NursingCE CME Courses

As a nurse, equip yourself with a toolkit of essential and practical communication skills and a structured approach framework to foster trust, enhance understanding, and prevent breakdowns across every patient and family interaction, thereby ensuring safer care, improving adherence, and effectively managing complex and difficult situations.

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

Cleveland Clinic’s world class faculty has designed the 29th Annual Diabetes Therapeutics, Technology and Surgery to provide up-to-date reviews of relevant research and treatment strategies for Type 1 and 2 diabetes. Participation should increase practitioners’ competence and clinical performance treatment of diabetes and its complications, which should lead to better patient outcomes. Physicians, diabetes educators, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and physician assistants will all benefit from the lessons learned throughout this activity. Worth 7 AMA PRA Category I Credits™. Accreditation also provided by the ANCC, AAPA and ACPE with NO POST TEST. Additionally, physicians can earn up to 7 ABIM MOC points for this activity.

Cultivate the core behaviors required to anchor high-reliability care.

Utilize a structured approach for every patient interaction to systematically improve adherence, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

Champion high-reliability care by cultivating the intentional connections and collaborative behaviors that drive clinical excellence and team safety.