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CEN: Orthopedic and Wound Emergencies
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

The purpose of this program is to inform the emergency nurse of common orthopedic emergencies, including a comprehensive assessment and appropriate interventions.

Learning Objectives

Identify signs and symptoms of orthopedic and wound emergencies.

Describe a comprehensive plan for the care of orthopedic and wound emergencies including diagnostic and treatment interventions, and patient education.

CEN: Professional Issues in Emergency Nursing
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

The purpose of this program is to describe the impact of professional practice issues as they relate to the emergency nurse, their patients, and the health care system.

Learning Objectives

Recognize vulnerable patient populations and sensitive care situations facing emergency nurses.

Identify professional practice issues across the health care system that support high-quality patient care and satisfaction.

Wellness Strategies that Support Addiction Recovery
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

Substance use is linked to millions of deaths worldwide each year (Ritchie & Roser, 2019). Supporting individuals’ long-term recovery from substance use can help save lives. Recovery is a lifelong process that aims to keep an individual substance-free while improving their overall quality of life. Wellness strategies enhance recovery outcomes by focusing on optimal health across all dimensions of an individual’s life.

Learning Objectives

 

 

Discuss how wellness approaches can positively impact recovery from substance use disorders.

Recognize the eight dimensions of wellness.

Identify wellness strategies to facilitate long-term recovery from substance use disorders.

Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: Core Elements
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

Antibiotic stewardship is a movement to improve antibiotic use through evidence-based practice. Team members become the stewards of antibiotics. This helps these medications continue to effectively fight infections. Antibiotic stewardship follows core elements to improve the use of antibiotics and their outcomes. This course discusses the core elements and benefits of an antibiotic stewardship program.
 

Learning Objectives

Describe the elements of an antibiotic stewardship program.

Identify at least three benefits of antibiotic stewardship.

Septic Joint: Diagnosis and Treatment
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

Septic arthritis is caused by infection and inflammation in the joint and can result in significant damage to the joints. Early recognition and treatment are critical to the preservation of joint function. This course will discuss how to quickly identify and treat septic arthritis.  

The goal of this course is to provide physicians, nursing professionals, and radiologic technologists with information about septic arthritis.

Learning Objectives

Recall how septic arthritis is acquired and its typical presentation.

Identify the laboratory and radiological tests used to make a diagnosis of a septic joint.

Recognize the principles of septic joint treatment.

CEN: Psychosocial Emergencies
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

The Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) is required to demonstrate competency in the domain of emergency nursing which includes knowledge of psychosocial emergencies, their signs and symptoms, their management, and the nursing interventions that are needed.

The goal of this course is to review the knowledge domains specific to psychosocial emergencies included as a part of the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) exam.

Learning Objectives

Recognize signs and symptoms of specific psychosocial emergencies.

Identify strategies to manage psychosocial emergencies.

An Update on Bariatric Surgery
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

The goal of this course is to equip nurses in the acute care setting with knowledge of the different bariatric surgical options and the psychosocial, metabolic, and physiological issues that patients may encounter before and after bariatric surgery.

Learning Objectives

Recall the different bariatric surgical options available for patients with obesity.

Identify psychosocial and quality-of-life issues affecting patients before bariatric surgery.

Recognize metabolic, physiological, and psychological changes that can occur in patients after bariatric surgery and the role nurses have in their care.

The Professional Nurse and Social Media
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

For many of us, social media is a fun way to stay in touch with friends and family. We share photos and stories with people across town and around the world. However, nurses need to be cautious as they engage in social media as it can affect their careers in ways never imagined. Content taken in the wrong context can damage a nurse’s professional reputation.

Learning Objectives

Recognize commonly used social media platforms. 

Identify the risks and benefits of using social media for professional and personal purposes. 

Indicate best practices for communicating effectively and ethically on social media platforms.

Cultural Competence: Values, Traditions, and Effective Practice
Duration: 1.00 Origination: Mar 2025 Expiration: Mar 2025
Launch Course

Culturally appropriate interventions must be utilized when working with culturally diverse clients and patients. Cultural competency goes beyond having knowledge of traditional cultures. This course discusses how cultural competency functions to deliver culturally competent care related to diet and nutrition.

The goal of this course is to educate fitness professionals, health education professionals, and nutrition and dietetics professionals with information on developing cultural competency.

Learning Objectives

Explain the importance of integrating cultural competence into individual and organizational practice.

Identify culturally competent strategies and incorporate them into practice.

Apply knowledge of traditional cultural diets into effective patient teaching.

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.