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  • Acute Stroke: Treatment and Outcomes - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to equip nurses in the acute care setting about the causes of strokes; acute treatment strategies; and the physical, mental, and emotional effects of strokes based on the area of the brain injury. DSM™ and DSM-5™ are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association. The American Psychiatric Association is not affiliated with nor endorses this course.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the risk factors, causes, and acute treatment strategies of strokes.
      • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Anesthesia in the Perioperative and Postoperative Settings - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to update healthcare professionals’ knowledge regarding lung cancer, including palliative symptom management.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify three risk factors for lung cancer.
      • Recall two common types of lung cancer and three treatment interventions.
    3. Contact Hours: 2

  • Anticoagulant Overdoses: National Patient Safety Goals - No Test

    1. The goal of this educational program is to provide nurses in acute care with knowledge of the updates to The Joint Commission’s anticoagulant related National Patient Safety Goals. After taking this course, you should be able to:
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the most common anticoagulants for hospital patients.
      • Describe critical aspects of nursing care when monitoring anticoagulants.
      • Discuss the critical elements of patient teaching regarding anticoagulation therapy.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Asthma in Adults - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to prepare nurses and respiratory therapists working in acute care settings with information to better care for patients with asthma. This course is not affiliated with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Calming the Patient with Cognitive Impairment - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to enrich the knowledge of nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the use of music, touch, exercise, and animals to calm cognitively impaired patients.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
      • Identify the ways music, touch, exercise, and animal presence benefit patients with cognitive impairment.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Common Sleep Disorders - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing and respiratory therapy professionals with knowledge of the importance of sleep assessment in the clinical setting and to provide clinical assessment strategies and common assessment/diagnostic tools for impaired sleep and sleep disorders.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify common sleep disorders and how they affect the general population.
      • Describe common sleep disorders and ways to incorporate a routine sleep assessment into practice.
      • Discuss common sleep assessment tools and the indications for using these tools.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Communication with Patients - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, clinical laboratory professionals, nutrition and dietetics professionals, social work professionals, physician assistants, physicians, respiratory therapy professionals, and speech-language and pathology/audiology professionals with information about how to effectively communicate with patients in healthcare settings.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify at least three specific elements of effective communication and how communication affects the patient and family experience.
      • Recall important components of cultural competence and inclusivity when communicating with patients and families.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Complementary and Alternative Practices - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to inform nurses, occupational therapists, and respiratory therapists in the acute care setting about the current practices of the most utilized complementary and integrative healthcare modalities.

      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Differentiate between the practices of integrative, complementary, alternative, and conventional medicine.
      • Recognize the driving factors of integrative medicine and the challenges in integrating complementary medicine into conventional medicine.
      • Recall at least five different complementary therapies that healthcare professionals can learn and incorporate into their care.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Coping with Shingles - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide up-to-date information to nurses about the signs and symptoms of shingles, treatment moalities, interventions, and patient education issues.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the cause of shingles and adjacent conditions, as well as the common signs and symptoms.
      • Describe treatment modalities for shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
      • List interventions to prevent transmission and help patients adjust functionally, psychologically, and physically to shingles infections.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Dating Violence in Adolescence - No Test

    1. The goal of this continuing education module is to inform healthcare professionals so they can recognize adolescent victims of dating violence.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Differentiate between the diverse types of dating violence.
      • Recognize risk factors for becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence within a dating relationship.
      • Explain areas of focus for healthcare and prevention of dating violence.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Emotional Intelligence Helps Nurses Work Smart - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to introduce nurses in healthcare settings to the concept of EI, describe how it can help nurses enhance their work lives, and provide strategies for developing one’s own EI.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Define emotional intelligence and its relevance to nursing.
      • Identify at least three components of emotional intelligence and four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Ethics for Nurses - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of ethics as it applies to nursing care, as well as provide guidance for ethical dilemmas as they arise in your daily practice.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
      • Apply these standards to patient situations that often present as morally distressing.
      • Identify how to foster a culture of ethics within the acute care setting.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • General Principles of Infectious Microbes and Disease - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to broaden and update nurses’ and respiratory therapists’ knowledge of infectious disease causation and prevention.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the three components common to all infectious diseases.
      • List four factors associated with the emergence or resurgence and transmission of disease.
      • Define the six components of the chain of infection.
    3. Contact Hours: 1.25

  • How to Develop Your Leadership Potential - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with practical strategies to help them establish customized plans for developing their leadership potential.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
      • Identify effective leadership styles and characteristics.
      • Describe ways to develop leadership characteristics.
    3. Contact Hours: 1.25

  • Managing Obesity in Young Children - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses, dietitians, and fitness professionals in the acute setting on pediatric obesity and best practices for management.

      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the definition, causes, and risks for childhood obesity.
      • Recall evidence-based intervention strategies for addressing pediatric obesity.
    2. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Medication Error Prevention - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate healthcare professionals about approaches to prevent medication errors.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Define types of medical errors and their impact on healthcare.
      • Discuss how a culture of patient safety influences reporting and resolving errors.
      • Explain strategies to reduce medication errors.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Nursing Documentation: Legal Aspects - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses working in acute care settings with information about the value of laws and standards governing nursing documentation, legal basics for appropriate documentation, and provide awareness of documentation practices that can lead to legal issues.

      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Describe four characteristics of legally-credible charting.
      • Discuss the legal definition of nursing negligence.
      • Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal issues.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Opioids and Chronic Pain Management - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to equip nurses, physicians, and pharmacists with evidence-based practices for safe and effective use of opioids for chronic pain.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Discuss chronic pain and opioid use in the U.S.
      • Review the regulatory influences and evidence-based guidelines associated with prescribing controlled substances for pain management.
      • Describe evaluation and monitoring of the patient with pain.
      • Identify pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management strategies.
    3. Contact Hours: 2

  • Pain Control: Evidence-Based Approaches - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with evidence-­based guidance for managing pain while weighing the risks and benefits of pain medications with functional improvement and harm prevention.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
      • Select appropriate tools to assess pain.
      • Discuss the physiologic processes and terminology related to pain.
      • Identify components of pain treatment that can be combined to form multimodal treatment plans.
    3. Contact Hours: 2

  • Parental Stress in the NICU - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses and social workers about family-centered interventions for families with infants in the NICU, focusing on up-to-date stress management and coping interventions in evidence-based neonatal practice.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
      • Recall interventions for parental stress and coping and how to use them in practice.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Preventing Blood Incompatibility Errors - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate clinical laboratory professionals and nursing professionals in acute care settings about blood incompatibility errors and the evidence-based practices to prevent them.
       
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • List at least three factors that contribute to blood incompatibility errors.
      • Describe blood type compatibility between the donor and recipient and the processes involved in the safe transfusion of blood products.
      • Identify transfusion reaction types and the processes involved in the investigation and management of transfusion reactions when they occur.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Preventing Suicide in Older Adults - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide skills to nursing and social work professionals in the acute care setting to identify, assess, and respond to suicide risk in older adults.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Recognize three important warning signs for suicide risk in older adulthood.
      • Identify five risk factors for suicide in older adulthood.
      • Describe evaluation and prevention methods of suicide in older adulthood.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Professional Responsibility in Infection Prevention - No Test

    1. The goal of the course is to discuss professional responsibilities that nurses and medical assistant professionals have in applying effective infection prevention principles to reduce the transmission of pathogens.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Discuss the transmission of infectious organisms.
      • Identify ways in which healthcare professionals can break the chain of infection.
      • Recognize the professional’s responsibility to practice infection prevention and adhere to standard infection prevention practices.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Providing Culturally Competent Care to the Muslim Population - No Test

    1. The goal of this continuing education course is to educate nurses and health educators in all settings on providing culturally competent care to patients who are Muslim.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify Islamic health-related practices or beliefs.
      • Identify strategies when caring for patients who are Muslim.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Recognizing and Treating Five Shock States - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses in acute care settings about how to recognize and treat different types of shock.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
      • Differentiate five subtypes and four stages of shock.
      • List evidence-based nursing guidelines for the identification and treatment of shock states.
    3. Contact Hours: 2

  • Screening and Prevention for Cervical Cancer - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing and health education professionals with an updated overview of cervical cancer to inform patient care.

      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer and screening methods.
      • Recall prevention methods, cancer classification, and treatment modalities for cervical dysplasia.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Steps to Cultural Competence - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to inform Nursing Professionals and Social Work professionals in acute care settings with knowledge of cultural competency.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Define cultural competence
      • Identify barriers to culturally competent care
      • Describe steps to becoming culturally competent
    2. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Supporting the Psychological Needs of Patients with Cancer - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses and social workers with information to identify distress and interventions to address the psychosocial needs of patients with cancer. DSM™ and DSM-5™ are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association. The American Psychiatric Association is not affiliated with nor endorses this course.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Recall methods to recognize psychological distress in patients diagnosed with cancer.
      • Identify communication skills, coping strategies, and interventions to address the psychosocial needs of patients with cancer and improve their quality of life.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Working as an Interprofessional Team - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to enhance the knowledge and ability of nurses, health educators, dietitians, and radiology technologists in the acute care setting to work as cohesive members of the interprofessional team.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the characteristics of a healthcare professional who uses the interprofessional approach to patient care.
      • Apply the principles of interprofessional teamwork in specific patient scenarios.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

Goal and Learning Outcomes

  • Describe at least 10 different complementary therapies that healthcare professionals can learn and incorporate into their care.
  • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.
  • Identify the stages and types of anesthesia, and medications commonly used in the perioperative setting.
  • Identify the most common anticoagulants for hospital patients.
  • Provide a summary of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Asthma Management Guidelines, focusing on adults.
  • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
  • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
  • Describe common sleeping disorders.
  • Apply effective communication techniques leading to improved patient satisfaction, safety, and outcomes.
  • Identify the cause of shingles and adjacent conditions, as well as the common signs and symptoms.
  • Recognize risk factors for becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence within a dating relationship.
  • Identify at least three components of emotional intelligence and four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.
  • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
  • Define the six components of the chain of infection.
  • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
  • Examine sources and types of medication errors.
  • Describe four characteristics of legally-credible charting.
  • Identify the emotional and medical risks of pediatric obesity.
  • Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
  • Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
  • Recognize three important warning signs for suicide risk in older adulthood.
  • Describe why new diseases emerge or reemerge in the United States and the benefits of adhering to standards of infection control.
  • Identify two significant Islamic health-related practices or beliefs.
  • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
  • Discuss considerations and guidelines for prescribing controlled substances.
  • Describe steps to becoming culturally competent.
  • Identify communication skills, coping strategies, and interventions to address the psychosocial needs of patients with cancer and improve their quality of life.
  • Describe teamwork and partnerships among diverse patients, families, and staff members.

Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

 

CEBroker

Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and  West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.