Falls Prevention
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries are important issues for all hospitals. Patient falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths for patients over 65 years of age. The goal is to reduce the number and severity of falls while increasing mobility. It is important that all healthcare facilities be up to date on the c....
Give Falls the Slip: TJC & CMS Hospital CoPs & Standards
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
Falls and fall-related injuries are important patient safety and risk management issues for all hospitals. Patient falls are the leading cause of injury related deaths for patients over 65 years of age and the number one hospital-acquired condition, costing hospitals $30,000 per fall-related injury. Every hospital should have a....
How to Survive an Active Shooter within a Building
Ms Olympia Resol, RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
4.00 Hours
You will learn through this course on how to survive in an active shooter within a building.
6 Common Charting Mistakes to Avoid
Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
1.00 Hours
In nursing, Documentation is a key factor in our role and responsibility as a patient care advocates. It is critical for determining if the standard of care was provided to a patient to defend prior nursing actions. Failure to chart, omissions, and poor communications are hard to defend.
Do Not Resuscitate
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
4.00 Hours
On the medicine wards, you will come across patients who have a "Do-Not-Resuscitate" order on their chart. You will also be in situations where you are asked to discuss with a patient whether they want to or should have resuscitation following a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia. Like many other medical decisions, de....
H1N1
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
5.00 Hours
To date, human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been confirmed in residents of California, Texas, and Mexico. Illness signs and symptoms have consisted of influenza-like illness - fever and respiratory tract illness (cough, sore throat, runny nose), headache, muscle aches - and some cases have had vomiting....
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis- Diagnosis and Treatment
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
7.00 Hours
Many acute and chronic lung disorders with variable degrees of pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis are collectively referred to as interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) or diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (or cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis) (IPF or CFA) is one of several idiopathic interstitial pneu....
Flu Jab Refresher Course
Mohammed Ibrahim
This course is aimed at Community Pharmacists in England. It can also be used by nurses and other healthcare professionals that are authorised to administer the influenza vaccine under the NHS patient group direction. Whilst the course covers the NHS service specification for community pharmacy in England, the other aspects....
Infection Control for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course examines the application of key infection control techniques including demonstrating the licensed clinical staff role in educating patients on infection. You will gain an understanding of infection and identify ways to reduce the spread of infection.
Medical Errors
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3.00 Hours
Most Americans have grown up having the utmost respect for the medical profession and what it has accomplished over the decades. The family doctor who could fix anything became a fixture in our society. If “doc” said you needed something, then that is what you got. People not only didn’t worry about the their healthcare, they di....
Domestic Violence and Children
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
3.00 Hours
This course summarizes the current knowledge to date regarding the prevalence and effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence. The course describes current responses to this problem by the multiple service systems with which children exposed to domestic violence have contact, and addresses what we know about how well the....
Mechanical Ventilation
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
25.00 Hours
This course explains the history and offers an in-depth analysis of mechanical ventilation.
Mass Violence and Behavioral Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1.00 Hours
This CEU course focuses on how mass violence affects the behavioral health of adult and young survivors or witnesses of a mass violence incident. The phases of response experienced by survivors, as well as immediate and long-term reactions and interventions, are discussed.
Healthcare Project Management Series: 1 - Initiation
Industry Specialists
1.50 Hours
Get the strategies and techniques you need to apply key project management competencies and successfully complete the initiation phase of a project plan.
Healthcare Project Management Series: 2 - Planning
Industry Specialists
1.50 Hours
Get the strategies, techniques and practice experience you need to build a successful healthcare project plan.
Healthcare Project Management Series: 3 - Execution
Industry Specialists
1.50 Hours
Get the strategies, processes and techniques you need to successfully execute a healthcare project plan.
Healthcare Project Management Series: 4 - Closing
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
Get the strategies, processes and techniques you need to successfully close a healthcare project plan.
Implementation of an IPC Program Plan
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
Learners enrolled in this course will be exposed to the process of how to create and manage an Infection Prevention and Control program plan. Practical Job Aids and Learn-By-Doing exercises are provided to ensure the learner has the tools and practice experience to gain exposure to IPC program development.
IV Push Medications v2
Pamela Clark
1.50 Hours
This instructional course has been designed to provide current conceptual and operational knowledge to the licensed clinician interested in the provision of intravenous medication by the IV push route. There are a number of drugs that may or must be administered by this method. For both the RN and LPN/LVN involved in administeri....
NUR134: Diabetes Mellitus Complications
Mary McGeough, R.N., B.S.N. and Linda Fisk, RN, BS
Health care professionals will enhance their understanding of the complications associated with diabetes mellitus.
F880: Infection Control
Industry Specialists
The Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised the “Interpretive Guidelines for Long-Term Care Facilities,” Tag F880. The revised material is effective as of November 28, 2017. The intent of this regulation is to ensure that facilities develop, implement, and maint....
Managing Three Common Complications of Chemotherapy: Febrile Neutropenia, Nephrotoxicity, Enterotoxicity
Laura Milligan, FNP,BC, AOCN®
1.00 Hours
For cancer patients, chemotherapy-associated complications can be life threatening. Risks for complications are often compounded when the chemotherapeutic regimen requires drugs to be administered in combination. Management of the most serious complications of chemotherapy—febrile neutropenia and chemotherapy-related nephrotoxic....
Infection Control Practices in Healthcare
Damion Keith Jenkins
1.50 Hours
This infection control practices in healthcare course will provide participants with a review of basic infection control considerations and guidelines necessary to protect themselves and their patients from infection during all facets of care. This comprehensive review can be utilized for nursing personnel throughout all healthc....
Intravenous Antibiotics: Antivirals
Pamela Clark
2.00 Hours
This instructional course has been designed for nurses administering and/or caring for the patient receiving intravenous antibiotics. I.V. antibiotics have been administered for nearly a century but bacterial resistance has forced an ever-increasing arsenal of drugs. In this often- changing landscape, the nurse needs a working k....
Nurse Coaching for Effective Change: Join the Movement
Linda Bark, PhD, RN, MCC, NC-BC
0.25 Hours
This presentation will explore the opportunities and benefits of nurse coaching for clients, as well as the process and standards for becoming certified as a nurse coach through the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC). The myths about nurse coaching will be addressed as well.