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Leadership and Nursing Practice Specialty Courses
A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Science: The Minimum Entry Level for Nursing Practice
This course presents the history and controversies of the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) as the minimum entry into practice designation. The course reviews various perspectives related to the BSN as a gateway to enter clinical practice as a registered nurse (RN), as well as the long history of support and recommendations from various entities moving this initiative forward.
Care, Compassion, and End-of-Life Issues
Course expiration date: 4/9/2023
The principles of end-of-life care focus on providing the best possible care and emotional support for patients and families with compassion and respect for the dignity of the patient. This course presents information regarding standards and competencies of palliative nursing practice, body changes as death nears, physical comfort measures at the end-of-life, factors relating to advance directives, and cultural considerations when providing end-of-life care.
Chronic Pain: A National Problem
Course expiration date: 2/15/2022
This course provides current information about the pathophysiology of pain, the differences between acute and chronic pain, chronic pain assessment, and chronic pain management.
Clinical Update: Measles, Mumps and Rubella
Course expiration date: 11/14/2022
This course provides an update on the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) diseases; immunizations; treatments; and prevention of spread. Includes nursing interventions and teaching information for all nurses interacting with children and adults.
Communication and Team Building: A Patient Safety Consideration
Course expiration date: 5/20/2022
This course provides practical strategies that enhance professional communication and improve team functioning in the actual work setting.
Communication in Healthcare
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course discusses the fundamentals of communication science, impediments to effective communication in healthcare settings, and evidence-based strategies to improve communication with patients. The course also presents nurses with evidence-based strategies to improve the effectiveness of their communication with patients, families, and colleagues.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) 101 for Nursing Professionals
Course expiration date: 9/11/2021
Coronavirus, caused by COVID-19, is a rapidly developing disease. As this disease continues to expand and engulf communities across the United States, it is critical that healthcare professionals become informed of the national standards of care provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other authorative agencies. This course provides the latest standardized information that is known about the identification, care, and prevention of the disease.
Crisis Resource Management for Nurses
After completing this course, the learner will be able to discuss how crisis resource management principles can be applied during an emergent situation.
Documentation for Nurses, 3rd Edition – N1882
Course expiration date: 10/31/2021
This course explores the underlying purposes of documentation, professional and regulatory requirements and processes, and best practices for adequate documentation to accurately reflect the patient’s severity of illness and transition for care.
Ethical Practices with Older Adults, 2nd Edition
Course expiration date: 3/31/2021
This course highlights the ethical issues that older adults and their families face as these individuals near the end-of-life, particularly in light of advances in medical technologies. The course presents the ethical frameworks and principles used to resolve ethical problems, identifies major ethical issues nurses face as their older adult patients make healthcare decisions, and provides a model for addressing ethical dilemmas in healthcare settings.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing
Course expiration date: 1/16/2023
This course will help nurses deal with many of the ethical issues they face in their professional practice, as well as legal considerations that may make an impact on the ethical issues of patient care.
Facing Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing
Course expiration date: 4/10/2022
Legal issues in nursing are based on legislation, practice standards, and licensure. Ethical issues, on the other hand, are often based on subjective values of “right” and “wrong.” This course will help nurses deal with many of the ethical issues they face in their professional practice, as well as legal considerations that may impact on ethical issues of patient care.
Float Assignments – Measuring Competencies
As a solution to nurse shortages, nurse call-outs, and unexpected patient censuses, many hospitals have developed floating programs. Even hospi
Fundamentals of Mentorship
Course expiration date: 11/25/2023
This course explores the fundamentals of mentorship, offering insight into a phenomenon that supports and strengthens our development as professionals, motivates us to expand our capacities, and inspires us to reach our aspirations – in other words, to help us do all that we can.
Fundamentals of Telehealth: Registered Nursing Practice in the Virtual Care Environment
Course expiration date: 5/13/2023
This course explores the basic telehealth concepts and technology applicable to the registered nursing telehealth arena, examining the role of the telehealth nurse, paying attention to legal and regulatory concerns, and temporary changes to regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course discusses how telehealth can be used in disasters, emergencies, epidemics, and pandemics and concludes with a review of the competencies for nursing telehealth practice so nurses can be knowledgeable and effective.
Horizontal Violence in the Workplace
Course expiration date: 1/28/2022
Bullying and horizontal violence in the workplace occurs far too often. Whether between professionals of a single discipline or among different disciplines, the consequences of bullying and horizontal violence are the same. This course will provide an overview of horizontal violence, characteristics of both abusers and victims, and how to reduce the prevalence of horizontal violence in the workplace.
Human Trafficking
Course expiration date: 10/8/2022
This course discusses the scope of human trafficking including risks, common characteristics, and signs and symptoms of human trafficking. Intervention approaches and resources that help prevent and advocate against human trafficking are also presented.
Humor as a Nursing Intervention, 3rd Edition
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course examines the holistic effects of humor on the health of individuals. The course provides foundational information on humor theories and discusses the effects of humor and laughter on disease outcomes. How humor may impact immune function is also considered. Suggestions of ways to add humor as an individual or as a facility are offered.
Humor in Healthcare: The Laughter Prescription, 3rd Edition – N1764
Course expiration date: 6/30/2021
This course presents foundational information about therapeutic humor, the difference between humor and laughter, the history of humor in health care, how humor develops as we mature, and how humor affects the biological, psychological, and sociological health of an individual.
Interprofessional Collaboration and Teamwork
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
The course provides the historical and contextual framework with current, evidence-based information for healthcare team members on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for successful interprofessional collaboration and teamwork. Core competencies for interprofessional collaboration are discussed. Interprofessional education is critical for ensuring that nurses are prepared to collaborate with team members across disciplines once they enter clinical practice and beyond.
LGBT Health: Improving Access to Care and Identifying Risk Factors
Course expiration date: 5/21/2021
Thiscourse will discuss the disparities in health care and increased health risksthat exist in the LGBT population, as well as ways to provide improved care forthis community.
LGBTQ Competency for Healthcare Professionals
Course expiration date: 11/8/2022
This course provides health care professionals best practices for management of LGBTQ individuals. The course addresses LGBTQ terminology, health risks and disparities, and statistics nationwide. It also presents ways to increase access to care for LGBTQ patients and discusses suggestions for increasing staff knowledge of, and sensitivity to, LGBTQ patients.
Leadership Development for Staff Nurses: Creating a Strategy to Accelerate the Transition
Course expiration date: 6/20/2021
According to Maxwell (2014), a leader does not need a title to strive to make thingsbetter. Each individual has the potential to be a leader with ingrained qualitiesthat require development. What makes a person a successful leader is theability to influence others. Effective leaders establish teams with a collaborativespirit directed toward a common purpose (Kouzes &Posner, 2017a). Leadership uses practices, behaviors, and skills to lead agroup to achieve goals (Kouzes & Posner, 2017a). Challenges in thehealth-care field, such as the continued effort to improve quality and safetywhile providing efficient and cost-effective care, require staff nurses to takea leadership role. In doing so, they will help patients reach their goals aswell as effect change within the work group and the organization.
Individuals are not born leaders, but rather develop skillsto become leaders. This course provides informat
Legal Considerations in Nursing Documentation
Course expiration date: 2/21/2022
This course presents the legal aspects of nursing documentation, including the use of consent forms in patient care, documentation techniques to mitigate risk, and the necessity of incident reports to document adverse events.