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Goals and Outcomes of Included Courses:

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • HIPAA and Confidentiality for Licensed Professionals - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide licensed professionals with an understanding of HIPAA, privacy, and security.
      Unless otherwise stated, the information in this course was sourced from 45 C.F.R. §160, 162, 164 (2021).
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Describe the intent of HIPAA.
      • Apply professional practices that protect privacy.
      • Recognize practices that protect the security of electronic protected health information.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Seizure Management: Essentials - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to further educate pre-hospital EMS personnel and nurses in the hospital, outpatient, and other community settings about seizure management.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Review seizure causes, triggers, pathophysiology, complications, symptoms, and diagnosis.
      • Recall seizure classifications, pharmaceutical, and other management of seizures.
      • Identify how seizures are managed on scene via EMS with pre-hospital care to nursing care in the hospital and in the community.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • 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

  • 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

Goal and Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.
  • Recall core concepts related to sexual function and the sexual response.
  • Describe common sleeping disorders.
  • 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.
  • Recognize practices that protect the security of electronic protected health information.
  • Examine sources and types of medication errors.
  • Describe four characteristics of legally-credible charting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Review seizure causes, triggers, pathophysiology, complications, symptoms, and diagnosis.

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.