Prioritizing Patient Needs for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course will explore various ways to for licensed clinical staff to communicate with patients including collecting and documenting patient information and prioritize the patient’s needs. This course is structured to make you an active participant in demonstrating the ability to think about what the patient is stating, and de....
Quality Improvement for Licensed Clinical Staff
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
1.00 Hours
This course introduces basic quality improvement concepts and examines the ability for application in various situations. You will gain an understanding of how quality metrics collection, reporting, and analysis are instrumental to driving quality in the practice.
Pre-diabetes
Sheila Richmeier, MS, RN, FACMPE
0.25 Hours
This course develops knowledge around definitions and testing for pre-diabetes and the steps necessary to identify patients with the condition and refer them for appropriate services. The course will also discuss the importance of developing relationships in the community to help educate and develop skills with patients to impro....
Radiation Safety
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
6.00 Hours
The following is a recommended sample Radiation Safety Guide. While not all of its elements will apply to your situation, this Radiation Safety Guide gives you a very clear idea of what elements of radiation safety need to be dealt with by both organizations and staff.
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthy Relationship Programs
Kate Krieger, et al.; The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
1.00 Hours
This short CEU course describes healthy relationship programs’ current approaches to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and teen dating violence (TDV).
Culture Awareness and Trauma
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
Extracted from a guide created by the National Center on Trauma-Informed Care as a technical assistance document to help make trauma-informed peer support available to women who receive or have received services in behavioral health or other human service systems. This course provides basic information about how cultural con....
Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment (Updated)
Norman Miller, M.D., FASAM, et al.
9.00 Hours
Regardless of setting or level of care, the goals of detoxification are to provide safe and humane withdrawal from substances and to foster the patient’s entry into long-term treatment and recovery. This CE course provides the core concepts of the detoxification field, discusses the primary goals of detoxification services, and....
Affordable Care Act Options for Culturally Diverse Populations
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course provides strategies that organizations can use to help introduce Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Latinos and Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives to the new health insurance options. Examples are provided from organizations that have successfully used these strateg....
Core Competencies for Counselors and Other Clinical Staff
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Felipe González Castro, M.S.W., Ph.D.
1.00 Hours
This course provides a general overview of the core competencies needed so that counselors may provide effective treatment to diverse racial and ethnic groups. Using Sue’s (2001) multidimensional model for developing cultural competence, the content focuses on the counselor’s need to engage in and develop cultural awareness; cu....
Preventing Sexual Violence - Evidence-Based Practices
Kathleen Basile, Ph.D., et al.
2.00 Hours
Sexual violence is a serious public health problem that affects millions of people each year. This CE course provides a select group of strategies based on best available evidence on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violence and its consequences.
Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2.00 Hours
Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is often seen as a crime, but it is also a preventable public health problem. This CEU course provides steps to implement evidence-based intervention strategies, to integrate specific education messages into existing programs, and to engage in activities that impact policy development that are effecti....
Administrators - Addressing the Needs of Women in Treatment
Industry Specialist
2.00 Hours
This course addresses the following aspects with regard to the specific needs of women in substance abuse treatment: women’s patterns of substance use across a continuum from initiation of use through recovery; the physiological effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco on women; specific screening, assessment, and treatment engage....
Patient Dumping of Mentally Ill Individuals Needing Emergency Care
Industry Specialist
8.00 Hours
The enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and the policies designed to ensure that hospitals, localities, or states are not “dumping” indigent, mentally ill patients in need of emergency care on other hospitals, localities, or states in violation of the law are examined in this CEU course. Policy....
Resident Rights
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
Sometimes care providers in nursing homes feel confused and even threatened by the idea of resident rights. However, the fact that someone enters a nursing home and is now dependent upon others to provide the care they once provided for themselves does not mean they must relinquish any of the basic civil rights every citizen enj....
Communications in Healthcare
Donald Wood
1.00 Hours
An online continuing education course for nurses, medical health care professionals, and other interested individuals. In a review of over 2000 medical incidents, a Joint Commission study revealed that communication problems were the root cause more than 65% of the time (Haig, Sutton, & Whittington, 2006). Of those 2000 incid....
How to administer inotropic drugs
Andrew Parry
This module aims to help nurses to administer inotropic drugs in a safe, effective and patient-centred manner. The mode of action of inotropic drugs makes them well suited to treat haemodynamic compromise experienced by critically ill patients. Effects such as increased force of myocardial contraction and vasoconstriction make t....
How to inform relatives and loved ones of a patient's death
Mags Guest
Informing relatives and loved ones of a patient’s death is a sensitive and often stressful task frequently undertaken by nurses. Effective communication skills and demonstrating compassion are essential when informing relatives and loved ones of a patient’s death. The nurse should use suitable language and choose an appropriat....
How to measure tracheostomy tube cuff pressure
Nicola Credland
This module explores the process and principles of measuring tracheostomy tube cuff pressure and the associated evidence base. It discusses the indications for tracheostomy tube cuff pressure measurement and identifies potential complications associated with the procedure. Regular measurement of tracheostomy tube cuff pressur....
How to perform basic life support
Melanie Rushton and Mike Barker
This module aims to help practitioners refresh their knowledge of basic life support (BLS) supplementary to annual mandatory training. The module offers a step-by-step approach to BLS based on Resuscitation Council (UK) guidelines. There is a need to practise BLS on a regular basis to ensure competency in this area. A quick a....
How to wash your hands effectively
Mark Dexter Hillier
This module describes when and how to wash your hands effectively. Healthcare-associated infections are a risk to patients and service users, and nurses have a duty of care to protect these individuals from preventable infections. Nurses should practise good infection prevention, the basis of which is effective hand hygiene.....
Blood Transfusion
Cathie Osika Landreth RN, MSN, CNS
This course is intended to provide the nurse with all they need to know to safely administer and monitor blood transfusions.
Troubleshooting Blood Glucose
Jane Mauldin RN BSN CDE
0.50 Hours
This course is designed to teach the healthcare provider how to manage insulin for patients based upon blood glucose readings.
Preventing Violence Against Children - THRIVES
Industry Specialists
1.00 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.
Cultural Sensitivity to Holiday-Time Domestic Violence
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
1.00 Hours
Questions may arise about the increase of domestic violence during the holiday season and how to appropriately meet the needs of survivors and advocates working in shelters through the holiday season. This CEU course examines several issues to consider when working with survivors and their families during the holiday season.
Crisis Services - Effectiveness and Economics
Industry Specialist
4.00 Hours
This course summarizes the evidence base on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different types of crisis services, and then presents case studies of different approaches that states are using to coordinate, consolidate, and blend fund sources in order to provide robust crisis services. *This course is not ap....