Cancer for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course develops the knowledge and skills needed to recognize the signs and symptoms of cancer, understand the disease process and recognize the risk factors of the disease. The content will introduce testing and medications used for diagnosing and treating cancer and will explore the actions that care teams and patients can....
Care Coordination for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course explores patient needs for care coordination and the roles of primary care and specialty care. You will gain an understanding on prioritizing patient referrals and the necessary information that should accompany a referral.
Community Team Integration
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
0.25 Hours
This course explores the roles of the Community Health Worker and Community Pharmacist as member of the patient centered care team and in the community setting as a partner in team based care. You will gain an understanding of ways to promote the use of Community Health Workers and Community Pharmacists in educating and helping....
RSV Guidelines
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
20.00 Hours
Bronchiolitis is a disorder most commonly caused in infants by viral lower respiratory tract infection. It is the most common lower respiratory infection in this age group. It is characterized by acute inflammation, edema, and necrosis of epithelial cells lining small airways, increased mucus production, and bronchospasm.
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth
Industry Specialist
4.00 Hours
This guide will help you conduct fast, effective alcohol screens and interventions with your patients, even during brief, acute care visits. The tools, tips, and resources are designed to help you surmount common obstacles to youth alcohol screening in primary care. Typical barriers include insufficient time, unfamiliarity with....
Religion, Spirituality and Trauma
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
Extracted from a guide created by the National Center on Trauma-Informed Care as a technical assistance document to help make trauma-informed peer support available to women who receive or have received services in behavioral health or other human service systems. This course provides information, tools, and resources to hel....
Case Management (Revised)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
2.00 Hours
The goal of interagency case management is to connect agencies to one another to provide additional services to clients. This CEU course prepares program workers about getting involved in these efforts by presenting findings from previous evaluation efforts and then proposing a framework for facilitating quality improvement and....
Cultural Competence - Serving Diverse Children and Families in Social Services Agencies
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families,
1.00 Hours
Failure to properly address cultural differences creates and maintains mistrust and other potential conflicts between service providers and potential clients, further contributing to low quality of care and poor health outcomes. Thus, delivering culturally competent services remains a goal and a highly promising approach to pro....
Administrators - People with Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course addresses the following aspects with regard to substance use disorder treatment for people with physical and cognitive disabilities: the Americans with Disabilities Act; attitudinal barriers; discriminatory policies, practices, and procedures; communication barriers; architectural barriers; and funding consideration.....
Behavioral Health Issues Among Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. War Veterans
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This CE course introduces some of the problems facing Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans and can help healthcare and social service professionals understand these veterans’ needs. Topics relating to returning OEF and OIF veterans will look at: behavioral health issues; substance abuse; mental disord....
Prevention of Child Abuse and Exploitation
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This CEU course: defines the nature and scope of child sexual abuse and exploitation; acknowledges the need to build on the foundation of existing research, advocacy, and treatment; discusses the value of a National Plan; encourages the development of prevention-focused policy; and describes a range of actions that includes indi....
Child Abuse & Neglect - Recognizing Signs and Symptoms
Child Welfare Information Gateway, JooYeun Chang, J.D.
3.00 Hours
This course addresses abuse and neglect by looking at: the legal definition; federal law related to child abuse. Assessing the signs and symptoms; what is known about chronic neglect; ways to work with families experiencing chronic neglect, including critical elements of successful casework practice; examples of what agencies a....
Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors for Program Administrators
Industry Specialist
2.00 Hours
This course provides information about suicidality and focuses on the information that treatment professionals need to know in an accessible manner. It synthesizes knowledge and grounds it in the practical realities of clinical cases and real situations so that the reader will come away with increased knowledge, encouragement, a....
Behavioral Health Treatment for Major Racial and Ethnic Groups
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Andrea Kopstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., Karl D. W
5.00 Hours
This course identifies cultural knowledge and its relationship to treatment as a domain that requires proficiency in clinical skills, programmatic development, and administrative practices. It focuses on patterns of substance use and co-occurring disorders (CODs), beliefs about traditions involving substance use, beliefs and at....
Psychological Issues for HIV Infected Women
Jean Anderson, M.D.; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
6.00 Hours
Although healthcare providers for women living with HIV focus primarily on the physical manifestations of the condition, this CE course examines the understanding of the psychosocial, cultural, mental health, and substance abuse issues faced by HIV infected women in order to optimize care and makes recommendations for provider r....
Blood Components and Indications for Use
Kevin Land, MD
1.00 Hours
The vital components of whole blood are efficiently separated and prepared for administration based on patient need. Understanding the indications for use of each component is one part of AABBs Patient Blood Management program. This session will discuss four major blood components and the indications for use of each. *Note: P....
Preparticipation Physicals
Mary Jo Goolsby, EdD, MSN, NP-C, FAANP, FAAN
This program is designated for 1.25 contact hours of NP CE credit by the Institute for NP Excellence, an AANP Approved Provider(130325). The course provides content on the role of NP/PCP in conducting preparticipation physicals, primarily for adolescent athletes. Faculty-Dr. Mary Jo Goolsby. Valid through 3/31/2019.
Resolving Conflict
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
You’ll develop a better understanding of how to resolve conflicts while preserving relationships and improving communications skills during a difficult situation. This course is designed to help you recognize the different sources of conflict and how to apply different management styles to resolve the conflict.
REG118: Infection Control
Jessica Barker, BSN, RN.
Health care providers and others employed within health care facilities will learn about infection control measures including precautions, transmission-based (isolation) precautions, handwashing, personal protective equipment, sterilization, and disinfection.
Best Practices for Infusion Teams
Jean Harpel, MSN, RN, CCRN, GCNS-BC
0.75 Hours
Infusion therapy is accomplished using a variety of devices that require specific training and expertise. Advocating for the most appropriate vascular access device as well as maintaining these devices also necessitates a level of education that is specific to the discipline of infusion therapy. According to the Centers for Dise....
Pain Management: Children
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3.00 Hours
Pain is very common problem that has brought suffering in one form or another, to most of us throughout our lives. In fact, pain is the most common reason we seek medical attention. Health care professionals in all settings encounter pain. Unfortunately it is often under treated in spite of the availability of effective drugs an....
Brovana
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
5.00 Hours
Brovana® (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution — an FDAapproved, nebulized, long-acting bronchodilator for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — was commercially introduced in April 2007 and is available by prescription. BROVANA is approved for the twice-daily, long-term maintenance treatment of bronchoconstric....
Respiratory System Part 1: The Foundation
Donn Kropp, RN, BSN
2.00 Hours
The Greek word for breath is pneuma and can be translated as spirit, soul or life. To breathe is to live. Breathing is an activity our bodies perform seventeen to twenty thousand times a day. The most important function of breathing is to provide gas exchange. This means oxygen goes into our bodies and carbon dioxide comes out.....
AORN 2017 - The Key to SSI Reduction: Achieving Systemness
Rose Moss, MN, RN, CNOR & Kim Haines, BSN, RN, Certified OR Nurse
1.00 Hours
In an effort to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs), health care institutions throughout the nation must implement a continuum of care that begins with perioperative planning and is consistent until the patient arrives home or at another level of care. This requires standardization and it is important that the care delivered....
Safe Patient Handling: Lifting
Hillary Epperson MPA
1.00 Hours
A priority in long-term care facilities is the abundance of back injuries among nursing staff due to manual lifting practices. Injured nurses are increasing worker’s compensation costs and causing high levels of staff turnover. This introductory course teaches nurses, nursing assistants and support staff the importance of utiliz....