Essential Oils for Health
Jill Ohara
1 Hours
Essential oils are nature's medicine. They have been used for over 3,500 years worldwide for their therapeutic and healing properties. Once these oils and the plants they come from were standard tools physicians used to treat their patients prior to the institution of the pharmaceutical industry. Natural remedies have been us....
Prevention and Management of Medical Errors
Pamela Clark
2 Hours
Medical errors contribute to millions of injuries, deaths, excessive cost, and unnecessary suffering each year. The need for understanding the causes and preventive measures related to these errors has never been greater. This instructional course has been designed to describe the scope of these preventable mistakes, and ways in....
Enterostomy Feeding Tubes for the School Nurse
Carrie Bennett
1 Hours
This course provides instruction in the basic care of enterostomy feeding tubes, including Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tubes, gastrostomy (G) tubes and jejunostomy tubes. The content of this course is appropriate for licensed nurses working in a school environment.
Care of the Patient with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Therese A. West, MSN APN-C
6 Hours
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. It is caused by a bump or blow to the head that affects how the brain normally works (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2008). Because nurses are frequently the professionals who see the full impact of TBI and have the skills that can alter....
Communicating With Alzheimer's
Industry Specialists
1 Hours
This course is based on meeting the needs of hospitalized individuals with Alzheimer's disease. The main focus is effective communication with these patients as well as personal care techniques and suggestions for working with behaviors and environmental factors in the hospital setting.
Contrast Administration in the Radiology Setting
Catheryn Peplinski
1.5 Hours
Intravenous administration of contrast materials in the radiology setting brings forth another aspect to intravenous protocols and procedures. A radiology nurse or a radiology technologist may administer intravenous contrast media under the general supervision of a physician. In order to provide for the safe administration of c....
Depression In Mothers
Industry Specialists
0.25 Hours
This course delivers background information about depression and offers ideas that providers can use daily when helping mothers, and their families, who may be suffering from depression. This course also includes useful resources and handouts for mothers with depression.
Engorgement and Mastitis
Vergie Hughes RN, MS, IBCLC, FILCA 2 L-CERPs,
This course covers the causes and treatments of engorgement, mastitis, abscesses and galactoceles.
Breastfeeding Overview
Industry Specialists
4 Hours
Although breastfeeding is a natural process, many moms need help. This CEU course covers the importance of breastfeeding, along with learning how and common challenges of breastfeeding.
Anxiety Disorders and Developmental Attachment
Tobias Nolte
2 Hours
Anxiety disorders represent a common but often debilitating form of psychopathology in both children and adults. This advanced CEU course presents a model of the influence of attachment relationships on the development of stress regulation strategies and discusses the role those relationships play in the development and mainten....
Promoting Nutritional Health and Diabetes Prevention in Migration Health
Katherine Brieger, RD and Elizabeth Magenheimer, APRN, CDE
0.25 Hours
Diabetes continues to be one of the most common and challenging health condition confronting migrants and other underserved populations. It is clear that a healthy lifestyle is critical to mitigating the impact of diabetes on individuals and the population, however effective and appropriate interventions can be difficult to desi....
Diabetes Care Before, During and After Pregnancy
Jo M. Kendrick, APN-BC, CDE
7.5 Hours
This module guides evidence-based comprehensive care and education for women with pregestational and gestational diabetes before, during and after pregnancy. Filled with several quick-reference tables, the module’s content underscores appropriate nursing assessment and management strategies to enhance the likelihood of healt....
Components of Tribal Healing Wellness Courts
Joseph Thomas Flies-Away (B.A. Stanford, M.P.A. Harvard, J.D. Arizona State University)
4 Hours
This CEU course provides an overview of Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts and discusses the history of the drug court movement and the adaptation of the drug court model for tribal justice systems. In addition, the critical issues and challenges faced by Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts, including the challenge of incorporatin....
Prevention of Human Trafficking for Social Workers
U.S. Department of State
2 Hours
The global anti-trafficking movement is now well into its second decade. This CEU course focuses on the positive developments and continued challenges of preventing trafficking, and it considers how governments and the broader anti-trafficking community can effectively ensure that those who are vulnerable to human trafficking h....
Disaster and Trauma Psychological Recovery Skills for Social Workers
Industry Specialist
4 Hours
Individuals affected by a disaster or traumatic incident, whether survivors, witnesses, or responders to such events, may struggle with or face new challenges in the weeks and months following the event. This CEU course is designed to help survivors gain skills to reduce ongoing distress and effectively cope with post-disaster....
Appreciative Inquiry Theory
June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c)
3 Hours
This 1 module (3 CE credit) course introduces nurses to David Cooperrider's inspirational theory for organizational motivation and planning applied to informatics implementation. . Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a capacity building approach that selectively seeks to locate, highlight, and illuminate the life-giving forces withi....
Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
1 Hours
This course was developed from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Quick Guide, which provides information about suicidality; focuses on the information that treatment professionals need to know and provides that information in an accessible manner; synthesizes knowledge and grounds it in the practical....
Diabetes Care for Clients in Behavioral Health Treatment
Industry Specialist
1 Hours
This course was developed from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration advisory which provides a brief overview of diabetes and an introduction to the reciprocal relationship between diabetes and behavioral health disorders. It also discusses ways in which behavioral health treatment providers can help mini....
Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nora D. Volkow M.D.
2 Hours
This course provides a number of treatment approaches that address substance use during the teen years. The course covers approaches, as well as presents a set of guiding principles and frequently asked questions about substance abuse and treatment in this special population.
Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose Among Women
Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health
4 Hours
Opioid use disorder is increasing at alarming rates for both men and women in the United States, but the prevalence of prescription opioid and heroin use among women is substantial. This CEU course provides an understanding of how the unique aspects of this epidemic impact women across age, race, geography, and income, and disc....
Preventing and Addressing Alcohol and Drug Problems - A Handbook for Clergy
Industry Specialist
5 Hours
This course is intended to increase awareness of the family consequences when the disease of addiction is present, enhance the ability to support people in faith communities who are struggling with addiction, and provide some strategies to help prevent alcohol and drug use by the youth in the community. It is based on the core c....
Physical Detoxification from Substances
Industry Specialist
9 Hours
This course, a chapter extracted from Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 45. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Rockville (MD): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, highlights specific treatment regimens for specific substances and provides guid....
Screening and Assessment for Trauma
Hunter L. McQuistion, M.D., Jennifer Frey, Ph.D., Jesse B. Milby, Jr., Ph.D., Douglas J. Warn, LCSW-
1 Hours
This course describes the screening and assessment process for trauma as it pertains to: barriers and challenges; timing; the environment; misdiagnosis and under-diagnosis; cross cultural screening and assessment; choosing instruments for the purpose, population, and quality of trauma screening and assessment; and trauma informe....
Child Abuse Detection and Reporting - California Law
Industry Specialist
7 Hours
This course is intended to help mental health professionals and other mandated reporters (teachers, nurses, etc) who come into contact with children to understand the California Child Abuse Reporting Law and be aware of their reporting responsibilities regarding child abuse.
Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers
Industry Specialist
3 Hours
This course is intended to help employers of healthcare and social services workers establish effective workplace violence prevention programs adapted to their specific worksites. It offers guidelines based on National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) standards that address preventing violence inflicted by pa....