Understanding Your Role for Health Care Supervisor
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.25 Hours
This course explores the healthcare supervisor’s role and helps differentiate responsibilities and duties as compared to other staff members. Information presented will teach how to prioritize tasks, organize information and accomplish goals within a designated time frame.
Testing for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course is designed to assist you in learning about the types of imaging and testing, differences between tests, and to distinguish normal and abnormal test results. It will cover the knowledge and skills needed to effectively communicate patient instructions about upcoming lab and diagnostic testing, preparation, and patien....
Womens Mental Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Nancy C. Lee, M.D.
3.00 Hours
The Action Steps for Improving Women’s Mental Health represent a collaborative effort of women’s health experts across multiple agencies and offices. Its purpose is to spur positive changes. The hope is that policy planners, healthcare providers, researchers, and others will take up its suggested actions and help translate them....
Suicide in the Elderly
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course provides an overview of the incidence of suicide in the elderly population, what precipitating factors are often overlooked and what the role of the psychotherapist can be to prevent the frequency of these suicides. There is also an overview of a patient's "right to die" which is becoming of more concern as the popul....
Supporting Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care - Employment Programs
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Departm
1.00 Hours
Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood may need supports to navigate the challenges they face. Employment is a key area to consider in serving youth aging out of care since youth prepared for employment not only benefit financially, but also develop important work and relationship skills. This CEU course foc....
THRIVES - Prevention of Violence Against Children
Industry Specialist
3.00 Hours
This CEU course provides an overview of THRIVES and discusses the topics of: training in parenting; household economic strengthening; reduced violence through legal protection; improved services; values and norms that protect children; education and life skills; and surveillance and evaluation. *This course is not approved fo....
Sexual Violence and Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQ
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This CEU course provides information to state and community-based sexual violence prevention educators and practitioners on preventing sexual violence against individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ), by discussing background information, practical tips, and examples of exist....
Sexual Harassment, Prevention, and California Law
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course provides detailed information on: sexual harassment in the workplace; prevention of sexual harassment; employer responsibilities, liability, and obligations; employee responsibilities; types of sexual harassment claims; behavior that is considered sexual harassment; the steps one should take if they are being sexuall....
Veterans and Mental Health
Industry Specialist
2.00 Hours
This course describes the guiding principles of mental health care, explains how to find mental health care, and the different treatment settings where VA offers mental health care. In addition, information about the types of treatments available for the most common mental health problems of Veterans (such as depression, substa....
Sheltering Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Michael Munson, M.A.
1.00 Hours
Transgender and non-transgender survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) share the same vital need for safety, shelter, and support services. This CEU course provides effective strategies for integrating trans women into shelters, building on the knowledge that most professionals have already developed practice, familiarity....
Strategies for Preventing Child Maltreatment
JooYeun Chang, J.D.; Administration on Children, Youth, and Families
6.00 Hours
The problems that children develop due to child abuse and neglect have negative impacts that ripple across the lifespan, affecting children’s chances to succeed in school, work, and relationships. This CEU course focuses on protective factors that build family strengths and promote optimal child and youth development in an effo....
Violence During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Sandra Martin Ph.D., et al.; National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
1.00 Hours
Violence during pregnancy is a critical concern because it is often frequent and severe in nature. This short CEU course provides research findings concerning violence against pregnant and postpartum women.
Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
Roger Peters, Ph.D., Elizabeth Rojas, M.A., and Marla Bartoi, Ph.D.; Substance Abuse and Mental Heal
9.00 Hours
Use of evidence-based approaches for screening and assessment is likely to result in more accurate matching of offenders to treatment services and more effective treatment and supervision outcomes. This CE course provides a guide for professionals who are interested in developing and operating effective programs for justice-inv....
The Problem of Prescription Drug Use in the United States
HHS Behavioral Health Coordinating Committee (BHCC)
2.00 Hours
This CE course sets out to improve the understanding of current prescription drug abuse activities and analyze a report which provides a review of current initiatives and identifies opportunities to ensure the safe use of prescription drugs with the potential for abuse and the treatment of prescription drug dependence.
Treatment of Dementia
M. Chris Wolf
1.50 Hours
Every 68 seconds another American develops Alzheimer's disease. Education and training in dementia care for health care staff has been identified as a priority by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease (NPAAD) developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi....
Understanding Urinary Tract Infections
Georgina Casey
What causes urinary tract infections (UTI)? Who is most at risk? How do we best manage UTI? When should bacteriuria be treated? Why do people with urinary catheters have greater risk of UTI and how does our nursing practice affect this? UTI are symptomatic inflammatory conditions of the lower urinary tract including the bladder....
The Pleasure & Power of Aromatherapy for Self-Care
Dawn Langley-Brady, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, CHPN, CCAP
1.00 Hours
Aromatherapy can be defined as the art and science of utilizing naturally extracted aromatic essences from plants to balance, harmonize and promote the health of body, mind and spirit. It is an art and science which seeks to explore the physiological, psychological and spiritual realm of the individual's response to aromatic....
Tracheostomy Tubes Care and Cleaning
Erika Probst, RNC, MSN
1.00 Hours
Tracheostomies are a common procedure in healthcare today with over 100,000 tracheostomies performed every year in the United States. This makes tracheostomies and tracheostomy tube care a critical component of nursing care. This course will discuss the reason tracheostomies are performed, components of the tracheotomy tube, cha....
Defining health literacy and its importance for effective communication
Veronica Lambert and Deborah Keogh
1.00 Hours
This learning module explores the concept of health literacy, an often hidden barrier to effective healthcare communication. The authors define the components of health literacy, as well as describing the extent and implications of limited health literacy for parents/caregivers and their children. The module also identifies the....
Hypertension: diagnosis, assessment and management
Jill Bunker
Hypertension is a serious and common condition, the prevalence of which is set to rise given the increase in the ageing population, sedentary lifestyles and obesity. This article reviews the management of primary hypertension in adults, with reference to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines. Diagnosis....
Guidance on publishing your research
Bob Price
This learning module describes the process of preparing a research article for publication in a nursing journal. It is aimed at nurses who wish to share their research results with other health professionals and is designed to help the researcher who is new to publishing. In writing a research article, the author describes what....
The role of surveillance in preventing healthcare-associated infections
Brett G Mitchell and Philip L Russo
1.00 Hours
Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is central to healthcare epidemiology and infection control programmes and a critical factor in the prevention of these infections. By definition, the term 'infection prevention' implies that healthcare-associated infections may be preventable. The purpose of surveillance is to pr....
Meeting the psychological needs of patients with cancer
Colette Anne Selmer
The mental health of patients with cancer is a vital part of their overall wellbeing. Unmet mental health needs have an adverse effect on a patient's ability to cope with illness and its treatment and contribute to an increased burden on health services. Low staffing levels and inadequate training and support in the use of psych....
Improving patient care through concept mapping
Suzanne Aberdeen
1.00 Hours
This learning module reviews the use of concept mapping as a person-centred problem-solving aid to assessment, risk management, care evaluation and care planning for nurses. Concept maps are diagrams that are used to organise, represent and create knowledge, and provide a useful framework for critical analysis and problem solvin....
The Importance of Prenatal Care and the Role of Community Health Workers
Candace Kugel, ARNP, CNM
1.00 Hours
In this seminar participants will be able to identify the HRSA performance measures related to pregnancy care, as well as two unique risk factors for pregnant women migrant farm workers during the workshop. We will also reflect on the important role that community health workers play in improving access to prenatal care for preg....