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Care Teams: Depression and Anxiety
The goal of this course is to provide nurses and prescribing providers (physicians) in all healthcare settings with best practices to improve their care team approach to patients with depression and anxiety.
Recall care team best practices, including collaboration, communication, and roles.
Identify how care team best practices can improve outcomes for patients with depression and anxiety.
A Review of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex condition that may have short- or long-term effects on a patient. TBIs have a wide array of associated symptoms and disabilities. These may have a significant impact on the lives of patients and their families. Healthcare professionals should be ready to rapidly assess patients with TBIs so that they can be treated promptly.
This course provides strategies to enhance the knowledge and skills of physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants in recognizing, assessing, and managing traumatic brain injuries, contributing to improved patient outcomes and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Indicate how to assess and diagnose traumatic brain injuries, using both clinical examination and diagnostic tools, recognizing the signs and symptoms that distinguish mild, moderate, and severe TBI.
Apply management strategies for TBI, including immediate interventions, pharmacological treatments, and monitoring techniques, to optimize patient care from acute to rehabilitative stages.
Discuss the importance of using a multidisciplinary approach in the management of TBI to support recovery, minimize complications, and facilitate patient and family education.
Assessment and Intervention for Confabulation
Healthcare workers will often interact with patients who make up stories or memories that are inaccurate, sometimes wildly so. These patients are not lying, they are confabulating. A nurse who knows how to manage confabulation can help these patients. With proper interventions, most patients can stop confabulating or learn to manage the condition. This course will give you a solid foundation of knowledge about and skills to handle confabulation by explaining what it is, who does it, what causes it, and how to manage it.
The goal of this course is to inform nurses in the acute care setting about confabulation and how to assess and manage patients with confabulation.
Recall the types of confabulation and the pathophysiology of confabulation.
Identify two methods of assessing confabulation.
Apply several approaches for managing confabulation.
Managing Coagulopathies
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.
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.
SIADH Management
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) is a condition that occurs when the body produces too much antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which causes fluid retention and electrolyte imbalance. SIADH can have various causes and manifestations and can lead to serious complications if not recognized and treated promptly. This course will provide you with the knowledge to thoroughly assess and manage patients with SIADH in the hospital setting.
Explain the pathophysiology, causes, and diagnosis of SIADH.
Identify the signs and symptoms of SIADH and potential complications.
Review common treatments and nursing interventions for patients with SIADH.
Recognizing and Treating Stroke
By understanding the causes of stroke and how to treat and prevent it, you can make a significant difference in the lives of those you care for. This course will help you identify the symptoms of a stroke and provide you with the necessary knowledge to provide care during and after the stroke.
Recall the pathophysiology of a stroke.
Recognize at least three interventions for someone experiencing a stroke.
Identify strategies for achieving quality of life after a stroke.
Acute Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) treatment is costly and requires a multidisciplinary approach. Evidence-based treatment guidelines improve patient outcomes, and it is essential to become familiar with these guidelines to reduce patient mortality. Healthcare team members play a significant role in treating acute HF (AHF), helping to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease and decrease the use and costs associated with care. This course aims to educate nurses and nutrition and dietetics professionals in the acute care setting about evidence-based heart failure treatment guidelines.
Describe heart failure, including its classification systems, presentation, treatment, and evidence-based therapies.
Describe strategies for patient self-management.
Acute Stroke and the Latest Information
In patients with symptoms of acute stroke, early recognition and interventions have been identified as critical factors in stroke outcomes. Evidence-based care can identify, manage, and prevent stroke-related complications. Nurses and physicians must understand stroke management to prevent disability and death. This course aims to present the most up-to-date practices for managing patients with acute stroke.
Discuss current diagnostic practices in patients with acute stroke.
Recall best practice protocols for early identification of acute stroke.
Stroke: Recognition and Management
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.
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.
The Biopsychosocial Model of Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Addictive disorders were once seen mainly as medical issues. However, this view overlooked other important factors. The biopsychosocial model offers a more complete perspective by considering biological, social, and psychological aspects. This course will explain the main ideas of this model, how it differs from other views, and how it can help treat addictive disorders.
Explain how addictive disorders develop according to the three primary areas of the biopsychosocial model.
State how the biopsychosocial model differs from other perspectives on addictive disorders.
Describe how the biopsychosocial model impacts treatment approaches for addictive disorders.
Adult Obesity in the U.S.
Obesity rates in the U.S. have risen to the level of an epidemic, as 1 in 3 adults are affected by this disease. Obesity is a disease that significantly affects a person’s health and is not simply due to poor diet and lack of exercise. This course introduces healthcare professionals to the causes, management, and treatment options for adult obesity.
The goal of this course is to familiarize healthcare professionals with the growing epidemic of obesity among adults in the U.S.
Identify the current problem and contributing factors of obesity in the U.S.
Describe the management and treatment options for obesity.
NIH Stroke Scale
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.
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.
Common Brain Disorders and CT Scans
Computed tomography (CT) scans of the head are essential for diagnosing brain disorders in the acute care setting. This course will cover the different types of CT scans indicated for a person with a brain disorder and the signs of abnormalities in those CT scans. A review of brain anatomy will help improve awareness of common brain disorders that can be diagnosed with a CT scan. This course also reviews how to prepare patients for CT scans and basic techniques for performing CT scans. By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply knowledge of CT scans and brain disorders to provide appropriate patient care.
Recall the basic anatomy of the brain and the changes that occur after brain disorders.
Identify the different types of CT scans indicated for a person with a brain disorder and the preparation and care for patients undergoing CT scans.
Apply knowledge of common brain disorders and CT scans' role in managing brain disorders.
Assessing and Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Medical Approaches to Identifying and Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
Alcohol use disorder is a primary health condition that interacts with and complicates many other health problems and psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, only a small number of people with alcohol use disorder receive appropriate treatment for substance use issues. The incorporation of screening for alcohol use disorders in a general medical setting can significantly increase the number of individuals with alcohol use disorders who are identified and treated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 4 medications to treat alcohol use disorder, making treatment in primary care and other general medical settings a viable alternative to specialty care. This course will give you valuable information about these medications as well as several medications used off-label.
Identify strategies you can use to more effectively identify alcohol use disorder in a medical setting.
Recall factors that indicate someone may be a good candidate for medication-assisted treatment of alcohol use disorder as well as factors that suggest this approach is contraindicated.
Discuss the common medications used to treat alcohol use disorder, their benefits, and potential side effects.
Impact of Substance Use Disorders on Families and Approaches to Treatment
The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human service settings with information about how substance use disorders can impact family systems and approaches to help the family system.
Identify how family dynamics impact the development of a substance use disorder.
Recognize how substance use impacts the family members of individuals with substance use disorders.
Indicate evidence-based interventions that you can use to successfully address the relationship between the dynamics of family systems and substance use.
Managing Peripheral Artery Disease
The goal of this course is to provide the clinician with up-to-date best practices for identifying and treating patients with PAD. It includes symptoms, complications, risk factors, and modifications of PAD. In addition, diagnostic tests, assessment, and treatment strategies will be discussed.
Identify risk factors and complications related to PAD.
Discuss two assessment findings and tools used to diagnose PAD.
Describe two disease management and education techniques for patients with PAD.
Integration of Primary and Behavioral Healthcare
You will learn about the costs, benefits, and goals of integrated care systems. As there are numerous challenges to integrating care, you will become aware of some of these key challenges, and familiar with particular characteristics of well-functioning integrated care systems. Finally, you will learn a variety of ways that behavioral healthcare professionals, including you, can function effectively in an integrated care environment.
Recall the different levels of integrated care and types of integrated care settings.
Indicate at least three tools or interventions you can use to facilitate an integrated approach to care delivery.