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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide an overview for respiratory therapists (RTs) and nurses in the acute care setting on mechanical ventilation and the weaning process for critically ill patients.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify common modes and ventilator settings.
      • Recognize the assessments and interventions provided by nurses and respiratory therapists in mechanically ventilated patients.
      • Recall methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes.
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Human Trafficking: A Growing Epidemic - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare staff with critical steps to recognize and respond to human trafficking.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the two major types of human trafficking.
      • Explain how force, coercion, and fraud relate to human trafficking.
      • Discuss federal laws regarding human trafficking.
      • Describe at least three barriers to identifying human trafficking.
      • Identify at least three signs that someone may be a trafficking victim.
      • Discuss steps to take if you suspect a person is being trafficked.
    2. Contact Hours: 2

  • 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

  • Battling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses with information about VRE and VRE infection in healthcare settings. This educational activity educates nurses on infection control practices to prevent VRE transmission for patient safety.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Recognize the epidemiology and severity of VRE.
      • State at least three strategies to prevent and control the spread of VRE in healthcare facilities.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Identify the stages and types of anesthesia, and medications commonly used in the perioperative setting.
  • State at least three strategies to prevent and control the spread of VRE in healthcare facilities.
  • Describe ventilator management and understand the weaning process.
  • 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.
  • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
  • Define the six components of the chain of infection.
  • Recognize practices that protect the security of electronic protected health information.
  • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
  • Explain how force, coercion, and fraud relate to human trafficking.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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.