Course Description Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that serves as a highly-profitable business for traffickers without any regard for the victims involved. Nurses are likely to encounter trafficking victims within the hospital, emergency room or acute care facility. In order...
Course Description The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with an explanation of terms that are key to understanding dysrhythmias, as well as important information about each type of dysrhythmia. The course provides nurses with information to understand the characteristics and...
Course Description This program introduces cardiac monitoring and the ECG, relating the cardiac cycle to the specific features of the ECG waveforms. Shows the 12-lead ECG; explains the Lead I and Modified Lead I configurations. Demonstrates the proper procedure for applying electrodes to the...
Course Description This course defines health literacy and discusses the impact low health literacy has on both the health and economy of the US population. This course identifies populations vulnerable to low health literacy and explores methods to help alleviate low health literacy....
Course Description This course will provide nurses and other healthcare professionals with information about the risk factors that make a person susceptible to contracting COVID-19 as well as its clinical presentation. In addition, CDC and WHO guidelines will be presented to help healthcare...
Course Description This course will discuss ostomy management after hospital discharge such as teaching of stoma assessment to patients, emptying pouches, and changing pouching systems. Training on how to discuss common questions from patients such as diet, exercise, ADL’s, and how to guide...
Course Description This course will review stoma care, review common issues associated with ostomy care such as skin irritation, discretion of pouch systems, and emptying of pouches. Proper interventions to common concerns will be reviewed. Learning Objectives After completing this...
Course Description This course will identify essential components of a pouching system and options for specific cases. Further discussion includes features of the pouching systems, options for barriers, and steps in changing the pouching system. Learning Objectives After completing this...
Course Description This course will review anatomy of the abdomen, types of ostomies, characteristics of normal stomas, and identify disease processes or injuries that are typically associated with stoma construction. Learning Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able to...
In hospitals, patients who are immobile and bedridden, have a high risk of hospital acquired conditions including: falls, pressure injuries, increased length of stay and ventilator associated pneumonia. In order to ensure that patients return to their functional mobility status, it is important...
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