Do Nurse Practitioners in Massachusetts Need Continuing Education

Goals and Outcomes of Included Courses:

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The courses included in this license renewal package cover topics such as Medication Error Prevention and Ethics for Nurses. Click show more for a full list of included courses.

• A Complementary and Integrative Practices Potpourri - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to familiarize nurses, physical therapists, and respiratory therapists with current practice uses of some of the most popular complementary and integrative healthcare modalities.

     • Differentiate between the practices of complementary, alternative, and conventional medicine.
     • Identify current complementary health practices used in the U.S.
     • Describe at least 10 different complementary therapies that healthcare professionals can learn and incorporate into their care.
  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing professionals with an up-to-date overview of cervical cancer in order to improve and inform patient care. After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
     • Describe the classification of cervical dysplasia.
     • Appraise current treatment modalities for cervical dysplasia depending on unique cytology results.

  2. Jennifer Stephens

     PhD(c), MA, RN, OCN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Ethics for Nurses - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of ethics as it applies to nursing care, as well as provide guidance for ethical dilemmas as they arise in your daily practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
     • Apply these standards to patient situations that often present as morally distressing.
     • Identify how to foster a culture of ethics within the acute care setting.

  2. Nicole Strickland

     BA, BSN, RN, CPAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• The Art and Science of Caring - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to reinforce and teach nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the combined art and science of caring.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify caring practices and theories.
     • Recognize the effect that nurse caring has on patient experience and outcomes.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Lorry Schoenly

     PhD, RN, CCHP-RN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Working as an Interprofessional Team - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to enhance the knowledge and ability of nurses, health educators, dietitians, and radiology technologists in the acute care setting to work as cohesive members of the interprofessional team.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the characteristics of a healthcare professional who uses the interprofessional approach to patient care.
     • Apply the principles of interprofessional teamwork in specific patient scenarios.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide an overview for respiratory therapists (RTs) and nurses in the acute care setting on mechanical ventilation and the weaning process for critically ill patients.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common modes and ventilator settings.
     • Recognize the assessments and interventions provided by nurses and respiratory therapists in mechanically ventilated patients.
     • Recall methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Paul Teelin

     MSN, RN-BC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Communication with Patients - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, clinical laboratory professionals, nutrition and dietetics professionals, social work professionals, physician assistants, physicians, respiratory therapy professionals, and speech-language and pathology/audiology professionals with information about how to effectively communicate with patients in healthcare settings.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three specific elements of effective communication and how communication affects the patient and family experience.
     • Recall important components of cultural competence and inclusivity when communicating with patients and families.

  2. Laura Bell

     Laura Bell, BSN, RN, CCRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Medication Error Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate healthcare professionals about approaches to prevent medication errors.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Define types of medical errors and their impact on healthcare.
     • Discuss how a culture of patient safety influences reporting and resolving errors.
     • Explain strategies to reduce medication errors.

  2. Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Common Sleep Disorders - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing and respiratory therapy professionals with knowledge of the importance of sleep assessment in the clinical setting and to provide clinical assessment strategies and common assessment/diagnostic tools for impaired sleep and sleep disorders.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common sleep disorders and how they affect the general population.
     • Describe common sleep disorders and ways to incorporate a routine sleep assessment into practice.
     • Discuss common sleep assessment tools and the indications for using these tools.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Providing Culturally Competent Care to the Muslim Population - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education course is to educate nurses and health educators in all settings on providing culturally competent care to patients who are Muslim.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify Islamic health-related practices or beliefs.
     • Identify strategies when caring for patients who are Muslim.

  2. Zeliha Ozen

     MSN, RN, CCRN, CNL

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Recognizing and Treating Five Shock States - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses in acute care settings about how to recognize and treat different types of shock.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
     • Differentiate five subtypes and four stages of shock.
     • List evidence-based nursing guidelines for the identification and treatment of shock states.

  2. Rakesh Tripathi

     MPH, BSN, RN, CEN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Professional Responsibility in Infection Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of the course is to discuss professional responsibilities that nurses and medical assistant professionals have in applying effective infection prevention principles to reduce the transmission of pathogens.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss the transmission of infectious organisms.
     • Identify ways in which healthcare professionals can break the chain of infection.
     • Recognize the professional's responsibility to practice infection prevention and adhere to standard infection prevention practices.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Pain Control: Evidence-Based Approaches - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with evidence-­based guidance for managing pain while weighing the risks and benefits of pain medications with functional improvement and harm prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
     • Select appropriate tools to assess pain.
     • Discuss the physiologic processes and terminology related to pain.
     • Identify components of pain treatment that can be combined to form multimodal treatment plans.

  2. Paul Arnstein

     RN, PhD, FAAN

     Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Coping with Shingles - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide up-to-date information to nurses about the signs and symptoms of shingles, treatment moalities, interventions, and patient education issues.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the cause of shingles and adjacent conditions, as well as the common signs and symptoms.
     • Describe treatment modalities for shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
     • List interventions to prevent transmission and help patients adjust functionally, psychologically, and physically to shingles infections.

  2. Rebecca Smallwood

     MBA, RN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Sorting Out Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals in various settings with information on symptoms, diagnoses, and recommended treatment for the most prevalent mood disorders affecting children and adolescents.[DSM™ and DSM-5™ are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association. The American Psychiatric Association is not affiliated with nor endorses this course.]

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify criteria for diagnoses of depressive and bipolar disorders in children and adolescents.
     • Identify signs and symptoms of depressive and bipolar disorders in children and adolescents.
     • Describe treatment options for mood disorders in children and adolescents.
     • Discuss the treatment benefits and risks for specific mood disorders in children and adolescents.

  2. Carrie Furberg

     Carrie Furberg, BSN, RN, CRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and  West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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