Contemporary Issues Course Bundle - 15 Hours
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A swarm of challenges are rocking the healthcare world. Between new technologies, emerging infectious diseases, and rising recognition of healthcare inequality (to name just a few), keeping in the know can be difficult. We’ve made the challenge easier for you with this convenient round up of healthcare hot topics.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Educating Patients: Creating Teaching Moments in Practice 4Course release date: 12/21/2022
About the Course
Effective education is essential to help patients and family gain knowledge. All healthcare professionals (HCPs) can identify teaching opportunities to assess and provide effective education. The purpose of this course is to provide HCPs with current evidence-based information to help them learn and apply skills and practice for effective patient and family teaching in a variety of settings. - Emerging Infectious Diseases 6Course release date: 3/3/2021
About the Course:
This course provides an overview of emerging infectious diseases (EID), offering useful historic and scientific underpinnings, as well as an introduction to the less obvious consequences of rapidly spreading infections. The course is aimed at empowering nurses to best serve their patients, despite the challenges projected by EID-associated disruptions. In broad strokes, this course provides general ID and EID information, discusses consequences of a pandemic, provides an overview of how governments and organizations prepare for EID, methods to combat the spread of ID, and descriptions of specific nursing approaches useful to prevent and manage EID. - Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals 1Course release date: 12/23/2021
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The purpose of this course is to provide a historical context of race and racism and its relationship to the development of racial implicit bias. The development of implicit bias will be discussed along with research demonstrating the impact of implicit bias on the clinical encounter. Recommendations for mitigating implicit bias are offered. - Telehealth's Impact on Nursing Practice 1Course release date: 11/18/2020
About the Course
Telehealth has become an integral part in transforming healthcare and addressing challenges in the health care system. To provide accessible, quality patient care, nurses must adopt and use innovative technologies to meet these goals. This course introduces the various types of telehealth modalities and reviews the history of telehealth and their applications in nursing practice. Scope of practice issues that impact care provided by telehealth, including those that have emerged and evolved related to COVID-19, is discussed, and the course concludes with the current and future implications of telehealth on nursing practice.