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
Basic Life Support
Mohammed Ibrahim
To give an overview of the assessment of the collapsed adult and effective basic life support. Based on 2015 Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines
Jet Lag and Sleep
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
6.00 Hours
Jet lag, or desynchronosis, is a temporary condition that some people experience following air travel across several time zones in a short period of time. This causes the traveler's internal clock to be out of sync with the external environment. People experiencing jet lag have a difficult time maintaining their internal, routin....
Intimate Domestic Violence
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
20.00 Hours
Although most people believe intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial public health problem in the United States, few agree on its magnitude. Recognizing the need to better measure both the scope of the problem of IPV as well as resulting economic costs—in particular, those related to health care— Congress funded the Cen....
Guide to Breastfeeding
Industry Specialists
0.25 Hours
This course focuses on: the importance of breastfeeding; finding support and information for the mother; how breast milk is made; what the mother needs to know before giving birth; learning to breastfeed; common challenges and questions with breastfeeding; what to know when breastfeeding a baby with health problems, during speci....
Injury Prevention in Elderly Care
Industry Specialists
3.00 Hours
This course provides guidelines to help reduce the number and severity of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in facilities. The recommendations in these guidelines are based on a review of existing practices and programs, State OSHA programs, as well as available scientific information, and comments received from representat....
Frontotemporal Disorders
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
This course was developed from the National Institute on Aging and National Institutes of Health booklet which is meant to help people with frontotemporal disorders, their families, and caregivers learn more about these conditions and resources for coping. It explains what is known about the different types of disorders and how....
Impacts of Sleep Loss and Stress
Janne Grønli
0.25 Hours
Sleep has been ascribed a critical role in cognitive functioning. This advanced CEU course provides evidence linking sleep to mechanisms of protein synthesis-dependent synaptic plasticity and synaptic scaling. How disruption of sleep by acute and chronic stress may impair these mechanisms and degrade sleep function is also con....
Helping Community Health Workers Promote Chemical Safety on the Job
Juliana Simmons, MPH
1.00 Hours
José Navarro was excited for his new career after landing a job in the poultry industry. After five years on the job, 37 year-old Navarro began coughing up blood. He died soon after when his lungs and kidneys failed. His death triggered a federal investigation raising questions about the health risks associated with the use of t....
Noncytotoxic Vesicant Medications and Solutions
Industry Specialists
INS established a vesicant task force with the goal of developing an evidence-based list of noncytotoxic vesicant medications/solutions. Outside of oncology practice, there is not a list of noncytotoxic vesicants as established by a professional organization. INS identified the need to address this gap based on th....
Iron Infusion for the Treatment of iron Deficiency Anemia
Pamela Clark
1.50 Hours
Iron deficiency anemia is common among certain groups of people and oral iron supplementation is not appropriate for some of these. Intravenous iron infusions can significantly increase the quality of life for individuals suffering from this exhausting condition but are also associated with potentially serious complications. Res....
NHA102: Infection Control
Mary McGeough, R.N., B.S.N.
Nursing home administrators will review and gain knowledge of current and emerging infection control procedures, common health care-related infections, infectious disease outbreaks, and how to develop effective infection control programs within a health care facility.
NUR107: Arrhythmia
Linda Fisk, BS, RN
An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slow, or with an irregular rhythm. A heartbeat that is too fast is called tachycardia. A heartbeat that is too slow is called bradycardia. Most arrhythmias are harmless, but some can be serious or even l....
NUR108: Atrial Fibrillation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Atrial fibrillation, or AF, is the most common type of cardiac (heart) arrhythmia. An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slow, or with an irregular rhythm. AF occurs if rapid, disorganized electrical signals cause the heart's two upper chamb....
Effects of Disasters on People of Low Socioeconomic Status
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1.00 Hours
Being of low socioeconomic status (SES), in the United States and around the world, may affect how people understand disaster risk, prepare for disasters, and respond to warnings and evacuation orders. This CEU course focuses on how people in poverty, with low income, and low SES experience disasters by exploring the difference....