ED Patient Safety Updates — What's in Your Checklist?
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
The emergency department is a high-risk area that faces a lot of patient safety challenges, including crowding and boarding, standing orders, restraint and seclusion, grievances and complaints, MRI safety, medication errors, alarm fatigue, and much more. During this program, our medico-legal expert will discuss these challeng....
How to Prevent and Manage Bleeding after Birth (Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage)
Industry Specialists
This film shows how to prevent and manage excessive bleeding after the delivery of a baby, otherwise known as primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).
Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention - Module D: Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment and Management
Betsy B. Waterman, PhD, CAS, MS, BS and Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP
1.50 Hours
The purpose of Improving Outcomes in Harm Risk Behaviors & Suicide Prevention is to educate case managers about suicide so that they may be aware of early warning signs and empowered to intervene and support the efforts of other interprofessional practice team members, including other health care professionals, patients and fami....
NICE lipid modification guidelines: statins for all?
Professor Mike Kirby
The updated guideline on lipid modification from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which was published in summer 2014, has continued to cause a great deal of controversy, both among health professionals and the general public. Now that the dust has settled just a little, it is time to review the messa....
Nearing the End of Life: Dare to Care
Nancy E. Joyner, RN, MS, APRN-CNS, ACHPN®
6.00 Hours
Families ask . . . what would you do if this were your loved one? Learn how to reply without bias … Creative ways to discuss withdrawing or withholding treatment Manage patient pain and symptoms: Medical marijuana, morphine, palliative sedation or fewer medications? Tips to guide code status conversations with patients and famil....
Fetal Heart Rate Nomenclature, Interpretation, and Management
George A. Macones, MD, FACOG
7.00 Hours
The ACOG eModule, Fetal Heart Rate Nomenclature, Interpretation, and Management was developed specifically as a learning resource for the practicing obstetrician-gynecologist. The content of the eModule, embedded between the Pretest and Posttest, is presented in four segments: Introduction and Objectives; Nomenclature; Category....
Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy
Jennifer R. Niebyl, MD
7.00 Hours
By the end of this unit, the learner should be able to summarize the clinical effect of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and describe diverse approaches to treatment.
Implementation of a Clinical Trial Matching System
Tufia Haddad, MD
1.00 Hours
This session will describe how an academic institution leveraged an IT solution to transform the clinical trial matching process for patients with cancer. Since the development and implementation of the clinical trial matching cognitive computing solution into the breast cancer oncology practice, clinical trial enrollment to sys....
Journal Club August 2014 - Online Learning Package
Lynette Knuth, Masanori Abe, Kazuyoshi Okada, Masayoshi Soma
Mineral Metabolic Abnormalities and Mortality in Dialysis Patients
Journal Club May 2018 - Online Learning Package
Jo Kok, Angela Henson, Carol Jeffrey
The benefits of turning a pilot study into nursing research
Journal Club January 2018 - Online Learning Package
Lynn Brown, Tracie Barber, David Fulker, Nay Myo Lwin, Anne Simmons
Fluid Dynamics in fistulae
Fluid Dynamics of Vascular Access - Webinar
Tracie Barber
What is really happening inside vascular access and what impacts on the blood flow
HIV & AIDS
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3.00 Hours
Nearly 25 years after the first report of a handful of cases of a nameless deadly disease among gay men in New York and Los Angeles, there are still over 1 million persons living with HIV in the United States. About one-fourth of those with HIV have not yet been diagnosed and are unaware of their infection. The “new” syndrome....
Effective Conflict Resolution
Danny Silk, MSW
1.00 Hours
Conflict is no respecter of persons, and it rears its head at work, at home, and pretty much any place where two or more people spend time together. Conflict is unavoidable. Since conflict is here and not going anywhere, it’s paramount that we understand it and institute principles and practices to ensure we resolve conflict eff....
Hand Hygiene: Life and Death is in Your Hands
Donn Kropp, RN, BSN
1.00 Hours
Your hands greet your neighbors, embrace your spouse, caress your children. You care for yourself with your hands. Your hands feed you, brush your teeth, and rub your eyes when you’re tired. You work with your hands. Your hands change bedding, administer medicine, and clean wounds. Your hands have the power to soothe, to comfort....
Medical Marijuana: Helpful or Harmful?
Donn Kropp, RN, BSN
1.00 Hours
Marijuana occupies a strange place in our society, as both an illegal recreational drug, and a unique herbal medication that holds great potential benefit for the treatment of a variety of illnesses. We all know the cultural stereotypes of marijuana users: “potheads”, druggies, stoners sitting on the couch for hours on end. Mun....
Falls Prevention: Tools and Strategies
Rebecca Huff, MSN, RN,
1.00 Hours
In hospitals alone, patient falls are a leading cause of death in people age 65 or older. There is increasing regulatory and reimbursement pressure on hospitals to prevent patient falls. Learn the latest tools and strategies to help prevent falls from Rebecca Huff, MSN, RN, Vice President of Clinical Services at Medline Industri....
Ebola - Beyond the Hype
Colleen Garcia RN, BSN, CLC, CCE
1.00 Hours
This online continuing education course will review the recent Ebola Virus outbreak in the United States; discuss epidemiology, signs and symptoms, prevention and supportive care for patients and victims of this virus. We will trace the virus back to West Africa in countries such as Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra....
Facts About Falls
Rein Tideiksaar
1.00 Hours
Every day, health care facilities are dealing with the risk of falls with patients, clients or residents. Hundreds of cases are documented each year and dedicating time to fall prevention needs to be an important part of our health care education. For many years, it was assumed that falls were unavoidable accidents, due to....
First Aid
Kevin Stansbury
1.50 Hours
Welcome to our First Aid Course based upon the American Heart Standards and Guidelines. In this course, you will learn the basics of first aid, the most common life-threatening emergencies, how to recognize them, and how to provide basic first aid care to the injured and ill. Our goal for you in this training course is to le....
Hashimotos Thyroiditis From A Western Medicine And Holistic Perspective
Brooke Lounsbury
2.50 Hours
An online continuing education course for nurses, medical health professionals and others interested in understanding Hashimotos Thyroiditis disease, causes, symptoms, lab tests and treatment options from both a holistic and Western medicine approach. Hashimotos Thyroiditis is named after Dr Hakaru Hashimoto in 1912. Dr Hashi....
Introduction to Dementia
Chris Wolf
2.00 Hours
Every 68 seconds another American develops Alzheimer's disease. Education and training in dementia care for health care staff has been identified as a priority by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease (NPAAD) developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi....
Nursing Care of the Recovering Trauma Patient
Erik J. Usher, RN, BS, CEN, CPEN, EMT-P, CFRN
2.00 Hours
Trauma care is provided over a continuum of care, in many different environments. Trauma nursing as a discipline is challenging and exciting in the anticipation of the next unknown case, regardless of whether in the acute setting or long-term rehabilitation backdrop. Trauma nurses work closely with other team members to assess a....
Improving Outcomes Through Patient Safety Initiatives
Patricia Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN
1.00 Hours
Medication errors contribute to nearly 20 percent of all medical injuries. Infusion errors involving the administration of high-risk medications have the greatest potential to result in patient harm. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) focuses on development of quality measures to increase patient safety and pr....
Investigating Outbreaks
Joyanna Wendt, MD, MPH
0.75 Hours
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an outbreak is the occurrence of more cases of disease than normally expected in a specific group of people or a certain place over a given period of time. Clinicians investigate outbreaks to control and prevent the spread of disease and infection. Investigation....