Nursing Continuing Education Course List
Important
Please note, course materials must be completed BEFORE the Validation Date listed on each course.
If you are a CNA please call to find out which courses are eligible for your CE credits.
Prices and availability subject to change without notice
General Nursing
Description:
The goal of this course is to provide nurses and other health care professionals with a functional understanding of how genes contribute to disease, to help them recognize salient symptoms of the more common genetic diseases, and to train them how to guide patients to resources for coping with genetic disease and accessing treatment.
Learning Outcomes include:
- Understand DNA function, replication, and mutation and how it relates to disease.
- Describe symptoms, genetic cause, and available treatment for several genetic disorders.
- Describe genomic medicine and its inherent opportunities, risks, and impacts on healthcare.
Hours
Description:
The purpose and goal of this course are to educate healthcare professionals about how to recognize the phases of healing and types of pressure injuries and ulcers. The course describes ways to identify and document infection, intervene with new treatments, and choose the type of dressing that will promote healing. Learning outcomes include the ability to: 1. Describe the four phases of the healing cycle and the essential characteristics of each phase; 2. differentiate among colonized or contaminated, critically colonized, and infected ulcers; and 3. accurately measure an ulcer's length, width, and depth.Hours
Getting Older
Description:
Authors: Sharon Fish Mooney, RN, PhD | Shelda L. Hudson, RN, BSN, PHN The purpose and goals of this course is to increase awareness of healthcare professionals regarding the needs of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers, whether at home, in long–term care facilities or hospital settings. Course objectives include: - Define Alzheimer's disease and related terminology. - Outline myths and misconceptions associated with Alzheimer's disease. - Name signs and symptoms characteristic of early, intermediate and late stage Alzheimer's disease.Hours