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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Anaphylactic Reactions - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses in acute care facilities with guidelines to identify and respond to anaphylactic reactions.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify causes, symptoms, and diagnostic criteria for an anaphylactic reaction.
      • Describe emergency management of anaphylaxis and three ways to prevent anaphylaxis.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • 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

  • 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

  • Identifying Alcohol Use Disorder in the Hospitalized Patient - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with the skills needed to identify alcohol use disorder (AUD) in their hospitalized patients and to intervene on their behalf.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • List three risk factors for the development of alcohol use disorder.
      • Recall the treatment and management of patients with alcohol use disorder.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • Substance Use Disorder in Women - No Test

    1. The goal of the course is to define the associated disorders and stages and the consequences of substance use in women.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Define the associated disorders and developmental stages of substance use disorder in women.
      • Identify three consequences of substance use disorder in women.
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Delirium: Identification and Management - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to prepare nurses and clinical social workers with tools to prevent, evaluate, and manage delirium.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify risk factors and symptoms of delirium.
      • Describe methods for evaluating delirium.
      • Discuss the appropriate actions to both prevent and manage delirium.
    3. Contact Hours: 1

  • Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to engage acute care nurses in a discussion about hypertension in pregnancy, including risk factors, current terminology and classifications, and diagnostic criteria.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Identify the different types of hypertension in pregnancy.
      • Select appropriate assessments and treatments for women with hypertension in pregnancy.
      • Determine the monitoring and educational needs of women with hypertension in pregnancy.
    3. Contact Hours: 1.75

  • 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

  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+): An Introduction - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, social work, speech-language, and pathology/audiology professionals with education around the historical context of the LGBTQ+ population and best practices when interacting with and providing care for the LGBTQ+ population.
      Note: In this module, the acronym LGBTQ+ will be used when referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and the many other gender- and sexuality-related identities that exist. In cases where the literature cited refers specifically to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender populations, the course will use corresponding initials.
      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:
      • Indicate historical events and context affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
      • Define key terminology related to sexual orientation and gender.
      • Identify general interprofessional practice guidelines in the care of LGBTQ+ healthcare recipients.
    3. Contact Hours: 1.5

  • Transfusion-Free Medicine - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to inform nurses and clinical laboratory professionals about common practices in transfusion-free medicine.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Define transfusion-free care, listing common modalities used in bloodless care.
    3. Contact Hours: 0.5

  • 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

  • Opioid Prescribing, Chronic Pain, and Opioid Use Disorder - No Test

    1. The goal of this course is to educate acute care providers about regulations, medical management, and misuse of controlled substances.
      After taking this course, you should be able to:
      • Discuss considerations and guidelines for prescribing controlled substances.
      • Describe patient evaluation and education for a safe and effective pain treatment plan.
    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.
  • Select at least three healthcare-related professions with effective approaches to supporting people with AD.
  • Recall core concepts related to sexual function and the sexual response.
  • Identify causes, symptoms, and diagnostic criteria for an anaphylactic reaction.
  • Provide a summary of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Asthma Management Guidelines, focusing on adults.
  • Describe ventilator management and understand the weaning process.
  • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
  • 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.
  • Discuss the appropriate actions to both prevent and manage delirium.
  • 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.
  • List three risk factors for the development of alcohol use disorder.
  • Identify the lifespan health considerations of LGBTQ+ individuals (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood), including coming out and family systems.
  • Select appropriate assessments and treatments for women with hypertension in pregnancy.
  • Examine sources and types of medication errors.
  • Describe four characteristics of legally-credible charting.
  • Discuss considerations and guidelines for prescribing controlled substances.
  • 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.
  • 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 two significant Islamic health-related practices or beliefs.
  • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
  • Review seizure causes, triggers, pathophysiology, complications, symptoms, and diagnosis.
  • Define the associated disorders and developmental stages of substance use disorder in women.
  • Explain the connection of nurse caring with patient outcomes.
  • Define transfusion-free care, listing common modalities used in bloodless care.
  • 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.