Critical Care Certification (CCRN) 25-Hour CE Renewal Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Navigating Delegation: Balancing Responsibility and Collaboration 1
Course release date: 1/29/24
About the Course
Episode 1: In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, it's crucial to grasp the distinctions between Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). This course delves into the responsibilities, delegation, and scopes of practice for each role, equipping nurses with the knowledge they need to function effectively within their healthcare teams. The episode delves into the legal and regulatory considerations of healthcare delegation, highlighting the roles of different team members and suggesting the potential advantages of reintroducing team nursing for enhanced patient outcomes.
Episode 2: In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, it's crucial to grasp the distinctions between Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). This episode explores the essential distinctions between Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in the dynamic healthcare landscape, emphasizing their roles, responsibilities, and scopes of practice. The conversation also touches on the importance of effective communication, empowerment, and collaborative teamwork in providing optimal patient care, particularly in areas like the ICU with specific patient needs and frequent skilled assessments.
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Cardiac Rehabilitation: The Nurses' Integral Role in Heart Recovery 1
About the Course
Episode 1: A cardiac rehab nurse discusses her experiences and the challenges in the field. She highlights the crucial role of nurses in patient recovery after cardiac events, the structure of rehab programs, and the importance of nursing expertise in managing medications and comorbidities. The episode also addresses barriers such as limited resources and low reimbursement rates. Despite these obstacles, she finds the work rewarding, especially in seeing patients regain confidence and improve.
Episode 2: This discussion covers practical strategies for cardiac rehabilitation, emphasizing both physical recovery, like exercise guidelines, and psychosocial aspects, including managing anxiety, depression, and nutrition. The importance of collaboration with other healthcare professionals and the use of community resources, such as home-based and virtual rehab, is highlighted. The conversation concludes with advice for nurses interested in specializing in cardiac rehab.
Listen, Learn, and Earn CE Hours with this podcast course. Available on <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fce-podcasts-for-nurses%2Fid1566589270&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb18f01a26fc94895acde08da9cd0dc88%7C2dc6507f93b6402a8f75bb11f1a524a1%7C0%7C0%7C63799471811448
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Positioned for Healing: Comprehensive Care in Prone Positioning 1
Course release date: 10/31/2025
Course Overview
This episode explores prone positioning as a critical intervention for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and severe respiratory conditions such as COVID-19. With insights from an experienced critical care clinician and educator, the discussion covers the science, history, and practical application of this life-saving technique, including the development of safe implementation tools and protocols.
Listeners will learn about the physiological benefits of prone positioning, key clinical indicators and contraindications, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovations that enhance patient and provider safety. This episode provides actionable knowledge for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes, reduce complications, and integrate evidence-based practices into critical care settings. -
Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis 4
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Course release date: 6/1/2024
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with a current review and updated, evidence-based guidance for the diagnosis and management of sepsis and septic shock. The objective is to address knowledge gaps, enhance clinical skill, and enable effective strategies of collaborative care to improve patient outcomes. -
Supplements of Abuse: Unmasking Potential Risks 1
Course release date: 8/1/2025
Course Overview
Use of dietary supplements continues to increase. In addition to their use for the management of medical conditions, dietary supplements are often misused or abused for recreation, body image concerns, athletic performance, and mood enhancement. This course is an overview of commonly abused supplements and their safety implications. -
Opioid Stewardship in Multimorbidity: Balancing Pain, Function, and Polypharmacy 1
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Course release date: 11/1/2025
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide physicians, PAs, and nurses with evidence-based strategies for safe opioid prescribing in patients with multiple chronic conditions and complex medication regimens, improving interprofessional care and patient outcomes. -
Nurses' Mental Health: Suicide Prevention 1
Course release date: 4/26/2024
About the Course
Episode 1, Prioritizing Mental Wellness in Nursing: Cultivating Supportive Culture, delves into the mental health challenges confronting nurses, highlighting the impact of long hours, heavy workloads, and trauma exposure on their well-being. The discussion underscores the prevalence of burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts among nurses. Emphasis is placed on the importance of proactive strategies, destigmatizing mental health struggles, and enhancing access to support resources within the healthcare environment to safeguard nurses' mental health.
Episode 2, Self-Care Strategies and Suicide Awareness for Nurses, focuses on suicide awareness and prevention in nurses' mental health discussions. It examines the importance of supportive workplace cultures fostered by healthcare organizations and emphasizes strategies for nurses to prioritize self-care and advocate for mental health education. -
Palliative Care and Pain Management at the End of Life 15
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Course release date: 11/1/2024
Course Overview
This course is designed to bridge the gap in knowledge of palliative care by providing an overview of the concept of palliative care and a discussion of the benefits and barriers to optimum palliative care at the end of life. Central to this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of talking to patients about the value of palliative care, of clearly presenting the prognosis and appropriate treatment options and goals, and of ensuring that advance planning is completed. The majority of the course focuses on the assessment and management of the most common end-of-life symptoms, with particular attention to pain, the most prevalent, as well as the most distressing, physical symptom. Psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family are also discussed. Palliative care presents unique challenges for some patient populations, most notably older patients, children/adolescents, and patients receiving critical care. An overview of the most important issues specific to these settings is provided.