Pennsylvania Advanced Practice Nurse CE Package
72.95
This convenient 30-hour package of CE courses includes 18 contact hours of pharmacology to help you meet the Pennsylvania license renewal requirements for advanced practice nurses. Included are courses related to pain management and opioid use, as well as a board-approved 2-hour course on child abuse recognition and reporting.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Pennsylvania Mandatory Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting (Renewal Licensure) 2Course release date: 1/20/2021
About the Course:
This course fulfills the Pennsylvania Healthcare Professionals 2-year licensure renewal continuing education requirement for 2 contact hours of Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting. The course provides the details of the identification, assessment, and reporting of child abuse and reviews Pennsylvania's state laws regarding child abuse and neglect. - Pain Management and Opioid Use for Pennsylvania Advanced Practice Nurses 4 4Course release date: 10/12/2022
About the Course
In accordance with Section 9.1(a) of ABC-MAP, this course meets the requirements for advanced practice nurse prescribers. This course includes two hours of pain management and identification of addiction and two contact hours in the practices of prescribing and dispensing opioids. - 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. - 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.
- 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. - Stroke Management in the Acute Care Setting 5Course release date: 5/3/2022
About the Course
The purpose of this educational offering is to provide nurses and other healthcare providers with the latest information about stroke including updates in anatomy, assessment, and management of the patient with a stroke who is in the acute care setting. - 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.