Falls Assessment and Management for Paramedics
Ann Murray
0.5 Hours
This session aims to provide an overview of the assessment and management of older people who have fallen and may be frail, in the context of paramedic practice.
Methods of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Jennifer Lane and John Jenkins
0.5 Hours
This session describes how to prescribe and administer enteral and parenteral nutrition, exploring the advantages, disadvantages and complications associated with each method.
Management of Erosion
Alex Milosevic
This session describes how to identify dental erosion and the different treatment options available.
Fit to Perform: Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace
Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN
2 Hours
It is the employer’s obligation to discover, uncover, and address any employee behaviors that may indicate unsafe job performance. Impairment due to chemical, physical or psychological disease interferes with fitness for duty and is evidenced by effective job performance (Marquis & Huston, 2017). When addressing impairment the....
How to Resucitate a Newborn Baby
Industry Specialists
This film will show you how to resuscitate a newborn baby. It is based on the Resuscitation Council UK's guidelines and will focus on the following essential maneuvers: keeping the baby warm, assessing the baby, opening the airway, and chest compressions.
A Midwife Like Me
Industry Specialists
A film produced in partnership with the International Confederation of Midwives showing the incredible work midwives across the world are doing to inform and empower women and their families.
Image Interpretation - Plain X-rays of the Adult Chest: Pleural Conditions and Diseases
Matthew Scott
This session will look at the pleura, the pleural spaces and common pathologies that affect them. The anatomy and physiology of the pleural cavities will also be reviewed. Emphasis will be placed upon the radiographic appearances of some of the common and important pathologies.
Image Interpretation - Abdominal Ultrasound: Paediatric Renal
Terry Humphrey
0.5 Hours
This session will describe normal renal ultrasound appearances in children. Common pathologies will be discussed as well as pitfalls to avoid. Tips on reporting will be offered.
How to Take a Headache History
Edward Dunn
This session lists the key points to cover when taking a headache history. These will help you distinguish between headaches that need further investigation and those that do not.
NUR147: Infection Control.
Mary McGeough, R.N., B.S.N.
Health care professionals will review and gain knowledge of current and emerging infection control procedures, common health care related infections, and infectious disease outbreaks.
CNA102: Diabetes Type 2
Mary McGeough, R.N., B.S.N.
1.5 Hours
The nursing assistant will better understand diabetes, how it affects body systems, and how to care for the resident with diabetes to minimize complications of the disease.
HH100: Diabetes Type 2
Leanne Anthon, RN, BSN, MSN
The home health aide will enhance her understanding of type 2 diabetes and the care of the client with the disease.
CMA204: Diabetes Type 2
Mary McGeough, R.N., B.S.N.
The medication aide will enhance her knowledge of type 2 diabetes and the special care of the patient with the disease.
Healthcare Provider Trends and Strategies
Industry Specialists
1 Hours
This course covers practices in Healthcare Provider Trends and Strategies. The course will examine access to care, explore consumerism and patient engagement, identify the trends in the cost of care, examine the reimbursement and payment models, examine population health, define precision medicine, provide an overview of behavio....
Lessons from the Ebola Crisis: Global Health on your Doorstep
Edward Zuroweste, MD
1 Hours
We all live in an increasingly globalized world which is beset with economic and political crises as well as profound disparities in opportunity and access to scarce resources. Within this context, migration is a constant. Mobility within nations as well as internationally is an ever growing reality for many people throughout th....
NUR109: Coronary Heart Disease
Linda Fisk, BS, RN
The healthcare practitioner will enhance her knowledge of coronary heart disease and its impact on the individual.
Basic Life Support
Industry Specialists
2 Hours
Basic Life Support is a specialist course covering terminology, legal requirements and basic life support techniques in case of an emergency. The course aims in particular to teach its readers how to assess an incident and manage a casualty who is choking, vomiting, unconscious or not breathing. The course uses audio-visual el....
Loss and grief in the childbearing period
Denise Côté-Arsenault, PhD, RNC, IBCLC, FNAP
4.5 Hours
Provides a solid foundation of historical, theoretical and clinical knowledge to facilitate effective nursing care of families faced with pregnancy or newborn loss. Addresses potential effects that caring for bereaved families can have on nurses. Includes case studies and resources for professionals and families.
Inhaler technique — the why and the how
Ruth Morrow
Inhaler technique is an essential skill for patients and nurses to ensure optimum and accurate delivery of medication to the lungs. This module aims to provide nurses with information on the rationale for optimum inhaler technique, the consequences of poor inhaler technique, errors with inhaler technique and the different techni....
Faith and Communities Partner to Prevent Crime
Industry Specialists
1 Hours
This CEU course provides useful strategies for building capacity, developing partnerships, and seeking grant opportunities. Topics of focus are: building capacity within faith-based organizations; partnering with organizations to prevent crime; and effective and efficient grant acquisition and management.
Novice to Expert Theory
June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c)
3 Hours
This 1 module (3 CE credit) course introduces nurses to the Novice to Expert Theory, (a construct theory first proposed by sibling researchers, Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus (1980) as the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition, and later applied and modified to nursing by Patricia Benner in 1984) provides a very useful and important the....
Human Factors in Nursing Informatics
June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c)
5 Hours
This 2 module (5 CE credit) course introduces nurses to human factors essential to effective application of nursing informatics in practice. Topics focus on the human factors of ergonomics, human-computer interaction, usability, learnability, memorability, likeability, readability, asepsis, and aesthetics.
HIPAA: Secure Electronic Health Records
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
2 Hours
Everyone has a role to play in the privacy and security of electronic health information. This CEU course helps social workers better understand how to integrate federal health information privacy and security requirements into their practices.
Early-Detection Pediatric Sepsis Algorithm
Matthew Eisenberg, MD and Kate Madden, MD
1 Hours
Sepsis and septic shock remain common causes of morbidity and mortality in children. This session will discuss how they investigated the use of electronic health record data to proactively identify potentially septic children. The approach used to define the early-detection pediatric sepsis (PS) algorithm was to combine the logi....