NursingCE CME Courses

NursingCE’s 25 Hour ANCC Pharmacology CE package grants you 25 ANCC Pharmacology contact hours to help you fulfill your national certification and state renewal requirements.

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 Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace Course, learners should be able to:

• Define Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and addiction
• Identify risk factors for SUD
• Describe specific behavior changes and physical signs associated with SUD
• Recognize specific signs of diversion for nurses
• Verbalize SUD reporting responsibilities of the nurse
• Describe the nurses’ role in investigation and intervention
• Describe discipline vs. non-discipline approaches to SUD
• Discuss treatment options leading to recovery
• Describe possible return to work requirements for nurses with SUD

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 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 Medical Errors Course, learners should be able to:
• Understand the nurseÕs role and responsibilities in preventing medical errors.
• Identify common medication errors.
• Utilize root cause analysis (RCA) in the identification of medical errors.
• Define a sentinel event.

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

Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (or COVID-19) is all over the news. But what do we really know? The purpose of this activity is to provide nurses with the best and most up to date science currently available regarding the pathophysiology, symptomatology, and management of COVID-19 as of mid-March 2020.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the basic pathophysiology of COVID-19, as well as risk factors, signs, and symptoms.
• Describe the current diagnostic process for COVID-19.
• Review the acute management and isolation precautions currently being recommended for those with known or suspected COVID-19.
• Discuss the top ten ways in which nurses can help their communities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Recognize the daily strategies nurses can use to boost their own immunity in light of this most recent pandemic.

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 the Nursing CE Domestic and Community Violence Course, learners should be able to:
• Describe the various types of violence including domestic, workplace, and community in relation to statistics, types, risk factors, and characteristics of vulnerable persons and perpetrators.
• Discuss the signs and symptoms of domestic abuse and neglect associated with various age groups including the cycle of violence between intimate partners.
• Differentiate the types of workplace environment violence including lateral and vertical violence, risk factors and interventions that can be taken to decrease or minimize the opportunity and incidence.

Target Audience: Registered Nurses