California Registered Nurse Certification Courses Continuing Education

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• A Complementary and Integrative Practices Potpourri - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to familiarize nurses, physical therapists, and respiratory therapists with current practice uses of some of the most popular complementary and integrative healthcare modalities.

     • Differentiate between the practices of complementary, alternative, and conventional medicine.
     • Identify current complementary health practices used in the U.S.
     • Describe at least 10 different complementary therapies that healthcare professionals can learn and incorporate into their care.
  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Preventing Violence in the Healthcare Setting - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to enhance nurses' ability to deal with violence in the healthcare setting. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Identify five risk factors for violence in a healthcare setting
     • List five warning signs of an impending violent outburst
     • Identify three interventions that could prevent violence

  2. Theodora B. Aggeles

     RN, BA

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Clearing Up the Confusion About Delirium - No Test

  1. The goal of this delirium continuing education program is to inform nurses and social workers about the characteristics of delirium, conditions under which delirium may occur, and nursing actions that are indicated. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Identify conditions that may be associated with delirium across the life span.
     • Describe the most common symptoms of delirium.
     • Discuss the appropriate nursing actions when delirium is suspected.

  2. Connie Vogel

     PhD, RN, CNS-BC, CNE

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• HIPAA and Confidentiality: Practice May Change, But Principles Endure - No Test

  1. The purpose of this program is to provide healthcare professionals with information about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), especially as it relates to protected health information. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Describe the intent of HIPAA.
     • Implement professional practices that protect patients' privacy.
     • Incorporate practices that protect security of electronic protected health information.

  2. Julie Smith Jonson

     JD, BSN, RN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Nursing Theory: At the Heart of Practice - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education course is to help nurses to realize how using nursing theory improves care for individuals, families, and communities; to recognize types of theoretical works in nursing; and to understand the basis of several nursing theories. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession.
     • Discuss types of theoretical works in nursing.
     • Identify the major focus of selected nursing theories.

  2. Beth L. Rodgers

     PhD, RN, FAAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Prescription Drug Abuse: Knowing the Danger Signs - No Test

  1. The goal of this CE module is to provide nurses with information about prescription drug abuse, high-risk groups, factors related to misuse, and assessment/treatment strategies.After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify three populations at greatest risk for prescription drug abuse.
     • Discuss two reasons why healthcare providers may over prescribe drugs of abuse.
     • Discuss medications that are high risk for abuse and associated adverse effects.
     • Describe two assessment strategies for suspected patient prescription drug abuse.

  2. Susanne J. Pavlovich-Danis

     MSN, ARNP-C, CDE, CRRN

     Michael G. Danis

     BSN, RN, CCRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Document It Right: Would Your Charting Stand Up to Scrutiny? - No Test

  1. The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with information about the value of laws and standards governing nursing documentation, legal basics for appropriate documentation, and techniques for documenting changes in a patient's condition. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Provide the legal definition of nursing negligence
     • Describe four characteristics of legally credible charting
     • Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal problems

  2. Julie Smith Jonson

     JD, BSN, RN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Transformational Leadership: A Growing Promise for Nursing - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to inform nurses about transformational leadership in healthcare. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • State the four components of transformational leadership.
     • Compare transactional and transformational leadership styles.
     • Discuss the relationship between transformational leadership in healthcare organizations, workplace empowerment, job satisfaction among nurses, and positive patient outcomes.

  2. Rose O. Sherman

     EdD, RN, NEA-BC, CNL, FAAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing professionals with an up-to-date overview of cervical cancer in order to improve and inform patient care. After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
     • Describe the classification of cervical dysplasia.
     • Appraise current treatment modalities for cervical dysplasia depending on unique cytology results.

  2. Jennifer Stephens

     PhD(c), MA, RN, OCN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Ethics for Nurses - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of ethics as it applies to nursing care, as well as provide guidance for ethical dilemmas as they arise in your daily practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
     • Apply these standards to patient situations that often present as morally distressing.
     • Identify how to foster a culture of ethics within the acute care setting.

  2. Nicole Strickland

     BA, BSN, RN, CPAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• How to Develop Your Leadership Potential - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with practical strategies to help them establish customized plans for developing their leadership potential.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
     • Identify effective leadership styles and characteristics.
     • Describe ways to develop leadership characteristics.

  2. Ashley Coffey

     RN, BSN, BA

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide an overview for respiratory therapists (RTs) and nurses in the acute care setting on mechanical ventilation and the weaning process for critically ill patients.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common modes and ventilator settings.
     • Recognize the assessments and interventions provided by nurses and respiratory therapists in mechanically ventilated patients.
     • Recall methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Paul Teelin

     MSN, RN-BC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• General Principles of Infectious Microbes and Disease - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to broaden and update nurses' and respiratory therapists' knowledge of infectious disease causation and prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the three components common to all infectious diseases.
     • List four factors associated with the emergence or resurgence and transmission of disease.
     • Define the six components of the chain of infection.

  2. Sooa Devereaux

     MSN, RN-BC

     Barbara Barzoloski-O'Connor

     MSN, RN, CIC

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• Communication with Patients - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, clinical laboratory professionals, nutrition and dietetics professionals, social work professionals, physician assistants, physicians, respiratory therapy professionals, and speech-language and pathology/audiology professionals with information about how to effectively communicate with patients in healthcare settings.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three specific elements of effective communication and how communication affects the patient and family experience.
     • Recall important components of cultural competence and inclusivity when communicating with patients and families.

  2. Laura Bell

     Laura Bell, BSN, RN, CCRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Medication Error Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate healthcare professionals about approaches to prevent medication errors.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Define types of medical errors and their impact on healthcare.
     • Discuss how a culture of patient safety influences reporting and resolving errors.
     • Explain strategies to reduce medication errors.

  2. Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Preventing Suicide in Older Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide skills to nursing and social work professionals in the acute care setting to identify, assess, and respond to suicide risk in older adults.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Recognize three important warning signs for suicide risk in older adulthood.
     • Identify five risk factors for suicide in older adulthood.
     • Describe evaluation and prevention methods of suicide in older adulthood.

  2. Bridgett Ross

     PsyD

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Parental Stress in the NICU - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses and social workers about family-centered interventions for families with infants in the NICU, focusing on up-to-date stress management and coping interventions in evidence-based neonatal practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
     • Recall interventions for parental stress and coping and how to use them in practice.

  2. Claire Hartman

     RN, BSN, IBCLC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Asthma in Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to prepare nurses and respiratory therapists working in acute care settings with information to better care for patients with asthma. This course is not affiliated with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

  2. Paul Teelin

     MSN, RN-BC

     Nicole Strickland

     BA, BSN, RN, CPAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Dating Violence in Adolescence - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education module is to inform healthcare professionals so they can recognize adolescent victims of dating violence.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Differentiate between the diverse types of dating violence.
     • Recognize risk factors for becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence within a dating relationship.
     • Explain areas of focus for healthcare and prevention of dating violence.

  2. Olive Peart

     MS,RT(R)(M)

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Common Sleep Disorders - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing and respiratory therapy professionals with knowledge of the importance of sleep assessment in the clinical setting and to provide clinical assessment strategies and common assessment/diagnostic tools for impaired sleep and sleep disorders.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common sleep disorders and how they affect the general population.
     • Describe common sleep disorders and ways to incorporate a routine sleep assessment into practice.
     • Discuss common sleep assessment tools and the indications for using these tools.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Recognizing and Treating Five Shock States - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses in acute care settings about how to recognize and treat different types of shock.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
     • Differentiate five subtypes and four stages of shock.
     • List evidence-based nursing guidelines for the identification and treatment of shock states.

  2. Rakesh Tripathi

     MPH, BSN, RN, CEN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Professional Responsibility in Infection Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of the course is to discuss professional responsibilities that nurses and medical assistant professionals have in applying effective infection prevention principles to reduce the transmission of pathogens.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss the transmission of infectious organisms.
     • Identify ways in which healthcare professionals can break the chain of infection.
     • Recognize the professional's responsibility to practice infection prevention and adhere to standard infection prevention practices.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Pain Control: Evidence-Based Approaches - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with evidence-­based guidance for managing pain while weighing the risks and benefits of pain medications with functional improvement and harm prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
     • Select appropriate tools to assess pain.
     • Discuss the physiologic processes and terminology related to pain.
     • Identify components of pain treatment that can be combined to form multimodal treatment plans.

  2. Paul Arnstein

     RN, PhD, FAAN

     Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Acute Stroke: Treatment and Outcomes - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to equip nurses in the acute care setting about the causes of strokes; acute treatment strategies; and the physical, mental, and emotional effects of strokes based on the area of the brain injury. DSM™ and DSM-5™ are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association. The American Psychiatric Association is not affiliated with nor endorses this course.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the risk factors, causes, and acute treatment strategies of strokes.
     • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.

  2. Andrea Powell

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• HCAHPS: Interprofessional Team Communication - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, pharmacy professionals, and physicians with education on ways to improve interprofessional team communication as a strategy for optimizing Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) ratings.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe how communication skills influence the patient experience and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) ratings.
     • Describe the five fundamentals of a responsive and responsible interprofessional communication strategy that promotes a positive patient experience.
     • Explain three elements of effective communication.
     • Identify three factors that influence the communication process.

  2. Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

     Deborah K. Zastocki

     DNP, EdM, MA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE(r)

  3. Contact Hours: 1.5

• Suicide Prevention in Acute Settings - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare providers with tools to detect and treat suicidal ideation and related behavior in acute care settings.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify three risk factors associated with suicidal behavior.
     • Recall at least two different brief suicide interventions that can be used with patients who are at risk for suicide or are showing suicide warning signs.
     • Discuss the different strategies that healthcare providers can use to improve patient safety in those experiencing suicidal ideation.

  2. Jacob Helton

     Psy. D.

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Mistreatment of Older Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide knowledge to health education, medical assistant, nursing, occupational therapy, and social work professions in multiple settings to recognize, report, and prevent mistreatment in older adults.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least four types of elder abuse and their warning signs.
     • Recognize risk factors for mistreatment in older adults.
     • Indicate how to assess and respond to suspicions of elder abuse and neglect.

  2. Bridgett Ross

     PsyD

  3. Contact Hours: 1

Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

CEBroker

Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and  West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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