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Culture and Pain Management: Cultural Competence
Health inequities in pain management are prevalent across different healthcare settings. The cultural, ethnic, and social differences influence patients’ and providers’ perceptions and responses to pain. Several studies report higher incidences of pain, disability, and suffering in women and people of color compared to non-Hispanic White people. This course covers influential sociocultural factors grouped into the patient, the provider, and systemic factors. This course helps healthcare professionals become familiar with cultural differences associated with pain perceptions and management. Pain variables such as culture, religion or ethnicity are not part of standardized pain scales. Healthcare workers need to provide culturally competent care to their patients by asking about specific practices, beliefs, and values regarding pain that impacts the patient’s quality of life.
The goal of this course is to provide nurses, physicians, and social workers with an overview of cultural sensitivity in the management of pain.
Identify cultural factors influencing the patient’s perception and expression of pain.
Recall strategies for reducing barriers in pain assessment and promoting management decisions to respond to a patient’s pain in a culturally sensitive manner.
Central Arterial Aneurysms: Types and Management
Aneurysms can be deadly and can come on suddenly. Knowing what to do to help your patient with an aneurysm could be the difference between life and death for them. Early detection and management are the best tools to prevent a fatal outcome. Healthcare professionals should know what an aneurysm is, which of their patients are at highest risk, the signs and symptoms of an aneurysm, and how to manage an emergency rupture. This course focuses on central arterial aneurysms of the abdominal and thoracic aorta.
Recall concepts associated with vascular physiology and types of aneurysms.
Recognize clinical manifestations of central arterial aneurysms and associated risk factors.
Apply common techniques for managing patients with abdominal and thoracic aneurysms, pseudoaneurysms, and dissections.
Opioid Prescribing, Chronic Pain, and Opioid Use Disorder
The emphasis on pain management to improve quality of life and function has contributed to a significant increase in opioid prescriptions. As such, there has been a concurrent increase in risk of misuse and abuse. While opioids are highly effective for pain relief, closer attention to the risk versus benefit analysis has led to guidelines that prefer nonpharmacologic and nonopioid pharmacologic therapy over opioids, especially for chronic pain. Clinicians must carefully monitor the patient and be alert for signs that risks outweigh benefits of opioids. This course will address issues related to opioid prescribing, chronic pain, and opioid use disorder.
Discuss considerations and guidelines for prescribing controlled substances.
Describe patient evaluation and education for a safe and effective pain treatment plan.
Implicit Bias for the Healthcare Professional
Recent movement toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is encouraging for historically overlooked individuals. It brings a variety of frequently ignored perspectives and experiences, but it has also uncovered the depth of implicit biases.
Biases are among the most significant factors for healthcare. This course presents the impact of implicit biases and other forms of discrimination on the provision of healthcare, as well as best practices to reduce implicit bias.
The goal of this course is to provide healthcare employees with training about implicit bias in healthcare.
Define implicit bias.
Describe the impact of historical discrimination on the provision of healthcare.
Identify methods of evaluating the presence and extent of implicit bias.
Describe measures that can be taken to reduce implicit bias.
Wellness Strategies that Support Addiction Recovery
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.
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
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.
Describe the elements of an antibiotic stewardship program.
Identify at least three benefits of antibiotic stewardship.
An Update on Bariatric Surgery
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.