Medical-Surgical Nursing (CMSRN) 25-Hour CE Renewal Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Health Literacy: Bridging the Language Gap 1
Course release date: 6/21/2024
About the Course
Episode 1: Delve into the critical importance of health literacy and the challenges encountered by those with low literacy skills. This podcast emphasizes the profound impact of inadequate health literacy on healthcare outcomes and underscores the crucial role nurses play in identifying patients' literacy levels and advocating for systemic changes. Strategies for improving health literacy, including clear instructions, technology utilization, and interprofessional collaboration, are explored in depth.
Episode 2: Explore strategies for enhancing health literacy and overcoming barriers in healthcare. Discover the significance of assessing health literacy during patient interactions and adopting system-level approaches to promote a health literate healthcare organization. Discussions include various strategies to overcome health literacy barriers. Gain valuable insights into empowering patients and navigating the complexities of the healthcare landscape.
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Insulin Resistance Explained: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions 1
Course release date: 1/10/2025
Course Overview
Episode 1: This episode provides healthcare professionals with a foundational understanding of insulin resistance, covering its development, diagnosis, and early signs. Listeners will gain valuable insights to enhance patient care and improve management strategies for this common yet often misunderstood condition.
Episode 2: This episode equips healthcare professionals with practical, evidence-based strategies for managing and treating insulin resistance. Topics include lifestyle modifications, pharmacological treatments, and effective approaches to supporting patients in achieving better health outcomes. -
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.
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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. -
Supplements for Healthy Aging 1.5
Course release date: 12/1/2024
Course Overview
As the population ages, maintaining both physical and cognitive health becomes increasingly important. In recent years, the use of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, fibers, and proteins, has gained significant attention for their potential to improve various aspects of health. Older adults may turn to these supplements to address age-related deficiencies, enhance physical vitality, and support cognitive function. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the role of supplements in promoting well-being among older adults. -
Microbiome Blueprint: A Guide to Pre-, Pro-, and Postbiotics 1
Course release date: 11/1/2025
Course Overview
A review of the definitions, effects, and general concerns with microbiome-based therapies, including prebiotics (e.g., galacto-oligosaccharides [GOS] and inulin), probiotics (e.g., lactobacilli and bifidobacteria), synbiotics, and postbiotics. -
Managing Ostomies 9.5
Course release date: 4/7/2025
Course Overview
This course is designed to provide a thorough overview of ostomy management and build confidence and expertise in caring for ostomy patients. Learners will gain valuable knowledge of gastrointestinal pathophysiology, the various types of ostomies, common complications, and best practices for ostomy-changing procedures and ongoing care. Participants will also learn to advocate for ostomy patients' well-being and quality of life.
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The ERAS Protocol: Faster, Safer Surgical Recovery 1
Course release date: 8/8/2025
Course Overview
This episode introduces listeners to the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol, exploring its origin, guiding principles, and the rationale behind its evidence-based practices. Listeners will gain an understanding of how ERAS differs from traditional surgical care pathways and the ways in which it improves patient outcomes. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in successful ERAS implementation.
Building on foundational knowledge, this episode examines how ERAS principles are integrated across the perioperative continuum—from patient education and nutrition to multimodal analgesia and early mobilization. Real-world examples from clinical settings will illustrate how nurses and other healthcare providers can implement ERAS strategies to reduce complications, shorten hospital stays, and improve patient satisfaction.Listen, Learn, and Earn CE Hours with this podcast course. Available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps.