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| 12-Lead ECG Interpretation Program | |||
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 1 This course, which is Lesson 1 of 7, focuses on the structures and functions of the cardiac system and teaches the learner how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. It describes the structures of the heart and how impulses pass through it. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 2 This course, which is Lesson 2 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and describes how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms and heart rate and rhythm. The course also examines the significance of leads and planes, identifies the 12 views of the heart, and discusses electrode placement and the leads used to obtain a 12-lead ECG. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 3 This course, which is Lesson 3 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and describes how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms and heart rate and rhythm. The course also discusses normal cardiac cycle ECG waveforms as well as how to determine heart rate and rhythm on an ECG. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 4 This course, which is Lesson 4 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course explains the meanings of the QRS axis, axis circle, quadrant method, and degree method, and describes the systematic steps to interpreting 12-lead ECGs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 5 This course, which is Lesson 5 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course also describes how to interpret an ECG to identify atrial and ventricular hypertrophy. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 6 This course, which is Lesson 6 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course also describes characteristics of bundle branch blocks, including causes of and how to differentiate different types. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 7 This course, which is Lesson 7 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and teaches how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course explains what causes various ECG waveform changes and how to interpret them to identify the location of cardiac damage. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Care | |||
| An Overview of Antithrombotics in Ischemic Stroke The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Aromatherapy for Postoperative Nausea in Acute Care - Evidence and Future Opportunities Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| CE Credit - Infusion Topics: Nonthrombotic Complications; Dobutamine Hydrochloride; Grant Writing; Prophylactic Anticoagulation; Parenteral Nutrition Journal of Infusion Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Feeling Shame: Insights on Intimate Partner Violence Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Managing Drug-Resistant Organisms in Acute Care The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Pain Management of the Burn Patient Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Targeting abuse Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Million Hearts Initiative: Guidelines and Best Practices The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Treating Acute Pain in the Hospitalized Patient The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| When and How to Treat Childhood Immune Thrombocyotpenia The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Advanced Practice Nursing | |||
| A new look at vitamin B12 deficiency The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| A Practitioner's Guide to Necrotizing Fasciitis The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| A Predictive Model for Pressure Ulcer Outcome: The Wound Healing Index Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| A Systematic Review: The Utility of the Revised Version of the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology among Critically Ill Neonates Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Acute Aortic Emergencies-Part 1: Aortic Aneurysms Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction in Pregnancy: An Update Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Advance Directives: Empowering Patients at the End of Life The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Atophie Blanche: Is It Associated with Venous Disease or Livedoid Vasculopathy? Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Changes in Classifications of Chronic Lower-Limb Wound Codes in Patients with Diabetes: ICD-9-CM Versus ICD-10-CM Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Developing Rapid Response Teams: Best Practices Through Collaboration Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Exploring the Effects of Pain and Stress on Wound Healing Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Genomics and Nurse Practitioner Practice The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Grief & Depression at the End of Life The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| HPV Cervical Cancer Risks and Barriers to Care for Lesbian Women The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Infrared Skin Thermometry: An Underutilized Cost-effective Tool for Routine Wound Care Practice and Patient High-Risk Diabetic Foot Self-monitoring Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Interpreting 12-Lead ECGs: A Piece by Piece Analysis The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Intrauterine Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Congenital Heart Defects Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Lactation and the Substance-Exposed Mother-Infant Dyad Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Managing pain in obese patients The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Martorell Hypertensive Ischemic Leg Ulcer: An Underdiagnosed Entity© Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Measure It: Proper Wheelchair Fit is Key to Ensuring Function While Protecting Skin Integrity Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Palliative Wound Care Management Strategies for Palliative Patients and Their Circles of Care Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Practice Implications for Peristomal Skin Assessment and Care from the 2014 World Council of Enterostomal Therapists International Ostomy Guideline Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Pressure Ulcer Staging Revisited: Superficial Skin Changes and Deep Pressure Ulcer Framework Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Prevention of Alzheimer Disease: The Roles of Nutrition and Primary Care The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Primary Care Management of Celiac Disease The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Red Eye Emergencies in Primary Care The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Screening for the High-Risk Diabetic Foot: A 60-Second Tool (2012)© Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Simultaneous Transthoracic Defibrillation With Two Defibrillators for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation:A Literature Review Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Art of Dressing Selection: A Consensus Statement on Skin Tears and Best Practice Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Use of Honey in Wound Care: An Update Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Writing for Nursing Publication Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ambulatory Care | |||
| A Formative Program Evaluation of Electronic Clinical Tracking System Documentation to Meet National Core Competencies CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| A Multidisciplinary Response to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Acne Research: Are We Answering the Right Questions? Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Adult Diabetes Mellitus: Thinking Beyond Type 2 The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| An Update on Gout for Primary Care Providers The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Assessing Suicide Risk in Older Adults The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Assessing the Extent to Which Healthcare Workers Advised and Assisted Smokers to Quit Based on Patient Motivation Levels Journal of Addictions Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Benefits of Automation in Radiation Oncology Oncology Times | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cervical Cancer: Screening, Management, and Prevention The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Children in Foster Care: What Forensic Nurses Need to Know Journal of Forensic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clinical Assessment and Management of Breastfeeding Pain Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Continuum of Cancer Care Oncology Times | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Current Behaviors, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care Toward Skin Cancer Screening/Prevention Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Deaf Cultures: Competencies and Best Practice The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Diagnosis and Treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolemia The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Drug Updates and Approvals: 2016 in Review The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Evidence-based Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Conditions The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Evidence-based Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Evidence-Based Use of Electronic Clinical Tracking Systems in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Education: An Integrative Review CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Feeling Shame: Insights on Intimate Partner Violence Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders: Prevention, Identification, and Intervention The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Fibromyalgia: Diagnosis and Management Across the Lifespan Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: A New Name for and Old Condition The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Genomics and Nurse Practitioner Practice The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Getting to the Root of Medication Errors Plastic Surgical Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Worker mHealth Utilization: A Systematic Review CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Helping Patients with Chronic Conditions Overcome Barriers to Self-Care The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A clinical and genetic update The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Improving Breast Cancer Screening in a Federally Qualified Health Center with a Team of Nursing Leaders The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Improving Skin Cancer Knowledge Among Nurse Practitioners Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interpreting 12-Lead ECGs: A Piece by Piece Analysis The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Making the Journey From Opioid and Heroin Addiction: One Map for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Measuring Outcomes in Orthopaedics: Implementation of an Outcomes Program in an Outpatient Orthopaedic Practice Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Military Sexual Trauma in Male Service Members AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Motivational Interviewing: An evidence-based approach to counseling helps patients follow treatment recommendations AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neuromodulation of Cancer Pain: Current Concepts and Treatment Strategies Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Nurse Practitioners' Knowledge of Prevention Guidelines and Counseling Practices Related to Primary Prevention of Skin Cancer Among Adolescents in Arizona Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nursing Best Practice Referral Algorithm for the Early Detection of Mycosis Fungoides Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Opioid Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: Prescribing Considerations for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Journal of Neuroscience Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Patient Satisfaction With Electronic Health Record Use by Primary Care Nurse Practitioners CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence-based treatment of a complex disorder The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Primary Care Management of Depression in Children and Adolescents The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Providing Guidance for Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis Who Are Candidates for Biologic Therapy: Role of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Recognizing Melanoma: Diagnosis and Treatment Options The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Relationships, Intimacy, and Body Image after Breast Cancer Oncology Times | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Risks and Efficacy of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Safety and Efficacy of Electronic Cigarettes: Update for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Sensory Impairment in Older Adults: Part 2: Vision Loss AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Skin of color: A basic outline of unique differences The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Standardizing Assessment of Competences and Competencies of Oncology Nurses Working in Ambulatory Care Journal for Nurses in Professional Development | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Targeting abuse Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Teledermatology: Virtual Access to Quality Dermatology Care and Beyond Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Antidote Is Finally Here! Idarucizumab, A Specific Reversal Agent for the Anticoagulant Effects of Dabigatran Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Impact of Osteoporosis, Falls, Fear of Falling, and Efficacy Expectations on Exercise Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Importance of the History and Physical in Diagnosis The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Million Hearts Initiative: Guidelines and Best Practices The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Obesity Epidemic, Part 1: Understanding the Origins AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Past, Present, and Future of Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation Update for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Role of Self-Care for Parents in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: An Integrative Review of Self-Care Journal of Addictions Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Treating Co-occurring Chronic Low Back Pain & Generalized Anxiety Disorder The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Treatment options for Insomnia The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Type 1 Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Update on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: What Dermatology Nurses and Nurse Practitioners Need to Know Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Use of Botulinum Toxin for Chronic Pain Management Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Vistogard (uridine triacetate) The First and Only Drug Approved for the Treatment of 5-FU or Capecitabine Overdose Implications for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| When Alzheimer Disease Strikes Early Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| When Do Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections Help? A Systematic Review: Part 1 Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| When Do Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections Help? A Systematic Review: Part 2 Topics in Pain Management | Newsletter | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Zika Virus: What We Know and What We Don't Know Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Assessment Program | |||
| Cardiovascular Assessment This course provides an overview of cardiovascular assessment, including the anatomy and physiology of the heart and vascular system and the techniques needed for inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of the cardiovascular system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gastrointestinal Assessment This course discusses the gastrointestinal (GI) system and its two major divisions–the GI tract and the accessory organs–along with questions to ask during a patient history of the GI system and techniques for performing a physical assessment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mental Health Assessment This course discusses how to perform a mental health assessment, including how to establish a therapeutic relationship; how to recognize coping mechanisms, disturbed thought processes and thought content, and perception abnormalities; and how to respond to a suicidal patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Musculoskeletal Assessment This course explains how to perform a musculoskeletal assessment, including evaluating joint movement and range of motion and muscle tone and strength, and recognizing musculoskeletal abnormalities. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurologic Assessment This course discusses the fundamentals required to perform a comprehensive assessment of the neurologic system, including the organs and structures that make up the neurologic system, questions to ask during a patient history of the neurologic system, and physical examination techniques. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obtaining a Health History This course discusses how to obtain a health history, including techniques for communicating with your patient and specific questions to ask during a health assessment interview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment This course provides an overview of pain assessment, including the differences between acute and chronic pain, pain characteristics, and pain rating scales. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Assessment This course provides an overview of respiratory assessment, including respiratory anatomy and physiology and the techniques needed to inspect, palpate, percuss, and auscultate the respiratory system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound Assessment This course provides an overview of wound assessment and the evidence-based measures to accurately assess, classify or stage, and document wounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Basic ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation Program | |||
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 1 This course, which is Lesson 1 of 8, focuses on the anatomy and physiology of the cardiac system and explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip and recognize arrhythmias. The course also identifies the structures of the cardiac system and describes cardiac physiology, including the cardiac conduction system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 2 This course, which is Lesson 2 of 8, focuses on identifying the two types of ECGs, applying electrodes and select leads, and obtaining a rhythm strip. The course also describes a method for interpreting ECGs, including identification and interpretation of a normal sinus rhythm. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 3 This course, which is Lesson 3 of 8, focuses on the role of the sinoatrial (SA) node in arrhythmia formation. The course describes the causes, significance, and characteristics of sinus node arrhythmias and how to interpret them on an ECG rhythm strip. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 4 This course, which is Lesson 4 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of atrial arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify atrial arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 5 This course, which is Lesson 5 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of junctional arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify junctional arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 6 This course, which is Lesson 6 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of ventricular arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify ventricular arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 7 This course, which is Lesson 7 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of atrioventricular (AV) blocks. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify AV blocks. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 8 This course, which is Lesson 8 of 8, focuses on recognizing a pacemaker rhythm, identifying types of pacemakers, explaining pacemaker codes, and describing the characteristics of pacemaker modes. The course also reviews pacemaker malfunction and explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify pacemaker rhythms. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Behavioral Health Care Mandatory Program | |||
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Bloodborne Pathogens (Pretest Included) This course presents information on bloodborne diseases in behavioral health care environments, workplace exposure to these pathogens, and preventive measures as they relate to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard that addresses this concern. The course covers common bloodborne pathogens, explains the Exposure Control Plan, examines the role of hand hygiene in protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) available in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Body Mechanics (Pretest Included) This course explains basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply in behavioral health care environments and provides guidelines to employ to prevent injury. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Fire Safety (Pretest Included) This course reviews fire safety concepts in the behavioral health care environment, including the fire triangle/tetrahedron, building design, and fire detection and prevention, and what to do if a fire occurs in the workplace. The course explains sources of fuel, oxygen, and heat in the workplace, identifies fire prevention techniques, and discusses how the acronyms RACE and PASS are important in fire prevention. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Handling Hazardous Materials (Pretest Included) This course provides guidelines for handling hazardous materials that are commonly used in a behavioral health care environment (please note that respiration protection and radiation safety are not included, as no radioactive material or respiratory isolation is typically used in such settings). | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: National Patient Safety Goals (Pretest Included) This course defines and describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals—including improving the accuracy of patient identification, reconciling medications, reducing the risk of health care-associated infections, and identifying safety risks in patient populations, and explains how to apply them to patient care situations in behavioral care environments. The content, questions, and images in this course have been designed to reflect the behavioral health care environment. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Pain Management (Pretest Included) The course addresses pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management, including general comfort measures such as positioning, as well as complementary therapies such as distraction, acupuncture, and yoga. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Principles of Good Documentation (Pretest Included) This course, designed for employees working in behavioral health care environments, covers principles of good documentation, including elements of good document, the difference between observation and opinion (including the role of progress notes), and the clinical and legal implications associated with documentation (including ownership of the medical record, confidentiality, and spoliation of evidence). | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Recognizing Signs of Abuse (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of abuse and neglect (including child abuse, elder abuse, and financial and emotional abuse), presents guidelines for employees in behavioral health care environments on how to identify common signs of abuse and neglect, and explains the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control, and the importance of following these guidelines in behavioral health care environments. Topics covered include hand washing, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Adolescent Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for adolescent patients, children ages 13 to 18. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Adult Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for adult patients, ages 19 to 64. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Geriatric Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for geriatric patients, age 65 and older. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Middle Childhood Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for middle childhood patients, children ages 6 to 12. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding Tuberculosis (Pretest Included) This course defines tuberculosis (TB) by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment, including issues relating to patient screening and the need to transfer a patient with TB to an acute care facility. The course has been adapted to reflect behavioral health care environments. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Behavioral Health Case Study Program | |||
| Acutely Manic Phase (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client with a history of bipolar disorder who is currently experiencing acute mania and has been admitted to the inpatient unit of an acute care psychiatric hospital for stabilization. The learner will gain insight into common manic behaviors and issues as well as inpatient management of acute mania. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Alcohol Dependence in Acute Withdrawal (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client who is an alcoholic. The course illustrates care and monitoring of the client through detoxification, including pharmacologic treatment. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anorexia Nervosa (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with anorexia nervosa. Nursing care focuses on stabilizing physiologic status, maximizing appropriate eating behaviors, facilitating social interaction and trust within the milieu, and working with the family regarding discharge planning and follow-up. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Borderline Personality Disorder (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who has been placed in the inpatient unit of an acute psychiatric mental health hospital. The client's treatment for his current crisis and BPD requires nursing care focusing on safety, physiological stability (sleep, fluid, nutrition, elimination), using a psychotropic medication for symptom management, resuming appropriate self-care activities, and returning him to his out-patient environment as quickly as possible. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Major (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with major depressive disorder who has attempted suicide. The course describes medications that are useful for major depression, interventions to restore and maintain physiologic stability (nutritional, fluid, and elimination status), helping the client regain control over necessary activities of daily living, and discharge planning with the client and interprofessional team. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Persistent [Dysthymia] (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care of a client with persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia). The client's treatment requires specific nursing care that focuses on reducing symptoms, managing her medications, improving her self-esteem and initiative in goal-directed behaviors, increasing her sense of power over her life, and improving her interactions with others. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Paranoid Schizophrenia: Acutely Psychotic Phase (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with schizophrenia, paranoid type, who is acutely psychotic, including how to conduct a comprehensive nursing assessment. The course provides the learner with information about the nature, symptoms, and etiology of paranoid schizophrenia. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Suicidal Patient (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client who is acutely suicidal. The course targets nursing care that focuses on accurate and comprehensive assessment of suicidal ideation, medication management, personal and environmental safety within the inpatient milieu, family intervention, and crisis intervention to rally outside support networks. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath and Heart Sounds Interpretation Program | |||
| Breath Sounds, Advanced This tutorial will review the basic voice and breath sounds and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify advanced basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds: Basic Skills and Techniques (Tutorial) This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Advanced This course will review basic heart sounds and teach the learner how to perform a cardiac assessment and identify advanced heart sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Basic This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the heart, the cardiac cycle, and how to perform a cardiac assessment. The learner will discover how to identify normal heart sounds, abnormal heart sounds, and heart murmurs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency: Breath Sounds, Advanced This competency evaluation on advanced breath sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to identifying advanced breath sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Breath Sounds, Basic This competency evaluation on basic heart sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to performing a cardiac assessment and identifying basic heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiovascular Care Program | |||
| Acute Coronary Syndrome This course provides an overview of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), an umbrella term used to describe conditions such as unstable angina, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The course describes the differences between these conditions, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds, Advanced This tutorial will review the basic voice and breath sounds and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify advanced basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds: Basic Skills and Techniques (Tutorial) This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study involves a 62-year-old female who presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of vague cardiac complaints. She is diagnosed with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and is admitted to the intensive care unit. In this case study you'll review how to assess for and manage cardiogenic shock, care for a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter, and care for a patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, assessments, diagnostic tests, clinical manifestations, and nursing care associated with cardiogenic shock, including the indications for and nursing management of the patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It describes the chronological events experienced by a young adult from the recognition of this life-threatening medical problem and its diagnostic evaluation to its medical and surgical management. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching at each step. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Tutorial) This tutorial presents the classification, pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic measures, and treatment of cardiomyopathy. Nursing care and patient outcomes vary with its classification, pathology, and medical/surgical management. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Case Study) The child in this case study is admitted with a tentative diagnosis of ventricular septal defect with mild heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Tutorial) This tutorial provides information about the pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and nursing care of the child with selected congenital heart defects. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient experiencing decompensated heart failure. It provides an interactive approach to learning how to perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and choose appropriate nursing interventions and communication strategies that will assist the patient and family toward reducing the trajectory of illness. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the classifications, pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with decompensated heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Clinical Management (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient newly diagnosed with heart failure. The learner will perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and communicate to the physician any significant assessments that may indicate worsening heart failure. The learner also will develop a nursing care plan for an individual diagnosed with heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Advanced This course will review basic heart sounds and teach the learner how to perform a cardiac assessment and identify advanced heart sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Basic This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the heart, the cardiac cycle, and how to perform a cardiac assessment. The learner will discover how to identify normal heart sounds, abnormal heart sounds, and heart murmurs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hemodynamic Monitoring This course provides an overview of hemodynamic monitoring to enable learners to provide optimal individualized care to patients. Invasive methods using arterial catheters, pulmonary artery catheters, and central venous catheters, as well as noninvasive methods using manual and automated devices are discussed. Because patients in critical care units typically have need of invasive hemodynamic monitoring, nursing responsibilities for patients with arterial, pulmonary artery or central venous catheters are also reviewed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the incidence and common manifestations and complications associated with hypertension. The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hypertension, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Case Management | |||
| Exploring Indicators of Use of Costly Health Services in Community-Dwelling Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions Professional Case Management | Journal Article | Case Management | Show Details |
| Exploring the Effect of At-Risk Case Management Compensation on Hospital Pay-for-Performance Outcomes: Tools for Change Professional Case Management | Journal Article | Case Management | Show Details |
| Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Significant Others' Perceptions of Information Given About the Nature and Possible Consequences of Brain Injury: Analysis of a National Survey Professional Case Management | Journal Article | Case Management | Show Details |
| Informing the Content and Composition of the CCM Certification Examination: A National Study from the Commission for Case Manager Certification: Part 2 Professional Case Management | Journal Article | Case Management | Show Details |
| Certified Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency: Certified Nursing Assistant This competency evaluation is for use by health care facilities to evaluate competency levels of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) employed in various health care settings. The evaluation contains 25 multiple-choice questions that test the CNA's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to teamwork, proper documentation, basic skills, assisting with personal care skills while promoting independence, and safety. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clinical Case Studies & Tutorials Program | |||
| Acute Kidney Injury Due to Acute Myocardial Infarction (Case Study) This course describes a patient with acute kidney injury secondary to an acute myocardial infarction. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acutely Manic Phase (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client with a history of bipolar disorder who is currently experiencing acute mania and has been admitted to the inpatient unit of an acute care psychiatric hospital for stabilization. The learner will gain insight into common manic behaviors and issues as well as inpatient management of acute mania. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Alcohol Dependence in Acute Withdrawal (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client who is an alcoholic. The course illustrates care and monitoring of the client through detoxification, including pharmacologic treatment. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anorexia Nervosa (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with anorexia nervosa. Nursing care focuses on stabilizing physiologic status, maximizing appropriate eating behaviors, facilitating social interaction and trust within the milieu, and working with the family regarding discharge planning and follow-up. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Asthma, Pediatric (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care for a child experiencing an asthma exacerbation. In addition to recognizing signs and symptoms of severe respiratory distress, the case study explains how to gather appropriate history and physical examination data to make proper treatment interventions for the patient. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Asthma, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial will teach the learner the basic concepts of asthma care, including etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, medical management, and nursing care. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Borderline Personality Disorder (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who has been placed in the inpatient unit of an acute psychiatric mental health hospital. The client's treatment for his current crisis and BPD requires nursing care focusing on safety, physiological stability (sleep, fluid, nutrition, elimination), using a psychotropic medication for symptom management, resuming appropriate self-care activities, and returning him to his out-patient environment as quickly as possible. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study involves a 62-year-old female who presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of vague cardiac complaints. She is diagnosed with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and is admitted to the intensive care unit. In this case study you'll review how to assess for and manage cardiogenic shock, care for a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter, and care for a patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, assessments, diagnostic tests, clinical manifestations, and nursing care associated with cardiogenic shock, including the indications for and nursing management of the patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It describes the chronological events experienced by a young adult from the recognition of this life-threatening medical problem and its diagnostic evaluation to its medical and surgical management. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching at each step. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Tutorial) This tutorial presents the classification, pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic measures, and treatment of cardiomyopathy. Nursing care and patient outcomes vary with its classification, pathology, and medical/surgical management. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Case Study) This case study focuses on the clinical presentation of a patient with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The case study describes nursing assessment parameters and care planning to promote optimal recovery. The patient in this case study develops common complications associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), including increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and vasospasm. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SAH, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Case Study) The child in this case study is admitted with a tentative diagnosis of ventricular septal defect with mild heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Tutorial) This tutorial provides information about the pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and nursing care of the child with selected congenital heart defects. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Major (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with major depressive disorder who has attempted suicide. The course describes medications that are useful for major depression, interventions to restore and maintain physiologic stability (nutritional, fluid, and elimination status), helping the client regain control over necessary activities of daily living, and discharge planning with the client and interprofessional team. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Persistent [Dysthymia] (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care of a client with persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia). The client's treatment requires specific nursing care that focuses on reducing symptoms, managing her medications, improving her self-esteem and initiative in goal-directed behaviors, increasing her sense of power over her life, and improving her interactions with others. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient experiencing decompensated heart failure. It provides an interactive approach to learning how to perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and choose appropriate nursing interventions and communication strategies that will assist the patient and family toward reducing the trajectory of illness. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the classifications, pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with decompensated heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Clinical Management (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient newly diagnosed with heart failure. The learner will perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and communicate to the physician any significant assessments that may indicate worsening heart failure. The learner also will develop a nursing care plan for an individual diagnosed with heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Case Study) This course presents a female patient with hepatic failure. Topics include nursing assessment, clinical findings associated with hepatic failure, nursing and medical treatment, and end-of-life issues for the patient and family members. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with hepatic failure. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hepatic failure, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fracture Due to Osteoporosis (Case Study) This course teaches the proper nursing assessments and interventions to use when caring for an elderly woman with a hip fracture who has a history of osteoporosis. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hyperglycemic Crisis (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care and management of a patient with severe fluid deficit caused by hyperglycemic crisis, including fluid resuscitation, nursing assessment of fluid status, and management of electrolyte disturbances. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the incidence and common manifestations and complications associated with hypertension. The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hypertension, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension in a Diabetic Patient (Case Study) This case study will allow the learner to develop a nursing care plan for a diabetic patient newly diagnosed with hypertension. The learner will perform assessments, identify real and potential patient problems, and communicate significant assessment findings to the primary care provider. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Case Study) This case study presents a 10-year-old girl who fell while skateboarding, experiencing blunt abdominal trauma that has resulted in splenic injury. Participants must select appropriate components of primary and secondary assessment for trauma, evaluate hemodynamic stability, promote patient safety during procedural sedation, and compare and contrast nonoperative vs. operative management of splenic injury. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial reviews the definition, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hypovolemic shock. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Case Study) This course describes current therapeutic care for the patient with the diagnosis of acute stroke. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Tutorial) This tutorial addresses the definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The immediate management, complications, and nursing considerations from the emergency department to rehabilitation are described. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Kidney Injury, Acute (Tutorial) This course presents a concise overview of acute kidney injury (AKI). The course describes renal anatomy and physiology, precipitating factors and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury, laboratory and diagnostic tests of renal function, and medical and nursing management of acute kidney injury. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Normal (Case Study) This case study focuses on perinatal care of a primigravid patient presenting to a maternity unit at 40 weeks' gestation. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Normal (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the key role nurses play in facilitating normal birth and providing support to both the mother and her family during the process. Four key factors play a vital role in normal labor and birth: passenger, power, passage, and psyche. Each is discussed in detail. The tutorial also defines the four stages of labor and discusses the outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Prolonged (Case Study) This case study focuses on nursing assessment and interventions and medical management for a primigravida experiencing prolonged labor. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Prolonged (Tutorial) There is no consensus on the appropriate length of labor or on prolonged labor's effects on maternal or fetal outcomes. Labor and birth are traditionally divided into four stages, the first two of which may be protracted for a number of reasons. This tutorial discusses the signs of prolonged labor, nursing actions that facilitate labor, and steps that promote maternal and fetal well-being during prolonged labor. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study focuses on the care of a 58-year-old patient who sustains a spinal cord injury as the result of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision and subsequently develops neurogenic and spinal shock. Patient assessments, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and nursing interventions during patient care, with a focus on patient management in the critical care setting, are described. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial provides an overview of neurogenic shock and its pathophysiology. It also provides assessment guidelines for a patient with neurogenic shock, including common signs and symptoms and clinical presentation. Goals of therapy and of nursing and medical management as well as complications that can result from spinal shock after acute neurogenic shock dissipates are also covered. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Osteoporosis (Tutorial) This course describes osteoporosis, a disorder of bone metabolism in which bone mass is decreased. The course addresses risk factors, assessment, clinical findings, and methods to treat or prevent osteoporosis and to prevent complications that may accompany osteoporosis. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment and Management in the Adolescent, Vaso-occlusive Episode (Case Study) This case study describes the assessment, management, and evaluation of interventions for a 16-year-old who experiences an early-stage of a vaso-occlusive episode due to sickle cell disease, and for an 11-year-old who has a less predictable manifestation of sickle cell disease and who reports to the emergency department with severe pain in his abdomen, arms, and left leg. The case study provides a realistic exemplar that the learner can incorporate into a pain assessment framework, use to choose age-appropriate interventions, and model when applying established outcome evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the interventions. The learner can choose from various evaluation strategies to determine which interventions are most effective. Principles of family-centered care are threaded throughout the case to illustrate the critical nature of family involvement in managing an adolescent's pain. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment and Management, Young Child (Case Study) This case study describes the assessment, management, and evaluation of interventions for a 4-year-old child who experiences acute episodes of pain. It provides a realistic example through which the learner can practice assessment strategies, choose age-appropriate interventions, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. The learner can choose from various evaluation strategies. Principles of family-centered care are threaded throughout the case to illustrate the critical nature of family involvement in managing a child's pain. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the evolution of pediatric pain assessment over the past two decades, including types of pain experiences, factors that influence children's pain experiences, clinical manifestations of pain in children, and self-report and behavioral assessment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial focuses on managing pain in children and adolescents. It discusses pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies and provides specific information about the benefits, selection, appropriate doses, administration routes, adverse effects, and precautions associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, and selected anesthetics. The tutorial also presents methods for promoting parental involvement and evaluating the effectiveness of pain management interventions. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Paranoid Schizophrenia: Acutely Psychotic Phase (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with schizophrenia, paranoid type, who is acutely psychotic, including how to conduct a comprehensive nursing assessment. The course provides the learner with information about the nature, symptoms, and etiology of paranoid schizophrenia. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Case Study) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes using the case study of a 54-year-old male patient. Emphasis is placed on the early recognition of sepsis using physical assessment, hemodynamic parameters, and laboratory findings. Also covered is management of sepsis and septic shock using evidence-based recommendations from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Tutorial) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, risk assessment, signs and symptoms, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes. Sepsis is a syndrome of multiple etiologies. This course emphasizes the importance of early recognition, assessment, and evidenced-based aggressive management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes reflective of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign bundles. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Case Study) This course highlights a 28-year-old Hispanic man who sustained a C6 spinal cord injury (SCI) as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Pathophysiology, assessment parameters, clinical manifestations, and nursing interventions to prevent common problems experienced by patients with a traumatic cervical SCI are presented. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Suicidal Patient (Case Study) This course focuses on caring for a client who is acutely suicidal. The course targets nursing care that focuses on accurate and comprehensive assessment of suicidal ideation, medication management, personal and environmental safety within the inpatient milieu, family intervention, and crisis intervention to rally outside support networks. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study) This course features acute neurologic nursing care for a patient with traumatic brain injury and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of traumatic brain injury (TBI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with TBI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clinical Case Studies and Tutorials Program | |||
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 1 This course is part one of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 2 This course is part two of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency, Critical Care: Cardiovascular This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on cardiovascular and respiratory conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: acute coronary syndromes, cardiac surgery, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, cardiac trauma, hypertensive emergency, acute pulmonary embolus, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute respiratory failure, status asthmaticus, thoracic surgery, and thoracic trauma. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Gastrointestinal and Renal Conditions This competency evaluation consists of 4 clinical scenarios and 20 total assessment items that will reinforce the learner's knowledge of nursing assessment, care, and evaluation of intensive care unit (ICU) patients experiencing GI and genitourinary (GU) disorders. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, and Hematologic Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and hematologic conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: acute abdominal trauma, acute GI bleed, hepatic failure and coma, acute pancreatitis, bariatric surgery, GI surgery, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, life-threatening electrolyte imbalance, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and hypovolemic shock. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Neurologic Conditions This competency evaluation consists of 4 clinical scenarios and 20 total assessment items that will reinforce the learner's knowledge of nursing assessment and care of patients experiencing neurologic emergencies in the critical care setting. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Neurologic, Endocrine, and Multisystem Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on neurologic, endocrine, and multisystem conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: cerebral aneurysm, head trauma, subdural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stroke, status epilepticus, multisystem trauma, septic shock, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and removal of a pituitary tumor. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Respiratory This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Emergency: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent cardiovascular and respiratory conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: chest pain and myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, abdominal aortic aneurysm, blunt cardiac injury, flail chest, asthma, and heart failure. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Emergency: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, and Gynecologic Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynecologic conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: renal calculi, pyelonephritis, GI bleeding, lacerated spleen, and pregnancy trauma. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Emergency: Neurologic, Musculoskeletal, and Integumentary Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent neurologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: stroke, burns, maxillofacial trauma, spinal cord injury, head trauma, and domestic violence. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Cardiovascular This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Endocrine This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of endocrine conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Gastrointestinal This medical-surgical nursing competency evaluation on gastrointestinal conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: gastroesophageal reflex disease, diverticulitis, small bowel obstruction, hepatitis, and pancreatitis. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Genitourinary This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of genitourinary conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Neuromusculoskeletal This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Psychiatric Emergencies in Med-Surg This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Renal Conditions This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of renal conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Respiratory This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance This obstetric-gynecologic competency evaluation contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about fetal assessment and surveillance, including such topics as normal pregnancy and routine antepartal monitoring, intrapartal monitoring, high-risk pregnancy, and complications during pregnancy. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance (Part 1) The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various fetal and maternal conditions in the obstetric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance (Part 2) The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various fetal and maternal conditions in the obstetric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Neonatal Resuscitation This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Perinatal Medication Administration This competency evaluation consists of assessment items that will reinforce the learner's knowledge of perinatal medications. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Cardiovascular Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with pediatric patients who have cardiovascular conditions. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, and Genitourinary Conditions This competency evaluation tests the nurse"s knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Endocrine and Integumentary Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to nursing care associated with endocrine and integumentary conditions in pediatric patients. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Essentials This competency evaluation tests the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with gastrointestinal and genitourinary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Growth and Development The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Health Maintenance The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Neuromuscular and Musculoskeletal Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Neuromuscular, Musculoskeletal, Endocrine, and Integumentary Conditions This competency evaluation tests the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, endocrine, and integumentary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Respiratory Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with pediatric patients who have respiratory conditions. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arrhythmia Management This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the identification and management of cardiac arrhythmias. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Interpretation This competency evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions to evaluate the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to arterial blood gas (ABG) interpretation. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Breath Sounds, Advanced This competency evaluation on advanced breath sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to identifying advanced breath sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Breath Sounds, Basic This competency evaluation on basic heart sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to performing a cardiac assessment and identifying basic heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Certified Nursing Assistant This competency evaluation is for use by health care facilities to evaluate competency levels of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) employed in various health care settings. The evaluation contains 25 multiple-choice questions that test the CNA's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to teamwork, proper documentation, basic skills, assisting with personal care skills while promoting independence, and safety. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Drug Calculation This competency evaluation is for use by health care facilities to evaluate competency levels of professional nurses employed in various health care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to general drug dosage calculations. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation This competency evaluation contains multiple-choice questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to interpreting ECG rhythm strips. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Emergency Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the selection, indications, dosages, administration, monitoring, and adverse effects of various medications commonly used to treat emergencies in health care. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Heart Sounds, Advanced This competency evaluation on advanced heart sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to identifying advanced heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Heart Sounds, Basic This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. It contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to performing a cardiac assessment and identifying basic heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Pediatric Drug Calculations This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions to assess the ability of the nurse to calculate, evaluate, and safely administer pediatric medications. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Vasoactive Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that evaluate the nurse's knowledge of vasoactive medication use and management in the adult population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Heart Failure: Advanced Diagnostic Testing (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the definition of heart failure, the basic pathophysiology of heart failure, and the advanced diagnostic tests used as part of the testing for a patient with suspected or confirmed heart failure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Advanced Nonpharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of available advanced nonpharmacologic management strategies that aim to reduce signs and symptoms and control disease progression in heart failure patients. It covers implantable medical devices, mechanical circulatory assist devices, other surgical interventions, and appropriate nursing management, including patient education and follow-up care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Advanced Pharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of advanced pharmacologic agents used to treat patients with acute decompensated heart failure, including early treatment with loop diuretics, vasodilators, and inotropes during hospitalization. It also reviews the impact of these pharmacologic agents on long-term maintenance therapy as well as ways to monitor patient responses to the therapies administered. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Diagnostic Testing (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure (HF), including the use of the comprehensive history, physical assessment, and basic laboratory, radiologic, and cardiac testing to confirm the diagnosis. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Nonpharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of basic nonpharmacologic management strategies for reducing signs and symptoms and controlling disease progression in patients with heart failure. These strategies, which encompass patient self-care and self-management and lifestyle modifications, aim to improve the quality of life. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Pharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the basic pharmacologic agents used to treat heart failure, including diuretics, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, beta-adrenergic blockers, and other miscellaneous agents. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: History and Physical Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of history and physical assessments of patients with heart failure. It emphasizes using targeted questions to collect information about the patient's current health status, medical-surgical history, and family and social history. It also focuses on performing a targeted body systems assessment based on common signs and symptoms of heart failure in various stages. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, and Classifications (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology of heart failure, including the differences between systolic and diastolic dysfunction, the clinical manifestations of heart failure according to the side of the heart affected, and the various mechanisms employed by the body to compensate for heart failure. It also discusses common risk factors for heart failure and the classification systems used to identify the severity of heart failure and stage its progression. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Special Populations (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure, including incidence, signs and symptoms, treatment interventions, and patient response to treatment, in special patient populations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of sudden cardiac arrest, including pathophysiology, risk factors, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic studies, and available treatment and management options. It also covers nursing considerations, including patient education related to this condition. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Bundle This course provides an overview of prevention strategies for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), including the bundled approach for insertion and maintenance of central lines and information relating to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines. The course examines the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit such infections, including infection control practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) This course provides an overview of health care-associated infections caused by Clostridium difficile, including the prevalence of C. difficile infection (CDI) and the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit CDI (such as the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology guidelines and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended infection control practices for CDI). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Hand Hygiene Compliance (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of recommended hand hygiene practices, including basic principles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education for Non-Nursing Care Providers (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives for non-nursing care providers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Pressure Injury Prevention and Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course explains and reviews skin assessment, identification of a pressure ulcer, and stages of pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of techniques that aid in the preservation of patient life by early recognition of, and intervention for, signs and symptoms of unstable patients. The course addresses the use of rapid response systems (RRSs) and the rapid response team (RRT) in avoiding respiratory or cardiac arrest. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: SBAR Communication Tool (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the SBAR communication tool, which is a technique that nursing staff use to communicate among themselves as well as with physician colleagues. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of surgical site infections, associated risk factors, and those evidence-based measures found to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) for nursing staff within medical-surgical units that are planning on implementing TCAB. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Care-Associated Infections Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are correlated with significant increases in health care costs and are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Nurses play a major role in implementing measures to prevent these infections. This course provides an overview of HAIs, emphasizing prevention practices related to central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs) as well as measures to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other infections, such as Clostridium difficile infection. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| HIPAA: Putting Prevention Strategies into Practice This course covers the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), emphasizing practical considerations to prevent HIPAA violations. The course examines the severity of penalties and means by which unintentional violations can occur. It also provides examples of measures easily employed by nurses and ancillary staff to help prevent violations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Encouraging Patient Involvement (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's goals and standards regarding encouraging patients' active involvement in their care, including when and how to communicate with patients and families about all aspects of care, treatment, and available services. The course covers the elements of performance, including reporting methods available to patients and their families for concerns about the quality and safety of their care, timeliness of providing information, types of information to convey, and methods of providing information. This course also discusses the importance of engaging patients in their health care to foster active involvement and improve patient safety. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Identifying Patients at Risk for Suicide (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of suicide statistics and risk factors, suicide risk-assessment strategies, changes necessary to provide a safe environment for patients at risk for suicide, and suicide-prevention resources available to patients and their families. It also discusses The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 15 and standards regarding identifying patients at risk for suicide. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Implementing the Universal Protocol (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the purpose and components of The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery, including conducting a pre-procedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out. The course covers when the protocol (which is part of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals) is applicable. The course also describes the elements of performance, including correct person, correct site, and correct procedure processes; verification processes and checklists; site marking characteristics and methods; and time-out characteristics and guidelines. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Caregiver Communication (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's recommendations on improving communication among caregivers, which includes reading back verbal orders, creating a list of abbreviations that should not be used, reporting critical tests and critical results in a timely manner, and improving communication during patient handoff. The course covers elements of performance, including read back procedures, standardized abbreviation list development, acceptable time limits for availability and reporting of critical results, and interactive, up-to-date communication procedures. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Patient Identification Accuracy (Clinical Personnel) (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines the Joint Commission's requirements for safe, accurate identification of patients by using at least two unique, patient-specific identifiers. Eliminating transfusion errors related to misidentification, accurately labeling containers used for specimen collection, and accurately identifying a patient before medication administration, procedures, or treatments are part of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs). This course covers when the NPSGs are applicable, the elements of performance for acceptable identifiers, how to properly label a specimen collection, and how to ensure safe blood or blood component transfusions. It also discusses proper documentation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Patient Identification Accuracy (Nonclinical Personnel) (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines The Joint Commission's requirements to improve the accuracy of patient identification using at least two unique, patient-specific identifiers. The course covers the elements of performance and acceptable identifiers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving the Safety of Medication Use (Joint Commission Resources) This course describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) and standards for safe medication use. It provides instructions on managing look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications, labeling medications, reconciling medications, and reducing harm from anticoagulation therapy. The course also describes when each NPSG is applicable and identifies its elements of performance, including requirements for LASA medication review, procedures for labeling medications on and off the sterile field, the process for reconciling medications, and the elements of an individualized anticoagulation management program. In addition, the course reviews proper documentation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Recognizing and Responding to Changes in a Patient's Condition (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the Joint Commission's standards and recommendations regarding recognizing and responding to changes in a patient's condition, including the fundamentals of urgent response procedures. The course covers early recognition and response methods; criteria for calling additional assistance; patient and family involvement; staff, patient, and family education; and evaluation criteria. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Healthcare-Associated Infections (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses recommended practices for reducing the risk of health care-associated infections. It covers guidelines for performing hand hygiene and discusses recommendations for preventing infections with multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs), central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Patient Falls (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines The Joint Commission's standards related to falls and fall prevention, including the fundamentals of a fall-prevention program, best practices for preventing patient falls, and steps to take if a fall occurs. The course covers the elements of performance, including patient population, settings, and services evaluation; fall risk factor reduction; and patient and family education. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Post-Traumatic Stress in Veterans This course provides information on PTSD in veterans. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and health care-associated infections, including the types of MDROs and the preventative measures health care providers can take to prevent the spread of these organisms and reduce the risk for infection caused by them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) This course provides an overview of evidence-based interventions and best practices for use when caring for a patient requiring ventilator support. The course covers the essential measures that health care providers can implement to eliminate or minimize the risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). These measures--based on best practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses--require a multidisciplinary approach, with nurses playing a central role in implementing them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seasonal Influenza This course provides an overview of seasonal influenza, including prevalence, mode of transmission, incubation period, communicability, and prevention and control measures. The course also addresses health care personnel and patient risks as well as vaccination recommendations and steps to take in response to an influenza pandemic. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Active Shooter: Preparedness and Response in Health Care This course describes the roles and responsibilities of clinicians during and after an active shooter event in a health care setting. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Bundle This course provides an overview of prevention strategies for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), including the bundled approach for insertion and maintenance of central lines and information relating to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines. The course examines the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit such infections, including infection control practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) This course provides an overview of health care-associated infections caused by Clostridium difficile, including the prevalence of C. difficile infection (CDI) and the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit CDI (such as the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology guidelines and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended infection control practices for CDI). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Hand Hygiene Compliance (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of recommended hand hygiene practices, including basic principles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education for Non-Nursing Care Providers (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives for non-nursing care providers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Pressure Injury Prevention and Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course explains and reviews skin assessment, identification of a pressure ulcer, and stages of pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of techniques that aid in the preservation of patient life by early recognition of, and intervention for, signs and symptoms of unstable patients. The course addresses the use of rapid response systems (RRSs) and the rapid response team (RRT) in avoiding respiratory or cardiac arrest. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: SBAR Communication Tool (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the SBAR communication tool, which is a technique that nursing staff use to communicate among themselves as well as with physician colleagues. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of surgical site infections, associated risk factors, and those evidence-based measures found to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) for nursing staff within medical-surgical units that are planning on implementing TCAB. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Care-Associated Infections Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are correlated with significant increases in health care costs and are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Nurses play a major role in implementing measures to prevent these infections. This course provides an overview of HAIs, emphasizing prevention practices related to central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs) as well as measures to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other infections, such as Clostridium difficile infection. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| HIPAA: Putting Prevention Strategies into Practice This course covers the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), emphasizing practical considerations to prevent HIPAA violations. The course examines the severity of penalties and means by which unintentional violations can occur. It also provides examples of measures easily employed by nurses and ancillary staff to help prevent violations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and health care-associated infections, including the types of MDROs and the preventative measures health care providers can take to prevent the spread of these organisms and reduce the risk for infection caused by them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) This course provides an overview of evidence-based interventions and best practices for use when caring for a patient requiring ventilator support. The course covers the essential measures that health care providers can implement to eliminate or minimize the risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). These measures--based on best practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses--require a multidisciplinary approach, with nurses playing a central role in implementing them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seasonal Influenza This course provides an overview of seasonal influenza, including prevalence, mode of transmission, incubation period, communicability, and prevention and control measures. The course also addresses health care personnel and patient risks as well as vaccination recommendations and steps to take in response to an influenza pandemic. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Hand Hygiene Compliance (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of recommended hand hygiene practices, including basic principles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education for Non-Nursing Care Providers (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives for non-nursing care providers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Pressure Injury Prevention and Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course explains and reviews skin assessment, identification of a pressure ulcer, and stages of pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of techniques that aid in the preservation of patient life by early recognition of, and intervention for, signs and symptoms of unstable patients. The course addresses the use of rapid response systems (RRSs) and the rapid response team (RRT) in avoiding respiratory or cardiac arrest. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: SBAR Communication Tool (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the SBAR communication tool, which is a technique that nursing staff use to communicate among themselves as well as with physician colleagues. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of surgical site infections, associated risk factors, and those evidence-based measures found to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) for nursing staff within medical-surgical units that are planning on implementing TCAB. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and health care-associated infections, including the types of MDROs and the preventative measures health care providers can take to prevent the spread of these organisms and reduce the risk for infection caused by them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Competency, Critical Care: Cardiovascular This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on cardiovascular and respiratory conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: acute coronary syndromes, cardiac surgery, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, cardiac trauma, hypertensive emergency, acute pulmonary embolus, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute respiratory failure, status asthmaticus, thoracic surgery, and thoracic trauma. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Gastrointestinal and Renal Conditions This competency evaluation consists of 4 clinical scenarios and 20 total assessment items that will reinforce the learner's knowledge of nursing assessment, care, and evaluation of intensive care unit (ICU) patients experiencing GI and genitourinary (GU) disorders. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, and Hematologic Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and hematologic conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: acute abdominal trauma, acute GI bleed, hepatic failure and coma, acute pancreatitis, bariatric surgery, GI surgery, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, life-threatening electrolyte imbalance, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and hypovolemic shock. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Neurologic Conditions This competency evaluation consists of 4 clinical scenarios and 20 total assessment items that will reinforce the learner's knowledge of nursing assessment and care of patients experiencing neurologic emergencies in the critical care setting. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Neurologic, Endocrine, and Multisystem Conditions This critical care nursing competency evaluation on neurologic, endocrine, and multisystem conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: cerebral aneurysm, head trauma, subdural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stroke, status epilepticus, multisystem trauma, septic shock, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and removal of a pituitary tumor. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Critical Care: Respiratory This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arrhythmia Management This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the identification and management of cardiac arrhythmias. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Interpretation This competency evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions to evaluate the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to arterial blood gas (ABG) interpretation. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Emergency Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the selection, indications, dosages, administration, monitoring, and adverse effects of various medications commonly used to treat emergencies in health care. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Vasoactive Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that evaluate the nurse's knowledge of vasoactive medication use and management in the adult population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is a potentially fatal condition caused by any event that produces persistent intra-abdominal hypertension. It is frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed. This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology, incidence, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, possible complications, and nursing considerations related to ACS. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Coronary Syndrome This course provides an overview of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), an umbrella term used to describe conditions such as unstable angina, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The course describes the differences between these conditions, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage This course describes acute gastrointestinal bleeding (hemorrhage), including possible causes, appropriate treatment, possible complications, and nursing interventions and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Kidney Injury Due to Acute Myocardial Infarction (Case Study) This course describes a patient with acute kidney injury secondary to an acute myocardial infarction. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antiarrhythmic Drugs This course provides an overview of the various medications that are effective in treating arrhythmias, including Class I (which includes Classes 1A, 1B, and 1C), II, III, and IV drugs. The course describes drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anticoagulant Drugs This course provides an overview of anticoagulant drugs, including indications and contraindications. The drug classes examined are heparin, warfarin, direct factor Xa inhibitors, low-molecular-weight heparins, and thrombin inhibitors. Drug action and administration, drug interactions, potential adverse reactions, nursing considerations, and patient education for each drug class are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antiplatelet Drugs This course provides an overview of antiplatelet medications, including indications and contraindications. The course examines antiplatelet combination agents and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists, including drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Atrial Fibrillation: Management This course focuses on the treatment of atrial fibrillation, including medications, cardioversion, and surgical and catheter procedures. The course also covers possible complications, nursing care, and nursing considerations. This course is a companion to Atrial Fibrillation: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Atrial Fibrillation: Overview This course provides an overview of atrial fibrillation, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic testing and evaluation strategies. This course is a companion to Atrial Fibrillation: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Brain Arteriovenous Malformations This course provides an overview of brain arteriovenous malformations, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care and considerations. Discharge teaching is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study involves a 62-year-old female who presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of vague cardiac complaints. She is diagnosed with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and is admitted to the intensive care unit. In this case study you'll review how to assess for and manage cardiogenic shock, care for a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter, and care for a patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, assessments, diagnostic tests, clinical manifestations, and nursing care associated with cardiogenic shock, including the indications for and nursing management of the patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It describes the chronological events experienced by a young adult from the recognition of this life-threatening medical problem and its diagnostic evaluation to its medical and surgical management. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching at each step. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Tutorial) This tutorial presents the classification, pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic measures, and treatment of cardiomyopathy. Nursing care and patient outcomes vary with its classification, pathology, and medical/surgical management. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) Management This course discusses the care and management of a central venous access catheter according to evidence-based standards and guidelines, including the current Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. It reviews the critical elements involved in site care and dressing changes, maintaining patency (including flushing and possible declotting), and administration set or injection cap changes. Related documentation is also addressed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Case Study) This case study focuses on the clinical presentation of a patient with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The case study describes nursing assessment parameters and care planning to promote optimal recovery. The patient in this case study develops common complications associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), including increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and vasospasm. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SAH, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Chest Tubes This course educates nurses about chest tube management and includes a review of normal thoracic anatomy and physiology. The course highlights nursing considerations for chest tube management, such as preparation for chest tube insertion, chest tube maintenance based on the type of drainage and collection system used, troubleshooting problems with chest tube function, and preparing the patient for removal of a chest tube. The course also covers complications that can result from chest tubes. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy This course describes continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and the different techniques and modalities involved. It discusses the goals of therapy, assessment and care of a patient receiving CRRT, and potential complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Defibrillation and Synchronized Cardioversion This course focuses on defibrillation and cardioversion, including indications for each modality, patient- and device-related factors affecting success, key procedural steps (including energy level selection), possible complications, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Delirium Assessment This course provides an overview of delirium, which affects up to 80% of all intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The course discusses prevalence, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and assessment techniques and tools for delirium. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Delirium Management This course provides an overview of the management of delirium, including risk-reduction strategies and implementation of the ABCDE bundle. Nursing interventions/considerations and documentation are also included. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetic Ketoacidosis This course provides an overview of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), one of the most severe complications of diabetes. It covers the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, treatment and monitoring, potential complications, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 1 This course is part one of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 2 This course is part two of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient experiencing decompensated heart failure. It provides an interactive approach to learning how to perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and choose appropriate nursing interventions and communication strategies that will assist the patient and family toward reducing the trajectory of illness. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the classifications, pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with decompensated heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hemodynamic Monitoring This course provides an overview of hemodynamic monitoring to enable learners to provide optimal individualized care to patients. Invasive methods using arterial catheters, pulmonary artery catheters, and central venous catheters, as well as noninvasive methods using manual and automated devices are discussed. Because patients in critical care units typically have need of invasive hemodynamic monitoring, nursing responsibilities for patients with arterial, pulmonary artery or central venous catheters are also reviewed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Case Study) This course presents a female patient with hepatic failure. Topics include nursing assessment, clinical findings associated with hepatic failure, nursing and medical treatment, and end-of-life issues for the patient and family members. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with hepatic failure. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hepatic failure, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertensive Crisis: Management and Care This course describes the management and care of hypertensive crisis, including causes, appropriate treatment, possible complications, and nursing interventions and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Case Study) This case study presents a 10-year-old girl who fell while skateboarding, experiencing blunt abdominal trauma that has resulted in splenic injury. Participants must select appropriate components of primary and secondary assessment for trauma, evaluate hemodynamic stability, promote patient safety during procedural sedation, and compare and contrast nonoperative vs. operative management of splenic injury. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial reviews the definition, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hypovolemic shock. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Communication This course discusses the importance of interprofessional communication for the practicing nurse, factors influencing communication among colleagues, and barriers to effective communication. It also describes practices to promote effective interprofessional communication. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interrupting Sedation to Improve Patient Outcomes This course discusses daily interruption of continuous sedation in critically ill patients, with an emphasis on those who require mechanical ventilation. It identifies commonly used pharmacologic agents, along with the indications for their use. The course also reviews the ABCDE bundle, commonly used assessment scales for evaluating a patient's level of sedation, and strategies to improve patient outcomes. The course highlights the nurse's role throughout. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Adult This course discusses the use of intraosseous (I.O.) infusionsin the adult patient and when you should consider them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Kidney Injury, Acute (Tutorial) This course presents a concise overview of acute kidney injury (AKI). The course describes renal anatomy and physiology, precipitating factors and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury, laboratory and diagnostic tests of renal function, and medical and nursing management of acute kidney injury. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Malignant Hyperthermia Protocol This course provides an overview of malignant hyperthermia, including its definition, signs and symptoms, and the procedure to follow in the event this condition should happen. The course also covers the administration of dantrolene and other medications necessary to treat malignant hyperthermia as well as supplies used to cool the patient, other supplies needed for handling a patient with malignant hyperthermia, and laboratory tests to be ordered immediately. You should report all malignant hyperthermia cases to the North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Managing the Thoracic Surgery Patient This course provides an overview of thoracic disorders affecting the lungs, as well as diagnostic testing, treatment, and nursing management of the thoracic surgery patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Moderate Sedation (Pretest Included) This course examines moderate sedation, discussing indications for its use as well as identifying persons qualified to administer it, locations where it's administered, patient monitoring required, and possible adverse effects. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Pain Management (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of pain management, including types of pain, pain assessment, treatment goals, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management, and ongoing care. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Management This course focuses on the treatment of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), including possible complications and nursing considerations and care. This course is a companion to Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Overview This course provides an overview of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. This course is a companion to Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Myocardial Infarction, Right Ventricular This course provides an overview of right ventricular myocardial infarction, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care and considerations. Discharge teaching is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study focuses on the care of a 58-year-old patient who sustains a spinal cord injury as the result of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision and subsequently develops neurogenic and spinal shock. Patient assessments, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and nursing interventions during patient care, with a focus on patient management in the critical care setting, are described. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial provides an overview of neurogenic shock and its pathophysiology. It also provides assessment guidelines for a patient with neurogenic shock, including common signs and symptoms and clinical presentation. Goals of therapy and of nursing and medical management as well as complications that can result from spinal shock after acute neurogenic shock dissipates are also covered. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neuromuscular Blocking Agents This course reviews the types of paralytic or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) used in the critical care unit. It discusses the drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, reasons those agents are used, and goals of therapy as well as how to administer the medications and how to assess and care for the patient treated with an NMBA. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Noninvasive Pressure Ventilation (NIPV) This course provides an overview of the use of noninvasive pressure ventilation (NIPV). Types of NIPV systems and equipment are discussed, along with indications and contraindications for use, potential complications, and nursing care of patients receiving this type of therapy. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Opioids in the Hospital: Safe Use This course discusses the Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert related to the safe use of opioids in the hospital. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pancreatitis This course provides an overview of acute and chronic pancreatitis, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Failure This course provides an in-depth understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of respiratory failure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Failure, Postoperative This course examines postoperative respiratory failure, including the pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, treatment, and nursing care and considerations (including preventive actions). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Case Study) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes using the case study of a 54-year-old male patient. Emphasis is placed on the early recognition of sepsis using physical assessment, hemodynamic parameters, and laboratory findings. Also covered is management of sepsis and septic shock using evidence-based recommendations from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Tutorial) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, risk assessment, signs and symptoms, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes. Sepsis is a syndrome of multiple etiologies. This course emphasizes the importance of early recognition, assessment, and evidenced-based aggressive management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes reflective of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign bundles. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Smart Pump Technology: Safe Use This course focuses on how to safely use smart pump technology to help reduce medication errors. It describes what smart pump technology is as well as its benefits and limitations in assisting nurses to program and calculate dose and delivery rates. The course reviews established standards of care and standard operating procedures for safe medication administration that must be in place when using this technology. It also describes problems that can occur and precautions the nurse can take to prevent these problems. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Case Study) This course highlights a 28-year-old Hispanic man who sustained a C6 spinal cord injury (SCI) as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Pathophysiology, assessment parameters, clinical manifestations, and nursing interventions to prevent common problems experienced by patients with a traumatic cervical SCI are presented. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| ST-Segment and QTc Monitoring This course describes ST-segment monitoring, including the circumstances in which it should be utilized for patients with acute myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndromes. The course also discusses circumstances in which QTc monitoring should be utilized as well as nursing considerations related to ST-segment and QTc monitoring. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy This course provides an overview of takotsubo cardiomyopathy, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, assessment, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations. Discharge teaching is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest This course discusses the efficacy of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest, including indications and contraindications for its use, induction methods, associated complications and adverse effects, and nursing care specific to patients undergoing this procedure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair This course provides an overview of surgical and endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms, including indications and contraindications, possible complications, and preoperative and postoperative nursing care and considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) This course provides an overview of the incidence, pathophysiology, and complications associated with transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study) This course features acute neurologic nursing care for a patient with traumatic brain injury and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of traumatic brain injury (TBI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with TBI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Management This course provides an overview of the management of mild and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview This course provides an overview of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including incidence, methods of classification, and types of primary and secondary injuries. The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Vasopressors This course reviews vasopressors that are frequently administered in the critical care unit. It discusses each drug's action, indications, administration, interactions with other drugs, adverse effects, and patient reactions as well as the goals of therapy and patient care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ventricular Assist Device: Monitoring and Care This course describes two types of ventricular assist devices (VADs), known as pulsatile and continuous flow VADs.It focuses on postoperative nursing management, following implantation, and discusses the potential complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound and Skin Care This course provides an overview of the principles of wound and skin care, including skin anatomy and physiology, wound assessment and classification, appropriate wound care interventions, and strategies for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Culture and Diversity Program | |||
| Open the door for LGBTQ patients Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Documentation Program | |||
| EMR Documentation: Basics This course provides an overview of an electronic medical record (EMR) in relation to the regulations and policies set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its implementation; the purpose, benefits, and barriers to EMR use; and an example of how EMR is used in a hospital setting. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| EMR Documentation: Legal Aspects This course covers the use of electronic medical records(EMRs) in professional nursing practice as well as the associated legal aspects in relation to health care delivery compliance, privacy, and security. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Drug Calculation Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Endocrine This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of endocrine conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Genitourinary This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of genitourinary conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Renal Conditions This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of renal conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arrhythmia Management This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the identification and management of cardiac arrhythmias. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Interpretation This competency evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions to evaluate the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to arterial blood gas (ABG) interpretation. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Drug Calculation This competency evaluation is for use by health care facilities to evaluate competency levels of professional nurses employed in various health care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to general drug dosage calculations. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Emergency Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the selection, indications, dosages, administration, monitoring, and adverse effects of various medications commonly used to treat emergencies in health care. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Pediatric Drug Calculations This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions to assess the ability of the nurse to calculate, evaluate, and safely administer pediatric medications. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Pediatric Drug Calculations This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions to assess the ability of the nurse to calculate, evaluate, and safely administer pediatric medications. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Vasoactive Drugs This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions that evaluate the nurse's knowledge of vasoactive medication use and management in the adult population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency: ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation This competency evaluation contains multiple-choice questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to interpreting ECG rhythm strips. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Emergency Nursing | |||
| A Review on the Reversal of the Old and New Anticoagulants Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| A Zebra Among Horses: A Case of Brugada Syndrome and Coronary Artery Disease Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Emergency Management of Malignancy-Associated Hypercalcemia Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Antidote Is Finally Here! Idarucizumab, A Specific Reversal Agent for the Anticoagulant Effects of Dabigatran Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Emergency Nursing Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency, Emergency: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent cardiovascular and respiratory conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: chest pain and myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, abdominal aortic aneurysm, blunt cardiac injury, flail chest, asthma, and heart failure. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Emergency: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, and Gynecologic Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynecologic conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: renal calculi, pyelonephritis, GI bleeding, lacerated spleen, and pregnancy trauma. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Emergency: Neurologic, Musculoskeletal, and Integumentary Conditions This competency evaluation on emergent neurologic, musculoskeletal, and integumentary conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: stroke, burns, maxillofacial trauma, spinal cord injury, head trauma, and domestic violence. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Emergency Nursing Program | |||
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 1 This course, which is Lesson 1 of 7, focuses on the structures and functions of the cardiac system and teaches the learner how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. It describes the structures of the heart and how impulses pass through it. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 2 This course, which is Lesson 2 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and describes how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms and heart rate and rhythm. The course also examines the significance of leads and planes, identifies the 12 views of the heart, and discusses electrode placement and the leads used to obtain a 12-lead ECG. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 3 This course, which is Lesson 3 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and describes how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms and heart rate and rhythm. The course also discusses normal cardiac cycle ECG waveforms as well as how to determine heart rate and rhythm on an ECG. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 4 This course, which is Lesson 4 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course explains the meanings of the QRS axis, axis circle, quadrant method, and degree method, and describes the systematic steps to interpreting 12-lead ECGs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 5 This course, which is Lesson 5 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG and how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course also describes how to interpret an ECG to identify atrial and ventricular hypertrophy. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 6 This course, which is Lesson 6 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and discusses how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as how to identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course also describes characteristics of bundle branch blocks, including causes of and how to differentiate different types. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| 12-lead ECG Interpretation-Lesson 7 This course, which is Lesson 7 of 7, focuses on structures and functions of the cardiac system and teaches how to obtain an accurate 12-lead ECG as well as identify waveforms, heart rate, and rhythm. The course explains what causes various ECG waveform changes and how to interpret them to identify the location of cardiac damage. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Coronary Syndrome This course provides an overview of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), an umbrella term used to describe conditions such as unstable angina, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The course describes the differences between these conditions, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Management This course focuses on the management and treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children, including possible complications and nursing care considerations.This course is a companion to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children, including causes, incidence, pathophysiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests and evaluations. This course is a companion to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Management.. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Asthma, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial will teach the learner the basic concepts of asthma care, including etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, medical management, and nursing care. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds, Advanced This tutorial will review the basic voice and breath sounds and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify advanced basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds: Basic Skills and Techniques (Tutorial) This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study involves a 62-year-old female who presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of vague cardiac complaints. She is diagnosed with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and is admitted to the intensive care unit. In this case study you'll review how to assess for and manage cardiogenic shock, care for a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter, and care for a patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, assessments, diagnostic tests, clinical manifestations, and nursing care associated with cardiogenic shock, including the indications for and nursing management of the patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiovascular Assessment This course provides an overview of cardiovascular assessment, including the anatomy and physiology of the heart and vascular system and the techniques needed for inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of the cardiovascular system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SAH, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Chest Tubes This course educates nurses about chest tube management and includes a review of normal thoracic anatomy and physiology. The course highlights nursing considerations for chest tube management, such as preparation for chest tube insertion, chest tube maintenance based on the type of drainage and collection system used, troubleshooting problems with chest tube function, and preparing the patient for removal of a chest tube. The course also covers complications that can result from chest tubes. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Child Abuse This course provides an overview of child abuse and neglect (physical, behavioral, and emotional). The course describes how to identify risk factors for abuse, common signs of abuse and neglect, and assessment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology, common causes, risk factors, and complications associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The course also examines appropriate diagnostic tests, treatment regimens, and nursing interventions that can be used to manage the condition and prevent or reduce the risk of exacerbations and complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) This course provides an overview of health care-associated infections caused by Clostridium difficile, including the prevalence of C. difficile infection (CDI) and the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit CDI (such as the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology guidelines and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended infection control practices for CDI). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compartment Syndrome, Pediatric This course provides an overview of compartment syndrome in children, highlighting its pathophysiology, common causes, and signs and symptoms. Then it presents diagnostic evaluation, treatment (including possible complications), and nursing considerations related to the syndrome. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation This competency evaluation contains multiple-choice questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to interpreting ECG rhythm strips. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Crisis Intervention This course educates nursing professionals about the skills, concepts, and techniques needed to handle disruptive individuals. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cultural Aspects of Pain Management: Nursing Implications This course provides nurses with current research on the effect that cultural heritage has on a patient's pain experience and on the ways in which nurses can better assess and manage pain for patients of diverse cultures. The course is a companion to Pain Management, Cultural Aspects: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Defibrillation and Synchronized Cardioversion This course focuses on defibrillation and cardioversion, including indications for each modality, patient- and device-related factors affecting success, key procedural steps (including energy level selection), possible complications, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Management This course focuses on the management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) in children, including general as well as age-specific treatment goals. Insulin replacement therapy is discussed, including the types of insulin, insulin delivery devices, and appropriate dosing. Healthy monitoring, dietary and exercise habits, and the management of possible complications are also detailed. Additionally, the course examines nursing care considerations, including discharge teaching. This course is a companion to Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview oftype 1 diabetes mellitus in children, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests.This course is a companion to Diabetes Mellitus, Type I, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetic Ketoacidosis This course provides an overview of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), one of the most severe complications of diabetes. It covers the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, treatment and monitoring, potential complications, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 1 This course, which is Lesson 1 of 8, focuses on the anatomy and physiology of the cardiac system and explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip and recognize arrhythmias. The course also identifies the structures of the cardiac system and describes cardiac physiology, including the cardiac conduction system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 2 This course, which is Lesson 2 of 8, focuses on identifying the two types of ECGs, applying electrodes and select leads, and obtaining a rhythm strip. The course also describes a method for interpreting ECGs, including identification and interpretation of a normal sinus rhythm. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 3 This course, which is Lesson 3 of 8, focuses on the role of the sinoatrial (SA) node in arrhythmia formation. The course describes the causes, significance, and characteristics of sinus node arrhythmias and how to interpret them on an ECG rhythm strip. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 4 This course, which is Lesson 4 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of atrial arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify atrial arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 5 This course, which is Lesson 5 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of junctional arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify junctional arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 6 This course, which is Lesson 6 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of ventricular arrhythmias. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify ventricular arrhythmias. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 7 This course, which is Lesson 7 of 8, focuses on the characteristics, causes, and significance of atrioventricular (AV) blocks. The course also explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify AV blocks. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| ECG Rhythm Strip Interpretation, Basic-Lesson 8 This course, which is Lesson 8 of 8, focuses on recognizing a pacemaker rhythm, identifying types of pacemakers, explaining pacemaker codes, and describing the characteristics of pacemaker modes. The course also reviews pacemaker malfunction and explains how to interpret an ECG rhythm strip to identify pacemaker rhythms. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Elder Abuse This course provides an overview of elder abuse and neglect. It describes varying types of elder abuse (physical, sexual, financial, and emotional). The course describes how to identify risk factors for abuse, common signs of abuse and neglect, assessment, and the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Epiglottitis, Pediatric This course provides an overview of epiglottitis, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations, including appropriate discharge teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gastrointestinal Assessment This course discusses the gastrointestinal (GI) system and its two major divisions–the GI tract and the accessory organs–along with questions to ask during a patient history of the GI system and techniques for performing a physical assessment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fractures: Overview This course provides an overview of hip fractures, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, and evaluation. This course is a companion to Hip Fractures: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| HIPAA: Putting Prevention Strategies into Practice This course covers the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), emphasizing practical considerations to prevent HIPAA violations. The course examines the severity of penalties and means by which unintentional violations can occur. It also provides examples of measures easily employed by nurses and ancillary staff to help prevent violations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hyperglycemic Crisis (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care and management of a patient with severe fluid deficit caused by hyperglycemic crisis, including fluid resuscitation, nursing assessment of fluid status, and management of electrolyte disturbances. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertensive Crisis: Management and Care This course describes the management and care of hypertensive crisis, including causes, appropriate treatment, possible complications, and nursing interventions and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Case Study) This case study presents a 10-year-old girl who fell while skateboarding, experiencing blunt abdominal trauma that has resulted in splenic injury. Participants must select appropriate components of primary and secondary assessment for trauma, evaluate hemodynamic stability, promote patient safety during procedural sedation, and compare and contrast nonoperative vs. operative management of splenic injury. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial reviews the definition, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hypovolemic shock. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Adult This course discusses the use of intraosseous (I.O.) infusionsin the adult patient and when you should consider them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Pediatric This course describes intraosseous (I.O.) access and infusion in pediatric patients. It covers indications, contraindications, insertion sites, types of devices, and potential complications of I.O. access and infusion. It also discusses the role of the pediatric nurse in I.O. insertion, infusion, maintenance, and device removal as well as related documentation and family and patient teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Case Study) This course describes current therapeutic care for the patient with the diagnosis of acute stroke. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Tutorial) This tutorial addresses the definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The immediate management, complications, and nursing considerations from the emergency department to rehabilitation are described. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Blood Transfusion (Pretest Included) This course reviews procedures for administering a blood transfusion and stresses the precautions required for a safe transfusion, including specimen identification procedures, blood sample label requirements, and patient monitoring requirements. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Recognizing Signs of Abuse (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of abuse and neglect (including child abuse, elder abuse, and financial and emotional abuse), describes how to identify common signs of abuse and neglect, and explains the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Restraint Use (Pretest Included) This course covers current guidelines for restraint use, including alternatives to the use of restraint, the criteria that must be met before restraint is used, the nurse's role in caring for the patient in restraint, the procedure to be followed when restraint is to be discontinued, and the documentation required with restraint use. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control and the importance of following these guidelines. Topics covered include: hand hygiene, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mental Health Assessment This course discusses how to perform a mental health assessment, including how to establish a therapeutic relationship; how to recognize coping mechanisms, disturbed thought processes and thought content, and perception abnormalities; and how to respond to a suicidal patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Overview This course provides an overview of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. This course is a companion to Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Musculoskeletal Assessment This course explains how to perform a musculoskeletal assessment, including evaluating joint movement and range of motion and muscle tone and strength, and recognizing musculoskeletal abnormalities. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric Hemorrhage: Postpartum Patient This course covers the types, causes (including disseminated intravascular coagulation [DIC]), and early or late timing of postpartum hemorrhage. It discusses risk factors, assessment findings, and treatments, including appropriate medications. The course presents nursing interventions related to early and late postpartum hemorrhage as well as hemorrhage related to DIC. It also addresses discharge teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric Hemorrhage: Pregnant Patient This course covers the care of a pregnant patient with obstetric hemorrhage, including the causes of first-, second-, and third-trimester bleeding, along with risk factors, assessment findings, treatment (including appropriate medications), and nursing interventions. Conditions covered are abortion and loss of pregnancy before viability of the fetus; ectopic pregnancy; gestational trophoblastic disease; placenta and vasa previa; placenta accreta, increta, and percreta; and placental abruption. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment This course provides an overview of pain assessment, including the differences between acute and chronic pain, pain characteristics, and pain rating scales. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Patient with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) This course defines key terms related to substance use disorders (SUDs), including addiction and pain. Common biases and misconceptions about SUDs and pain are described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pancreatitis This course provides an overview of acute and chronic pancreatitis, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Identifying Patients at Risk for Suicide (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of suicide statistics and risk factors, suicide risk-assessment strategies, changes necessary to provide a safe environment for patients at risk for suicide, and suicide-prevention resources available to patients and their families. It also discusses The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 15 and standards regarding identifying patients at risk for suicide. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Poison Ingestion, Pediatric: Emergency Treatment This course discusses unintentional ingestion of injurious substances by pediatric patients. It covers the most commonly ingested agents, assessment and emergency management, and the signs and symptoms of specific toxidromes. The course also presents prevention strategies. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preeclampsia This course, which encompasses the definition of preeclampsia currently used by ACOG and AWHONN, outlines criteria to meet the diagnosis of preeclampsia as well as risk factors predisposing a patient to developing this condition. The course also examines signs and symptoms of preeclampsia and the severe features of preeclampsia. It also discusses nursing actions for management of preeclampsia as well as management of preeclampsia at various gestational ages, including medications to treat hypertension and steroids to promote fetal lung maturity (if appropriate based on gestational age). Lastly, the course covers nursing considerations for the postpartum patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preterm Labor This course provides an overview of preterm labor, including its incidence and the implications it has on infant mortality in the United States. It identifies risk factors for and signs and symptoms of preterm labor as well as the appropriate nursing actions to employ when a patient is diagnosed with preterm labor, including diagnostic and laboratory testing and the administration of various pharmacologic agents. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Blood Incompatibility Errors Blood incompatibility errors can be fatal. However, with meticulous attention to proper administration techniques, prompt recognition, and early intervention, they can be prevented. This course provides an overview of blood incompatibility errors, including the major signs and symptoms associated with these errors along with evidence-based measures for prevention. In addition, the course provides strategies for prompt intervention to minimize the risk should a blood incompatibility error occur. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Assessment This course provides an overview of respiratory assessment, including respiratory anatomy and physiology and the techniques needed to inspect, palpate, percuss, and auscultate the respiratory system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview of seizure disorders in children, including seizure types and classification, pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests/evaluation. This course is a companion to Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis, Pediatric: Overview This course provides a general overview of sepsis in children age 1 and older. It describes the pathophysiology of sepsis and septic shock and identifies common causes of and risk factors for sepsis. Key symptoms of and physical findings in a child with sepsis are described. Essential elements of diagnostic evaluation for a child with sepsis are also discussed. This course is a companion to Sepsis, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Crisis, Pediatric: Management and Care This course discusses vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) in the pediatric patient with sickle cell disease. Pathophysiology, precipitating factors, signs and symptoms, and treatment are also discussed. The course emphasizes pain assessment in children and includes information on nursing considerations and patient and caregiver teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Acute Neurologic Complications (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the acute neurologic complications that a patient may experience after a stroke. The definition of stroke is provided in detail as is the clinical significance of early detection of neurologic complications. The acute complications of ischemic brain edema, hemorrhagic transformation, and seizures are then described along with their treatment. Next, the role of palliative care for select patients is discussed. The course concludes with key nursing considerations for the care of the stroke patient with acute neurologic complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Treatment (Joint Commission Resources) This course reviews the treatment options available for the patient who has experienced a hemorrhagic stroke, as well as nursing considerations while caring for the hemorrhagic stroke patient and patient and caregiver teaching. This course is a companion to Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Pathophysiology. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Treatment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the treatment of ischemic stroke, including discussion of both thrombolytic therapy and endovascular techniques. The time-critical nature of ischemic stroke treatment is emphasized, and general guidelines for facilitating treatment are discussed. Nursing considerations for both the hyperacute (emergency) and acute phases of treatment are described. Possible complications are listed, along with potential prevention measures for each. A description of secondary prevention measures is included. This course is a companion to Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Pathophysiology. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Rapid Detection and Intervention (Joint Commission Resources) This course educates nurses about rapid detection and intervention for stroke so as to optimize patient outcomes. Early intervention is key in the treatment of the stroke patient. Information in this course is guided by The Joint Commission's guidelines on stroke certification. This course identifies early stroke recognition, patient assessment and screening, and appropriate interventions based on assessment findings. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Transient Ischemic Attack (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of transient ischemic attack (TIA), including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, possible complications, treatment, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study) This course features acute neurologic nursing care for a patient with traumatic brain injury and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of traumatic brain injury (TBI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with TBI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Management This course provides an overview of the management of mild and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview This course provides an overview of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including incidence, methods of classification, and types of primary and secondary injuries. The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Faith Community Nursing | |||
| Advance Directives Education: A Critical Need Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Faith, Hope, & Spirituality: Supporting Parents When Their Child has a Life-Limiting Illness Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Feeling Shame: Insights on Intimate Partner Violence Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Reflective Practice for Personal and Professional Transformation Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spiritual Care: Evangelism at the Bedside? Journal of Christian Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Florida Requirements | |||
| Preventing and Managing Medical Errors for Direct Care - FL BON Requirement Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Risk Advisor for Advanced Practice Nurses: How to Protect Your License NSO Risk Advisor for Advanced Practice Nurses | Interactive Module | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| General Medical-Surgical Nursing Program | |||
| Diving Deep Into Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Focusing on Lower Extremity DVT Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Looking into Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Older Adults Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gerontologic Nursing | |||
| Intimacy, Sexuality, and Early-Stage Dementia: The Changing Marital Relationship Alzheimer's Care Today | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Staff Nurses' Perceptions Regarding Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure Disease-Specific Care Program (Joint Commission Resources) | |||
| Heart Failure: Advanced Diagnostic Testing (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the definition of heart failure, the basic pathophysiology of heart failure, and the advanced diagnostic tests used as part of the testing for a patient with suspected or confirmed heart failure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Advanced Nonpharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of available advanced nonpharmacologic management strategies that aim to reduce signs and symptoms and control disease progression in heart failure patients. It covers implantable medical devices, mechanical circulatory assist devices, other surgical interventions, and appropriate nursing management, including patient education and follow-up care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Advanced Pharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of advanced pharmacologic agents used to treat patients with acute decompensated heart failure, including early treatment with loop diuretics, vasodilators, and inotropes during hospitalization. It also reviews the impact of these pharmacologic agents on long-term maintenance therapy as well as ways to monitor patient responses to the therapies administered. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Diagnostic Testing (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure (HF), including the use of the comprehensive history, physical assessment, and basic laboratory, radiologic, and cardiac testing to confirm the diagnosis. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Nonpharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of basic nonpharmacologic management strategies for reducing signs and symptoms and controlling disease progression in patients with heart failure. These strategies, which encompass patient self-care and self-management and lifestyle modifications, aim to improve the quality of life. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Pharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the basic pharmacologic agents used to treat heart failure, including diuretics, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, beta-adrenergic blockers, and other miscellaneous agents. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Concomitant Diabetes Mellitus (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the management of the patient with heart failure and diabetes mellitus, including incidence, risk factors, and pathophysiology. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Concomitant Obesity (Joint Commission Resources) This course describes the effect that obesity has on patients with heart failure and discusses clinical prognosis for individuals who are obese and develop or have existing heart failure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Concomitant Sleep Disorders (Joint Commission Resources) Patients with heart failure tend to suffer from one of two types of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB): either obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or central sleep apnea (CSA). Often undiagnosed, these breathing disorderscause physiologic changes that can worsen heart failure and increase the risk of death. This course describes the differences between OSA and CSA along with the pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations for each. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Fluid Status Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the significant role that fluid management has on the clinical syndrome of heart failure. Key principles for fluid management of the hospitalized patient with hypervolemia are presented. The course also describes medications and device therapy, which help to treat patients with heart failure experiencing fluid overload. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Genetic Influences (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the genetic influences on heart failure, differentiating between cardiomyopathies and common heart failure. The course discusses genetic variants known to influence susceptibility to heart failure, the rate of progression of heart failure, and response to medical therapy. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: History and Physical Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of history and physical assessments of patients with heart failure. It emphasizes using targeted questions to collect information about the patient's current health status, medical-surgical history, and family and social history. It also focuses on performing a targeted body systems assessment based on common signs and symptoms of heart failure in various stages. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Palliative Care (Joint Commission Resources) | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, and Classifications (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology of heart failure, including the differences between systolic and diastolic dysfunction, the clinical manifestations of heart failure according to the side of the heart affected, and the various mechanisms employed by the body to compensate for heart failure. It also discusses common risk factors for heart failure and the classification systems used to identify the severity of heart failure and stage its progression. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Patient Education (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the knowledge and skills necessary to provide detailed patient education to improve patient outcomes and decrease the need for readmission due to decompensated heart failure. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Preserved Ejection Fraction (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF). Pathophysiology, risk factors, and diagnostic studies along with treatment recommendations are discussed; additionally, patient teaching and nursing considerations regarding the management of care are also covered. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Special Populations (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure, including incidence, signs and symptoms, treatment interventions, and patient response to treatment, in special patient populations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of sudden cardiac arrest, including pathophysiology, risk factors, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic studies, and available treatment and management options. It also covers nursing considerations, including patient education related to this condition. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Transitional Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the necessary elements of in-hospital teaching for the patient with heart failure who is transitioning out of the acute care setting. The course identifies necessary factors for assessment prior to patient discharge and lists essential elements of discharge instruction for patients with heart failure preparing to transition to the home setting or to an alternate facility for extended care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Ultrafiltration (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure, associated signs and symptoms of advanced heart failure, and the use of aquapheresis in the treatment of patients with advanced decompensated heart failure who are resistant to diuretics and are fluid overloaded. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency: Heart Sounds, Advanced This competency evaluation on advanced heart sounds contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to identifying advanced heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Heart Sounds, Basic This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. It contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to performing a cardiac assessment and identifying basic heart sounds. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Home Care | |||
| Applying Research Into Practice: A Guide to Determine the Next Palliative Home Care Nurse Visit Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Assessing Suicide Risk in Older Adults The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Bag Technique: Preventing and Controlling Infections in Home Care and Hospice Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Best Practices for Engaging Patients with Dementia Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Best Practices for the Identification of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Home Health Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Comorbid Depression and Diabetic Foot Ulcers Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depression in Home-Based Care: The Role of the Home Health Nurse Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Self-Care Assessment Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes, Depression, and OASIS-C: A Guide for Home Healthcare Clinicians Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ensuring Effective Medication Reconciliation in Home Healthcare Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Getting on With Living Life: Experiences of Older Adults After Home Care Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Improving Patient Outcomes with Oral Heart Failure Medications Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intimacy, Sexuality, and Early-Stage Dementia: The Changing Marital Relationship Alzheimer's Care Today | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Medical Marijuana Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Medication Appropriateness at End of Life: A New Tool for Balancing Medicine and Communication for Optimal Outcomes - the BUILD Model Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Medication Reconciliation and Education for Older Adults: Using the 2015 AGS Beers Criteria as a Guide Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Orthopaedic Care Coordination for the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Adult in the Residential Care Setting: A Perfect Storm Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment and Management Strategies for Elderly Patients Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Care Hits a Triple Win: Access, Quality, and Cost Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Wound Care, Part 2: Application of Principles Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Wound Care: Principles of Care Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Parkinson Disease Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Perceptions of Home Health Nurses Regarding Suffering with Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in Late Stage Dementia Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing and Managing Medical Errors for Nurse Managers - FL BON Requirement Home Healthcare Now, Nursing Management | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Reducing the Fear of Falling Through a Community Evidence-Based Intervention Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Saving Our Backs: Safe Patient Handling and Mobility for Home Care Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sensory Impairment in Older Adults: Part 2: Vision Loss AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Should My Patient Use a Mechanical Lift? Part 2: Algorithm and Case Application Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Supporting Self-Management Asthma Care Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The 2016 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Advanced Practice Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse in Homecare Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Impact of Osteoporosis, Falls, Fear of Falling, and Efficacy Expectations on Exercise Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Interdisciplinary Approach to the Implementation of a Diabetes Home Care Disease Management Program Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospice/Palliative Care | |||
| A Case Study of Moral Distress Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| A Dimensional Analysis of the Concept of Suffering in People with Dementia at End of Life Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| A Longitudinal Perspective of the Symptom Experience of Patients With Lung Cancer Near the End of Life Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| A Place to Get Worse: Perspectives on Avoiding Hospitalization From Patients With End-Stage Cardiopulmonary Disease Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Advance Directives: Empowering Patients at the End of Life The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Anticipatory Grief: An Evidenced Based Approach Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Appropriate Use of Opioids in Managing Chronic Pain AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Bioethical Issues Related to Limiting Life-Sustaining Therapies in the Intensive Care Unit Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Burden Versus Benefits: When Family Has to Decide How Much Is Too Much Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Care Transitions at the End of Life Nursing Management | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Caring for the Infant With Trisomy 18: The Bioethical Implications of Treatment Decisions on Nurses Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Case Study of an Adolescent Young Adult Patient With Multiple Sclerosis and Unpredictable Fatigue Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Common Errors in Using Analgesics by Home-Based Nonprofessional Hospice Caregivers Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compromised Autonomy: When Families Pressure Patients to Change Their Wishes Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Conflicts in Goals of Care at the End of Life: Are Aggressive Life-Prolonging Interventions and a `Good Death` Compatible? Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cultural Considerations at the End of Life The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Elective Repatriation for Undocumented Immigrants at End of Life Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| End-of-Life Care Behind Bars: A Systematic Review AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ethical Dilemmas in the Intensive Care Unit: Treating Pain and Symptoms in Noncommunicative Patients at End of Life Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ethical Issues in Caring for Prison Inmates with Advanced Cancer Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ethical Palliative Family Nursing Care: A New Concept of Caring for Patients and Families JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Evaluation of a Multifaceted Educational Intervention to Improve Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit: Adopting the Care and Communication Bundle Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Care Utilization by Patients Whose Care Is Managed by a Primary Palliative Care Clinic Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hindu End of Life: Death, Dying, Suffering, and Karma Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospice Care for Patients Who Choose to Hasten Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospice Providers Awareness of the Benefits and Availability of Single-Fraction Palliative Radiotherapy Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Improving Cultural Competence in End-of-life Pain Management Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Improving End-of-Life Care The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Improving Value in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges for Palliative Care Professionals in the Age of Health Reform Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Care for Patients with Chronic, Life-Limiting Conditions The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Making Sense of Moral Distress within Cultural Complexity Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Management of Constipation in Patients With Parkinson Disease Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Management of Fungating Tumors and Pressure Ulcers in a Patient With Stage IV Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Managing Care at the End of Life Nursing Management | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Managing the Effects of Cardiac Cachexia Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mentoring in Palliative Nursing Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Precepts and Ethics for the Orthopaedic Population Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Care Hits a Triple Win: Access, Quality, and Cost Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Care in the Management of Pain, Odor, and Exudate in Chronic Wounds at the End-of-Life: A Cohort Study Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Bioethics: A Natural Fit Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Wound Care, Part 2: Application of Principles Home Healthcare Now | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Persistent Hiccups in Advanced Neuro-oncology Patients: Findings From a Descriptive Phenomenological Study Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pharmacological Pain Management at the End of Life The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Promoting Participation in the Presence of Peril: Collaborative Intervention by a Physical Therapist and Nurse Practitioner in a Patient With Cervical Spine Metastasis Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Staying at Home: Risk, Accommodation, and Ethics in Hospice Care Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Symptom Clusters in Korean Patients with Metastatic Cancer Undergoing Palliative Chemotherapy Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Death Rattle Dilemma Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Effects of Nutrition Status of Patients With Digestive System Cancers on Prognosis of the Disease Cancer Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| When a Patient Discusses Assisted Dying: Nursing Practice Implications Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospital Mandatory Program | |||
| Mandatory, Hospital: Blood Transfusion (Pretest Included) This course reviews procedures for administering a blood transfusion and stresses the precautions required for a safe transfusion, including specimen identification procedures, blood sample label requirements, and patient monitoring requirements. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Bloodborne Pathogens (Pretest Included) This course presents information on bloodborne diseases, workplace exposure to the pathogens that cause bloodborne diseases, and preventive measures as they relate to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The course covers common bloodborne pathogens, explains the Exposure Control Plan, examines the role of hand hygiene in protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) available in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Body Mechanics (Pretest Included) This course explains basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply to the workplace and provides guidelines to employ to prevent injury. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Electrical and Medical Device Safety (Pretest Included) This course provides an introduction to general safety measures regarding electrical and medical devices, including electrical safety guidelines and procedures; reporting policies; medical equipment management systems; machine and equipment services; maintenance; and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lockout/tagout safety. The course reviews the management of facility utilities, including heat and air conditioning, as well as guidelines for dealing with water outages, medical gases, and emergency power plans. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Fire Safety (Pretest Included) This course reviews fire safety concepts, including the fire triangle/tetrahedron, building design, and fire detection and prevention, and what to do if a fire occurs in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Handling Hazardous Materials (Pretest Included) This course provides information on the handling of hazardous materials in the workplace, including compressed gas cylinders, infectious waste, and hazardous material spills. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Healthcare Facility Security (Pretest Included) This course reviews basic security-related policies and procedures to improve employee awareness of security needs and requirements. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Moderate Sedation (Pretest Included) This course examines moderate sedation, discussing indications for its use as well as identifying persons qualified to administer it, locations where it's administered, patient monitoring required, and possible adverse effects. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: National Patient Safety Goals (Pretest Included) This course defines and describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, applying them to patient care situations. It covers sentinel events, the Universal Protocol, and such safety goals as improving communication among caregivers, ensuring the safety of medication use, reducing the risk of health care-associated infections, and reducing the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Pain Management (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of pain management, including types of pain, pain assessment, treatment goals, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management, and ongoing care. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Recognizing Signs of Abuse (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of abuse and neglect (including child abuse, elder abuse, and financial and emotional abuse), describes how to identify common signs of abuse and neglect, and explains the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Restraint Use (Pretest Included) This course covers current guidelines for restraint use, including alternatives to the use of restraint, the criteria that must be met before restraint is used, the nurse's role in caring for the patient in restraint, the procedure to be followed when restraint is to be discontinued, and the documentation required with restraint use. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control and the importance of following these guidelines. Topics covered include: hand hygiene, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Tuberculosis (Pretest Included) This course defines tuberculosis (TB) by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment. The course discusses how TB is transmitted, the differences between active TB disease and latent TB infection, strategies to prevent exposure to TB, and steps to take following exposure. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospital-Acquired Conditions Program | |||
| Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Bundle This course provides an overview of prevention strategies for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), including the bundled approach for insertion and maintenance of central lines and information relating to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines. The course examines the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit such infections, including infection control practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Pressure Injury Prevention and Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course explains and reviews skin assessment, identification of a pressure ulcer, and stages of pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of surgical site infections, associated risk factors, and those evidence-based measures found to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Air Embolism This course provides an overview of the significance, associated risk factors, and pathophysiology of air embolism. The course examines current evidence-based prevention practices to help reduce the likelihood that a patient will experience an air embolism. It also discusses recommended nursing interventions that should be used if air embolism prevention practices fail. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Blood Incompatibility Errors Blood incompatibility errors can be fatal. However, with meticulous attention to proper administration techniques, prompt recognition, and early intervention, they can be prevented. This course provides an overview of blood incompatibility errors, including the major signs and symptoms associated with these errors along with evidence-based measures for prevention. In addition, the course provides strategies for prompt intervention to minimize the risk should a blood incompatibility error occur. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Falls and Trauma This course provides an overview of the prevention of patient falls and trauma, including best prevention practices and the procedures to follow when prevention measures fail. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Poor Glycemic Control This course discusses current clinical practice guidelines and recommendations for maintaining optimal glycemic control in hospitalized patients. Poor glycemic control and its manifestations are reviewed along with best prevention practices and treatment strategies. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Retained Surgical Items (RSIs) This course provides an overview of the prevention of retained foreign objects during surgery, including evidenced-based preventive practices that should be followed in the event of a discrepancy in the surgical count. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Venous Thromboembolism after Knee or Hip Arthroplasty This course provides an overview of the significance, risk factors, and pathophysiology of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after knee or hip replacement (arthroplasty). The course describes important measures using evidence-based and best practices for prevention. It also addresses appropriate diagnostic tests as well as medical, surgical, and nursing interventions to be implemented should VTE prevention practices fail. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Infection Control Program | |||
| Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Bundle This course provides an overview of prevention strategies for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), including the bundled approach for insertion and maintenance of central lines and information relating to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines. The course examines the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit such infections, including infection control practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) This course provides an overview of health care-associated infections caused by Clostridium difficile, including the prevalence of C. difficile infection (CDI) and the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit CDI (such as the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology guidelines and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended infection control practices for CDI). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Hand Hygiene Compliance (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of recommended hand hygiene practices, including basic principles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of surgical site infections, associated risk factors, and those evidence-based measures found to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Care-Associated Infections Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are correlated with significant increases in health care costs and are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Nurses play a major role in implementing measures to prevent these infections. This course provides an overview of HAIs, emphasizing prevention practices related to central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs) as well as measures to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other infections, such as Clostridium difficile infection. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Bloodborne Pathogens (Pretest Included) This course presents information on bloodborne diseases, workplace exposure to the pathogens that cause bloodborne diseases, and preventive measures as they relate to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The course covers common bloodborne pathogens, explains the Exposure Control Plan, examines the role of hand hygiene in protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) available in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Handling Hazardous Materials (Pretest Included) This course provides information on the handling of hazardous materials in the workplace, including compressed gas cylinders, infectious waste, and hazardous material spills. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control and the importance of following these guidelines. Topics covered include: hand hygiene, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Tuberculosis (Pretest Included) This course defines tuberculosis (TB) by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment. The course discusses how TB is transmitted, the differences between active TB disease and latent TB infection, strategies to prevent exposure to TB, and steps to take following exposure. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and health care-associated infections, including the types of MDROs and the preventative measures health care providers can take to prevent the spread of these organisms and reduce the risk for infection caused by them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) This course provides an overview of evidence-based interventions and best practices for use when caring for a patient requiring ventilator support. The course covers the essential measures that health care providers can implement to eliminate or minimize the risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). These measures--based on best practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses--require a multidisciplinary approach, with nurses playing a central role in implementing them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seasonal Influenza This course provides an overview of seasonal influenza, including prevalence, mode of transmission, incubation period, communicability, and prevention and control measures. The course also addresses health care personnel and patient risks as well as vaccination recommendations and steps to take in response to an influenza pandemic. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Case Study) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes using the case study of a 54-year-old male patient. Emphasis is placed on the early recognition of sepsis using physical assessment, hemodynamic parameters, and laboratory findings. Also covered is management of sepsis and septic shock using evidence-based recommendations from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Tutorial) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, risk assessment, signs and symptoms, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes. Sepsis is a syndrome of multiple etiologies. This course emphasizes the importance of early recognition, assessment, and evidenced-based aggressive management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes reflective of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign bundles. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Informatics Program | |||
| Characteristics of Nurses Who Use Social Media CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement Disease-Specific Care Program (Joint Commission Resources) | |||
| Joint Replacement: Complications after Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of common complications that a patient may experience after total knee or total hip arthroplasty. It describes venous thromboembolism (VTE), infection, bleeding, and hip dislocation along with their treatments and tips for patient education. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Discharge Planning for the Patient with Total Hip Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course will provide a general overview of the discharge planning process for the patient with total hip arthroplasty. The significance of the discharge process will be described, and the steps in the discharge planning process will be outlined. Interprofessional members involved in the discharge planning process will be identified. Lastly, essential elements of the discharge plan will be described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Discharge Planning for the Patient with Total Knee Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course will provide a general overview of the discharge planning process for the patient with total knee arthroplasty. The significance of the discharge process will be described, and the steps in the discharge planning process will be outlined. Interprofessional team members involved in the discharge planning process will be identified. Lastly, essential elements of the discharge plan will be explained. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Rehabilitation for the Patient with Total Hip Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course will provide an overview of the rehabilitation process for the patient undergoing total hip arthroplasty. Interdisciplinary team members involved in the patient's rehabilitation will be identified and environments for rehabilitation will be outlined. The essential elements of rehabilitation for the patient with total hip arthroplasty will be described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Rehabilitation for the Patient with Total Knee Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course will provide an overview of the rehabilitation for the patient undergoing total knee arthroplasty. Interdisciplinary team members involved in the care of the patient as well as the different types of rehabilitation environments, including trends in outpatient and home care environments, will be outlined. Essential elements of rehabilitation for the patient with total knee arthroplasty will be described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Self-Management for Patients Undergoing Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course will provide an overview of the rehabilitation process for the patient undergoing total hip arthroplasty. Interdisciplinary team members involved in the patient's rehabilitation will be identified and environments for rehabilitation will be outlined. The essential elements of rehabilitation for the patient with total hip arthroplasty will be described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Total Hip Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of total hip arthroplasty (THA). It discusses indications and contraindications for THA as well as types of implants. The necessary preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative care considerations for a patient who is undergoing THA are described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Joint Replacement: Total Knee Arthroplasty (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of total knee arthroplasty. Indications and contraindications for total knee arthroplasty are discussed, types of implants are identified, and the necessary preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative care considerations are described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Leadership and Management Program | |||
| Change Management This course discusses change management and common factors that influence staff resistance to change. Kotter's eight-step change model is used to discuss the phases of change and how the nurse manager can guide staff through change. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Crisis Intervention This course educates nursing professionals about the skills, concepts, and techniques needed to handle disruptive individuals. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Customer Service and Service Recovery This course educates nursing professionals, specifically nurse-managers, about the skills, concepts, and techniques needed to improve customer service, practice effective communication, and engage in the service recovery process. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Finance and Budget This course provides an overview of finance and budgeting, including common terminology, steps in the budgetary process, types and methods of budgeting, and health care reimbursement. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Horizontal Violence: Incivility and Bullying in Health Care This course discusses horizontal violence in the health care setting. It explains what horizontal violence is and outlines the types of horizontal violence, its implications, who is affected, why it happens, and how to report and prevent it. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Human Resource Management This course is designed to educate nursing professionals regarding staffing evaluation by using predictors of staffing needs. It also discusses the necessary skills, knowledge base, and current trends for effective recruitment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Introduction to Leadership This course introduces general concepts related to leadership. It discusses the basics of leadership (formal and informal), leadership qualities and behaviors, and different leadership theories. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Root Cause Analysis This course educates nursing professionals, specifically nurse managers, about the purpose and importance of conducting a root cause analysis (RCA) following an unanticipated adverse event. The course highlights the necessary tools and skills for conducting the analysis and provides tips on how to successfully implement change to avoid further problems. The course also offers insight into tools used in conducting RCA. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Team Motivation This course describes and discusses the concepts of team motivation and motivational theories. It also explains the advantages and barriers to team motivation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Time Management This course will educate nursing professionals, specifically nurse managers, about the skills, concepts, and current trends for effective time management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Leadership and Management Program | |||
| Spheres of Influence...Clinical Nurse Specialists Nursing Management | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Long Term Care | |||
| Assessing Suicide Risk in Older Adults The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Best Practices for Engaging Patients with Dementia Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intimacy, Sexuality, and Early-Stage Dementia: The Changing Marital Relationship Alzheimer's Care Today | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sensory Impairment in Older Adults: Part 2: Vision Loss AJN, American Journal of Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Long-Term Care Program | |||
| Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 1 This course provides a general overview of diuretic drugs effective in treating hypertension. Three subclasses of diuretics are described: loop, thiazide, and potassium-sparing. Drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, nursing considerations, and patient education are described for each diuretic subclass. This course is a companion to Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 2. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 2 This course provides a general overview of various medications effective in treating hypertension. The specific classes of antihypertensive drugs discussed are angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-adrenergic antagonists, calcium channel blockers, alpha-2 agonists, direct-acting vasodilators, and alpha-1 blockers. Drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, nursing considerations, and patient education are described for each drug class. This course is a companion to Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 1. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Arterial Ulcer Care This course provides an overview of arterial ulcers, including their pathophysiology, risk factors, assessment, classification, and treatment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds, Advanced This tutorial will review the basic voice and breath sounds and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify advanced basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiovascular Assessment This course provides an overview of cardiovascular assessment, including the anatomy and physiology of the heart and vascular system and the techniques needed for inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of the cardiovascular system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Bundle This course provides an overview of prevention strategies for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), including the bundled approach for insertion and maintenance of central lines and information relating to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines. The course examines the measures health care providers can take to prevent or limit such infections, including infection control practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Change Management This course discusses change management and common factors that influence staff resistance to change. Kotter's eight-step change model is used to discuss the phases of change and how the nurse manager can guide staff through change. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and evidence-based measures recommended to prevent them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Hand Hygiene Compliance (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of recommended hand hygiene practices, including basic principles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Patient Rights and Education for Non-Nursing Care Providers (Joint Commission Resources) This course covers patient rights for informed consent, patient privacy, ethical care, and advance directives for non-nursing care providers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compliance: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) for nursing staff within medical-surgical units that are planning on implementing TCAB. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Crisis Intervention This course educates nursing professionals about the skills, concepts, and techniques needed to handle disruptive individuals. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Customer Service and Service Recovery This course educates nursing professionals, specifically nurse-managers, about the skills, concepts, and techniques needed to improve customer service, practice effective communication, and engage in the service recovery process. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Major (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with major depressive disorder who has attempted suicide. The course describes medications that are useful for major depression, interventions to restore and maintain physiologic stability (nutritional, fluid, and elimination status), helping the client regain control over necessary activities of daily living, and discharge planning with the client and interprofessional team. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention and Care This course provides an overview of the significance, pathophysiology, and risk factors associated with diabetic foot ulcers, including the best evidence-based practices used to diagnose and treat diabetic foot ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| EMR Documentation: Basics This course provides an overview of an electronic medical record (EMR) in relation to the regulations and policies set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its implementation; the purpose, benefits, and barriers to EMR use; and an example of how EMR is used in a hospital setting. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| EMR Documentation: Legal Aspects This course covers the use of electronic medical records(EMRs) in professional nursing practice as well as the associated legal aspects in relation to health care delivery compliance, privacy, and security. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Enteral Feedings This course provides an overview of the care of a patient requiring enteral feeding, including methods of enteral feedings, indications for and complications of enteral feeding, and care of the patient during enteral feeding as well as documentation needed for a patient receiving enteral feeding. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Finance and Budget This course provides an overview of finance and budgeting, including common terminology, steps in the budgetary process, types and methods of budgeting, and health care reimbursement. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gastrointestinal Assessment This course discusses the gastrointestinal (GI) system and its two major divisions–the GI tract and the accessory organs–along with questions to ask during a patient history of the GI system and techniques for performing a physical assessment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Diagnostic Testing (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure (HF), including the use of the comprehensive history, physical assessment, and basic laboratory, radiologic, and cardiac testing to confirm the diagnosis. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Nonpharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of basic nonpharmacologic management strategies for reducing signs and symptoms and controlling disease progression in patients with heart failure. These strategies, which encompass patient self-care and self-management and lifestyle modifications, aim to improve the quality of life. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Basic Pharmacologic Management (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the basic pharmacologic agents used to treat heart failure, including diuretics, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, beta-adrenergic blockers, and other miscellaneous agents. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Clinical Management (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient newly diagnosed with heart failure. The learner will perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and communicate to the physician any significant assessments that may indicate worsening heart failure. The learner also will develop a nursing care plan for an individual diagnosed with heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: History and Physical Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of history and physical assessments of patients with heart failure. It emphasizes using targeted questions to collect information about the patient's current health status, medical-surgical history, and family and social history. It also focuses on performing a targeted body systems assessment based on common signs and symptoms of heart failure in various stages. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Special Populations (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of heart failure, including incidence, signs and symptoms, treatment interventions, and patient response to treatment, in special patient populations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of sudden cardiac arrest, including pathophysiology, risk factors, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic studies, and available treatment and management options. It also covers nursing considerations, including patient education related to this condition. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Basic This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the heart, the cardiac cycle, and how to perform a cardiac assessment. The learner will discover how to identify normal heart sounds, abnormal heart sounds, and heart murmurs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fracture Due to Osteoporosis (Case Study) This course teaches the proper nursing assessments and interventions to use when caring for an elderly woman with a hip fracture who has a history of osteoporosis. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| HIPAA: Putting Prevention Strategies into Practice This course covers the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), emphasizing practical considerations to prevent HIPAA violations. The course examines the severity of penalties and means by which unintentional violations can occur. It also provides examples of measures easily employed by nurses and ancillary staff to help prevent violations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Horizontal Violence: Incivility and Bullying in Health Care This course discusses horizontal violence in the health care setting. It explains what horizontal violence is and outlines the types of horizontal violence, its implications, who is affected, why it happens, and how to report and prevent it. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Human Resource Management This course is designed to educate nursing professionals regarding staffing evaluation by using predictors of staffing needs. It also discusses the necessary skills, knowledge base, and current trends for effective recruitment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hyperglycemic Crisis (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care and management of a patient with severe fluid deficit caused by hyperglycemic crisis, including fluid resuscitation, nursing assessment of fluid status, and management of electrolyte disturbances. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the incidence and common manifestations and complications associated with hypertension. The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hypertension, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension in a Diabetic Patient (Case Study) This case study will allow the learner to develop a nursing care plan for a diabetic patient newly diagnosed with hypertension. The learner will perform assessments, identify real and potential patient problems, and communicate significant assessment findings to the primary care provider. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Communication This course discusses the importance of interprofessional communication for the practicing nurse, factors influencing communication among colleagues, and barriers to effective communication. It also describes practices to promote effective interprofessional communication. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Introduction to Leadership This course introduces general concepts related to leadership. It discusses the basics of leadership (formal and informal), leadership qualities and behaviors, and different leadership theories. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Case Study) This course describes current therapeutic care for the patient with the diagnosis of acute stroke. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mental Health Assessment This course discusses how to perform a mental health assessment, including how to establish a therapeutic relationship; how to recognize coping mechanisms, disturbed thought processes and thought content, and perception abnormalities; and how to respond to a suicidal patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Musculoskeletal Assessment This course explains how to perform a musculoskeletal assessment, including evaluating joint movement and range of motion and muscle tone and strength, and recognizing musculoskeletal abnormalities. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurologic Assessment This course discusses the fundamentals required to perform a comprehensive assessment of the neurologic system, including the organs and structures that make up the neurologic system, questions to ask during a patient history of the neurologic system, and physical examination techniques. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obtaining a Health History This course discusses how to obtain a health history, including techniques for communicating with your patient and specific questions to ask during a health assessment interview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment This course provides an overview of pain assessment, including the differences between acute and chronic pain, pain characteristics, and pain rating scales. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Nonpharmacologic This course discusses the major categories of nonpharmacologic management of acute and chronic pain in adults, including cognitive and behavioral, physical, and alternative and complementary therapies. Appropriate therapies in each category are described, as well as who can administer them and how the therapy works. Important nursing considerations are also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Patient with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) This course defines key terms related to substance use disorders (SUDs), including addiction and pain. Common biases and misconceptions about SUDs and pain are described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Pharmacologic This course provides an overview of current evidence-based information pertaining to pharmacologic pain management of acute and chronic pain in adult inpatients and outpatients. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Wounds This course provides an overview of wound pain management and the evidence-based measures designed to properly assess, classify, treat, evaluate, and document wound pain. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Encouraging Patient Involvement (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's goals and standards regarding encouraging patients' active involvement in their care, including when and how to communicate with patients and families about all aspects of care, treatment, and available services. The course covers the elements of performance, including reporting methods available to patients and their families for concerns about the quality and safety of their care, timeliness of providing information, types of information to convey, and methods of providing information. This course also discusses the importance of engaging patients in their health care to foster active involvement and improve patient safety. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Caregiver Communication (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's recommendations on improving communication among caregivers, which includes reading back verbal orders, creating a list of abbreviations that should not be used, reporting critical tests and critical results in a timely manner, and improving communication during patient handoff. The course covers elements of performance, including read back procedures, standardized abbreviation list development, acceptable time limits for availability and reporting of critical results, and interactive, up-to-date communication procedures. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving the Safety of Medication Use (Joint Commission Resources) This course describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) and standards for safe medication use. It provides instructions on managing look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications, labeling medications, reconciling medications, and reducing harm from anticoagulation therapy. The course also describes when each NPSG is applicable and identifies its elements of performance, including requirements for LASA medication review, procedures for labeling medications on and off the sterile field, the process for reconciling medications, and the elements of an individualized anticoagulation management program. In addition, the course reviews proper documentation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Recognizing and Responding to Changes in a Patient's Condition (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the Joint Commission's standards and recommendations regarding recognizing and responding to changes in a patient's condition, including the fundamentals of urgent response procedures. The course covers early recognition and response methods; criteria for calling additional assistance; patient and family involvement; staff, patient, and family education; and evaluation criteria. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Healthcare-Associated Infections (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses recommended practices for reducing the risk of health care-associated infections. It covers guidelines for performing hand hygiene and discusses recommendations for preventing infections with multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs), central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Patient Falls (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines The Joint Commission's standards related to falls and fall prevention, including the fundamentals of a fall-prevention program, best practices for preventing patient falls, and steps to take if a fall occurs. The course covers the elements of performance, including patient population, settings, and services evaluation; fall risk factor reduction; and patient and family education. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Drug Administration This course describes the general purpose and indications for using a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) to administer drugs. Important steps involved before, during, and after administering a drug through a PICC are detailed. Complications that may occur while using a PICC to administer medications are also described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Physiology of Pain This course discusses the general elements of pain physiology; distinguishes between the two main types of pain, nociceptive and neuropathic; and describes the causes and characteristics of each pain type. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Management Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after someone has personally experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event. This course provides an overview of the management of this commonly debilitating condition. The course discusses various types of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapies and medications used as first-line treatments as well as other medications and supplemental therapies used to augment treatment or help manage specific symptoms. This course is a companion to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and health care-associated infections, including the types of MDROs and the preventative measures health care providers can take to prevent the spread of these organisms and reduce the risk for infection caused by them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) This course provides an overview of evidence-based interventions and best practices for use when caring for a patient requiring ventilator support. The course covers the essential measures that health care providers can implement to eliminate or minimize the risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). These measures--based on best practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses--require a multidisciplinary approach, with nurses playing a central role in implementing them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Assessment This course provides an overview of respiratory assessment, including respiratory anatomy and physiology and the techniques needed to inspect, palpate, percuss, and auscultate the respiratory system. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seasonal Influenza This course provides an overview of seasonal influenza, including prevalence, mode of transmission, incubation period, communicability, and prevention and control measures. The course also addresses health care personnel and patient risks as well as vaccination recommendations and steps to take in response to an influenza pandemic. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Case Study) This course highlights a 28-year-old Hispanic man who sustained a C6 spinal cord injury (SCI) as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Pathophysiology, assessment parameters, clinical manifestations, and nursing interventions to prevent common problems experienced by patients with a traumatic cervical SCI are presented. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Team Motivation This course describes and discusses the concepts of team motivation and motivational theories. It also explains the advantages and barriers to team motivation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Time Management This course will educate nursing professionals, specifically nurse managers, about the skills, concepts, and current trends for effective time management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound and Skin Care This course provides an overview of the principles of wound and skin care, including skin anatomy and physiology, wound assessment and classification, appropriate wound care interventions, and strategies for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound Assessment This course provides an overview of wound assessment and the evidence-based measures to accurately assess, classify or stage, and document wounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Bloodborne Pathogens (Pretest Included) This course presents information on bloodborne diseases in behavioral health care environments, workplace exposure to these pathogens, and preventive measures as they relate to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard that addresses this concern. The course covers common bloodborne pathogens, explains the Exposure Control Plan, examines the role of hand hygiene in protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) available in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Body Mechanics (Pretest Included) This course explains basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply in behavioral health care environments and provides guidelines to employ to prevent injury. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Fire Safety (Pretest Included) This course reviews fire safety concepts in the behavioral health care environment, including the fire triangle/tetrahedron, building design, and fire detection and prevention, and what to do if a fire occurs in the workplace. The course explains sources of fuel, oxygen, and heat in the workplace, identifies fire prevention techniques, and discusses how the acronyms RACE and PASS are important in fire prevention. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Handling Hazardous Materials (Pretest Included) This course provides guidelines for handling hazardous materials that are commonly used in a behavioral health care environment (please note that respiration protection and radiation safety are not included, as no radioactive material or respiratory isolation is typically used in such settings). | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: National Patient Safety Goals (Pretest Included) This course defines and describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals—including improving the accuracy of patient identification, reconciling medications, reducing the risk of health care-associated infections, and identifying safety risks in patient populations, and explains how to apply them to patient care situations in behavioral care environments. The content, questions, and images in this course have been designed to reflect the behavioral health care environment. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Pain Management (Pretest Included) The course addresses pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management, including general comfort measures such as positioning, as well as complementary therapies such as distraction, acupuncture, and yoga. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Principles of Good Documentation (Pretest Included) This course, designed for employees working in behavioral health care environments, covers principles of good documentation, including elements of good document, the difference between observation and opinion (including the role of progress notes), and the clinical and legal implications associated with documentation (including ownership of the medical record, confidentiality, and spoliation of evidence). | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Recognizing Signs of Abuse (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of abuse and neglect (including child abuse, elder abuse, and financial and emotional abuse), presents guidelines for employees in behavioral health care environments on how to identify common signs of abuse and neglect, and explains the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control, and the importance of following these guidelines in behavioral health care environments. Topics covered include hand washing, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Adolescent Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for adolescent patients, children ages 13 to 18. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Adult Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for adult patients, ages 19 to 64. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Geriatric Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for geriatric patients, age 65 and older. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding the Middle Childhood Patient (Pretest Included) This course, designed for personnel working in behavioral health care environments, covers the basics of patient care for middle childhood patients, children ages 6 to 12. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Behavioral Health: Understanding Tuberculosis (Pretest Included) This course defines tuberculosis (TB) by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment, including issues relating to patient screening and the need to transfer a patient with TB to an acute care facility. The course has been adapted to reflect behavioral health care environments. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Blood Transfusion (Pretest Included) This course reviews procedures for administering a blood transfusion and stresses the precautions required for a safe transfusion, including specimen identification procedures, blood sample label requirements, and patient monitoring requirements. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Bloodborne Pathogens (Pretest Included) This course presents information on bloodborne diseases, workplace exposure to the pathogens that cause bloodborne diseases, and preventive measures as they relate to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The course covers common bloodborne pathogens, explains the Exposure Control Plan, examines the role of hand hygiene in protecting against exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) available in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Body Mechanics (Pretest Included) This course explains basic principles of body mechanics and ergonomics as they apply to the workplace and provides guidelines to employ to prevent injury. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Electrical and Medical Device Safety (Pretest Included) This course provides an introduction to general safety measures regarding electrical and medical devices, including electrical safety guidelines and procedures; reporting policies; medical equipment management systems; machine and equipment services; maintenance; and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lockout/tagout safety. The course reviews the management of facility utilities, including heat and air conditioning, as well as guidelines for dealing with water outages, medical gases, and emergency power plans. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Fire Safety (Pretest Included) This course reviews fire safety concepts, including the fire triangle/tetrahedron, building design, and fire detection and prevention, and what to do if a fire occurs in the workplace. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Handling Hazardous Materials (Pretest Included) This course provides information on the handling of hazardous materials in the workplace, including compressed gas cylinders, infectious waste, and hazardous material spills. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Healthcare Facility Security (Pretest Included) This course reviews basic security-related policies and procedures to improve employee awareness of security needs and requirements. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Moderate Sedation (Pretest Included) This course examines moderate sedation, discussing indications for its use as well as identifying persons qualified to administer it, locations where it's administered, patient monitoring required, and possible adverse effects. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: National Patient Safety Goals (Pretest Included) This course defines and describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, applying them to patient care situations. It covers sentinel events, the Universal Protocol, and such safety goals as improving communication among caregivers, ensuring the safety of medication use, reducing the risk of health care-associated infections, and reducing the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Pain Management (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of pain management, including types of pain, pain assessment, treatment goals, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management, and ongoing care. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Recognizing Signs of Abuse (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of abuse and neglect (including child abuse, elder abuse, and financial and emotional abuse), describes how to identify common signs of abuse and neglect, and explains the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Restraint Use (Pretest Included) This course covers current guidelines for restraint use, including alternatives to the use of restraint, the criteria that must be met before restraint is used, the nurse's role in caring for the patient in restraint, the procedure to be followed when restraint is to be discontinued, and the documentation required with restraint use. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Infection Prevention and Control (Pretest Included) This course provides an overview of the basic principles and guidelines of infection prevention and control and the importance of following these guidelines. Topics covered include: hand hygiene, personal protective equipment use, respiratory protection, hospital environmental control, workplace practices, and postexposure concerns. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mandatory, Hospital: Understanding Tuberculosis (Pretest Included) This course defines tuberculosis (TB) by identifying its signs, symptoms, and treatment. The course discusses how TB is transmitted, the differences between active TB disease and latent TB infection, strategies to prevent exposure to TB, and steps to take following exposure. | Mandatory | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Cardiovascular This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Endocrine This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of endocrine conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Gastrointestinal This medical-surgical nursing competency evaluation on gastrointestinal conditions contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about the following topics: gastroesophageal reflex disease, diverticulitis, small bowel obstruction, hepatitis, and pancreatitis. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Genitourinary This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of genitourinary conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Neuromusculoskeletal This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Psychiatric Emergencies in Med-Surg This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Renal Conditions This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of renal conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Respiratory This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Acute Coronary Syndrome This course provides an overview of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), an umbrella term used to describe conditions such as unstable angina, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The course describes the differences between these conditions, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Kidney Injury Due to Acute Myocardial Infarction (Case Study) This course describes a patient with acute kidney injury secondary to an acute myocardial infarction. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antiarrhythmic Drugs This course provides an overview of the various medications that are effective in treating arrhythmias, including Class I (which includes Classes 1A, 1B, and 1C), II, III, and IV drugs. The course describes drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anticoagulant Drugs This course provides an overview of anticoagulant drugs, including indications and contraindications. The drug classes examined are heparin, warfarin, direct factor Xa inhibitors, low-molecular-weight heparins, and thrombin inhibitors. Drug action and administration, drug interactions, potential adverse reactions, nursing considerations, and patient education for each drug class are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antiplatelet Drugs This course provides an overview of antiplatelet medications, including indications and contraindications. The course examines antiplatelet combination agents and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists, including drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Atrial Fibrillation: Management This course focuses on the treatment of atrial fibrillation, including medications, cardioversion, and surgical and catheter procedures. The course also covers possible complications, nursing care, and nursing considerations. This course is a companion to Atrial Fibrillation: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Atrial Fibrillation: Overview This course provides an overview of atrial fibrillation, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic testing and evaluation strategies. This course is a companion to Atrial Fibrillation: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Bariatric Surgery Care This course focuses on the types of bariatric surgery currently performed. These include restrictive procedures, in which stomach size is decreased and stomach emptying is slowed, and combination procedures, which take advantage of both restriction and malabsorption. Care of the patient preoperatively and immediately after surgery is addressed, including the extensive patient teaching required to help patients commit to long-term lifestyle changes. The course also describes early and late complications associated with bariatric surgery and general measures to address them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds, Advanced This tutorial will review the basic voice and breath sounds and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify advanced basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Breath Sounds: Basic Skills and Techniques (Tutorial) This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system and will teach the learner how to perform a respiratory assessment and identify basic breath sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study involves a 62-year-old female who presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of vague cardiac complaints. She is diagnosed with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and is admitted to the intensive care unit. In this case study you'll review how to assess for and manage cardiogenic shock, care for a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter, and care for a patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, assessments, diagnostic tests, clinical manifestations, and nursing care associated with cardiogenic shock, including the indications for and nursing management of the patient with an intra-aortic balloon pump. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It describes the chronological events experienced by a young adult from the recognition of this life-threatening medical problem and its diagnostic evaluation to its medical and surgical management. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching at each step. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Tutorial) This tutorial presents the classification, pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic measures, and treatment of cardiomyopathy. Nursing care and patient outcomes vary with its classification, pathology, and medical/surgical management. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) Management This course discusses the care and management of a central venous access catheter according to evidence-based standards and guidelines, including the current Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. It reviews the critical elements involved in site care and dressing changes, maintaining patency (including flushing and possible declotting), and administration set or injection cap changes. Related documentation is also addressed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Case Study) This case study focuses on the clinical presentation of a patient with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The case study describes nursing assessment parameters and care planning to promote optimal recovery. The patient in this case study develops common complications associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), including increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and vasospasm. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SAH, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Chest Tubes This course educates nurses about chest tube management and includes a review of normal thoracic anatomy and physiology. The course highlights nursing considerations for chest tube management, such as preparation for chest tube insertion, chest tube maintenance based on the type of drainage and collection system used, troubleshooting problems with chest tube function, and preparing the patient for removal of a chest tube. The course also covers complications that can result from chest tubes. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology, common causes, risk factors, and complications associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The course also examines appropriate diagnostic tests, treatment regimens, and nursing interventions that can be used to manage the condition and prevent or reduce the risk of exacerbations and complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Case Study) The child in this case study is admitted with a tentative diagnosis of ventricular septal defect with mild heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Tutorial) This tutorial provides information about the pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and nursing care of the child with selected congenital heart defects. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Core Measures This course provides an overview of core measures, which were initiated by The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve the quality of health care through evidence-based standards that focus on assessment, treatment, patient education, and discharge instruction. In addition, it covers important aspects of and nursing considerations related to the common measures that are collected in the inpatient setting: acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, children's asthma care, venous thromboembolism, and the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Depressive Disorder, Persistent [Dysthymia] (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care of a client with persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia). The client's treatment requires specific nursing care that focuses on reducing symptoms, managing her medications, improving her self-esteem and initiative in goal-directed behaviors, increasing her sense of power over her life, and improving her interactions with others. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 This course covers pathophysiologic changes associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). Self-care goals, treatment regimens, and potential complications rearding the disease and treatment are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Effective Communication with Patients This course discusses the components of effective communication in the health care setting, including a description of the systemic model of communication. Also covered are ways to improve communication so that nurses understand and incorporate the information obtained from patients, and patients comprehend accurate, timely, complete, and unambiguous messages from nurses in a way that enables them to participate responsibly in their care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Elder Abuse This course provides an overview of elder abuse and neglect. It describes varying types of elder abuse (physical, sexual, financial, and emotional). The course describes how to identify risk factors for abuse, common signs of abuse and neglect, assessment, and the procedures for reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Enteral Feedings This course provides an overview of the care of a patient requiring enteral feeding, including methods of enteral feedings, indications for and complications of enteral feeding, and care of the patient during enteral feeding as well as documentation needed for a patient receiving enteral feeding. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 1 This course is part one of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fluids and Electrolytes: Part 2 This course is part two of a two-part series that describes fluid and electrolyte balances and disturbances. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) This course describes the causes and pathophysiology of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Health Literacy This course discusses the issue of health literacy. Patients with low health literacy may have great difficulty understanding their health information, participating in treatment decisions, and following through with treatment plans. The course defines health literacy, discusses vulnerable populations, and examines methods to assess health literacy needs on admission. The course also describes methods nurses can use to integrate health literacy strategies into patient discussions and materials throughout a patient's hospital stay. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient experiencing decompensated heart failure. It provides an interactive approach to learning how to perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and choose appropriate nursing interventions and communication strategies that will assist the patient and family toward reducing the trajectory of illness. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure, Decompensated (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the classifications, pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with decompensated heart failure. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Failure: Clinical Management (Case Study) This case study describes the care of a patient newly diagnosed with heart failure. The learner will perform patient assessments, identify nursing problems, and communicate to the physician any significant assessments that may indicate worsening heart failure. The learner also will develop a nursing care plan for an individual diagnosed with heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Advanced This course will review basic heart sounds and teach the learner how to perform a cardiac assessment and identify advanced heart sounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Heart Sounds, Basic This course will review the anatomy and physiology of the heart, the cardiac cycle, and how to perform a cardiac assessment. The learner will discover how to identify normal heart sounds, abnormal heart sounds, and heart murmurs. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Case Study) This course presents a female patient with hepatic failure. Topics include nursing assessment, clinical findings associated with hepatic failure, nursing and medical treatment, and end-of-life issues for the patient and family members. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hepatic Failure (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, and clinical manifestations and complications associated with hepatic failure. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hepatic failure, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fracture Due to Osteoporosis (Case Study) This course teaches the proper nursing assessments and interventions to use when caring for an elderly woman with a hip fracture who has a history of osteoporosis. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fractures: Management This course focuses on the treatment of hip fractures, including possible complications and nursing care and considerations. This course is a companion to Hip Fractures: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hip Fractures: Overview This course provides an overview of hip fractures, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, and evaluation. This course is a companion to Hip Fractures: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hospital Readmission Prevention This course details the importance of reducing hospital readmissions, including the implications of hospital readmission on the patient, the facility, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Human Trafficking This course provides an overview of human trafficking. The course discusses the four types of human trafficking and identifies who is at risk for being trafficked. Also discussed is how society at large is impacted by human trafficking and how the health care community is positioned to intercede on behalf of the victims. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hyperglycemic Crisis (Case Study) This course focuses on the nursing care and management of a patient with severe fluid deficit caused by hyperglycemic crisis, including fluid resuscitation, nursing assessment of fluid status, and management of electrolyte disturbances. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the incidence and common manifestations and complications associated with hypertension. The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with hypertension, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypertension in a Diabetic Patient (Case Study) This case study will allow the learner to develop a nursing care plan for a diabetic patient newly diagnosed with hypertension. The learner will perform assessments, identify real and potential patient problems, and communicate significant assessment findings to the primary care provider. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Case Study) This case study presents a 10-year-old girl who fell while skateboarding, experiencing blunt abdominal trauma that has resulted in splenic injury. Participants must select appropriate components of primary and secondary assessment for trauma, evaluate hemodynamic stability, promote patient safety during procedural sedation, and compare and contrast nonoperative vs. operative management of splenic injury. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial reviews the definition, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hypovolemic shock. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Management This course focuses on the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which consists of Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Topics covered include pharmacological and surgical treatments, possible complications, nursing considerations, and patient teaching. This course is a companion to Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Overview This course provides an overview of inflammatory bowel disease, which consists of Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis. Topics covered include pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests/evaluation. This course is a companion to Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Insulin Pump, Safe Use of This course provides an overview of insulin pump therapy, including indications for use, pump functioning, patient preparation, and dosing concerns. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Communication This course discusses the importance of interprofessional communication for the practicing nurse, factors influencing communication among colleagues, and barriers to effective communication. It also describes practices to promote effective interprofessional communication. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Case Study) This course describes current therapeutic care for the patient with the diagnosis of acute stroke. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Tutorial) This tutorial addresses the definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The immediate management, complications, and nursing considerations from the emergency department to rehabilitation are described. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Kidney Injury, Acute (Tutorial) This course presents a concise overview of acute kidney injury (AKI). The course describes renal anatomy and physiology, precipitating factors and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury, laboratory and diagnostic tests of renal function, and medical and nursing management of acute kidney injury. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Malignant Hyperthermia Protocol This course provides an overview of malignant hyperthermia, including its definition, signs and symptoms, and the procedure to follow in the event this condition should happen. The course also covers the administration of dantrolene and other medications necessary to treat malignant hyperthermia as well as supplies used to cool the patient, other supplies needed for handling a patient with malignant hyperthermia, and laboratory tests to be ordered immediately. You should report all malignant hyperthermia cases to the North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nursing Peer Review This course provides an overview of the nursing peer review process. It examines how peer review fosters a professional practice environment and provides a way to increase nurses' accountability in following evidence-based standards and guidelines. The course also includes a discussion of the principles of peer review and describes how it promotes a culture of continuous learning. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstructive Sleep Apnea This course provides an overview of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), including the pathophysiology of OSA, how it acts as a risk factor for cardiovascular problems, who is at risk of developing OSA, and appropriate treatments. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Opioids in the Hospital: Safe Use This course discusses the Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert related to the safe use of opioids in the hospital. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Osteoporosis (Tutorial) This course describes osteoporosis, a disorder of bone metabolism in which bone mass is decreased. The course addresses risk factors, assessment, clinical findings, and methods to treat or prevent osteoporosis and to prevent complications that may accompany osteoporosis. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pancreatitis This course provides an overview of acute and chronic pancreatitis, including pathophysiology, complications, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Management Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after someone has personally experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event. This course provides an overview of the management of this commonly debilitating condition. The course discusses various types of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapies and medications used as first-line treatments as well as other medications and supplemental therapies used to augment treatment or help manage specific symptoms. This course is a companion to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Overview This course provides an overview of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a trauma and stress or related disorder that can develop after someone has personally experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event. Frequently unrecognized by health care providers, PTSD can, without intervention, progress to a chronic condition that can disrupt an individual's ability to function socially, at work, and in relationships for many years. The course provides an overview of PTSD, including prevalence and incidence, signs and symptoms, and risk factors. Also included is a discussion about how PTSD differs from common stress reactions, as well as ways to minimize the risk of developing the disorder. This course is a companion to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seasonal Influenza This course provides an overview of seasonal influenza, including prevalence, mode of transmission, incubation period, communicability, and prevention and control measures. The course also addresses health care personnel and patient risks as well as vaccination recommendations and steps to take in response to an influenza pandemic. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Case Study) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes using the case study of a 54-year-old male patient. Emphasis is placed on the early recognition of sepsis using physical assessment, hemodynamic parameters, and laboratory findings. Also covered is management of sepsis and septic shock using evidence-based recommendations from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis (Tutorial) This course reviews the definition, pathophysiology, risk assessment, signs and symptoms, and management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes. Sepsis is a syndrome of multiple etiologies. This course emphasizes the importance of early recognition, assessment, and evidenced-based aggressive management of sepsis and sepsis-related syndromes reflective of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign bundles. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Shingles This course provides an overview of shingles (herpes zoster), which is commonly seen in older and immunocompromised patients. It covers the causes, symptoms, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and prevention of shingles. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Smart Pump Technology: Safe Use This course focuses on how to safely use smart pump technology to help reduce medication errors. It describes what smart pump technology is as well as its benefits and limitations in assisting nurses to program and calculate dose and delivery rates. The course reviews established standards of care and standard operating procedures for safe medication administration that must be in place when using this technology. It also describes problems that can occur and precautions the nurse can take to prevent these problems. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Case Study) This course highlights a 28-year-old Hispanic man who sustained a C6 spinal cord injury (SCI) as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Pathophysiology, assessment parameters, clinical manifestations, and nursing interventions to prevent common problems experienced by patients with a traumatic cervical SCI are presented. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study) This course features acute neurologic nursing care for a patient with traumatic brain injury and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of traumatic brain injury (TBI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with TBI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Management This course provides an overview of the management of mild and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview This course provides an overview of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including incidence, methods of classification, and types of primary and secondary injuries. The course is a companion to Traumatic Brain Injury: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound and Skin Care This course provides an overview of the principles of wound and skin care, including skin anatomy and physiology, wound assessment and classification, appropriate wound care interventions, and strategies for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Medication and Medication Administration Program | |||
| Antiarrhythmic Drugs This course provides an overview of the various medications that are effective in treating arrhythmias, including Class I (which includes Classes 1A, 1B, and 1C), II, III, and IV drugs. The course describes drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anticoagulant Drugs This course provides an overview of anticoagulant drugs, including indications and contraindications. The drug classes examined are heparin, warfarin, direct factor Xa inhibitors, low-molecular-weight heparins, and thrombin inhibitors. Drug action and administration, drug interactions, potential adverse reactions, nursing considerations, and patient education for each drug class are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 1 This course provides a general overview of diuretic drugs effective in treating hypertension. Three subclasses of diuretics are described: loop, thiazide, and potassium-sparing. Drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, nursing considerations, and patient education are described for each diuretic subclass. This course is a companion to Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 2. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 2 This course provides a general overview of various medications effective in treating hypertension. The specific classes of antihypertensive drugs discussed are angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-adrenergic antagonists, calcium channel blockers, alpha-2 agonists, direct-acting vasodilators, and alpha-1 blockers. Drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, nursing considerations, and patient education are described for each drug class. This course is a companion to Antihypertensive Drugs: Part 1. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Antiplatelet Drugs This course provides an overview of antiplatelet medications, including indications and contraindications. The course examines antiplatelet combination agents and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists, including drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Infusion Therapy, Pediatric: Safe Administration This course reviews safe intravenous (I.V.) infusion therapy for children according to the current Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. It includes information on site selection and assessment; proper use of electronic infusion devices; and safe I.V. site stabilization and securement. The course also discusses potential complications associated with I.V. therapy and current evidence-based bestpractices for preventing complications and ensuring safe I.V. therapy administration. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Insulin Pump, Safe Use of This course provides an overview of insulin pump therapy, including indications for use, pump functioning, patient preparation, and dosing concerns. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Adult This course discusses the use of intraosseous (I.O.) infusionsin the adult patient and when you should consider them. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Pediatric This course describes intraosseous (I.O.) access and infusion in pediatric patients. It covers indications, contraindications, insertion sites, types of devices, and potential complications of I.O. access and infusion. It also discusses the role of the pediatric nurse in I.O. insertion, infusion, maintenance, and device removal as well as related documentation and family and patient teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intrapleural Drug Administration This course provides an overview of intrapleural drug administration, including the purpose, indications, and contraindications for this route of administration. The course additionally describes patient preparation as well as the role of the physician and nurse before, during, and after drug administration. Potential complications of intrapleural drug administration, including how the complications may develop and their signs and symptoms, are also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neuromuscular Blocking Agents This course reviews the types of paralytic or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) used in the critical care unit. It discusses the drug action, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, reasons those agents are used, and goals of therapy as well as how to administer the medications and how to assess and care for the patient treated with an NMBA. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Oncologic (Chemotherapeutic) Drugs This course describes chemotherapy and how it works in the body, including goals of chemotherapy and types of chemotherapeutic drugs. Various methods and routes of chemotherapeutic drug administration are listed. Chemotherapy schedules and guidelines are detailed as well as key safety precautions to implement while caring for patients undergoing chemotherapy. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Opioids in the Hospital: Safe Use This course discusses the Joint Commission's recent Sentinel Event Alert related to the safe use of opioids in the hospital. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Drug Administration This course describes the general purpose and indications for using a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) to administer drugs. Important steps involved before, during, and after administering a drug through a PICC are detailed. Complications that may occur while using a PICC to administer medications are also described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Smart Pump Technology: Safe Use This course focuses on how to safely use smart pump technology to help reduce medication errors. It describes what smart pump technology is as well as its benefits and limitations in assisting nurses to program and calculate dose and delivery rates. The course reviews established standards of care and standard operating procedures for safe medication administration that must be in place when using this technology. It also describes problems that can occur and precautions the nurse can take to prevent these problems. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Vasopressors This course reviews vasopressors that are frequently administered in the critical care unit. It discusses each drug's action, indications, administration, interactions with other drugs, adverse effects, and patient reactions as well as the goals of therapy and patient care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
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| New Drugs 2016, Part 1 Nursing2017 | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Neonatal Nursing | |||
| Managing Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms in the Very Low-Birth-Weight Infant Postdischarge Advances in Neonatal Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| The Effect of Kangaroo Care on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Use of Benzodiazepines as Anxiolytics in Neonates: Are We There Yet? Advances in Neonatal Care | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Neurologic Care Program | |||
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Case Study) This case study focuses on the clinical presentation of a patient with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The case study describes nursing assessment parameters and care planning to promote optimal recovery. The patient in this case study develops common complications associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), including increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and vasospasm. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cerebral Aneurysm, Ruptured, with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the pathophysiology, precipitating factors, clinical manifestations, and complications associated with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The tutorial also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SAH, including typical diagnostic tests, patient assessments, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Case Study) This course describes current therapeutic care for the patient with the diagnosis of acute stroke. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ischemic Stroke Management, Acute (Tutorial) This tutorial addresses the definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The immediate management, complications, and nursing considerations from the emergency department to rehabilitation are described. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Case Study) This case study focuses on the care of a 58-year-old patient who sustains a spinal cord injury as the result of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision and subsequently develops neurogenic and spinal shock. Patient assessments, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and nursing interventions during patient care, with a focus on patient management in the critical care setting, are described. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Neurogenic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial provides an overview of neurogenic shock and its pathophysiology. It also provides assessment guidelines for a patient with neurogenic shock, including common signs and symptoms and clinical presentation. Goals of therapy and of nursing and medical management as well as complications that can result from spinal shock after acute neurogenic shock dissipates are also covered. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Case Study) This course highlights a 28-year-old Hispanic man who sustained a C6 spinal cord injury (SCI) as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Pathophysiology, assessment parameters, clinical manifestations, and nursing interventions to prevent common problems experienced by patients with a traumatic cervical SCI are presented. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Spinal Cord Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of spinal cord injury (SCI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with SCI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Case Study) This course features acute neurologic nursing care for a patient with traumatic brain injury and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Traumatic Brain Injury (Tutorial) This course describes the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of traumatic brain injury (TBI) along with potential complications that may develop during the acute stages of injury and recovery. The course also addresses medical and nursing care for patients with TBI, including patient assessments, typical diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| New York Infection Control Program | |||
| New York State Infection Control Principles and Practices This e-course program meets the New York State Department of Health's requirement for all health care professionals to receive training in infection control and barrier precautions. The program covers a health care professional's responsibility to adhere to scientifically accepted principles and practices of infection control and barrier precautions and to monitor the performance of those for whom the professional is responsible. On completion of the sixth course, a posttest will be available that tests the learner's understanding of all topics discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nursing Professional Development Practitioner Program (Association for Nursing Professional Development) | |||
| 2016 Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice (ANPD) This webinar discusses updates contained in the third edition of Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice,which was released in 2016. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| ANPD Leadership Academy Panel: Mentoring to Develop Our Next Generation of Leaders (ANPD) NPD practitioners frequently mentor others in their career progression yet NPD practitioners do not receive the mentoring needed to advance their own leadership knowledge and skills. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Articulating the Value of NPD to the Organization (ANPD) It is no longer enough to use resources efficiently and effectively in professional development education activities. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Basics of Test Construction: Put Your Hard Hat On! (ANPD) This interactive webinar helps NPD specialists learn to develop valid questions, whether used as test items or for questions in interactive learning activities such as games. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Challenges to Providing Pass-Through Dollars for Nurse Residency Programs (ANPD) Although federal funding is available for physician and pharmacist residencies, no such funding exists for nursing transition to practice programs. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Coaching in Simulation: Using Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice (ANPD) This presentation includes examples of free resources available to enhance teaching and learning using technology. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency Management: Training the Competency Monster (ANPD) This webinar will enable learners to develop more manageable competency processes. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Conquering the Forgetting Curve: Brain Based Learning (ANPD) This webinar describes how NPD professionals can incorporate evidence-based learning techniques into their teaching methods. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Creating a First-Class NPD Department (ANPD) Don't miss this exciting webinar to learn about NPD best practices and practical suggestions to take your department to the first-class level! | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Creative Teaching Strategies: It's All About Engagement (ANPD) Today's learners are diverse consumers. Our job is to engage, teach and mentor those who have different learning styles, different generational expectations, and short attention spans. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Design and Development Tips That Create Memorable Learning (ANPD) In this webinar, the learner will gain a fundamental understanding about instructional design, based on the ADDIE model, and how to implement it in e-learning activities. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Developing an Orientation Program for the Ambulatory Setting (ANPD) This presentation discusses how to support and create an orientation program that meets the needs of ambulatory care staff. It differentiates orientation needs between in-patient and ambulatory care settings, how to deal with specialty variations, and the unique staffing mix found in ambulatory care. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Engaging Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners (ANPD) This session will enable the NPD practitioner to integrate new teaching strategies and engage the diverse learner. Don't miss this opportunity to build your teaching strategy toolbox. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Engaging the Millennial New Grad through Interactive Gaming (ANPD) This webinar provides the inspiration to develop out-of-the-box teaching strategies that are not only entertaining but also engaging for learners and facilitators of all ages. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Free Technology Resources for the NPD Specialist (ANPD) This presentation includes examples of free resources available to enhance teaching and learning using technology. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| GIFTS: Great Ideas for Teaching Staff (ANPD) Learn about flow theory and how it relates to your teaching and experience an activity that will hone critical thinking skills. In this interactive session you will be an active participant! | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Impaired Nurse: How the NPD Practitioner Can Make an Impact (ANPD) The scary truth is that approximately one in ten nurses abuses drugs or alcohol. Attend this informative session that will discuss how the NPD Practitioner can impact this silent epidemic. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Continuing Education (ANPD) This webinar helps NPD practitioners move from writing objectives to determining desired outcomes for educational activities that reduce identified practice gaps and improve the practice of nursing. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Leadership Myths and Strategies for NPD Practitioners (ANPD) This webinar will enable learners to promote a culture of effective and transformational leadership through autonomy, collaboration, and sustainablility. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Learning Leaders: What is Your Value Proposition? (ANPD) Don't miss this opportunity to learn about creating and communicating a compelling value proposition for your customers. Communicating your value will get you the seat at the table. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Legal Considerations for Students and Preceptors (ANPD) This webinar discusses legal issues concerning student placement, evaluation, and scope of practice. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Legal Issues in Education: Avoiding the Pitfalls (ANPD) How would your competency test stand up to a charge of discrimination? | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Let's talk trash: Eliminating waste in NPD departments! (ANPD) This webinar describes the methods NPD professionals can use to meet their organizational needs. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| LGBT Cultural Competency: Train the Trainer (ANPD) This presentation includes examples of free resources available to enhance teaching and learning using technology. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Measuring Cognitive Load in Nursing (ANPD) This webinar will explore cognitive load and why nursing professional development practitioners need to be aware of its importance. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mind the Gap: Practice Gaps & Needs Assessment (ANPD) The knowledge gained in this webinar will encourage the NPD practitioner to consider information sources that help uncover practice gaps and learning needs, which will lead to appropriate prioritization. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Mindful Living & Practice for Nurses: A Beginning (ANPD) This webinar will focus on the basics of mindful living and practice for nurses. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| National Guidelines for Nursing Delegation (ANPD) This webinar describes the national guidelines for nursing delegation. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| NPD Outcome Measures: Capturing Evidence of Success (ANPD) This webinar focuses on the significance of quality outcome measures in determining the value of nursing professional departments/provider units. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nurse Residency Program "The Happening" (ANPD) In this webinar, a nursing professional development practitioner offers insight and strategies on how to assess the value of an organization's nurse residency program, as well as how to provide meaningul reports to leadership on outcomes. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Objectives to Outcome: Closing the Gap (ANPD) NPD practitioners move from writing objectives to determining desired outcomes. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Playing in the Sandbox Nicely: Planning IPCE (ANPD) This webinar will discuss common barriers to the planning and development of continuing education and strategies to overcome these barriers. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Professional Development Associate: The Glue that Holds Us Together (ANPD) Learn about ANPD resources for the new Professional Development Associate role and how you can maximize the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the Professional Development Associate to enhance the work of your department. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Promoting Successful Transition to the NPD Role (ANPD) We invite you to hear evidence-based approaches to promoting successful transition of clinical nurses to the nursing professional development practitioner role. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Putting Nursing Professional Development on the MAP (ANPD) Most graduate nursing programs with a focus on education prepare nurses primarily for the role of the academic nurse educator with little or no content on the role fo the nursing professional development (NPD) practitioner. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Return on Investment for Professional Development Activities: A Review of Literature (ANPD) Education is often the first intervention applied to make practice changes, yet fiscal resources for professional development are often the first to be withdrawn in budget crunches. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Standardizing Orientation Lengths: Dream or Reality (ANPD) We invite you to hear how one organization challenged conventional orientation practices by successfully standardizing orientation lengths by patient populations. This resulted in fewer inefficiencies and cost savings! | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sustainability of a Professional Practice Program (ANPD) This webinar describes the development, revision, and evaluation of a professional practice program. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Technology Tools for Nursing Professional Development Practitioners: Education, What's in your toolbox? (ANPD) This webinar describes tools for NPD professionals to use for training and education. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Future of Nursing Report at 5 Years: Implications for the Professional Development Practitioner (ANPD) This presentation includes examples of free resources available to enhance teaching and learning using technology. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Nursing Professional Development Practitioner's Role in Succession Planning (ANPD) Don't miss this exciting webinar on succession planning, a process that will help you identify, recruit, and develop leaders to meet your organization's needs. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| The Road to Bringing Creative Education Ideas to the Unit Level (ANPD) NPD practitioners will gain knowledge about free and low cost resources and tools avaialble to actively engage learners. They will be able to identify ways to incorporate those strategies into their educational programming. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Using Clinical Placement Tools to Streamline Student Onboarding (ANPD) This presentation includes examples of free resources available to enhance teaching and learning using technology. | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Why Use Twitter in Professional Education? (ANPD) Can tweeting really be used for educational purposes? | Webinar | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nursing Professional Development Program | |||
| Improving the Culture of Evidence-Based Practice at a Magnet® Hospital Journal for Nurses in Professional Development | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nursing Professional Development Organizational Value Demonstration Project Journal for Nurses in Professional Development | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
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| An Overview of Glycemic Goals and Medications Used to Manage Type 2 Diabetes Nutrition Today | Journal Article | Dietetic | Show Details |
| Making Sense of the Science of Sodium Nutrition Today | Journal Article | Dietetic | Show Details |
| Obstetric Nursing Program | |||
| Cardiomyopathy in Pregnancy and Postpartum This course presents peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), which can occur in pregnant and postpartum women. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fetal Monitoring Interpretation This course presents the interpretation of fetal monitoring and the critical thinking skills needed to provide safe nursing care for the patient undergoing this monitoring. It explains how to accurately assess uterine activity and respond to fetal heart rate (FHR) changes. It discusses the interplay of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in modulating the FHR, which helps determine if the fetus is well oxygenated. The course also provides sample FHR tracings, including normal fetal tracings (category I tracings) as well as tracings with absent, minimal, moderate, and marked variability; tracings with accelerations; and tracings with early, late, variable, and prolonged decelerations (category II [indeterminate] and category III [abnormal tracings]). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Induction and Augmentation of Labor This course provides information on the care of a patient undergoing induction or augmentation of labor, including the rationale for acceptable indications for induction of labor for maternal and fetal indications. Current American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) criteria for gestational dating of elective inductions are addressed, emphasizing evidence-based practice. The course also covers mechanisms for induction, including methods that are nonpharmacologic (such as an indwelling urinary catheter balloon) as well as pharmacologic (Prostin gel, misoprostol, and oxytocin [Pitocin]). Additionally, the course reviews safe medication practice and contraindications to use medications as well as current AWHONN/ACOG recommendations for fetal assessment in patients undergoing induction. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Communication This course discusses the importance of interprofessional communication for the practicing nurse, factors influencing communication among colleagues, and barriers to effective communication. It also describes practices to promote effective interprofessional communication. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Normal (Case Study) This case study focuses on perinatal care of a primigravid patient presenting to a maternity unit at 40 weeks' gestation. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Normal (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the key role nurses play in facilitating normal birth and providing support to both the mother and her family during the process. Four key factors play a vital role in normal labor and birth: passenger, power, passage, and psyche. Each is discussed in detail. The tutorial also defines the four stages of labor and discusses the outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Prolonged (Case Study) This case study focuses on nursing assessment and interventions and medical management for a primigravida experiencing prolonged labor. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Labor, Prolonged (Tutorial) There is no consensus on the appropriate length of labor or on prolonged labor's effects on maternal or fetal outcomes. Labor and birth are traditionally divided into four stages, the first two of which may be protracted for a number of reasons. This tutorial discusses the signs of prolonged labor, nursing actions that facilitate labor, and steps that promote maternal and fetal well-being during prolonged labor. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Lactation Basics and Supportive Breastfeeding Care This course provides an overview of the principles of lactation and best practices for supporting breastfeeding families. The course addresses the advantages and disadvantages of feeding methods, strategies and interventions that facilitate better breastfeeding outcomes, and techniques to measure breastfeeding effectiveness. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Normal Labor and Vaginal Birth This course examines the care of the low-risk patient in labor, including the normal progress of labor and appropriate interventions if a patient deviates from typical labor progression. The course covers baseline maternal and fetal assessment, as well as continued assessment and expected findings throughout labor and delivery. The stages of labor are described in detail, as are labor abnormalities that a patient may experience. Nursing assessments and interventions to promote labor progress are identified. This course also covers the current evidence-based standards for group B streptococcus (GBS) screening and management, and the appropriate antibiotic choices based on allergy status and GBS organism resistance. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric Hemorrhage: Patient in Labor This course presents the causes of obstetric hemorrhage in the patient in labor, along with associated risk factors (including inherited bleeding disorders), assessment findings, treatments (including drugs), and nursing interventions. It covers placental problems, such as placenta previa, placental abruption, and placenta accreta, increta, and percreta, as well as uterine problems, such as uterine rupture and inversion. It addresses trauma during labor and birth, such as vaginal, cervical, and perineal lacerations, and highlights disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric Hemorrhage: Postpartum Patient This course covers the types, causes (including disseminated intravascular coagulation [DIC]), and early or late timing of postpartum hemorrhage. It discusses risk factors, assessment findings, and treatments, including appropriate medications. The course presents nursing interventions related to early and late postpartum hemorrhage as well as hemorrhage related to DIC. It also addresses discharge teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric Hemorrhage: Pregnant Patient This course covers the care of a pregnant patient with obstetric hemorrhage, including the causes of first-, second-, and third-trimester bleeding, along with risk factors, assessment findings, treatment (including appropriate medications), and nursing interventions. Conditions covered are abortion and loss of pregnancy before viability of the fetus; ectopic pregnancy; gestational trophoblastic disease; placenta and vasa previa; placenta accreta, increta, and percreta; and placental abruption. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management in Labor This course provides information on principles of and nursing assessments for the care of a patient receiving pain relief during labor. It discusses pharmacologic pain relief methods (intravenous and epidural pain relief) and nonpharmacologic pain relief methods (relaxation, imagery, controlled breathing, hydrotherapy, and effleurage). The course also reviews the appropriate nursing interventions for each type of pain relief and the effects of maternal pain management techniques on the fetus. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preeclampsia This course, which encompasses the definition of preeclampsia currently used by ACOG and AWHONN, outlines criteria to meet the diagnosis of preeclampsia as well as risk factors predisposing a patient to developing this condition. The course also examines signs and symptoms of preeclampsia and the severe features of preeclampsia. It also discusses nursing actions for management of preeclampsia as well as management of preeclampsia at various gestational ages, including medications to treat hypertension and steroids to promote fetal lung maturity (if appropriate based on gestational age). Lastly, the course covers nursing considerations for the postpartum patient. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM) This course addresses the care of a patient with the high-risk complication of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) as well as the care of a patient with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). The course reviews the incidence of PROM and PPROM as well as the implication of PROM and PPROM for perinatal morbidity and mortality. The etiology and potential contributing factors for PROM are outlined; additionally, potential complications for term, preterm, and midtrimester PROM are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preterm Labor This course provides an overview of preterm labor, including its incidence and the implications it has on infant mortality in the United States. It identifies risk factors for and signs and symptoms of preterm labor as well as the appropriate nursing actions to employ when a patient is diagnosed with preterm labor, including diagnostic and laboratory testing and the administration of various pharmacologic agents. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Skin-to-Skin Contact This course presents the definition and general elements of skin-to-skin contact for neonates. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Umbilical Vessel Catheter This course covers the general principles for using umbilical vessel catheters in neonates. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) This course provides an overview of the current guidelines for vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC), including The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) criteria for trial of labor after previous cesarean birth (TOLAC) candidates; contraindications to VBAC; patient counseling regarding TOLAC and VBAC, including informed consent issues; and nursing actions and interventions related to TOLAC and VBAC. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Vaginal Delivery, Operative This course presents the most current guidelines for operative vaginal delivery (OVD). It covers general background information about OVD; its indications, contraindications, and potential maternal and neonatal complications; the procedures (including the importance of manufacturer's guidelines), and related communication and documentation standards. The course addresses current recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) about OVD. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Obstetric-Gynecologic Nursing Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance This obstetric-gynecologic competency evaluation contains case scenarios that are linked to specific questions about fetal assessment and surveillance, including such topics as normal pregnancy and routine antepartal monitoring, intrapartal monitoring, high-risk pregnancy, and complications during pregnancy. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Oncology | |||
| Vistogard (uridine triacetate) The First and Only Drug Approved for the Treatment of 5-FU or Capecitabine Overdose Implications for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Orthopedic Care Program | |||
| Hip Fracture Due to Osteoporosis (Case Study) This course teaches the proper nursing assessments and interventions to use when caring for an elderly woman with a hip fracture who has a history of osteoporosis. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| More New Medication Approvals Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Nurse Practitioners' Education, Awareness and Therapeutic Approaches for the Management of Fibromyalgia Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Osteoporosis (Tutorial) This course describes osteoporosis, a disorder of bone metabolism in which bone mass is decreased. The course addresses risk factors, assessment, clinical findings, and methods to treat or prevent osteoporosis and to prevent complications that may accompany osteoporosis. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management Program | |||
| Cultural Aspects of Pain Management: Nursing Implications This course provides nurses with current research on the effect that cultural heritage has on a patient's pain experience and on the ways in which nurses can better assess and manage pain for patients of diverse cultures. The course is a companion to Pain Management, Cultural Aspects: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cultural Aspects of Pain Management: Overview This course provides nurses with current research on the effect that cultural heritage has on a patient's pain experience and on the ways in which nurses can better assess and manage pain for patients of diverse cultures. The course is a companion to Pain Management, Cultural Aspects: Nursing Implications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment This course provides an overview of pain assessment, including the differences between acute and chronic pain, pain characteristics, and pain rating scales. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Nonpharmacologic This course discusses the major categories of nonpharmacologic management of acute and chronic pain in adults, including cognitive and behavioral, physical, and alternative and complementary therapies. Appropriate therapies in each category are described, as well as who can administer them and how the therapy works. Important nursing considerations are also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Patient with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) This course defines key terms related to substance use disorders (SUDs), including addiction and pain. Common biases and misconceptions about SUDs and pain are described. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Pharmacologic This course provides an overview of current evidence-based information pertaining to pharmacologic pain management of acute and chronic pain in adult inpatients and outpatients. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Wounds This course provides an overview of wound pain management and the evidence-based measures designed to properly assess, classify, treat, evaluate, and document wound pain. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Physiology of Pain This course discusses the general elements of pain physiology; distinguishes between the two main types of pain, nociceptive and neuropathic; and describes the causes and characteristics of each pain type. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Palliative Care | |||
| A Descriptive Study Evaluating Perinatal Healthcare Providers' Perspectives of Palliative Programming in 3 Canadian Institutions Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety Program (Joint Commission Resources) | |||
| Patient Safety: Encouraging Patient Involvement (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's goals and standards regarding encouraging patients' active involvement in their care, including when and how to communicate with patients and families about all aspects of care, treatment, and available services. The course covers the elements of performance, including reporting methods available to patients and their families for concerns about the quality and safety of their care, timeliness of providing information, types of information to convey, and methods of providing information. This course also discusses the importance of engaging patients in their health care to foster active involvement and improve patient safety. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Identifying Patients at Risk for Suicide (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of suicide statistics and risk factors, suicide risk-assessment strategies, changes necessary to provide a safe environment for patients at risk for suicide, and suicide-prevention resources available to patients and their families. It also discusses The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 15 and standards regarding identifying patients at risk for suicide. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Implementing the Universal Protocol (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the purpose and components of The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery, including conducting a pre-procedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out. The course covers when the protocol (which is part of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals) is applicable. The course also describes the elements of performance, including correct person, correct site, and correct procedure processes; verification processes and checklists; site marking characteristics and methods; and time-out characteristics and guidelines. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Caregiver Communication (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses The Joint Commission's recommendations on improving communication among caregivers, which includes reading back verbal orders, creating a list of abbreviations that should not be used, reporting critical tests and critical results in a timely manner, and improving communication during patient handoff. The course covers elements of performance, including read back procedures, standardized abbreviation list development, acceptable time limits for availability and reporting of critical results, and interactive, up-to-date communication procedures. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Patient Identification Accuracy (Clinical Personnel) (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines the Joint Commission's requirements for safe, accurate identification of patients by using at least two unique, patient-specific identifiers. Eliminating transfusion errors related to misidentification, accurately labeling containers used for specimen collection, and accurately identifying a patient before medication administration, procedures, or treatments are part of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs). This course covers when the NPSGs are applicable, the elements of performance for acceptable identifiers, how to properly label a specimen collection, and how to ensure safe blood or blood component transfusions. It also discusses proper documentation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving Patient Identification Accuracy (Nonclinical Personnel) (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines The Joint Commission's requirements to improve the accuracy of patient identification using at least two unique, patient-specific identifiers. The course covers the elements of performance and acceptable identifiers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Improving the Safety of Medication Use (Joint Commission Resources) This course describes The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) and standards for safe medication use. It provides instructions on managing look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications, labeling medications, reconciling medications, and reducing harm from anticoagulation therapy. The course also describes when each NPSG is applicable and identifies its elements of performance, including requirements for LASA medication review, procedures for labeling medications on and off the sterile field, the process for reconciling medications, and the elements of an individualized anticoagulation management program. In addition, the course reviews proper documentation. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Recognizing and Responding to Changes in a Patient's Condition (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses the Joint Commission's standards and recommendations regarding recognizing and responding to changes in a patient's condition, including the fundamentals of urgent response procedures. The course covers early recognition and response methods; criteria for calling additional assistance; patient and family involvement; staff, patient, and family education; and evaluation criteria. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Healthcare-Associated Infections (Joint Commission Resources) This course discusses recommended practices for reducing the risk of health care-associated infections. It covers guidelines for performing hand hygiene and discusses recommendations for preventing infections with multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs), central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), and surgical site infections (SSIs). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient Safety: Reducing the Risk of Patient Falls (Joint Commission Resources) This course examines The Joint Commission's standards related to falls and fall prevention, including the fundamentals of a fall-prevention program, best practices for preventing patient falls, and steps to take if a fall occurs. The course covers the elements of performance, including patient population, settings, and services evaluation; fall risk factor reduction; and patient and family education. Proper documentation is also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pediatric Nursing Competency Evaluation Program | |||
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Endocrine This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of endocrine conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Genitourinary This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of genitourinary conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Medical-Surgical: Renal Conditions This competency evaluation is for use by health care institutions to evaluate, track, and report competency levels of professional nurses employed in specialty care settings. The evaluation contains 30 multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the treatment of renal conditions in a medical-surgical environment. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance (Part 1) The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various fetal and maternal conditions in the obstetric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Obstetric-Gynecologic: Fetal Assessment and Surveillance (Part 2) The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various fetal and maternal conditions in the obstetric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Cardiovascular Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with pediatric patients who have cardiovascular conditions. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, and Genitourinary Conditions This competency evaluation tests the nurse"s knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Endocrine and Integumentary Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to nursing care associated with endocrine and integumentary conditions in pediatric patients. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Essentials This competency evaluation tests the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with gastrointestinal and genitourinary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Growth and Development The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Health Maintenance The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to pediatric nursing. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Neuromuscular and Musculoskeletal Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Neuromuscular, Musculoskeletal, Endocrine, and Integumentary Conditions This competency evaluation tests the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with various neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, endocrine, and integumentary conditions in the pediatric population. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency, Pediatric: Respiratory Conditions The evaluation contains multiple-choice questions that test the nurse's knowledge and critical thinking skills related to providing nursing care associated with pediatric patients who have respiratory conditions. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Competency: Pediatric Drug Calculations This competency evaluation contains 50 multiple-choice questions to assess the ability of the nurse to calculate, evaluate, and safely administer pediatric medications. | Competency | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pediatric Nursing Program | |||
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Management This course focuses on the management and treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children, including possible complications and nursing care considerations.This course is a companion to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children, including causes, incidence, pathophysiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests and evaluations. This course is a companion to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pediatric: Management.. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Anorexia Nervosa (Case Study) This course focuses on the care of a client with anorexia nervosa. Nursing care focuses on stabilizing physiologic status, maximizing appropriate eating behaviors, facilitating social interaction and trust within the milieu, and working with the family regarding discharge planning and follow-up. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Asthma, Pediatric (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care for a child experiencing an asthma exacerbation. In addition to recognizing signs and symptoms of severe respiratory distress, the case study explains how to gather appropriate history and physical examination data to make proper treatment interventions for the patient. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Asthma, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial will teach the learner the basic concepts of asthma care, including etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, medical management, and nursing care. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Bacterial Meningitis, Pediatric This course provides an overview of bacterial meningitis in children, including the pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests and evaluation, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Case Study) This case study focuses on the nursing care of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It describes the chronological events experienced by a young adult from the recognition of this life-threatening medical problem and its diagnostic evaluation to its medical and surgical management. Emphasis is placed on patient teaching at each step. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cardiomyopathy (Tutorial) This tutorial presents the classification, pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic measures, and treatment of cardiomyopathy. Nursing care and patient outcomes vary with its classification, pathology, and medical/surgical management. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Child Abuse This course provides an overview of child abuse and neglect (physical, behavioral, and emotional). The course describes how to identify risk factors for abuse, common signs of abuse and neglect, and assessment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Child with Autism, Hospitalized This course provides an overview of the impact that hospitalization has on the autistic child and his family. The course includes an overview of assessment needs, management concerns, and care issues as well as the integration of patient- and family-centered care. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate This course provides an overview of cleft lip and cleft palate, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, diagnostic evaluation, surgical intervention, possible complications, and preoperative and postoperative nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Coarctation of the Aorta This course provides an overview of coarctation of the aorta, a noncyanotic congenital heart defect. The course covers pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, and signs and symptoms of the condition. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Compartment Syndrome, Pediatric This course provides an overview of compartment syndrome in children, highlighting its pathophysiology, common causes, and signs and symptoms. Then it presents diagnostic evaluation, treatment (including possible complications), and nursing considerations related to the syndrome. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Case Study) The child in this case study is admitted with a tentative diagnosis of ventricular septal defect with mild heart failure. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Congenital Heart Defects (Tutorial) This tutorial provides information about the pathophysiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and nursing care of the child with selected congenital heart defects. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cystic Fibrosis: Management This course focuses on the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), including respiratory and dietary interventions and medications. It also covers possible complications as well as nursing care and considerations (including appropriate teaching). This course is a companion to Cystic Fibrosis: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Cystic Fibrosis: Overview This course provides an overview of cystic fibrosis (CF), including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. This course is a companion to Cystic Fibrosis: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Delirium, Pediatric This course describes the different types of pediatric delirium (PD), including risk factors, signs and symptoms, and assessment tools. The course also includes a review of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and important nursing care considerations in children with PD. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Management This course focuses on the management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) in children, including general as well as age-specific treatment goals. Insulin replacement therapy is discussed, including the types of insulin, insulin delivery devices, and appropriate dosing. Healthy monitoring, dietary and exercise habits, and the management of possible complications are also detailed. Additionally, the course examines nursing care considerations, including discharge teaching. This course is a companion to Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview oftype 1 diabetes mellitus in children, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests.This course is a companion to Diabetes Mellitus, Type I, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Epiglottitis, Pediatric This course provides an overview of epiglottitis, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations, including appropriate discharge teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Pediatric: Monitoring and Care This course provides a description of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), including how it works and when it is used, as well as important safety measures, possible complications, and nursing considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Failure to Thrive This course provides an overview of failure to thrive (FTT)in infants and children. The course includes a definition of the problem, possible causes and risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, prevention measures, and nursing care considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Fall Risk Assessment and Prevention, Pediatric This course discusses fall risk assessment and prevention in the pediatric population. The fundamentals of a fall prevention program are reviewed. Age-appropriate assessment tools that can be used when identifying pediatric patients at risk are outlined. Strategies and interventions to reduce or prevent falls in the pediatric population are explained, including patient and family or caregiver education. Actions to take when a fall occurs and proper documentation are also discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Pediatric This course provides an overview of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Case Study) This case study presents a 10-year-old girl who fell while skateboarding, experiencing blunt abdominal trauma that has resulted in splenic injury. Participants must select appropriate components of primary and secondary assessment for trauma, evaluate hemodynamic stability, promote patient safety during procedural sedation, and compare and contrast nonoperative vs. operative management of splenic injury. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Hypovolemic Shock (Tutorial) This tutorial reviews the definition, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hypovolemic shock. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Infusion Therapy, Pediatric: Safe Administration This course reviews safe intravenous (I.V.) infusion therapy for children according to the current Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. It includes information on site selection and assessment; proper use of electronic infusion devices; and safe I.V. site stabilization and securement. The course also discusses potential complications associated with I.V. therapy and current evidence-based bestpractices for preventing complications and ensuring safe I.V. therapy administration. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Interprofessional Communication This course discusses the importance of interprofessional communication for the practicing nurse, factors influencing communication among colleagues, and barriers to effective communication. It also describes practices to promote effective interprofessional communication. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Intraosseous Infusion, Pediatric This course describes intraosseous (I.O.) access and infusion in pediatric patients. It covers indications, contraindications, insertion sites, types of devices, and potential complications of I.O. access and infusion. It also discusses the role of the pediatric nurse in I.O. insertion, infusion, maintenance, and device removal as well as related documentation and family and patient teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis This course provides an overview of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). It presents the pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, possible complications, and nursing considerations(including discharge teaching) related to JIA. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Kawasaki Disease This course provides an overview of Kawasaki disease, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Overweight Patients and Obesity, Pediatric This course provides an overview of obesity and overweight patients in the pediatric population, and includes a breakdown of the incidence of overweight and obese status by age. The course examines the causes and contributing risk factors for obesity, along with the various health risks associated with obesity. Also included are guidelines for assessing an overweight or obese patient as well as current treatment and prevention strategies based on the patient's age and weight status. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment and Management in the Adolescent, Vaso-occlusive Episode (Case Study) This case study describes the assessment, management, and evaluation of interventions for a 16-year-old who experiences an early-stage of a vaso-occlusive episode due to sickle cell disease, and for an 11-year-old who has a less predictable manifestation of sickle cell disease and who reports to the emergency department with severe pain in his abdomen, arms, and left leg. The case study provides a realistic exemplar that the learner can incorporate into a pain assessment framework, use to choose age-appropriate interventions, and model when applying established outcome evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the interventions. The learner can choose from various evaluation strategies to determine which interventions are most effective. Principles of family-centered care are threaded throughout the case to illustrate the critical nature of family involvement in managing an adolescent's pain. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment and Management, Young Child (Case Study) This case study describes the assessment, management, and evaluation of interventions for a 4-year-old child who experiences acute episodes of pain. It provides a realistic example through which the learner can practice assessment strategies, choose age-appropriate interventions, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. The learner can choose from various evaluation strategies. Principles of family-centered care are threaded throughout the case to illustrate the critical nature of family involvement in managing a child's pain. | Case Study | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Assessment, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial describes the evolution of pediatric pain assessment over the past two decades, including types of pain experiences, factors that influence children's pain experiences, clinical manifestations of pain in children, and self-report and behavioral assessment strategies. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Pediatric (Tutorial) This tutorial focuses on managing pain in children and adolescents. It discusses pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies and provides specific information about the benefits, selection, appropriate doses, administration routes, adverse effects, and precautions associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, and selected anesthetics. The tutorial also presents methods for promoting parental involvement and evaluating the effectiveness of pain management interventions. | Tutorial | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patent Ductus Arteriosus This course provides an overview of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), a noncyanotic congenital heart disease. The course covers pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Patient- and Family-Centered Care This course provides an overview of patient- and family-centered care, including the core concepts of dignity and respect, information sharing, involvement, and collaboration. The course also discusses family engagement, cultural considerations, developmental and literacy considerations, and communication strategies. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Poison Ingestion, Pediatric: Emergency Treatment This course discusses unintentional ingestion of injurious substances by pediatric patients. It covers the most commonly ingested agents, assessment and emergency management, and the signs and symptoms of specific toxidromes. The course also presents prevention strategies. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pressure Injury and Pressure Injury Prevention, Pediatric This course discusses the essential elements of pediatric pressure ulcer prevention, including assessment and reassessment, pediatric assessment tools and scales, risk factors, and prevention practices (mobility, nutrition, managing moisture, and minimizing pressure). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Procedural Sedation, Pediatric: Monitoring and Care This course reviews nursing care of pediatric patients receiving procedural sedation. The content examines patient assessment, required monitoring, possible complications, and nursing interventions. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection This course provides an overview of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Management This course focuses on the treatment of seizure disorders and the possible complications of seizures in children, including status epilepticus. Nursing care and interventions, parental and patient teaching, and discharge planning are also discussed. This course is a companion to Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Overview This course provides an overview of seizure disorders in children, including seizure types and classification, pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests/evaluation. This course is a companion to Seizure Disorders, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis, Pediatric: Management This course focuses on sepsis management in children age 1 and older. Resuscitation and stabilization measures are described, including vascular access, fluid therapy, oxygenation and ventilation, monitoring, and cardiovascular drug therapy. Antimicrobial therapy guidelines are then detailed. Key nursing considerations are listed as well, followed by potential complications of sepsis and a discussion of parent education and support. This course is a companion to Sepsis, Pediatric: Overview. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sepsis, Pediatric: Overview This course provides a general overview of sepsis in children age 1 and older. It describes the pathophysiology of sepsis and septic shock and identifies common causes of and risk factors for sepsis. Key symptoms of and physical findings in a child with sepsis are described. Essential elements of diagnostic evaluation for a child with sepsis are also discussed. This course is a companion to Sepsis, Pediatric: Management. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Short Bowel Syndrome, Pediatric This course provides an overview of short bowel syndrome, including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Crisis, Pediatric: Management and Care This course discusses vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) in the pediatric patient with sickle cell disease. Pathophysiology, precipitating factors, signs and symptoms, and treatment are also discussed. The course emphasizes pain assessment in children and includes information on nursing considerations and patient and caregiver teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Skin-to-Skin Contact This course presents the definition and general elements of skin-to-skin contact for neonates. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Tetralogy of Fallot This course provides an overview of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a cyanotic congenital heart disease. The course covers pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including discharge teaching). | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Transposition of the Great Arteries This course provides an overview of transposition of the great arteries (TGA), a type of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations (including preoperative and postoperative teaching) are discussed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Umbilical Vessel Catheter This course covers the general principles for using umbilical vessel catheters in neonates. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), Pediatric This course provides an overview of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in infants and children. The course discusses incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Ventricular Septal Defect, Pediatric This course provides an overview of ventricular septal defects (VSDs), a noncyanotic congenital heart disease. It covers pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment, possible complications, and nursing care considerations, including discharge teaching. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pharmacy | |||
| Case Study: Allegation: Poisoning from Incorrect Anti-fungal Medication HPSO Risk Advisor | Journal Article | Pharmacy | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program | |||
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 01: Preceptorship This course focuses on the role of preceptorship in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 02: Responsibilities of the Preceptor and Preceptee This course focuses on the responsibilities of the preceptor and the preceptee in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 03: Preceptor Skills This course focuses on preceptor skills (including effective communication and time management) in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 04: Adult Learning This course focuses on the principles of adult learning as they apply in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 05: Factors that Affect Learning This course focuses on factors that impact learning in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 06: Assessing and Planning This course focuses on the issues of assessing and planning as they relate to preceptorship in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 07: Implementing and Evaluating This course focuses on the issues of implementation and evaluation as they relate to preceptorship in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 08: Challenges This course focuses on the challenges related to preceptorship in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 09: Dealing with Difficult Situations This course focuses on dealing with difficult situations related to preceptorship in the health care setting. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 10: Fostering Critical Thinking This course discusses the process of critical thinking within the context of nursing practice. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
| Preceptor Preparation Program - Module 11: Cultural Influences on Teaching and Learning This course discusses cultural competence and cultural awareness and describes transcultural nursing theories that are important to teaching and learning. | Preceptor Preparation Program | Nursing | Show Details |
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| Orthopaedic Clinical Care Model in a Pediatric Orthopaedic Setting: Outcomes of a 1:1 Model -- Orthopaedic Surgeon and Nurse Practitioner Orthopaedic Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
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| Development of a Nutrition Screening Tool for an Outpatient Wound Center Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Falls, Balance Confidence, and Lower Body Strength in Patients Seeking Outpatient Venous Ulcer Wound Care Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Major Histopathologic Diagnoses of Chronic Wounds Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Protocol for Psychopharmacologic Management of Behavioral Health Comorbidity in Adult Patients with Diabetes and Soft Tissue Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital Setting Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
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| Listening to the Narratives of Adults with Communication Disorders Topics in Language Disorders | Journal Article | Speech-Language Pathology | Show Details |
| Transition to College for Students with Language Disorders On and Off the Autism Spectrum Topics in Language Disorders | Journal Article | Speech-Language Pathology | Show Details |
| Stroke Disease-Specific Care Program (Joint Commission Resources) | |||
| Stroke: Acute Neurologic Complications (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the acute neurologic complications that a patient may experience after a stroke. The definition of stroke is provided in detail as is the clinical significance of early detection of neurologic complications. The acute complications of ischemic brain edema, hemorrhagic transformation, and seizures are then described along with their treatment. Next, the role of palliative care for select patients is discussed. The course concludes with key nursing considerations for the care of the stroke patient with acute neurologic complications. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Cognitive Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of cognitive assessments in patients who have had a stroke. It discusses the most common cognitive impairments. It also describes the risk factors for developing cognitive impairments and the implications of those impairments. The course reviews the most common screening tools along with the advantages and disadvantages of each. Finally, it presents basic guidelines about when to administer cognitive assessments. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Communication Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course explores communication assessment after a stroke. It describes the different types of communication disorders after a stroke, including impaired motor skills, language abilities, and cognitive processes. It also presents tools that the nurse can use to assess the presence, type, and severity of the communication deficit and highlights positive and negative communication strategies that patients and caregivers may use. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Discharge Planning (Joint Commission Resources) This course educates the nursing professional about discharge planning for the patient who has had a stroke. Stroke education should be provided to both the patient and the family as an ongoing process throughout the hospital stay. Key topics should include identification of the warning signs and symptoms of stroke, when to report the warning signs of stroke, and when to activate the emergency medical system. Patients and families should also be familiar with the treatment plan, prescribed medications, the importance of smoking cessation, and the importance of follow-up care after discharge. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Dysphagia Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course educates nursing professionals about dysphagia screening for the stroke patient. Stroke patients are at increased risk for developing aspiration pneumonia as a direct result of impaired swallowing due to the neurologic deficit of the stroke. Early intervention is key; dysphagia screening must be performed on every stroke patient before initiation of oral intake. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Pathophysiology (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology of hemorrhagic stroke. The definition and incidence of hemorrhagic stroke are presented, and the types of hemorrhagic stroke, their causes, and common locations within the brain are described. The course also outlines the mechanisms of brain injury after hemorrhage, as well as the importance of immediate treatment. Lastly, potential factors that place an individual at risk for hemorrhagic stroke are listed. This course is a companion to Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Treatment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Treatment (Joint Commission Resources) This course reviews the treatment options available for the patient who has experienced a hemorrhagic stroke, as well as nursing considerations while caring for the hemorrhagic stroke patient and patient and caregiver teaching. This course is a companion to Stroke: Hemorrhagic Stroke Pathophysiology. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Immediate Diagnostic Studies (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the diagnostic studies used for immediate evaluation of a patient experiencing a stroke. It defines the term stroke, describes the significance of immediate diagnostic testing, identifies routine diagnostic studies for a patient who presents with a possible stroke, and reviews additional diagnostic studies that might be indicated in select patients. The purpose of each diagnostic study is discussed. The course concludes with a review of key nursing considerations that relate to the diagnostic evaluation of a patient experiencing a stroke. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Pathophysiology (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke. Ischemic stroke is defined, and potential factors that place an individual at risk for ischemic stroke are discussed. The various etiologies of ischemic stroke are identified, and the processes of cerebral blood flow during ischemic injury are detailed. Consequences of reduced cerebral blood flow during an ischemic event, such as cell injury and cell death, are described. Lastly, time to treatment and its effect on neuronal loss is described for the patient experiencing an ischemic stroke. This course is a companion to Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Treatment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Treatment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the treatment of ischemic stroke, including discussion of both thrombolytic therapy and endovascular techniques. The time-critical nature of ischemic stroke treatment is emphasized, and general guidelines for facilitating treatment are discussed. Nursing considerations for both the hyperacute (emergency) and acute phases of treatment are described. Possible complications are listed, along with potential prevention measures for each. A description of secondary prevention measures is included. This course is a companion to Stroke: Ischemic Stroke Pathophysiology. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Limiting Complications (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of some potential complications that patients can experience after a stroke, including dysphagia, nutritional compromise, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, neurologic impairments, infection, bowel and bladder dysfunction, skin alterations, mobility and musculoskeletal issues, falls, depression, and communication disorders. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Neurologic Assessment (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the use of neurologic assessments in stroke both to identify patients suspected of having a stroke and to evaluate patients in whom stroke has been confirmed. The components of a neurologic assessment and the clinical significance of each component are described. Various stroke scales, including abbreviated neurologic assessment tools used to identify stroke, are also discussed. Nursing considerations in the older adult, older than age 65, are included. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Nursing Care (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides a broad overview of the essential aspects of nursing care for the patient with stroke across various settings. It defines stroke and explains the importance of nursing care for the patient with stroke and the nurse's role as a member of the interprofessional stroke team. The course also discusses key components of nursing care for the patient with stroke. Finally, it explains common nursing interventions used to facilitate rehabilitation and safety. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Pharmacologic Therapies (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides a general overview of various medications used when treating patients who are experiencing strokes. It details several classes of drugs, including thrombolytics, anticoagulants, antiplatelets, antihypertensives, and anticonvulsants. The course also describes indications, potential adverse reactions, drug interactions, and nursing considerations for each drug class. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the link between atrial fibrillation and stroke, including the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation, risk factors for its development, and goals of treatment. Recommended anticoagulant therapies, including warfarin and the newer alternatives (dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban) are discussed. Methods of evaluating a patient's risk of stroke against the risk of bleeding as a result of anticoagulant therapy are included. Patient education regarding the medication regimen as well as how to recognize symptoms of stroke and hemorrhage are also reviewed. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Rapid Detection and Intervention (Joint Commission Resources) This course educates nurses about rapid detection and intervention for stroke so as to optimize patient outcomes. Early intervention is key in the treatment of the stroke patient. Information in this course is guided by The Joint Commission's guidelines on stroke certification. This course identifies early stroke recognition, patient assessment and screening, and appropriate interventions based on assessment findings. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Recurrent Stroke Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of appropriate interventions for recurrent stroke prevention. When a patient experiences a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or an ischemic stroke, the risk of another one occurring dramatically increases. Therefore, implementing appropriate strategies to reduce risk factors for recurrence as soon as possible is paramount. Practicing nurses need to be ever-cognizant of the role these risk factors play and must also be proactive in helping to implement strategies for risk reduction. This course discusses strategies for reducing vascular-related risk factors and modifiable behavioral risk factors for recurrent stroke. Additionally, it summarizes interventional and medical treatment recommendations, which vary based on the underlying cause of the initial stroke. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Rehabilitation and Recovery (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of the key aspects of rehabilitation and recovery for a patient who has experienced a stroke. After explaining what a stroke is, the course identifies the members of the interdisciplinary team involved in the stroke rehabilitation process. Various stroke rehabilitation environments are outlined and specific rehabilitation needs within each environment are described. The patient's prognosis and potential return to work after a stroke are also discussed. Lastly, key considerations for supporting the family and caregivers of a stroke survivor during the rehabilitation and recovery process are identified. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Stroke Prevention (Joint Commission Resources) This course educates nursing professionals on primary stroke prevention. Prevention is the key to limiting the possible devastating effects of stroke. This module discusses the nonmodifiable and modifiable risk factors that contribute to a primary stroke. It also describes prevention measures and the nurse's role in primary stroke prevention. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Stroke: Transient Ischemic Attack (Joint Commission Resources) This course provides an overview of transient ischemic attack (TIA), including pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests/evaluation, possible complications, treatment, and nursing care and considerations. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Trauma Nursing Program | |||
| A Novel Trauma Leadership Model Reflective of Changing Times Journal of Trauma Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Advanced Practice Nursing Committee on Process Improvement in Trauma: An Innovative Application of the Strong Model Journal of Trauma Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Advanced Practitioners Are Peers in Trauma Performance Improvement Peer Review Journal of Trauma Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
| Blunt Chest Trauma Journal of Trauma Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Detection of Missed Injuries in a Pediatric Trauma Center With the Addition of Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Journal of Trauma Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing / Advanced Practice | Show Details |
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| Arterial Ulcer Care This course provides an overview of arterial ulcers, including their pathophysiology, risk factors, assessment, classification, and treatment. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention and Care This course provides an overview of the significance, pathophysiology, and risk factors associated with diabetic foot ulcers, including the best evidence-based practices used to diagnose and treat diabetic foot ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Pain Management, Wounds This course provides an overview of wound pain management and the evidence-based measures designed to properly assess, classify, treat, evaluate, and document wound pain. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Smoking, Chronic Wound Healing, and Implications for Evidence-Based Practice Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| The VCU Pressure Ulcer Summit: The Search for a Clearer Understanding and More Precise Clinical Definition of the Unavoidable Pressure Injury Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing | Journal Article | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound and Skin Care This course provides an overview of the principles of wound and skin care, including skin anatomy and physiology, wound assessment and classification, appropriate wound care interventions, and strategies for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
| Wound Assessment This course provides an overview of wound assessment and the evidence-based measures to accurately assess, classify or stage, and document wounds. | Professional Development | Nursing | Show Details |
