Nurse

This course meets the IBLCE requirement for lactation specific education. Topics are specifically aligned to the IBLCE exam and cover the full spectrum of the exam’s Detailed Content Outline.

This 45+ hour course is designed for students who have already taken a comprehensive course and need an additional 45 hours to qualify for the IBLCE Exam. Contact our support team at [email protected] to see if your existing education is eligible to pair with this course.

Stay on top of your game with the StatPearls Nurse Unlimited CE programs. Your membership allows you unlimited access to our 6,049 activities. These activities are categorized into 72 specialty areas which lets you better access courses that will make the biggest impact on your practice. One subscription allows access to all the activities, including all state-requirements.

Pricing Options

• 6 Month subscription: All 6,342 CME Activities – $49 per 6 months
• Annual subscription: All 6,342 CME Activities – $89 per 1 year

A basic lactation management course designed for those who want to explore the field of breastfeeding support or want a quick course to apply for employment. The Certified Breastfeeding Specialist certificate (CBS) is awarded upon successful completion.

Notable disparities are present both with regard to individuals in the healthcare profession as well as in the delivery of healthcare to the patient population. Increasing awareness of the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion is important for expanding access to high quality healthcare.

This presentation will be designed to introduce the audience to an important national level dialogue on the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, this topic will be tailored to understanding how DEI relates to healthcare practice and note specific steps the profession is taking to improve DEI at an organizational level.

After completing this online CE course, nurses will better be able to:

• Understand the concept of pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics.
• Analyze the relevance of the four aspects of pharmacokinetics that include absorption distribution
  metabolism and excretion.
• Discuss the various routes of administration and the related effect on the pharmacokinetics of a drug.
• Analyze the various chemical changes that take place in the body as a result of the pharmacodynamics of
  the drug.
• Discuss drug-drug and drug-food interactions and their relationship to the development of adverse effects and toxicity.
• Explore precipitating factors related to the occurrence of side and adverse effects.
• Analyze the etiology of hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis, and which actions are taken to manage them.
• Differentiate between drug tolerance, cumulative effects of drugs, and drug toxicity.
• Review precautions that should be taken when giving a medication and contraindications that can make
  administering a drug dangerous or detrimental to the patient.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

The course introduces the reader to the endocannabinoid system and its interaction with the components of the cannabis plant, and addresses various aspects of medical marijuana, including administration, therapeutic use, drug metabolism, physiologic and cognitive effects, potential risks, and drug interactions.

The use of marijuana in obstetric patients, pediatric patients, adolescent patients and elderly patients is discussed in detail. Important considerations for patients with ischemic heart disease, hepatic disease, psychotic illness, and those with a history of drug dependence are also provided.

The International Comprehensive Medical Marijuana Course Bundle introduces the reader to the endocannabinoid system and its interaction with the components of the cannabis plant, and addresses various aspects of medical marijuana, including administration, therapeutic use, drug metabolism, physiologic and cognitive effects, potential risks, and drug interactions.

The use of marijuana in obstetric patients, pediatric patients, adolescent patients and elderly patients is discussed in detail. Important considerations for patients with ischemic heart disease, hepatic disease, psychotic illness, and those with a history of drug dependence are provided.

This course bundle also addresses the use of cannabidiol (CBD) in clinical care, and the information will assist clinicians in effectively treating and counseling CBD consumers. The physiological effects of CBD, CBD drug interactions, CBD’s side effects, and the conditions for which CBD has been shown by evidence-based clinical studies to be efficacious are all discussed in this course bundle.

Every 7 minutes in our country, a person dies from a drug overdose, while a child is also born approximately every 30 minutes dependent on opioids. How do we as healthcare professionals offer non-stigmatic patient care and contribute to the progress of society in the right direction? Substance use disorder (addiction) is likened to an iceberg or a weed, in that the issues underneath the surface are typically even more complicated than what is viewed from the surface. Addiction spans hundreds of substances of abuse highlighted by stimulants (cocaine and methamphetamine), cannabis (plant, synthetics, and extracts), and opioids (heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanyl). As one can recall with the substance of ethyl alcohol (i.e. beer, wine, and hard liquor), a substance may never actually chemically change, yet can move across legal classifications of substances, leaving all healthcare professionals in need of knowledge on all substances of abuse. Opioid use disorder (opioid addiction) is combated with the medication-assisted treatments (MAT) of naltrexone, methadone, and buprenorphine, while opioid overdose respiratory depression is reversed with naloxone. Over the course of this activity, we will aim for “higher” education on all of these dynamic aspects. Unlike opioids, this activity is sure to open your eyes and possibly even elevate your blood pressure and/or heart rate!!!

With eight categories of HIV meds now available, healthcare professionals need to be up to date about these therapies. Whether using regimens from 20 years ago, or the newest drugs healthcare professionals need to be monitoring adherence to those regimens. By providing data from the San Francisco Study to show the needs for 95% adherence. This Florida-approved course will also describe the advantages and disadvantages of each category of drugs, as well as those individual drugs.