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Stroke: Recognition and Management
AMA PRA Category 1 Creditâ„¢ Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

This course equips healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to promptly and effectively manage stroke in the acute care setting. Participants will gain insight into how to recognize an acute stroke and the initial steps to take for emergency treatment of stroke. In addition, learners will know the different acute treatment options for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke as well as patient care for acute stroke. 

Learning Objectives

Recall the benchmark diagnosis and treatment times for acute stroke. 

Differentiate the treatment of ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. 

Indicate interventions in the care of a patient presenting with an acute stroke.

NIH Stroke Scale
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

This course is designed to provide nursing professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the NIH stroke scale. The course will cover the purpose of the NIH stroke scale, how to administer the scale, and how to interpret the results. The course will also include case studies that illustrate the use of the NIH stroke scale in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

Identify the purpose of the NIHSS and how it is used in clinical practice. 

Recall the significance of NIHSS scores to patient outcomes. 

Apply the NIHSS to assess patients with stroke or stroke-like symptoms including how to score each section of the NIHSS.

Managing Coagulopathies
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

The focus of this course is coagulopathies. In general, the term coagulopathy refers to bleeding disorders. This course will provide a review of the components of a clot. It will also provide you with valuable information about how to care for those with coagulopathies such as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), and warfarin-induced coagulopathy.

The goal of this course is to provide nurses in the critical care setting with a general overview of coagulopathies, including the recognition and nursing management of ITP, DIC, HIT, and warfarin-induced coagulopathy. 

Learning Objectives

Describe the etiology and presentation of DIC, ITP, HIT, and warfarin-induced coagulopathy.

Identify proper nursing care for those with DIC, ITP, HIT, and warfarin-induced coagulopathies.

Identify emergency findings in those with coagulopathies and discuss the appropriate nursing interventions.