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Allnurses.com

Allnurses.com is a discussion list with 300,000 nurse members, with lively conversations on a multitude of topics, and focused sections for Registered Nurse, LPN, LVN, Nursing Educator, Nursing Student or Pre-Nursing Student. Run by volunteers, and supported by nurse-related advertisers, this is the place to find out what other nurses and hospitals are doing.

Nursing Digest Online

From the Audio Digest Foundation, Nursing Digest is a selection of online courses for ANCC approved contact hours. Courses are inexpensive, and you can get a sense of them through a free demo, a 48 hr free trial, and there are also free nursing "pearls" available every other Wednesday from professionals who provide the content.

CME on Therapeutic Communication

$10.00

The Rap on Rapport: The Door to Therapeutic Communication,Author: Kathy Shea, RN, BSN, DCH, CPAN

The goal of the program is to help nurses understand the dynamics of rapport.
After you study the information presented here, you will be able to —
Describe how to develop rapport by mirroring or matching the body language of another.
Explain ways to match the representational system of another to establish rapport.
Understand the dynamics of crossmatching body language to develop rapport.

Search for CME by specialty

If you are looking for contact hours on a particular topic, search the American Nurses'Credentialing Center(ANCC)--from Pediatrics, to Nurse Management, to Medical-Surgical, Pain Management and Public Health, the ANCC can point in you in the right direction for quality accredited cme.

Point-to-Talk for many Languages

The Massachusetts General Hospital offers AHA Award winning handouts that provide basic phrases in a variety of languages, which the patient can point to, in order to communicate discomforts and requests.

LANGUAGES
Albanian
Italian
Arabic
Japanese
Cambodian
Polish
Chinese
Portuguese
Farsi
Russian
French
Serbo-Croatian
German
Somali
Greek
Spanish
Haitian Creole
Vietnamese
Hebrew

Free CME from Prime

Prime is an accredited provider of CE for Nurses. Check out their free courses for nurses, organized by subject area.

Medical Spanish Lessons with Audio

Check out Practicing Spanish for medical professionals. The author is a Spanish teacher living in the U.S. who has also trained as a medical interpretor.

The audio has dialogues between patients and health care providers as well as pronunciation guides, phrases, anatomy, and examples of different accents from a variety of Spanish speaking countries. If you learn best by listening, this site will be very helpful.

Note: Scroll down after choosing a link on this site--for some reason there is a lot of blank space before the info appears.

rn.org for CME

http://www.rn.org/CourseCatalog.php

rn.org is an accredited provider of nursing continuing education, and provides unlimited CEU's for a $20.00 annual membership fee. In addition, they feature a free course periodically.

Free CME series on Complementary Medicine.

http://nccam.nih.gov/videolectures/

This online video lecture series is from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a project of the National Institutes of Health. There are 8 courses, with a total of 9.6 ANCC aproved credit available. Courses require one-time registration.

Available Courses
Overview of CAM
Herbs and Other Dietary Supplements
Mind-Body Medicine
Acupuncture: An Evidence-Based Assessment
Manipulative and Body-Based Therapies: Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation
CAM and Aging
Integrative Medicine
Health and Spirituality

Free CME from Medscape Nurses

http://www.medscape.com/nurses

After a 1-time registration process, you can access a wide array of free CE, reviewed by an advisory board of nurses.

Spanish Patient Handouts

Check out these Spanish Patient Education handouts from Advance for Nurses.

American Family Physician has a list of handouts in both English and Spanish on many common conditions. You can toggle back between English and Spanish.

Also, here is a dictionary of medical spanish.

Preventing Workplace Violence CME

http://www.nurse.com/ce/CE130-60

This CME is available for $10.00

Bridging the Generation Gap CME thru 5/21/11

http://www.nurse.com/ce/CE478
Learn more about working together across generations with this CME from Nursing Spectrum, good through 5/21/11

Dealing with Agitated Patients

The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing has information on dealing with agitated patients and reducing restraint use. Check out their other topics as well, such as delirium, advance directives, pain, and treatment decision making.

Avoiding Restraints in Patients with Dementia
Assessing Delirium in Older Patients
Wandering in Hospitalized Older Adults

ConsultGeriRN.org is the geriatric clinical nursing website of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University College of Nursing. ConsultGeriRN.org is an evidence-based online resource for nurses in clinical and educational settings. ConsultGeriRN.org is funded in part by a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. and The John A. Hartford Foundation.

Free CME from the CDC

http://www2.cdc.gov/ce/availableactivities.asp

Check out this site from the CDC to find free CME.

http://www.guideline.gov/

Guidelines for Practice--what are the experts saying?
National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/

There are guidelines out there, but they are scattered all over at various association websites.
Fortunately, the National Guideline Clearinghouse has gathered them into one place, updated regularly and searchable. So the next time you have to revise a policy or look for benchmarks, start with guideline.gov

And as always, if you don't have time to do that, call the Librarian!

Spanish for Nurses CE

Check out this site for several lessons on basic medical Spanish and possible CE credit, and it's free. Registration may be required.
http://www.culture-advantage.com/etraining/courses.php?course_id=47

Patient Safety and Quality Handbook for Nurses

Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses(AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043).

http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care.

Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to
enhance patient outcomes.

To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality—Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043).

All of the chapters and front matter are now available as accessible PDF files.