Nevada Advanced Practice Nurse CE Package
72.95
This convenient 34-hour package of CE courses includes 12 contact hours of pharmacology as well as a course to fulfill the new 2-hour cultural competency requirement and a 2-hour course related to substance use and abuse.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Assessment and Prevention of Suicide for Healthcare Professionals - N47287 4Course release date: 12/15/2020
About the Course:
This course is intended for all healthcare professionals who care for individuals and veterans at-risk for suicide or who are survivors of suicide. The course discusses the background, statistical data, etiology, risk factors for, and treatment and management of suicide in the United States. Risk of imminent harm with communication strategies is presented with a special focus on the veteran and healthcare workers populations. - Asthma: A Comprehensive Overview 4Course release date: 6/22/2021
About the Course:
The course discusses the state of asthma globally and nationally, including the prevalence and cost burden to society, and presents the national objectives for asthma management. The content reflects current research findings and evidence-based practice guidelines and focuses on the definition, pathophysiology, consequences of lack of control, clinical signs and symptoms, common triggers, as well as individual and family education regarding basic environmental control. - Cultural Competency in Healthcare: A Contemporary Perspective 2Course release date: 6/16/2022
About the Course
Cultural competency is not a measured achievement but rather a continual awareness of implicit personal biases toward others. Implicit biases are learned unconscious views about particular people. This video aims to assist the learner in recognizing and reducing unintentional preconceptions.
- Ethics and Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals - N47689 4Course release date: 4/28/2021
About the Course:
This course provides healthcare professionals information about ethical principles that guide practice, present factors that contribute to moral distress, and provide strategies to manage moral distress. The course provides an overview of ethics, ethical principles, and moral distress. - 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. - Indications for Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Therapy 3 3Course release date: 4/6/2021
About the Course:
With the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease, it is likely that many nurses and advanced practice nurses (APN) will encounter patients using antiplatelet and anticoagulant medications in their practice. It is critical that nurses develop an understanding of how they work and how to optimize the management of their patients who depend on them. This course provides an overview of the safe use of antiplatelet, anticoagulant, and thrombolytic medications. - 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.
- Nevada Controlled Substance Prescribing for Advanced Practice Nurses - N49490 2 2Course release date: 7/12/2021
About the Course:
Nurse practitioners who prescribe opioids have a great responsibility to ensure patients receive the care they need while preventing their prescriptions from becoming a source of abuse or diversion. This course provides an overview of the treatment of both pain and substance use disorder, the safe and effective prescribing of opioids, and the rules and regulations pertaining to Advance Practice Nurses prescribing controlled substances in Nevada. - Social Determinants of Health for Health Care Professionals - N44140 3Course release date: 12/08/2020
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to identify the categories of social determinants of health (SDOH) for healthcare professionals, explain the differences and relationships between social determinants and behavioral factors and the possible effects on health, review population health and population management, and discuss the effect of COVID-19 on the SDOH. - The Role of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain 3 3Course release date: 2/2/2022
About the Course:
This continuing education program is designed to characterize the best practices for the use of prescription opioid medications intended for treating chronic pain, within the constraints emphasized by the FDA. It will also characterize other strategies to combat the misuse of prescription medications. This program will provide nurses with a solid foundation for responsible opioid use and include vigilant monitoring designed to identify misuse.