Nursing Continuing Education (CEUs)

This interactive web-based activity is designed to help clinicians optimize antibiotic use to combat antibiotic resistance and improve healthcare quality and patient safety.

View the 14 Core articles in any order and earn CME/CE credit for as many or as few as you wish. Each article provides 0.75-1 credit hour.

After completing this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
1. Describe at least three ways that providing CLAS can improve quality of care
2. Explain how a nurse’s implicit bias can affect patient interactions and outcomes
3. Discuss ways to learn more about your patient’s cultural identity
4. Describe how to practice cultural competency and cultural humility

This course teaches you how culture, cultural identity, and intersectionality shape behavioral health experiences and care. it emphasizes the importance of understanding, respecting differences, and continuous learning. You'll explore ways to learn about a client's cultural identity through respectful dialogue and the significance of avoiding stereotypes and microaggressions.

Additionally, the course will cover how culture and stigma influence help-seeking behaviors, the variations in communication styles across cultures, and strategies to reduce bias in assessment and diagnosis. Finally, you'll learn how to elicit a client's explanatory model to align treatment with their cultural beliefs.

Features 6 modules:
1. Screening and Diagnosis
2. Basic HIV Primary Care
3. Antiretroviral Therapy
4. Co-Occurring Conditions
5. Prevention of HIV
6. Key Populations

This course offers information about evidence based practice and a portal to evidence based practice resources. The course was developed with a primary audience of public health nurses but will be of interest to everyone interested in learning more about evidence based practice.

The course will review the medical and psychological consequences of exposures to a variety of chemical and radiological materials. It will include practical information regarding scene safety for such agents as high potency fentanyl analogs, inhaled irritants, and proper decontamination of a victim contaminated with radiological material.