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.
How to Document Conversations About Advance Care Planning
Paul Paes
0.5 Hours
This session explores the process and relevance of documenting the outcomes of the advance care planning (ACP) discussion. This session was reviewed by Fiona Rawlinson and Richard Kitchen, and last updated in October 2017.
Legal and Ethical Issues Embedded in Communication
Rob George
0.5 Hours
This session explores the legal and ethical considerations that you need to take into account when communicating with patients and their families. This session was reviewed by Andrew Thorns and Richard Kitchen and last updated in July 2018.
Intense Pulsed Light and LED Devices
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the characteristics of intense pulsed light and light emitting diode devices and their current clinical applications, with a discussion of their hazards to human health.
Laser-Tissue Interactions
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the ways in which laser light interacts with tissue, identifies the role of selected laser targets within tissues and explores the effect of laser parameters on laser absorption.
Looked After Children Part 2: Influencing Factors and Outcomes of Care Journeys
Douglas Simkiss
0.5 Hours
In this and session Safeguarding/Looked After Children Part 1, we will explore the evidence for the statement that looked after children “have a higher level of health, mental health and health promotion needs than others of the same age” and look at how the Healthy Child Programme can meet these needs.
Liberating Learning - Classroom and Learner-based Strategy
Stephen Ellis
0.5 Hours
This session explores classroom and learner-based learning activities. It demonstrates many of these with videos of case scenarios and offers practical suggestions to liberate learning.
Encouraging Feedback and Using it
Pamela Hampson and Marilyn Thirlway
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on how to encourage and use effective feedback. It demonstrates the skills of active listening which are used to ensure that you and the speaker fully understand each other. The strategies of appreciative questioning and the methods for checking understanding are covered. Once you have looked at how to recei....
Improving the Quality and Safety of Care through Health Informatics
Diane Bullman
This session will look at some of the ways the health service continuously monitors, improves and assures the quality and safety of patient care. It examines how informatics is an essential tool which supports these processes and how it can be used to improve care.
General Surgery: Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage - Upper
Amandine Woodham and Cynthia-M Borg
0.25 Hours
Upper gastro-intestinal bleeding is a common and sometimes life threatening problem. This session discusses the symptoms, causes, resuscitation, scoring and further management of these patients.
Fetal Heart Rate Nomenclature, Interpretation, and Management
George A. Macones, MD, FACOG
7 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....
Fundamentals for Interpreting Noninvasive Vascular Testing Part 1: Basics of Duplex Ultrasound Examinations
Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU
1 Hours
This series of articles about the use of duplex ultrasound to evaluate vascular structures and blood flow begins by reviewing the most basic principles, terminology and orientation to what is seen on a display screen. Before progressing to image and waveform analysis, and then moving along to case reviews, a general overview of....
Avoiding plagiarism: guidance for nursing students
Bob Price
1 Hours
The pressures of study, diversity of source materials, past assumptions relating to good writing practice, ambiguous writing guidance on best practice and students' insecurity about their reasoning ability, can lead to plagiarism. With the use of source checking software, there is an increased chance that plagiarised work will b....
Guidance for novice authors on writing a journal article
Bob Price
1 Hours
This learning module focuses on writing for journal publication. The purpose of writing is explored, paying particular attention to the message to be conveyed and the readership to which that message is addressed.The process of drafting and revising an article for publication is outlined, after which attention is turned to the p....
JPE 24.3: Executive Summary of Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care
Lamaze International
1.5 Hours
This report synthesizes evidence about innate hormonally mediated physiologic processes in women and fetuses/newborns during childbearing, and possible impacts of common maternity care practices and interventions on these processes, focusing on four hormone systems that are consequential for childbearing. Core hormonal physiolog....
Management of Symptoms Associated with Wounds in Palliative Care
Jane McManus
0.5 Hours
This session explores the assessment and management of wounds in end of life care. It also considers the types of challenging skin problems that individuals may face at end of life and gives an overview of the psychological, social and spiritual implications on the patient. This session was reviewed by Sally Newman and Christ....
Introduction to Mental Health
David Partlow
0.50 Hours
This session is an introduction to mental illness, it works though statistics which will make you think about the effect mental illness is having on the paramedics in the work place.
Left Ventricular Impairment - Anesthesiology
Dave Murray, Conor Gillan
0.50 Hours
Left ventricular dysfunction and the subsequent development of congestive heart failure is the final common pathway for a number of different cardiac disorders. This session will discuss the symptoms and signs of left ventricular dysfunction, how it is diagnosed and how its presence affects an anaesthetic plan.
Investigation and Management of Rarer Causes of Haemoptysis
Prina Ruparelia
0.5 Hours
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.
Medications and Breastfeeding
Frank J. Nice RPh DPA CPHP
This course covers the actions, indications and contraindications for breastfeeding of prescription and over-the-counter medications, anesthetics, analgesics and recreational drugs which are often used to treat illness or enhance and support health and breastfeeding.
Hospice Preferred Practices
William Storey
2 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....
Inotropic Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure
Pamela Clark
2 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....
Ins and Outs of Infection Prevention and Control
Industry Specialists
1 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.
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.
Men Who Batter - Parenting Interventions
Katreena Scott, Ph.D. C. Psych.
1.5 Hours
Fathers today are spending more time with their children, taking more responsibility for child care tasks, and sharing in more parenting decision. This CEU course describes developments in the field of parenting programs for men who batter, identifies commonalities across pioneering programs in approach and philosophy, and high....