CE on Psychiatric Emergencies from Wild Iris

Wild Iris is offering 3.0 contact hours for $24.00 on:
Psychiatric Emergencies: Caring for People in Crisis

Objectives:

• Discuss the characteristics of crises as they apply to psychiatric emergencies.
• Explain triage considerations for people in crisis.
• Identify legal and ethical issues of concern to caregivers of people in crisis.
• Summarize the care of people in crisis with mood-related emergencies.
• Explain the relationship of anxiety to fear in anxiety-wrought crises.
• Review the management of anger-generated violence.
• Describe symptoms displayed by people in crisis with substance use disorders.
• Discuss crisis intervention for the severely mental ill.

CE on Postpartum care from Wild Iris

Wild Iris is offering 2.0 contact hours for 18.00 on:
Postpartum Care

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the normal physiologic and psychological adaptations to the postpartum period.
• Explain how to perform a postpartum nursing assessment.
• Identify the teaching topics that are relevant to postpartum patients.
• Discuss symptoms and nursing interventions for the postpartum patient.
• Summarize the treatment of maternal complications seen during the postpartum period.
• List the symptoms that patients should report to their healthcare provider after discharge.

CE on Pregnancy Care and Lab Values and Tests

Wild Iris is offering 1.0 contact hour for $10.00
Pregnancy Care and Management and Laboratory Values and Tests

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.

AWOHHN Online Learning Center for OB

AWHONN offers accredited online CE courses for OB and neonatal nurses. Most courses are 39.95 or 24.95 for AWHONN members for 1.0 contact hour.

Current courses include:
Cervical Ripening & Labor Induction: Providing Safe, Evidence-Based Care
Nursing Care & Management of the 2nd Stage of Labor
Late Preterm Risk Assessment Protocol

Infection Control CE from ICT

The Infection Control Education Institute offers a series of industry sponsored webinars which are free to view and $9.95 per credit hour for CE.

Topics Include:

Unintentional Hypothermia and the Surgical Patient
New Non-Pharmacologic Opportunities to Reduce the Risk of Surgical Site Infections
Using Personal Protective Equipment for Patient Protection: Making the Case for Contact Precautions Compliance
A Review of the Emergence & Transmission of Healthcare Associated Infections
Standard Precautions: Is your staff really protected?
Protecting Yourself From Exposure to Toxic Sterilants in the Healthcare Environment

CE on Traumatic Brain Injury from Wild Iris

Wild Iris is offering 2.0 contact hours for $18.00 on:

Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI): Hope through Research

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Discuss the characteristics of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Explain the treatment of a person with TBI.
Identify immediate post-injury complications of TBI.
Summarize the disabilities that can result from TBI.
Review methods for prevention of TBI.
Discuss the most promising areas of research for the treatment of TBI.

eMedicine Medical Reference from WebMD

I've had some people asking for recommendations for a medical reference product that can be accessed anywhere. One option is eMedicine from WebMD. eMedicine touts its 8,000 professional contributors, and 6000 topics.

New eMedicine articles undergo several levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication. Sources for subsequent revisions of articles include the author, a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board, user-driven feedback, and systematically reviewed medical literature.

eMedicine has been around for over 10 years and in 2006 was bought by WebMD, a provider of consumer health information. WebMD is like reading a mainstream health magazine, with seamlessly integrated ads, and it's advertised on national television, so your patients have probably looked at it.

eMedicine is aimed at physicians, and is paired with Medscape, a site with medical news, selected full-text journal articles, and cme, and a company also purchased by WebMD.

Registration may be required to access all features, but there is much material available free of charge, though with integrated advertising.

It's not too late to get vaccinated for H1N1!

Occupational Health still has H1N1 vaccine available for:

• Staff

• Patients WITH A DOCTORS ORDER.

Presidential Proclamation for National Influenza Vaccination Week

Grant Resources

ScanGrants™ is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field – medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others.

Funding sources most frequently listed here include those of private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations. Finding and listing less traditional funding opportunities is also a priority.

Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the managing partner for Grants.gov. Learn more about Grants.gov and determine if you are eligible for grant opportunities offered on this site.

Quick way to search for Nursing articles in PubMed

Hardin MD , a project of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, has created filters to quickly find articles in the nursing literature, some of which are free full text.

• Once you choose Free articles in English, the PubMed search screen will come up with a long line of commands: ((jsubsetn[text] AND "loattrfree full text"[Filter]) AND English[Lang])

• Simply add your topic after this string using AND, for example:

((jsubsetn[text] AND "loattrfree full text"[Filter]) AND English[Lang]) AND antibiotic resistance

Free CE from the FDA on Prescription Drug Labeling thru 11-22-10

The FDA is offering 1.0 CE hour thru 11-22-10:

An Introduction to the Improved FDA Prescription Drug Labeling

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Describe prescription drug labeling and related FDA requirements.
• Describe the history of the drug labeling initiative.
• Describe the staged implementation schedule for the revised prescription drug labeling.
• Describe the major content and format changes to prescription drug labeling and the rationale for the changes.
• Describe other related FDA electronic labeling initiatives.