CE on Diabetes & Pregnancy

Wild Iris is offering CE on Diabetes & Pregnancy for $10.00

Pregnancy: Care and Management
Christine Cartwright, RN, MSN

Wild Iris Medical Education is an approved provider (#PA-54) of continuing nursing education by the Washington State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Our courses fulfill continuing nursing education requirements in all 50 states.Wild Iris Medical Education (CBRN Provider #12300) is approved as a provider of continuing education for RNs, LVNs, and respiratory therapists by the California Board of Registered Nursing.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Identify abnormal laboratory results for a variety of problems during pregnancy.
Discuss differential diagnosis based on laboratory results and trends.
Describe normal and abnormal physiologic changes of pregnancy.
State anticipated orders for laboratory draws based upon the patient's chief complaint or status.


FEE: $10.00

CE on Precepting thru 12/22/11

Course from nurse.com thru 12/22/11

CE393-60b ·1.0 hr
Precepting: The Chance to Shape Nursing’s Future
Author: Mary Krugman, RN, PhD, FAAN

Objectives:

The goal of this program is to provide nurses with knowledge and insights into the preceptor role. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —
Discuss why preceptors are critical to nursing’s professional future.
Identify the essential elements and strategies to strengthen preceptor role functioning.
Discuss how preceptors improve retention and recruitment.

Caring Bridge: Keeping Families Informed

Caring Bridge is a non-profit site which provides free web pages for families and patients to update all who care about them about serious illness and crises and hospital stays. As nurse Heather Cygan notes, she learned about it firsthand when her father had a stroke. Sites like this, and Care Pages, can help get the word out without multiple phonecalls, providing a centralized source of updates.

Free CE on Health Communication

Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is a free on-line learning tool that will help you:

1. Improve your patient communication skills
2. Increase your awareness and knowledge of the three main factors that affect your communication with patients: health literacy, cultural competency and low English proficiency
3. Implement patient-centered communication practices that demonstrate cultural competency and appropriately address patients with limited health literacy and low English proficiency

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health. Registration is required.

Free CE on Hemostasis/Anticoagulation thru 07/10/11

To Bleed or not to Bleed: A Review of Hemostasis and Anticoagulation
Presented by Alan P. AginsPresident - PRN Associates, Ltd. - Continuing Medical Education

Program Overview:
This course provides a review of hemostasis and the biochemistry and pharmacology of anticoagulation mechanisms. The presenter thoroughly discusses various pharmacologic anticoagulants as well as a new non-pharmacologic method.