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Author: Redford Williams, MD
This course supplies you with the answers to controlling stress and anger. The latest research provides you with 17 strategies for controlling hostility.
Learn how to know if you or your clients are at risk. Offers practical advice that can reduce the risk of heart disease and other illnesses, and more!
Course objectives include:
• Identify the types of hostility that can be observed in clients.
• List some facts related to hostility that are important to caregivers.
• List some valuable methods of self-distraction.

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Author: Silvia Prodan Lange, RN, MN
Sometimes nursing seems like one crisis after another! But you can deal with the more common psychiatric challenges if you know what to look for. This course addresses the basics of crisis theory and intervention, with application to depression and suicide; violent behavior; substance abuse; and more, which are also covered in Course 225 Psychiatric Emergencies (a 12 hour version of this course), described below. Also included in this course are guidelines for the care of survivors of a disaster, and the process of death notification.
Course objectives include:
• Define and describe the most common psychiatric emergencies.
• Outline psychological, pharmacological and environmental treatment approaches.
• Apply crisis theory and intervention techniques to clinical situations.

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Author: Silvia Prodan Lange, RN, MN
It's possible to deal with a crisis if you know what to look for. This course covers practical methods for solving these problems. You'll learn: crisis theory and intervention, depression and suicide, anger, violence and what you can do, restraint guidelines that work, psychiatric emergencies, substance abuse and more! (For an expanded version of this course, see the 15 hour course above, #9025 entitled "Managing the Psychiatric Crisis".)
Course objectives include:
• Define and describe the most common psychiatric emergencies.
• Outline psychological, pharmacological and environmental treatment approaches.
• Apply crisis theory and intervention techniques to clinical situations.

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Author: Cherlene S.M. Pedrick, RN
Do your patients or colleagues ever complain of vague doubts such as "have I really locked the door and turned off the lights," etc.? Are they constantly checking and rechecking if something has been done? Are they fearful of small mistakes that end up time-consuming projects? If so, they may be experiencing symptoms of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder!
Course objectives include:
• Name the essential features of OCD and define obsessions and compulsions.
• List OCD symptoms the nurse is likely to see in clients.
• Identify the therapies most often used for treating OCD.

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