the effect of COVID-19 on the SDOH.
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Substance Use Disorder in Nursing: Identification, Reporting, and Support – N30921
Course expiration date: 12/9/2022
This course is designed to instruct nurses on how to recognize signs of impairment in colleagues and also how to potentially recognize their own signs of impairment.
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Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis: Prophylactics and Clinical Updates – N11578
This educational program is designed to provide an overview of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, covering important information related to their history, epidemiology, symptoms, complications, prevention and potential treatments. Since the tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, (DTaP and Tdap) vaccine products are proven to be effective in preventing all three diseases, this course will describe their use in enough detail to facilitate its usage as a foundation of contemporary care.
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The Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver: Nursing Interventions and Support – N33926
Course expiration date: 8/18/2023
With the population of older adults growing rapidly throughout the world, it is imperative that healthcare providers prepare for an increase in the number of persons who will need dementia-related care. This course provides nurses with information to effectively implement nursing interventions to optimize patient care and support caregivers of persons with AD.
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The Business of Healthcare – N23191
Course expiration date: 11/30/2021
This course provides nurses with a foundation of the elements comprising the business of the healthcare industry, including how care is reimbursed. An overview of the current state of healthcare organizations and healthcare quality is provided as is content related to the cost of care, healthcare reform, care transitions, and consumer engagement.
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The Fourth Trimester of Pregnancy: New Recommendations for Optimizing Postpartum Care – N19535
Course expiration date: 9/18/2021
Postpartum carecan set the stage for optimal maternal and infant health. Unfortunately,maternal mortality rates in the United States have increased steadily over thepast 30 years and continue to climb. In early 2018, the American College ofObstetricians and Gynecologists released new recommendations to optimizepostpartum care. These recommendations propose changes to the postpartum care timeline,elements, and care team. Nurses fill many of the care team roles. This coursepresents the new guidelines for postpartum care of women, as well as how thenurse is uniquely positioned as a crucial member of the care team. The coursereviews the basic physiology of the postpartum period as well as the mostsignificant medical complaints and complications that arise and contribute to morbidityand mortality. The nurse should be able to counsel pregnant and postpartumwomen regarding expectant postpartum care. This course also discusses thehealth policy changes needed to implement these new recommendations, and howthe nurse can advocate for postpartum women as part of this process.
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The Psychobiology of Humor in Health Care, 3rd Edition – N1922
This continuing education course discusses the cognitive process of laughter and the connections of humor to health. It discusses how humor affects the biological, psychological, and sociological health of the individual. How humor can be used in times of stress or grief is also explored. The target population for this course is any healthcare provider who works with patients, and any healthcare provider who wants to improve his or her knowledge of therapeutic humor.
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Transition to Menopause, 2nd Edition – N1788
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course provides nurses caring for women in a variety of healthcare settings – acute care facilities, private practices, public settings, home health environments, and community outreach programs – with information to help them take an individual approach to assisting women who are progressing through menopause. The course discusses nursing care based on the most up-to-date standards and guidelines in order to help women make lifestyle choices.
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Understanding Mindfulness Practices for Nurses and Patients – N23218
Course expiration date: 11/20/2021
This course provides an overview of mindfulness techniques, the neurobiological underpinnings of how mindfulness works in the brain, and evidence of the effectiveness of mindfulness in different areas of life. The course also discusses methods to foster mindfulness and describes how nurses can begin a mindfulness practice for themselves and their patients, including suggestions for guided sessions.
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Using Evidence in Clinical Nursing Practice – N24927
Course expiration date: 04/23/2022
Evidence-based practice (EBP) relies on the findings of scientific research to modify or develop policies and procedures that incorporate the latest evidence into clinical practice. This course will help nurses incorporate nursing research findings into their EBP for the maximum benefit of patients and the facilitation of professional growth and development.
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Vaping and E-Cigarettes: Healthcare’s Response to a New Epidemic in Teens and Young Adults – N24925
Course expiration date: 4/15/2022
This course will familiarize nurses with the current epidemic of vaping, including the types of chemical and drug exposures that may occur with vaping, health consequences, and strategies to curb the use of vaping. The course includes steps that have been taken to curb this epidemic and strategies the health care community can implement to safeguard against vaping.
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Violence in the Workplace: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention – N28902
Course expiration date: 8/22/2022
It is imperative that anyone working in health care settings, not just nurses, respond to all types of workplace violence. This course provides information about the prevalence of workplace violence, how to recognize a potentially violent individual or group of individuals, how to reduce the occurrence of workplace violence, and how to respond to violence.
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What Would You Do? Managing a Social Issue Surrounding Abuse – N33529
Course expiration date: 4/2/2023
Facing situations of suspected intimate partner violence can be challenging for a nurse. This course is designed to help nurses appropriately assist in intervening in the best interests of the patient suspected of being a victim of intimate partner violence (IPV).
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Women and Cardiovascular Disease, 4th Edition
Course release date: 1/13/2021
Course expiration date: 1/13/2024
This course helps nurses fill the gap in knowledge concerning CVD in women to ensure that clinical practice and patient education programs are both current and evidence-based. Education is the foundation for empowering women through self-care practices to reduce or eliminate the risk of developing CVD and to control existing disease. Nurses, among other healthcare providers, have increased contact with women, thus putting them in the best position to educate women on CVD. This course focuses on the current state of evidence related to CVD epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention in women to help bridge the knowledge gap among practicing nurses.
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Workplace Horizontal Violence – N29558
Course expiration date: 10/9/2022
This course provides an overview of horizontal violence, characteristics of both abusers and victims, and how to reduce the prevalence of horizontal violence in the workplace.
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Yoga for Nurses – N23185
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course provides a history of the science and practice of yoga and the many physical and mental health benefits for nurses and patients. It is important to learn and practice yoga postures, proper breathing, and meditation to help promote a balance of all three. Various types of yoga and the importance of the role of a yoga teacher for safe practice is discussed.