Nurse

After completing the Nursing CE Substance Abuse and Addiction Course, learners should be able to:
• Define substance use disorders.
• Identify risk factors for substance abuse and addiction.
• Identify commonly abused substances and the effects.
• Understand patient-centered care techniques for affected patients.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

After completing the Nursing CE Child Maltreatment Course, learners should be able to:
• Report suspected child abuse according to mandatory reporting guidelines.
• Identify and define types of abuse.
• Understand risk factors for abuse victims and perpetrators of abuse.
• Demonstrate protective factors for child abuse.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

After completing the Nursing CE Pain Management Course, learners should be able to:
• Understand theories that explain the physiology of pain.
• Identify different types of pain and their characteristics.
• Assess pain in a patient using subjective and objective data.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

After completing the Nursing CE Palliative Care Course, learners should be able to:
• Understand various types of loss.
• Discuss the purpose of health care directives and role of proxies.
• Describe various theories of grief.
• Describe factors and manifestations of grief.
• Provide nursing interventions that can be used to support the mourning process.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

After completing the Nursing CE Infection Control Course, learners should be able to:
• Identify standard and transmission precautions.
• Differentiate among standard, contact, droplet, and airborne precautions.
• Identify standard precautions for blood and body fluids and body-substance isolation as specified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Explain the rationale for isolation precautions in hospitals.
• Identify where to find policies and procedures for exposure within an organization or agency.
• Identify implications related to isolation for the nurse and patient.
• Define and correctly pronounce terms specific to infection control.
• Explain latex sensitivity including implications related to occupational skin disorders.
• Explain the value of evidence-based research for infection control in the work setting.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

After completing the Florida Laws and Rules course, nurses will better be able to:

• Identify the current content of the Florida Statutes Chapter 464: Nurse Practice Act.
• Describe the current content of the Florida Statutes Chapter 456: The Health Professions.
• Discuss the current rules in Chapter 64B9 of the Florida Administrative Code.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses

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!!!