Improving Pediatric Pain Management
Rebecca Threatt DNP, RN, CHSE
This course is designed to help CURE nurses use evidence-based practice and better assessment tools to help manage pediatric pain and use the best medication and alternative practices to reduce pain in pediatric patients.
Normal Birth Skills & Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage Training Module 1 & 2
Tanya Tringali MS, CNM and Susan Altman DNP, CNM
NYU Learn about the Normal Birth Skills & Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage Training Module 1 2
Provider Behavior Change Implementation Kit (PART 2): Assessing Provider Needs
Heather Hancock
John Hopkins University This section of the I-Kit provides an approach to assessing health providers’ needs, barriers and facilitators to quality service provision at the organizational, regional or national level. The approach includes a needs analysis framework and implementation tools that engage health service delivery stak....
Problem Solving
Rebecca Threatt, DNP, RN, CHSE
This course will help your understanding of problem solving and critical thinking. Problem Solving uses the ability to solve problems effectively which can contribute to the delivery of safe, competent nursing care. Critical thinking enables an individual to solve problems and make decisions. Find out why these are important fo....
Evidence-based Malaria SBCC 2: Formative Research for SBCC: Do You Know Your Audience?
Michelle R. Kaufman, PhD
John Hopkins University This eLearning series consists of 5 modules. This is module 2, entitled 'Formative Research for SBCC: Do You Know Your Audience?'. The module is presented by Dr. Michelle R. Kaufman and will introduce participants to the basics of formative research for informing SBCC programs, using examples specific t....
Provider Behavior Change Implementation Kit (PART 4)
Heather Hancock
John Hopkins University Now that you have learned about provider behavior change, assessed barriers to quality Facility-based provider (FBP) service provision, and determined that SBCC has a role to play in addressing those barriers, you are ready to design an SBCC intervention for Facility-based provider (FBP) behavior change.
PEARLS IN EXTERNAL EYE DISEASES
Dr Tina Khanam
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ This course describes pearls in external eye diseases
The Child with Fever
Geoff Burnhill
This session will investigate the role of temperature when assessing a child with fever. Later, it will explore the circumstances under which a child with fever needs urgent treatment and identify the serious illnesses commonly associated with fever in children.
Aortic Stenosis: Awareness and Identification
Janet Fredal Wyman
The second of four peer-to-peer videos that aim to increase awareness of valvular heart disease and the important role that nurses play in early identification, access to prompt treatment and prevention of deleterious outcomes. The second video in this series is presented by Dr. Janet Wyman, Nurse Practitioner and Administrative....
Exercise and Lifestyle Interventions: What’s their role in CVD Prevention and Treatment
Dr. Geoffrey Moore, and Kim Newlin
As a nurse, you can have an impact on your patients' overall health by encouraging healthy behaviors. This course on lifestyle changes for cardiovascular disease shows the role nurses play in exercise assessment and prescription and the common barriers and facilitators to the adoption of healthy behaviors. The 2018 physical a....
Family Planning in Young Adolescent
INGABIRE Marie Jeanne
Family planning in young adolescent can also aid younger adolescent women, who have higher pregnancy risks, in avoiding unplanned pregnancies. Young women who are more likely to experience health issues and death from early motherhood can delay getting pregnant with the aid of family planning. In addition, family planning....
New Hypertension Guidelines: Matching Risks and Treatments
Cheryl Dennison-Himmelfarb
Dr. Cheryl Dennison-Himmelfarb, Associate Dean for Research and Professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses the 2017 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline and highlights treatment strategies according to patient risk level. This clinically-relevant session is timely and practical.
Lipid Management in 2019: Putting Evidence-Based Guidelines into Practice
Lynne Braun
Dr. Lynne Braun, nurse practitioner and clinical lipid specialist, reviews the latest update of the National Cholesterol Guideline. She addresses the Guideline's top ten recommendations and their implications for clinical practice. The course covers the pharmacological and non-pharmacologic strategies for managing elevated LDL-C....
The QT Interval: Too Hot, Too Cold, Just Right
Mike Ackerman
Dr. Michael Ackerman, Director of the Long QT Syndrome Clinic at Mayo Clinic, discusses the importance of the QT Interval and the risk of sudden cardiac death. This course covers the pathophysiology of common causes of cardiac syncope and the evaluation and management of cardiac syncope with a focus on counseling patients to ret....
Basics of Tuberculosis
Dr Million Molla, Dr Hikma Fekadu, Meazashwork Assefa, Dr Andargachew Kumsa, Dr Eshetu Abdissa, Endale Mengesha, Dr Kalkidan Yae, TriaD Project, Dr Tamiru Assefa, Dr Anteneh Kassa, Wondimu Gebrekiristos, Dr Eshetu Kebede, Ekulinet Misganaw, and Bekalu Ass
This module is designed for Health care providers working at tuberculosis Outpatient and in-patient departments to enable them better understand tuberculosis infection and disease.
Post-operative Management of Endocrine Disorders
Bubby D Thava and Hugh Simpson
This session provides suggested protocols for the peri-operative management of serum glucose levels of diabetic patients, of patients undergoing thyroid surgery and those surgical patients who require steroid supplementation peri-operatively.
Hepatitis B: Natural History, Presentation and Investigation
Richard Gilson and Gary Brook
This session describes the natural history and presentation of patients with either acute or chronic hepatitis B virus infection, and the investigations required.
Common Symptoms in Palliative Care 1
Chantal Simon
Symptom control is vitally important in palliative care. This session aims to provide an overview of how to manage common pain and gastrointestinal symptoms encountered in the palliative care setting.
The Paediatric Liver Emergency
Dr. Marisa Beretta and Dr. Fran Van De Schyff
How to manage children with acute or chronic liver failure.
Approach to Connective Tissue Diseases in Children
Prof. Chris Scott
Professor Chris Scott gives us a great overview of connective tissue diseases in children.
Congenital Cardiac Interventions
SC Brown
26 May 2021 webinar: Prof Steve Brown gives a brief but fascinating look into the world of interventional cardiology, including some of the latest technology and therapy options newly available. You might see these children at follow up, so important to gain insights on some new devices, and new ways of treating old wll-knonw co....
Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19
Dr. Serah Wachira
The purpose of this course is to introduce the participants to the various modes of mechanical ventilation and how they can be applied in management of ventilator failure in COVID-19 patients.
Concepts of Puberty
Russell Viner
This session introduces key concepts relating to puberty such as: potential issues, biological changes, Tanner stages and timings. The onset of the reproductive function and the pubertal growth spurt are also discussed.
Marburg Virus Disease (MVD)
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
This course is designed for all healthcare professionals including those in primary care provision to prepare them to care for patients with exposure to the Marburg virus.
Healthy Development in Adolescence
Russell Viner
This session introduces normal development in adolescents in key biological, psychological and social domains, and the impact of these upon their health and illness. The importance of psychosocial development for long-term condition self-management and concordance is also discussed.