Continuing Education Units After Graduation Rn Illinois

Included Courses

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The courses included in this license renewal package cover topics such as Medication Error Prevention andWorking as an Interprofessional Team. Click show more for a full list of included courses.

• Nursing Theory: At the Heart of Practice - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education course is to help nurses to realize how using nursing theory improves care for individuals, families, and communities; to recognize types of theoretical works in nursing; and to understand the basis of several nursing theories. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession.
     • Discuss types of theoretical works in nursing.
     • Identify the major focus of selected nursing theories.
  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Document It Right: Would Your Charting Stand Up to Scrutiny? - No Test

  1. The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with information about the value of laws and standards governing nursing documentation, legal basics for appropriate documentation, and techniques for documenting changes in a patient's condition. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Provide the legal definition of nursing negligence
     • Describe four characteristics of legally credible charting
     • Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal problems

  2. Julie Smith Jonson

     JD, BSN, RN

  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

• Emotional Intelligence Helps Nurses Work Smart - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to introduce nurses in healthcare settings to the concept of EI, describe how it can help nurses enhance their work lives, and provide strategies for developing one's own EI.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Define emotional intelligence and its relevance to nursing.
     • Identify at least three components of emotional intelligence and four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.

  2. Sheila J. Leis

     MS, RN, BC

  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

• How to Develop Your Leadership Potential - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with practical strategies to help them establish customized plans for developing their leadership potential.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
     • Identify effective leadership styles and characteristics.
     • Describe ways to develop leadership characteristics.

  2. Ashley Coffey

     RN, BSN, BA

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• General Principles of Infectious Microbes and Disease - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to broaden and update nurses' and respiratory therapists' knowledge of infectious disease causation and prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the three components common to all infectious diseases.
     • List four factors associated with the emergence or resurgence and transmission of disease.
     • Define the six components of the chain of infection.

  2. Sooa Devereaux

     MSN, RN-BC

     Barbara Barzoloski-O'Connor

     MSN, RN, CIC

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• 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

• Parental Stress in the NICU - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses and social workers about family-centered interventions for families with infants in the NICU, focusing on up-to-date stress management and coping interventions in evidence-based neonatal practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
     • Recall interventions for parental stress and coping and how to use them in practice.

  2. Claire Hartman

     RN, BSN, IBCLC

  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

• Calming the Patient with Cognitive Impairment - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to enrich the knowledge of nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the use of music, touch, exercise, and animals to calm cognitively impaired patients.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
     • Identify the ways music, touch, exercise, and animal presence benefit patients with cognitive impairment.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Elizabeth Vaccaro

     BSN, RN, MSCN

  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

• Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior in Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide addictions professionals, behavioral health counselors, marriage and family therapists, nurses, psychologists, and social workers in health and human services settings with information on how to identify and treat non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors in adults. This course offers examples of instruments for use when assessing for non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. The suggestion of specific instruments is not an endorsement. You should explore existing options and bear in mind important issues such as reliability, validity, cost, and training requirements associated with any potential instrument. 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:

     • Explain features of non-suicidal self-injury and how the behaviors can develop.
     • Describe how to assess for and identify signs of non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in adults.
     • List the functions of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors among adults who engage in these behaviors.
     • Identify evidence-based interventions that can be used to treat adults who engage in non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors.

  2. Stephanie Furness

  3. Contact Hours: 1.5

• Acute Stroke: Treatment and Outcomes - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to equip nurses in the acute care setting about the causes of strokes; acute treatment strategies; and the physical, mental, and emotional effects of strokes based on the area of the brain injury. 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 the risk factors, causes, and acute treatment strategies of strokes.
     • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.

  2. Andrea Powell

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Anaphylactic Reactions - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses in acute care facilities with guidelines to identify and respond to anaphylactic reactions.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify causes, symptoms, and diagnostic criteria for an anaphylactic reaction.
     • Describe emergency management of anaphylaxis and three ways to prevent anaphylaxis.

  2. Andrea Powell

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Sexual Harassment: Illinois Licensed Professionals

  1. The goal of this educational program is to provide licensed professionals with the required content regarding sexual harassment for the State of Illinois. After taking this course, you should be able to:

     Define the two types of sexual harassment.
     List at least three reporting outlets to use when sexual harassment is witnessed or experienced.
     Describe at least two laws related to retaliation and whistleblower protections.
     Identify at least three remedies available to victims of sexual harassment.
     Explain at least two ways to help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

  2. Jennifer W. Burks

     Jennifer W. Burks, R.N., M.S.N.

     Nellie Wirth

     Nellie Wirth, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

  3. Contact Hours: 1

Goal and Learning Outcomes

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Recognize the benefits of adhering to standards of infection control and describe the professional's responsibility to adhere to these practices and the consequences of failing to comply.
• Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
• Identify strategies when caring for patients who are Muslim.
• Identify at least three specific elements of effective communication and how communication affects the patient and family experience.
• Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
• Describe aspects of working in acute care settings with information to better care for patients with asthma.
• Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
• Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
• Identify the characteristics of a healthcare professional who uses the interprofessional approach to patient care.
• Discuss the relationship between transformational leadership in healthcare organizations, workplace empowerment, job satisfaction among nurses, and positive patient outcomes.
• Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
• Explain features of non-suicidal self-injury and how the behaviors can develop.
• Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession.
• Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal problems.
• Identify at least three components of emotional intelligence and four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.

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

CEBroker

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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