0.5 Hours
This session is for ALL staff working in a healthcare setting - whether clinical (face to face contact with patients) OR non-clinical: e.g. reception, administrative, catering, transport and maintenance staff. It is basic safeguarding training. All staff who come into contact with children (whether clinical or not) and ALL clini....
0.5 Hours
This session describes the factors that must be taken into account when examining and assessing a patient who is in pain.
0.5 Hours
This session has been written by a multidisciplinary group of cardiology and palliative care specialists to help palliative care clinicians become more confident with managing patients with heart failure and knowing when to liaise with heart failure services.
0.5 Hours
This session will help clinical staff who have some degree of contact with children and young people and/or parents/carers to recognise signs and behaviours seen in children who are being maltreated. It is important to note that throughout the session, the terms 'child' and 'children' refer to anyone younger than 18 years old.....
0.5 Hours
This session explores the ways in which GPs effectively and appropriately close the consultation. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in January 2015.
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on the physical, emotional and social contexts of family life in the 21st century.
0.75 Hours
This session describes how to manage lasers and other optical radiation devices, offering guidance on how to ensure safe practice and outlining the actions to be taken in an emergency.
25 Hours
This course explains the history and offers an in-depth analysis of mechanical ventilation.
1 Hours
If you’re involved in the healthcare industry, then it’s a pretty safe bet that the requirements and regulations of “H” “I” “P” “A” “A”, which is often pronounced “hippa”, have affected your workplace and your daily routines and practice. You might not realize this, if you’ve never heard of HIPAA before, and you might not even k....
Class number two looks at the forebrain, which is the third and largest subdivision of the brain. Each of its structures is described with particular emphasis on their function.
1 Hours
In this course we will focus on the management and treatment of the lower extremity wounds, including the overall management of the patient, the disease process, and that of wound itself.
5 Hours
This course has been designed to provide basic conceptual and operational knowledge to healthcare clinicians responsible for the care of patients with central venous access devices. As the science of infusion therapy advances and technology expands, it is imperative that all healthcare clinicians and nurses practicing infusion....
4.5 Hours
Clostridium difficile is an inimitable organism that normally lives in the gut. When an antibiotic is taken to treat an infection, helpful or normal bacteria are destroyed, causing an overgrowth of the C. difficile bacteria. Clostridium difficile localizes to the large bowel, where it manifests as diarrhea and colitis. The sympt....
1.5 Hours
This Nutrition and Hydration course will provide participants with a review of the basic safety considerations and nutritional guidelines necessary to safely assist residents and elderly clients in eating, drinking and maintaining optimal nutritional status. This comprehensive review can be utilized for personnel throughout all....
1 Hours
Many healthcare workers are subjected to bullying from co-workers, managers, physicians and/or clients. Bullying occurs in all sectors of health care and is a significant, under-reported occupational health and safety issue. Bullying has a profound effect on targets, witnesses, clients, health-care organizations and bullies them....
1.5 Hours
Nurses give of themselves daily in large quantities. Yet, as experience has shown us they are the least likely to take care of themselves. To be in a position to care for others in a loving, healing way the provider must first look to their own needs. In this online continuing education course author Jill O'Hara will share all t....
1 Hours
Administering medication is one of the most important … and one of the most risky...health care processes in corrections. Frequent legal and licensure issues surrounding medication possession and administration make this a nursing process of significant concern. Due to the secure environment of a correctional setting and the lim....
1 Hours
This course is designed to protect these workers exposed to hazardous chemicals in all industrial sectors, the Federal Government established the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) 1910.1200, also known as the "right to know" law. This standard is based on a simple concept: that the employee has both a need and a right....
2 Hours
Older adult roundtables, established by the Center for Mental Health Services with the assistance of the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation and the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign, were convened in Washington, D.C. They reviewed the research findings on older adults and mental health. Many facts were found that must b....
5 Hours
This course will review the development of sexuality using a lifespan perspective. It will focus on sexuality in infancy, childhood and adolescence. It will discuss biological and psychological milestones as well as theories of attachment and psychosexual development.
5 Hours
Severe childhood stress appears to have lasting effects, with self-regulation-related difficulties seen into adulthood. This CE course provides clarity on how stress may impact the development of self-regulation by operationalizing stress and self-regulation; discussing different perspectives of how stress and self-regulation i....
2 Hours
The epidemic of smoking-caused disease in the twentieth century ranks among the greatest public health catastrophes. This CEU course provides data on the numerous health effects resulting from smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke, and details public health trends in tobacco use. Strategies and effective interventions with....
1 Hours
This course is based upon the revised AAMFT Code of Ethics. Law and Ethics govern the practice of marriage and family therapy. When making decisions regarding professional behavior, marriage and family therapists should consider the AAMFT code of Ethics and applicable laws and regulations.
1.5 Hours
This instructional course has been designed for healthcare clinicians administering and/or caring for the patient receiving parenteral immunotherapy. All clinicians involved in infusing immunotherapeutic agents and those caring for patients receiving these medications need a working knowledge of the diagnoses for which they are....
1.5 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....