Florida CNA Continuing Education

Florida Certified Nursing Assistant Package 2019 — 24 Contact Hours

• Communication with Cognitively Impaired Residents/Patients (2 hrs)
  In the CNA role you help with assisting patients with moderate to severe cognitive impairment, however communication seems to be a common obstacle when working with these patients. This course provides CNAs with a basic understanding of cognitive impairment disorders and how they impact delivery of care with patients.
• Documentation for Certified Nursing Assistants (2 hrs)
  A CNA has important responsibilities to the facility where he or she works and the residents/patients that he or she assists. This course explains the role of the CNA in resident/patient documentation of daily care.
• HIV/AIDS for Florida Nurses (1 hrs)
  This course explains how HIV is transmitted, discusses the incidence and prevalence of HIV infection, explains strategies to prevent HIV infection in healthcare workers and in the general public, and identifies treatment options for HIV infection.
• Medical Errors: A Critical Practice Issue (2 hrs)
  Medical errors are a silent and largely unseen tragedy. This course defines terms important to the concept of medical error, describes various categories of medical errors, and identifies strategies for reducing nine common medical errors.
• Intimate Partner Violence (2 hrs)
  Domestic violence or intimate partner violence is a complex topic. The problem consists of case identification, a willingness to break the cycle of violence, as well as limited state resources to assist victimized individuals. This educational program defines the five main categories of intimate partner violence and discusses the cycle of violence and how healthcare providers can attempt to break the cycle.
• Residents' Rights in Long-Term Care Facilities: The Role of the Certified Nursing Assistant (2 hrs)
  This course is based on the state of Florida’s statutes that establish resident rights in long term care facilities, as well as regulations that govern practices in order to ensure that these rights are met for all residents. This course will require CNAs to review their daily practices in order to identify how their practices support these rights, as well as how they can further enhance their practices to achieve the protection of a resident’s individual rights, as identified in the statutes.
• Review of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (1 hrs)
  It is important that all health care professionals are adequately trained to handle cardiac and pulmonary emergencies. The prompt actions of a CNA may be the potential difference in life or death for the patient.
• Infection Control: Standards for Nursing Practice (8 hrs)
  Healthcare providers must understand and be vigilant about the prevention of infection and the control of infectious diseases. This infection prevention and control course provides content important to healthcare providers, specifically nurses and CNAs, working in all healthcare settings.
• Suicide Assessment and Prevention for Health Professionals (4 hrs)
  This course provides information about the background and statistical data of suicide within the US, etiology of suicide, suicide risk assessment, treatment and management, as well as risk of imminent harm with communication strategies, with a special focus on the veteran population.

Florida Certified Nursing Assistant Package — 24 Contact Hours

• Assistance With Self-Administered Medications (2 hrs)
  One of the most important roles of the CNA is assisting residents to safely self-administer medication. This course lists and explains procedures for assistance with oral and topical forms of medications, identifies and defines side affects for medication classes, and lists requirements and procedures for medication storeage and disposal.
• Communication with Cognitively Impaired Residents/Patients (2 hrs)
  In the CNA role you help with assisting patients with moderate to severe cognitive impairment, however communication seems to be a common obstacle when working with these patients. This course provides CNAs with a basic understanding of cognitive impairment disorders and how they impact delivery of care with patients.
• Documentation for Certified Nursing Assistants (2 hrs)
  A CNA has important responsibilities to the facility where he or she works and the residents/patients that he or she assists. This course explains the role of the CNA in resident/patient documentation of daily care.
• HIV/AIDS for Florida Nurses (1 hrs)
  This course explains how HIV is transmitted, discusses the incidence and prevalence of HIV infection, explains strategies to prevent HIV infection in healthcare workers and in the general public, and identifies treatment options for HIV infection.
• Medical Errors: A Critical Practice Issue (2 hrs)
  Medical errors are a silent and largely unseen tragedy. This course defines terms important to the concept of medical error, describes various categories of medical errors, and identifies strategies for reducing nine common medical errors.
• Residents' Rights in Long-Term Care Facilities: The Role of the Certified Nursing Assistant (2 hrs)
  This course is based on the state of Florida’s statutes that establish resident rights in long term care facilities, as well as regulations that govern practices in order to ensure that these rights are met for all residents. This course will require CNAs to review their daily practices in order to identify how their practices support these rights, as well as how they can further enhance their practices to achieve the protection of a resident’s individual rights, as identified in the statutes.
• Review of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (1 hrs)
  It is important that all health care professionals are adequately trained to handle cardiac and pulmonary emergencies. The prompt actions of a CNA may be the potential difference in life or death for the patient.
• Preventing and Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (2 hrs)

  Course expiration date: 11/21/2021

  
  

  The purpose of this education program is to teach nurseshow to prevent and/or deal with sexual harassment as well as how to report suchharassment. 

• Infection Control: Front and Center (8 hrs)
  Course expiration date: 4/23/2022
  
  This course focuses on helping nurses increase their knowledge of infection control practices and to use that knowledge to improve patient care and decrease infection incidence.
• Domestic Violence for Florida Nurses (2 hrs)
  Course release date: 11/24/2020
  Course expiration date: 11/24/2023
  
  This course, applicable to all nurses in the state of Florida, provides information about Florida specific laws related to domestic violence. The course discusses the concept of domestic violence and how to best care for patients who are at risk of, or who have been targets of, domestic violence, as well as the prevalence of domestic violence in both Florida and the US and the impact domestic violence has on patients and society.