Virginia Renewal Bundle
Contact Hours: 30
What's included?
Course Overview
In this course we will cover a variety of nursing topics which are listed in the course outline below. This course is meets the Virginia Board of Nursing’s requirements for both RNs and LPNs and is accepted for APRNs as well. Upon completion of this single module you will receive a certificate for 30 contact hours.
Course Outline
- Preventing Medical Errors
- Patient Education Strategies
- Nurse Burnout
- Bullying in Nursing
- Quality Improvement for Nurses
- Workplace Violence Against Nurses
- Telemetry and EKG Basics: Rhythm Recognition
- Heart Failure Updates
- Hypertension (HTN) Management Updates
- GI Bleed: An Introduction
- Constipation Management and Treatment
- Spinal Cord Injury: Bowel and Bladder Management
- Pressure Injury Prevention, Staging, and Treatment
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (Wound Vac)
- Nutritional Interventions to Promote Wound Healing
- Ostomy Management
- Diabetes Management: Nursing Updates
- Hospice and Palliative Care: What’s the Difference?
- Navigating Difficult End of Life Conversations
- Pneumonia in Older Adults
Course Outcomes
After completing this course, the learner will rate a 4 out of 5 on the Likert Scale for their ability to:
- List the strategies and best practices aimed at preventing medical errors in healthcare settings.
- Implement patient education taking into consideration different learning styles and individual preferences.
- Identify individual and organizational behaviors/ factors that heighten the risk for nurse burnout
- Recognize risk factors that could lead to a bullying environment.
- Recognize how to identify and analyze quality improvement opportunities.
- Understand ways to prevent workplace violence towards nurses.
- Recognize the importance of the many telemetry devices used and identify how these devices impact patient care.
- Identify the many risk factors for Heart Failure and learn about newer medications and treatments
- Identify potential cases of hypertension and screen individuals at risk, fostering interventions and mitigating adverse outcomes through prompt diagnosis.
- Understand the pathophysiology of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract and list examples of underlying conditions that cause gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Discuss signs and symptoms of constipation.
- Identify ways nurses can help patients with spinal cord injuries start a bowel and bladder regimen.
- Identify the six stages of pressure injuries based on National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel guidelines.
- List types of wounds that negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) may be used to treat.
- Identify nutrient deficiencies that will impact wound healing.
- Understand the different types of ostomies and their care techniques.
- Define the 2 main types of diabetes and the preferred approach used to treat each of the identified disease processes.
- Differentiate between hospice and palliative care.
- Define important stages of the dying process.
- Summarize various nursing interventions when caring for patients with pneumonia .
Accreditations and Approvals
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) (P0614)
- California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP 17418)
- Kentucky Board of Nursing (7-0090)
- Louisiana State Board of Nursing (58)
- Florida Board of Nursing (50-23983)
- Delaware Board of Nursing (DE-24-010127)
- Alabama Board of Nursing (#ABNP1577)
- Iowa Board of Nursing (#393)
- Kansas Board of Nursing (LT0340-0325)
Approved by the Board of Nursing in every state, you can complete your RN, LVN, and APRN CEUs with confidence.
Accreditation Statement
Nursing CE Central LLC is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
It will take the average learner 1800 minutes to complete and awards 30 contact hours of continuing education.
Written For
- Registered Nurses (RN)
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN)
- Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN/LVN)
Requirements for Completion
- Enrollment in the course by the learner
- Read and learn all course materials
- Complete the course evaluation
- Attest and testify learning of the course materials
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
Nursing CE Central nor any of the authors, planners, content experts, or any contributors have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
