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An Overview of Substance Use Disorders
Duration: 1.00 Origination: Oct 2020 Expiration: Sep 2026
Launch Course

Substance use is a growing problem across populations. As a helping professional, you need a basic understanding of how substance use affects your clients. This information will help you to provide support and resources to help clients seek treatment and recovery. In this course, you will explore substance use disorders, how they develop, and their impact on individuals. The course also explains your role as a paraprofessional when working with individuals with substance use disorders. You will be provided an overview of evidence-based interventions and the types of substance use treatment programs available, when additional treatment may be necessary. Detailed examples will help you to apply this information in your own work. The goal of this course is to provide paraprofessionals and peer support specialists in health and human service settings with information on substance use disorders and evidence-based interventions.

Learning Objectives

Explain what a substance use disorder is, how it develops, and how it impacts individuals.

Identify strategies that paraprofessionals can use when working with individuals diagnosed with substance use disorders to encourage behavior change.

Describe the types of treatment that exist for people diagnosed with substance use disorders.

An Overview of Trial of Labor After Cesarean Section
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 0.50 Origination: Mar 2023 Expiration: Dec 2026
Launch Course

This course provides an overview about the safety of patients undergoing a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC). Research evidence has influenced where VBACs are performed, which women are eligible and how the practice is conducted, including the safe use of induction/augmentation medications. The safety of VBAC for mother and newborn always remains the primary underlying principle that guides care.

Learning Objectives

Identify three risk factors and benefits associated with TOLAC and recommendations for safe TOLAC.

Recall essential components of nursing education, informed consent, safe medication administration, and fetal assessment related to TOLAC.

Anesthesia: Perioperative
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 2.00 Origination: May 2024 Expiration: Dec 2027
Launch Course

The perioperative nurse plays a primary role in the anesthesia experience. Knowledge of techniques, patient assessment, and care management for the patient receiving or recovering from anesthesia positively impacts patient outcomes. This course discusses anesthetics and adjuvant medications used in the perioperative setting, anesthesia-related complications, and the nurse’s role in assisting with anesthesia management.

This course provides nursing professionals with information about the principles and practices of anesthesia care in the perioperative setting.

Learning Objectives

Identify the stages and types of anesthesia, and associated medications commonly used in the perioperative setting. 

Recognize important assessment areas and nursing interventions for the perioperative patient receiving or recovering from anesthesia. 

Describe complications of anesthesia and their treatments.

Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: Core Elements
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Jun 2023 Expiration: Dec 2026
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.

Applying HIPAA Regulations in Behavioral Health
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: Jul 2024 Expiration: Dec 2027
Launch Course

HIPAA rules underlie every service related to behavioral health, and they change to meet evolving trends. There are potentially catastrophic organizational and individual consequences if the current HIPAA rules are not followed. This course will help you to identify potential legal and ethical issues related to HIPAA, improve your compliance approach, and develop more effective risk management strategies.

The goal of this course is to assist alcohol and drug counselors, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses in health and human services settings in understanding and applying current HIPAA regulations.

Learning Objectives

Indicate the purpose of HIPAA and how it applies to behavioral healthcare providers. 

Recall at least three ways that the Privacy Rule impacts the day-to-day responsibilities of behavioral health providers. 

Identify at least three steps that behavioral health providers need to take to ensure compliance with the Security Rule.

Assessing and Treating Opioid Use Disorder
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.25 Origination: May 2023 Expiration: Dec 2026
Assessment and Intervention for Confabulation
ANCC Accreditation Duration: 1.00 Origination: May 2023 Expiration: Dec 2026
Launch Course

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.

Learning Objectives

Recall the types of confabulation and the pathophysiology of confabulation. 

Identify two methods of assessing confabulation. 

Apply several approaches for managing confabulation.

Bias in Healthcare
Duration: 0.50 Origination: Jan 2023 Expiration: Dec 2028
Launch Course

All healthcare professionals must be aware of bias and the challenges that bias can create in healthcare. This includes knowing some of the challenges people face with the healthcare system. In this course, you will learn best practices to help recognize and manage bias.

Learning Objectives

Define bias.

Identify how biases can affect healthcare.

Describe steps that can help decrease barriers created by bias.