Leadership Standards Essential to Engage Staff, Support Operations and Provide Quality Care
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD
It takes strong leaders to ensure safe, high-quality patient care. The key is making sure hospitals employ teams that are comfortable and happy in their work environment. Many of the CMS hospital CoP changes align with important areas found in TJC leadership chapter, including conflicts of interest, contract management, behav....
Nurse Case Managers & Social Workers: Relationship Best Practices Part I
Toni Cesta, Ph.D., RN, FAAN and Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN
This two-part series will review the differences and similarities between the roles of RN case managers and social workers in both the acute care and community-based settings. Our experts will review case management standards of practice, criteria for referring patients to social workers, and strategies for integrating the roles....
Obstructed Labour: An Introduction for Midwives
Industry Specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains what obstructed labour is, how it can be identified and managed.
Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care - Module A: Prevalence and Pathophysiology
Suzanne J. Wingate, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA
2.00 Hours
The purpose of Improving Outcomes in Heart Failure Care is to educate case managers so that they may be aware of and empowered to intervene and support efforts to understand and expedite effective resource and clinical management based upon the: -Latest evidence-based guidelines and standards of care for HF patients -Hospita....
Improving Outcomes in Sepsis Care and Resource Management - Module C: Sources & Predispositions
Debra Siela, PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CNE, RRT
1.50 Hours
This course will focus on sepsis care and resource management. The five course modules describe the prevalence and pathophysiology, assessment, sources and predisposing conditions, prevention and treatment and the case manager’s role in Sepsis planning and treatment goals.
How to perform or assist with a transrectal ultrasound and prostate biopsy
Bruce Turner and Lawrence Drudge-Coates
This article aims to help nurses to support patients who require a prostate biopsy to diagnose or exclude prostate cancer. Nurses will also gain an understanding of the procedure for transrectal biopsy. A transrectal biopsy is commonly used to access the prostate. Indications for a biopsy include elevated levels of prostate-....
Domestic Violence
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
To educate health care professionals on domestic violence issues as required by Florida State Law, Section 456.031. F.S. “Requirement for instruction in domestic violence."
Health Factors Affecting Women of Color for Social Workers
Industry Specialists
2.50 Hours
This CEU course examines the health care systems, the major diseases, and the barriers to accessing health care for women of American Indians / Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and Latinos, Blacks / African Americans, and Asian Americans.
Evidence-Based Practices for Preventing Childhood Abuse and Neglect
Beverly Fortson, Ph.D., et al.; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
1.00 Hours
Child abuse and neglect is highly prevalent and is associated with several risk factors. This CEU course provides a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. The strategies represented include those with a focus on preventing child abuse and neglect from happening....
Introduction to Trauma
Industry Specialist
2.00 Hours
This course provides basic information on sources and impacts of trauma and describes how behavioral health, human services, and other systems are becoming “trauma-informed.” This course also focuses on how people come to recognize the impact of trauma on themselves and others, and become aware of the ways in which women might....
Introduction to Cultural Competence
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Andrea Kopstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., Karl D. W
3.00 Hours
his course defines cultural competence, presents a rationale for pursuing it, and describes the process of becoming culturally competent and responsive to client needs. In addition, it highlights the consensus panel’s core assumptions and introduces a framework, adapting Sue’s (2001) multidimensional model of cultural competenc....
Intimate Partner Violence Against Transgender People and People of Color
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Program
2.00 Hours
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects many LGBTQ and HIV-affected people, yet there remains a great deal of silence surrounding IPV, and many conversations about IPV outside LGBTQ communities are facilitated in a heteronormative context. This CEU course provides strategies to create dialogue on IPV in transgender communities....
Drug Cultures and the Culture of Recovery
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Andrea Kopstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., Karl D. W
1.00 Hours
his course identifies drug cultures as a domain that requires proficiency in clinical skills, programmatic development, and administrative practices. It explores drug cultures in regards to: their concept; their relationship to mainstream culture; their values and rituals; and how and why people value their participation in suc....
LEP Guide for Improving Patient Safety
Industry Specialist
5.00 Hours
This course focuses on how hospital leaders and other hospital staff can better identify, report, monitor, and prevent medical errors in patients with limited English proficiency. In addition, a training module that teaches a set of team behaviors and structured communication tools designed to reduce medical errors for LEP pati....
HIV AIDS Clinical Care Treatment
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
5.00 Hours
This CEU course provides health care professionals working with the HIV-infected population information on antiretroviral therapy; reducing perinatal HIV transmission; care of HIV-infected pregnant women; health care of HIV-infected women through the life cycle; palliative care and HIV; and adherence.
Dual Diagnosis: Understanding Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
Patricia Hocking-Walker, M.S.
1.00 Hours
Behavioral health professionals have a responsibility to be aware of the complex relationship between mental illness and substance abuse or dependence, known as dual diagnoses or co-occurring disorders. Topics include characteristics and prevalence, theories, screening and assessment, and treatment of dual diagnosis.
Club Drugs, Ecstasy, and Hallucinogens
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This CEU course discusses common types of hallucinogens (LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, and PCP) and club drugs (GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine) with regard to: how the drug is abused; how the drug affects the brain; addictive potential; other adverse effects on health; and treatment options. *This course is not approved for NBCC rene....
National Quality in Health Care for the Homeless
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This CEU course provides health care workers with information on pursuing national quality in health care among the homeless, focusing on the following topics: the medical home model; the role of health information technology; the advantage of patient-centered medical home health care; the intersection of patient-centered medica....
Health Care for Migrant Women: Taking it to the Next Level
Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS and Megan Danielson, CNM, MSN
1.00 Hours
Migrant women face significant disparities with an additional layer of complexity and require different intervention strategies. Among them are reproductive health, pregnancy and childbirth, sexual and intimate partner violence, and cancers that disproportionately affect women, including cervical and breast cancer. Women often f....
Management of type 2 diabetes
Noreen McHale
This module aims to give a greater understanding of type 2 diabetes. It identifies those at risk, deals with the frequency of screening and the interpretation of results. The module deals with how best to support such patients, the importance of monitoring and the individualisation of patient care, including setting suitable tar....
LARC in nulliparous women
Dr Gillian Darling
This module gives an overview of the efficacy of and the applications for the various long-acting reversible contraceptives.
End of Life Care and Palliative Care
Industry Specialists
3.00 Hours
When the Department of Health published its End of Life Care Strategy for England in July 2008, their aim was to promote high quality care for all adults at the end of life. The Strategy recognised that a 'cultural shift in attitude and behaviour related to end of life care' needed to occur within the health and social care wor....
ICU Crisis Management
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
30.00 Hours
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is an acute care environment designed to centralize the administration of critical health care to severely ill patients. Intensive care units are specialized today and a hospital may have the following areas: a. Medical intensive care unit (MICU) b. Surgical intensive care unit (SICU) c. Card....
Neonatal Respiratory Failure
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
4.00 Hours
Neonatal Respiratory Failure: A 12-Month Clinical Epidemiologic Study from 2004 to 2005 in China
Home Respiratory Care
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
25.00 Hours
A comprehensive course on Home Respiratory Care