How to set up and use a Twitter account professionally
Meriel Chudleigh and Ray Jones
This article encourages nurses to use Twitter to engage in professional discussions, share information and raise awareness of alternative views to enhance practice and patient care. Twitter is an online social media service that enables users to send and read 140-character messages called tweets. Twitter is free and accessibl....
Emergency Severity
Shelly Walters RN, BSN, CEN
0.25 Hours
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to properly triage patients in the emergency department.
Eating Disorders Basic Overview
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This guide is published by the National Institute of Mental Health. It provides a very basic overview of what eating disorders are and what can be done to better understand and treat eating disorders. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Family Violence: Treatment of Perpetrators and Victims
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.
2.00 Hours
This course was developed using an excellent paper written by Dr. Donald Meichenbaum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada and Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment in Miami, Florida. Dr. Meichenbaum covers topics such as risk factors, danger signs, ass....
Medical Errors for Mental Health Professionals
Food and Drug Administration Technical Expert/Advisory Panel
1.00 Hours
This course is a fusing together of a short FDA Medication Errors Guide and a more comprehensive paper detailing the scope, definition, investigation process and laws surrounding medical errors. Special emphasis is given to medical errors prevalent in the Mental and Behavioral health professions. The paper focuses on Florida but....
LGBTQ Youth, YMSM and YWSW Who Engage in Survival Sex
Meredith Dank, senior researcher, et al.
4.00 Hours
This CEU course describes and quantifies the sexual and physical health outcomes among LGBTQ youth, YMSM, and YWSW engaged in survival sex; assesses how many are using and abusing alcohol and drugs; and details youths’ access to and interactions with treatment and service providers.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders
Jeanne Obert, M.F.T, M.S.M., et al.; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
7.00 Hours
This CE course provides a structured approach for treating adults who abuse or are dependent on stimulant drugs. The materials outlined are designed so that counselors can implement the Matrix treatment approach even without training.
Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
Industry Specialist
3.00 Hours
This CEU course provides those in health care with detailed information on: policy context for meaningful use of electronic health records; understanding meaningful use; rural health clinics and electronic health records adoption; overall population of rural health clinics; adoption of information technology by rural health clin....
Family Reunification - What the Evidence Shows
Industry Specialist
2.00 Hours
This CE course examines family reunification by reviewing the following strategies: family reunification in different States as determined by the Child and Family Services; family reunification as discussed in other literature sources; and examples of successes from the field. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Ins and Outs of Infection Prevention and Control
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
This course provides an overview of infection prevention and control (IPC) including: A brief history of IPC; Organizations that influence practice structure and function of an IPC program; As well as the roles and responsibilities of the Infection Preventionist.
Inotropic Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure
Pamela Clark
2.00 Hours
This instructional course has been designed to provide conceptual and operational knowledge to the licensed clinician interested in the provision of inotropic medications. Administration of these drugs is becoming more common as the population ages and pressure increases to reduce CHF-related hospitalizations. For the licensed c....
Learning and Living Nursing’s Moral/Social Imperative to Care
Deborah Shields, PhD, RN, CCRN, QTTT, AHN-BC and Margaret E. Erickson, PhD, APRN, CNS, APHN-BC
1.25 Hours
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to examine the steps taken by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation and the American Holistic Nurses Association that assured the inclusion of the 5th role – Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse – into the Consensus Model.
Hospice Preferred Practices
William Storey
2.00 Hours
"An online continuing education course for administrators, nurses, medical health care professionals, and other interested individuals. Because of the complex needs of hospice and palliative care patients, clinicians must be able to construct a plan of care that will accurately chart a patient’s progress towards outcomes that....
Drug & Dietary Supplement Use Among Seniors
Chris Cole and Dima M. Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD
0.50 Hours
Published research indicates that many older adults in the United States use prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications and dietary supplements, but this can increase their risks for polypharmacy and adverse drug events. Many medications that are commonly used by older adults, such as antiplatelets, anticoagulants, stat....
Healthy Development in Adolescence
Russel Viner
0.50 Hours
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.
Investigation and Management of Sarcoidosis
Kirsten Archer
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of how to investigate a patient with suspected sarcoidosis. It looks at how to follow up those diagnosed with the condition and it includes some information on appropriate treatment.
Importance of Good History
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on the importance of taking a good history when reviewing a patient with a cough.
Investigation and Management of Rarer Causes of Haemoptysis
Prina Ruparelia
This session discusses the investigation of rarer causes of haemoptysis. The results of investigations are shown and the subsequent management of these conditions is discussed.
Hospital Social Work
Tes Smith and Peter Southern
0.50 Hours
This session will enable understanding about the history and diversity within the role of the hospital social worker and how it contributes to good end of life care (EoLC).
Listening Skills
Simon Cornwell
0.50 Hours
The session introduces the learner to some of the overarching policy and legislative guidance that underpins the importance of listening to children, through to a summary of listening skills. We will consider barriers to effective listening, include issues of diversity and disability, and take age into account when thinking abou....
Health Promotion
Mayur Lakhani
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the concept of health and well-being. It shows how important it is to consider this agenda in the consultation and the obligations of the general practitioner (GP). This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in February 2015.
Fall on Outstretched Hand
Nigel Raby
1.00 Hours
The purpose of this session is to enable you to identify the injuries likely to be encountered in a patient after a fall on the outstretched hand.
Gastrostomy Insertion
Hans-Ulrich Laasch
0.75 Hours
This session describes the different techniques of siting a gastrostomy feeding tube and the advantages and limitations of these approaches. It also illustrates some complications and how to avoid them.
Further Diseases of the Appendix and Colon
Kani Vendhan and Bruce Fox
0.50 Hours
This session covers the radiological features of diseases of the appendix. Features on both conventional and recent imaging modalities are discussed.
Male Breast Disease
Sue Barter, Hilary Dobson and Ruchi Sinnatamby
0.50 Hours
This session will help you gain an understanding of the risk factors for, and clinical and imaging features of, common male breast disease.