Mental and Behavioral Health Continuing Nursing Education
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Behavioral and mental health issues among patients and clinicians are common. These courses provide evidence-based information on topics impacting patients’ emotional and physical wellbeing.
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- Expand your expertise while meeting your state CE requirements
- Hundreds of courses and thousands of contact hours, including in-depth specialty topics
Western Schools 365 Nursing Membership

- Expand your expertise while meeting your state CE requirements
- Hundreds of courses and thousands of contact hours, including in-depth specialty topics
Pursue excellence and fulfill your requirements in one convenient place with the Western Schools 365 membership. As a member, you have unlimited access to our entire library of courses, including in-depth specialty topics and state requirements.
What’s inside:
- One year of unlimited access to all courses in our CE library
- Thousands of ANCC-accredited contact hours
- A collection of advanced courses on specialty topics
- Courses to fulfill state requirements
- Downloadable course PDFs
- CE Broker reporting (where applicable)
- Quarterly webinars exclusively for members through Elite Learning
In-Depth Course Bundles
Deepen your expertise while you save with these course bundles related to Mental and Behavioral Health topics.
Behavioral Health Course Bundle – 15 Hours
Behavioral Health Course Bundle – 15 Hours

Included Courses:
- Assessment and Prevention of Suicide for Healthcare Professionals – N47287 4
- Humor as a Healthcare Professional Intervention 3
- Management of Addiction, Withdrawal, and Overdose – N35032 4
- Management of Anxiety and Depression for Healthcare Professionals – N57062 3
- Management of PTSD for Healthcare Professionals – N57063 1
Self-Care Course Bundle – 9 Hours
Self-Care Course Bundle – 9 Hours

Included Courses:
- Boundaries and Burnout: Strategies for Nurses to Maintain Self 1
- Easing COVID-19 Stress Through Yoga's Breath and Body Connection 1
- From Exhaustion to Extraordinary: Strategies to Reverse Nurse Fatigue 1
- Healthcare Humor: Take Time to Laugh 1
- Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals – N47685 3
- Self-Care Shortcuts: Discover The Science Behind Your Story 1
- The New Self-Care 1
Substance Use Disorders Course Bundle – 14 Hours
Substance Use Disorders Course Bundle – 14 Hours

Included Courses:
- Adolescent Substance Use Disorders for Healthcare Professionals 2
- Health Care Management of Patients with Substance Use Disorders – N55579 2
- Management of Addiction, Withdrawal, and Overdose – N35032 4
- Naloxone: Understanding its Use and Effects – N30069 3 3
- Substance Use Disorder in Nursing: Identification, Reporting, and Support – N30921 3 3
More Learning Options
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ADHD: Etiology and Management for Healthcare Professionals – N47687
ADHD: Etiology and Management for Healthcare Professionals – N47687

About the Course:
Now more than ever, it is important that healthcare professionals be prepared to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) throughout the lifespan. ADHD is no longer seen as a childhood disorder, and it is likely that many adults affected by ADHD are undiagnosed. This intermediate-level course has been developed to educate healthcare professionals, such as nurses, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists, and to bring clarity and a deeper understanding to the research, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD in individuals of all ages and various life stages.
Adolescent Substance Use Disorders for Healthcare Professionals
Adolescent Substance Use Disorders for Healthcare Professionals

About the Course:
The key risk periods for substance use disorders (SUD) occur during life transitions, such as adolescence. This means that substance use assessment and intervention is especially critical for the adolescent population. The emphasis for this education program is on helping healthcare professionals to effectively assess adolescents for substance use disorders and intervene effectively with adolescents who are dealing with such disorders.
Advanced Practice Nurses Guidelines for Safe and Effective Controlled Substance Prescribing
Advanced Practice Nurses Guidelines for Safe and Effective Controlled Substance Prescribing

About the Course:
This course provides an overview of the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances for advanced practice nurses and all nurses who are responsible for the safe and effective prescribing practices for controlled substances. The course presents three of the most common disease states that warrant more frequent prescribing of controlled substances.
An Epidemic: Vaping and E-Cigarette Use in Teens and Young Adults – N29557
An Epidemic: Vaping and E-Cigarette Use in Teens and Young Adults – N29557

Course expiration date: 10/7/2022
About the Course:
This course will familiarize nurses with the current epidemic of vaping, including the types of chemical and drug exposures that may occur with vaping, health consequences, and strategies to curb the use of vaping. The course includes steps that have been taken to curb this epidemic and strategies the health care community can implement to safeguard against vaping.
Assessment and Prevention of Suicide for Healthcare Professionals – N47287
Assessment and Prevention of Suicide for Healthcare Professionals – N47287

About the Course:
This course is intended for all healthcare professionals who care for individuals and veterans at-risk for suicide or who are survivors of suicide. The course discusses the background, statistical data, etiology, risk factors for, and treatment and management of suicide in the United States. Risk of imminent harm with communication strategies is presented with a special focus on the veteran and healthcare workers populations.
COVID-19 Loss, Grief, and Bereavement – N44138
COVID-19 Loss, Grief, and Bereavement – N44138

About the Course:
This course is for healthcare professionals who want to identify ways to support grieving individuals because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Characteristics that influence COVID-19 grief, bereavement, and mourning are identified. Policies such as social distancing may mitigate the impact of contracting the virus but increase risk factors for mental health issues and complicated grief (prolonged grief disorder). The course presents major theories and models of mourning as they relate to coping with COVID-19 ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief.
Caring for Patients with Mental Health Issues, 3rd Edition
Caring for Patients with Mental Health Issues, 3rd Edition

About the Course:
It is common for patients entering the healthcare system to experience increased stress and some degree of emotional discomfort. Usually, these individuals are presenting with a serious illness, significant pain, or trauma. They may or may not know their diagnosis. Even when patients come to a hospital for joyful reasons, such as having a baby, there can be worry accompanying the excitement until the outcome is clear. Families and friends of patients have their own worries and concerns about their loved ones. For these reasons, all nurses must be prepared to assist patients in the general healthcare setting with maintaining optimal mental health.
Clinical Challenges and Psychopharmacology for Substance Use Disorder for APRNs
Clinical Challenges and Psychopharmacology for Substance Use Disorder for APRNs

About the Course:
This course is designed for both registered nurses and advanced practice nurses. Because of medical and psychiatric comorbidities, patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders have complex prescription medication regimens. Since registered nurses are frontline providers, they are frequently responsible for educating patients about their medications. For advanced practice nurses, this course is intended to support and enhance their knowledge of diagnosing psychiatric disorders and to increase their confidence for prescribing psychotropic medications to adult patients.
Health Care Management of Patients with Substance Use Disorders – N55579
Health Care Management of Patients with Substance Use Disorders – N55579

About the Course:
Human Trafficking – N29555
Human Trafficking – N29555

About the Course:
This course discusses the scope of human trafficking including risks, common characteristics, and signs and symptoms of human trafficking. Intervention approaches and resources that help prevent and advocate against human trafficking are also presented.
Humor as a Healthcare Professional Intervention
Humor as a Healthcare Professional Intervention

About the Course:
Research indicates that humor helps humans cope with stressful life events and provides them with strength to cope with difficult situations. The purpose of this education program is to provide healthcare professionals with information about the impact of humor on disease processes and how to appropriately engage in humorous interchanges with patients, families, colleagues, and healthcare providers.
Loss, Grief, and Bereavement, 4th Edition
Loss, Grief, and Bereavement, 4th Edition

About the Course:
This course provides essential information that nurses can use to help individuals, families, and communities cope with loss, grief, and bereavement or reflect on issues and practices related to death. The course presents the the role of palliative and hospice care in providing the highest quality end-of-life care and content on advance care planning.
Management of Addiction, Withdrawal, and Overdose – N35032
Management of Addiction, Withdrawal, and Overdose – N35032

About the Course:
This course is beneficial for all nurses who care for the general population, particularly populations at risk for opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose. The course reviews common terminology related to opioid use and addiction, the basic pharmacology of opioids, the roots of the opioid epidemic, the theory of prevention model, and the unique points of potential intervention to help nurses prevent, identify, and treat opioid addiction.
Management of Anxiety and Depression for Healthcare Professionals – N57062
Management of Anxiety and Depression for Healthcare Professionals – N57062

About the Course:
Management of PTSD for Healthcare Professionals – N57063
Management of PTSD for Healthcare Professionals – N57063

About the Course:
Stress is an adaptive response to demands or challenges made on an individual that might be required for survival. Adapting to stressful events is an individual response, and treatment is best targeted to the time immediately after the trauma. Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD has long-term physical and psychological sequelae that can affect the health and lifelong functioning of the patient. The purpose of this course is to help health care workers in their treatment of patients with PTSD, and to provide early intervention which can include psychological and pharmacological treatment. This course helps to prepare health care professionals to differentiate types of trauma, analyze a patient’s response to trauma, and provide appropriate traditional and holistic treatment options.
Managing Difficult Patients for Healthcare Professionals – N57067
Managing Difficult Patients for Healthcare Professionals – N57067

About the Course:
Healthcare professionals will encounter difficult or hard to manage patients during their career. Examples of these difficult encounters include workplace violence, non-adherence to medical treatments, and manipulation of caregivers. This course explores how healthcare professionals can avoid potentially violent situations and work with difficult patients by being prepared and recognizing the signs and risk factors for these occurrences. De-escalation skills, diagnosis, preventative measures, training, and planning are all presented in this course to help healthcare professionals respond to difficult patients and ensure a healthy environment for everyone.
Men's Health Overview
Men's Health Overview

About the Course:
This course presents the necessary information to expand the knowledge of registered nurses and advanced practice nurses on men’s health conditions.
Mental Health Assessment of the Pediatric Patient, 2nd Edition – N23188
Mental Health Assessment of the Pediatric Patient, 2nd Edition – N23188

About the Course:
This course provides an overview of common pediatric mental health issues, including descriptions of the signs and symptoms for particular conditions, indicators of a psychiatric emergency, and appropriate treatment interventions for each case presented. Early diagnosis and intervention can critically affect positive outcomes of pediatric mental health disorders, making the accurate and comprehensive assessment of the pediatric patient’s mental health a crucial component of each pediatric examination.
Mental Health and the Older Adult
Mental Health and the Older Adult

About the Course:
This course examines the elements that make-up the mental and emotional functioning of the older adult. The course helps nurses to identify and recognize signs and symptoms to properly assess and treat the older adult population. Mental and emotional health issues and chronic health disorders that exacerbate mental health issues are presented and covered in detail, specifically delirium, sleep disturbances, depression, coping, anxiety disorders, psychotic disturbances, and substance use.
Naloxone: Understanding its Use and Effects – N30069
Naloxone: Understanding its Use and Effects – N30069

About the Course:
All health care professionals (HCP) have a responsibility to understand the current opioid crisis and how they can contribute to countering this threat. All HCP who come into contact with patients have the potential to encounter individuals in danger of narcotic abuse. Awareness will facilitate an appropriate intervention. Those who may be more directly involved such as pharmacists, first responders, and emergency department personnel should consider more in-depth training. A thorough understanding of opioids, their misuse, and potential solutions to this public health issue will greatly contribute to improved patient health and quality of life.
New Jersey Suicide Assessment and Prevention for Advance Practice Nurses – N38201
New Jersey Suicide Assessment and Prevention for Advance Practice Nurses – N38201

About the Course:
The purpose of this education program is to assist nurses to appropriately intervene in the best interests of the patient who is suspected of being at risk for suicide.
Pain Assessment and Management for Michigan Nurses – N33535
Pain Assessment and Management for Michigan Nurses – N33535

About the Course:
This course provides nurses with an overview of the physiology of pain and differentiates between acute and chronic pain. The course focuses on assessment and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities for the patient experiencing pain.
Scope and Ethics of Prescribing Controlled Substances for Advanced Practice Nurses – N33537
Scope and Ethics of Prescribing Controlled Substances for Advanced Practice Nurses – N33537

About the Course:
This course is designed to educate acute registered nurse practitioners who want to practice evidence-based care when treating patients with controlled substances.
Substance Use Disorder in Nursing: Identification, Reporting, and Support – N30921
Substance Use Disorder in Nursing: Identification, Reporting, and Support – N30921

About the Course:
This course is designed to instruct nurses on how to recognize signs of impairment in colleagues and also how to potentially recognize their own signs of impairment.
Violence in the Workplace: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention – N28902
Violence in the Workplace: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention – N28902

About the Course:
It is imperative that anyone working in health care settings, not just nurses, respond to all types of workplace violence. This course provides information about the prevalence of workplace violence, how to recognize a potentially violent individual or group of individuals, how to reduce the occurrence of workplace violence, and how to respond to violence.
Workplace Horizontal Violence – N29558
Workplace Horizontal Violence – N29558

About the Course:
Bullying and horizontal violence in the workplace occurs far too often. Whether it is between professionals of a single discipline or among different disciplines, the consequences of bullying and horizontal violence are the same. This course provides an overview of horizontal violence, characteristics of both abusers and victims, and how to reduce the prevalence of horizontal violence in the workplace.
COVID-19: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
COVID-19: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
This course was recorded from a live webinar that took place on January 14, 2021.
This course is for healthcare professionals who want to identify ways to support grieving individuals because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Characteristics that influence COVID-19 grief, bereavement, and mourning are identified. Policies such as social distancing may mitigate the impact of contracting the virus but increase risk factors for mental health issues and complicated grief (prolonged grief disorder). The course presents major theories and models of mourning as they relate to coping with COVID-19 ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief.
Cheating Death: Naloxone
Cheating Death: Naloxone
This course was recorded from a live webinar that took place on November 7, 2019
Opioids, used (and abused) for millennia, have become a significant cause of mortality in the U.S. The treatment of chronic pain and widespread acceptance of opioids to treat it may have jump started the current epidemic. The challenge for healthcare professionals is to best understand the safe use of opioids, be able to recognize an overdose, and know how to effectively treat it.
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