Illinois Advanced Practice Nurse CE Package
This convenient 35-hour package of CE courses includes 27 contact hours of pharmacology to help you meet the Illinois license renewal requirements for advanced practice nurses. Also included are courses to fulfill the NEW 1-hour implicit bias and 1-hour Alzheimer's training requirements (required for all renewing licensed nurses starting in 2023) as well as a 1-hour sexual harassment course.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals 1Course release date: 12/23/2021
About the Course:
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. - Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias: Symptoms, Stages, and Communication Strategies 1
Course release date: 12/15/2022
About the Course
As a major cause of physical and mental disability, and increased functional dependency, AD affects not only the patient but the caregiver as well. Allied healthcare providers will play a major role in education, communication, and treatment of this disease, and the research shows that their interaction is with the patient and their respective support team.  Learning about ADRD, the impact on the brain, AD stages and symptoms, and caregiver burden will enable you to better serve this population. This course will provide insight into the disease allowing you to have deeper understanding into the lives of patients and those who care for them. - Pain Management: Evidence-Based Guidance for Prescribing Opioids 5 5
Course release date: 6/12/2023
About the Course
This course will provide a general review of federal and state-controlled substance regulations and the prescribing practices for controlled substances, including drug diversion. However, the focus is on clinical safety considerations when prescribing non-cancer-related opioid medications for acute/chronic pain in adults.
- Preventing and Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace for Illinois Professionals 1
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
Sexual harassment fosters a toxic workplace that can lead to increased staff turnover, medical errors, patient dissatisfaction, and legal action against employers and those who commit sexual harassment. It is imperative that all individuals in the workplace know the laws that govern sexual harassment, how to recognize it, how to prevent it, and how to help employees who are victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. This course meets Illinois requirements for continuing education regarding sexual harassment.
- Substance Use Disorders for Illinois Advanced Practice Nurses - N38208 5 5Course release date: 11/3/2020
About the Course:
This course provides Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) practicing in Illinois with information regarding the scope of the problem, pathophysiology, risk factors, prevention factors, diagnosis, and treatment for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), as well as information on dealing with impaired practice. - Management of Atrial Fibrillation for APRNs 2 2Course release date: 4/5/2022
About the Course
Atrial fibrillation is a common healthcare problem. This course reviews the concepts of cardiac output, risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF), classifications of AF, the pearls of obtaining a history and physical of a patient with AF, diagnostic testing, and the overall implications for pharmacologic management. APRN prescribing considerations and evidence-based practice guidelines are included in this course.
- Hypertension Management: Evidence-Based Guidelines 4 4Course release date: 1/6/2022
About the Course
This program is intended to provide a hypertension treatment overview. Safe and effective prescribing decisions must be guided by an in-depth understanding of each agent: how it works, how to dose it, anticipated adverse events, drug interactions, etc. When combination drugs are included, there may be as many as 200 different pharmacological options (both individual agents as well as combination products) that are approved by FDA for the treatment of hypertension. As a result, this educational program is designed only to highlight the major categories of therapeutics by identifying key products and characterizing them as a class. To provide perspective, an effort was made to provide highlights of clinically meaningful outcomes studies for the various drug classes. - Clinical Challenges and Psychopharmacology for Substance Use Disorder for APRNs 8 8Course release date: 11/15/2021
About the Course:
This course is designed for both registered nurses and advanced practice nurses. Because of medical and psychiatric comorbidities, patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders have complex prescription medication regimens. Since registered nurses are frontline providers, they are frequently responsible for educating patients about their medications. For advanced practice nurses, this course is intended to support and enhance their knowledge of diagnosing psychiatric disorders and to increase their confidence for prescribing psychotropic medications to adult patients. - Pharmacological Management: Type 1 Diabetes in Children, 2nd Edition 3 3Course release date: 12/21/2022
About the Course
The purpose of this course is to review diagnostic criteria, insulin pharmacokinetics and dosing strategies, hypoglycemia management, and psychosocial considerations in the pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus patient. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in pediatric patients, and newly diagnosed cases are on the rise. Management of type 1 diabetes mellitus requires specialized knowledge and individualized treatment plans. All pediatric healthcare professionals should be equipped to help patients achieve glycemic control through optimized therapy and continual education. - Managing Difficult Patients for Healthcare Professionals - N57067 5Course release date: 8/24/2021
About the Course:
Healthcare professionals will encounter difficult or hard to manage patients during their career. Examples of these difficult encounters include workplace violence, non-adherence to medical treatments, and manipulation of caregivers. This course explores how healthcare professionals can avoid potentially violent situations and work with difficult patients by being prepared and recognizing the signs and risk factors for these occurrences. De-escalation skills, diagnosis, preventative measures, training, and planning are all presented in this course to help healthcare professionals respond to difficult patients and ensure a healthy environment for everyone.