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  • Addressing Sexual Health, Sexuality, and Intimacy - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses in the acute care setting on ways to address sexual health, sexuality, and intimacy with patients.
      DSMTM and DSM-5TM 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 core concepts related to sexual function and the sexual response.
      • Recognize how chronic conditions may impact the sexual health of patients.
      • Indicate the principles of taking a sexual health history and the appropriate interventions for sexual dysfunction.
    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

  • Cancer and Depression - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, physicians, dietitians, radiologic technologists, and pharmacists in the acute care setting with information about the occurrence of depression in people with cancer, including a review of symptoms, special considerations for patients undergoing treatment, screening tools, and available treatments.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Determine signs, symptoms, and risk factors related to depression among people with cancer.
      • Identify the recommendations for screening for distress and depressive symptoms among people with cancer.
      • Identify the structure and benefits of an interprofessional team approach to cancer care and recognize at least three interprofessional interventions and how they are used among people with cancer who are experiencing depression.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Art and Science of Caring - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to reinforce and teach nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the combined art and science of caring.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify caring practices and theories.
      • Recognize the effect that nurse caring has on patient experience and outcomes.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

Goal and Learning Outcomes

  • Recall core concepts related to sexual function and the sexual response.
  • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
  • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
  • Apply effective communication techniques leading to improved patient satisfaction, safety, and outcomes.
  • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
  • Examine sources and types of medication errors.
  • 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.
  • Describe blood type compatibility between the donor and recipient and the processes involved in the safe transfusion of blood products.
  • 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 changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
  • Explain the connection of nurse caring with patient outcomes.

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.