South Carolina Advanced Practice Nurse CE Package
72.95
This convenient 30-hour package of CE courses includes 20 contact hours of pharmacology to help you meet the South Carolina license renewal requirements for advanced practice nurses.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Asthma Epidemiology and Social Determinants of Health - N54938 1Course release date: 7/7/2021
About the Course:This module provides epidemiologic data that addresses the impact of asthma both globally and in the United States. The social determinants of health as presented in Healthy People 2030 are presented and applied to asthma prevalence and asthma outcomes. - 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. - 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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.