Professional Development and Nursing Leadership Continuing Education
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Business acumen, effective communication, compassionate leadership, and trust are core elements for nursing leaders. Explore in-depth courses related to the day-to-day practice of nursing as well as important leadership competencies for both seasoned and emerging nurse leaders.
WS365 Online Nursing Membership
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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
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 Nursing Specialty Topic Bundles
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COVID-19 Resources Webinar Bundle – 6 Hours
COVID-19 Resources Webinar Bundle – 6 Hours

Included Courses:
- Boundaries and Burnout: Strategies for Nurses to Maintain Self 1
- COVID-19: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement 2
- Helping Patients and their Families Cope with COVID-19 and Its Lasting Effects 1
- Nurse Resilience in the Age of COVID-19 1
- Trust Matters: Regaining Trust During COVID-19 1
Contemporary Issues Course Bundle – 15 Hours
Contemporary Issues Course Bundle – 15 Hours

Included Courses:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases – N47384 6
- Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals 1
- Population Health: Contemporary Perspectives for Nurses – N32887 4
- Social Determinants of Health for Health Care Professionals – N44140 3
- Telehealth's Impact on Nursing Practice 1
Leadership Course Bundle – 10 Hours
Leadership Course Bundle – 10 Hours

Included Courses:
- Communication in Health Care, 2nd Edition – N48430 4
- Ethics and Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals – N47689 4
- Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals 1
- Trust Matters: Regaining Trust During COVID-19 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
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Communication in Health Care, 2nd Edition – N48430
Communication in Health Care, 2nd Edition – N48430

About the Course:
This course offers a roadmap toward healthcare professionals’ understanding and application of effective communication in patient care settings. The course navigates clinicians through the fundamentals of communication science and its relevance to communication in clinical practice then moves on to explore impediments to effective communication between healthcare professionals and patients. Through this course, practitioners who practice in any healthcare setting will acquire new insight into, or advance their current knowledge of, the cultural, environmental, organizational, and other barriers to communication that disrupt valuable interactions with their patients and colleagues.
Crisis Resource Management for Healthcare Professionals
Crisis Resource Management for Healthcare Professionals

About the Course:
Understanding Crisis Resource Management (CRM) and utilization of the concepts within team emergent responses can improve patient outcomes. The course will outline CRM concepts and demonstrate the application within emergent situations in healthcare. CRM concepts discussed will include leadership and followership, role identity and clarity; effective communication strategies; situational awareness; resource allocation; and dynamic decision making. Physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other health team members should understand CRM to improve their performance in emergent team responses and ultimately improve patient outcomes. CRM framework is also applicable in medical and environmental emergent situations where teams work together to ensure patient safety.
Cultural Competency for Maryland Health Care Providers – N35028
Cultural Competency for Maryland Health Care Providers – N35028

About the Course:
This course discusses the disparity among healthcare outcomes in cultural minorities and the goals of Healthy People and recommendations of the Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and multiple entities for culturally congruent healthcare. Additionally, the course allows for reflection on personal cultural beliefs and assumptions of health and provides recommendations for the development of a culturally sensitive outlook.
Cultural Humility for Healthcare Professionals
Cultural Humility for Healthcare Professionals

About the Course:
The purpose of this education program is to present an introduction to cultural humility and offers tools for healthcare professionals to use when working with diverse patients in a culturally humble manner.
Documentation for Nurses, 4th Edition
Documentation for Nurses, 4th Edition

About the Course:
Nursing documentation is an integral part of clinical nursing care. This ensures that nurses account for the care that is provided and the resulting patient outcomes. Requirements for documentation in terms of regulatory, accreditation, and legal requirements are continually evolving, especially with the advent of electronic medical records. This course emphasizes compliance with documentation for nurse accountability and performance evaluation. Incomplete, inadequate, or inaccurate documentation can adversely affect reimbursement and accreditation and have legal consequences that may expose the nurse to liability. Additionally, incomplete documentation can negatively affect communication and coordination of services between healthcare providers, which can in turn affect patient care.
Nurses commonly experience conflict between time spent caring for patients and time needed to accurately record care provided and a patient’s response to treatment. Documentation done using best practices accurately reflects the patient’s true clinical situation as well as trends toward recovery or complications. Inadequate or poor documentation may not tell the whole story of care or patient outcomes and could result in allegations of negligence, fraud, abuse, or malpractice. Good documentation can support workflow, improve efficiency, and increase productivity.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing – N29565
Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing – N29565

About the Course:
This course will help nurses deal with many of the ethical issues they face in their professional practice, as well as legal considerations that may make an impact on the ethical issues of patient care.
Ethics and Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals – N47689
Ethics and Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals – N47689

About the Course:
This course provides healthcare professionals information about ethical principles that guide practice, present factors that contribute to moral distress, and provide strategies to manage moral distress. The course provides an overview of ethics, ethical principles, and moral distress.
Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
Evidence-Based Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide a historical context of race and racism and its relationship to the development of racial implicit bias. The development of implicit bias will be discussed along with research demonstrating the impact of implicit bias on the clinical encounter. Recommendations for mitigating implicit bias are offered.
Fundamentals of Mentorship
Fundamentals of Mentorship

This course explores the fundamentals of mentorship, offering insight into a phenomenon that supports and strengthens our development as professionals, motivates us to expand our capacities, and inspires us to reach our aspirations – in other words, to help us do all that we can.
Fundamentals of Telehealth: Registered Nursing Practice in the Virtual Care Environment – N29561
Fundamentals of Telehealth: Registered Nursing Practice in the Virtual Care Environment – N29561

About the Course:
This course explores the basic telehealth concepts and technology applicable to the registered nursing telehealth arena, examining the role of the telehealth nurse, paying attention to legal and regulatory concerns, and temporary changes to regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course discusses how telehealth can be used in disasters, emergencies, epidemics, and pandemics and concludes with a review of the competencies for nursing telehealth practice so nurses can be knowledgeable and effective.
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.
LGBTQ Competency for Healthcare Professionals – N29564
LGBTQ Competency for Healthcare Professionals – N29564

About the Course:
This course provides health care professionals best practices for management of LGBTQ individuals. The course addresses LGBTQ terminology, health risks and disparities, and statistics nationwide. It also presents ways to increase access to care for LGBTQ patients and discusses suggestions for increasing staff knowledge of, and sensitivity to, LGBTQ patients.
LGBTQ for Health Care Professionals Improving Access to Care – N47880
LGBTQ for Health Care Professionals Improving Access to Care – N47880

About the Course:
This course discusses how to improve care and health outcomes of the LGBTQ population by recognizing the existing disparities and increased health risks present in this population. The course examines system and provider/client barriers to equality in healthcare.
Legal Issues for Nursing Documentation, 4th Edition
Legal Issues for Nursing Documentation, 4th Edition

About the Course:
It is important for nurses to be able to identify areas of nursing practice that pose a risk for legal consequences so that they can take steps to protect themselves and avoid unfavorable patient outcomes. A well-documented patient record is one method to mitigate these risks. In addition to discussing the legal aspects of nursing documentation, this course will outline proper documentation techniques to avoid legal entanglement, including the use of consent forms in patient care and the need for incident reports to document adverse events.
Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals – N47685
Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals – N47685

About the Course:
Building mindfulness-based, stress-reduction principles and techniques into healthcare environments can increase positivity, safety, and pleasure in work. This course provides healthcare professionals with the knowledge to expand their understanding of what mindfulness is in its many forms. These include formal, structured approaches as various approaches to meditation, as well as informal, beneficial daily habits of thinking and behavior. The course explores the evidence base for the uses and benefits of mindfulness and presents ways to immediately apply these practices to daily personal and professional life.
Nursing Leadership in Today's Healthcare Climate – N25175
Nursing Leadership in Today's Healthcare Climate – N25175

About the Course:
This course provides an overview of today’s complex healthcare arena discussing the numerous contemporary issues nurse leaders must face on a daily basis. The course presents the various healthcare environments and structures and discusses and outlines required core competencies of nurse leaders. Detailed explanations, tools, examples, and resources are provided to help the learner appreciate, develop, and apply these core competencies and skills at their own practice.
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.
Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment for Healthcare Professionals
Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment for Healthcare Professionals

About the Course:
The purpose of this education program is to teach healthcare professionals how to prevent and/or deal with sexual harassment as well as how to report such harassment.
Social Determinants of Health for Health Care Professionals – N44140
Social Determinants of Health for Health Care Professionals – N44140

About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to identify the categories of social determinants of health (SDOH) for healthcare professionals, explain the differences and relationships between social determinants and behavioral factors and the possible effects on health, review population health and population management, and discuss the effect of COVID-19 on the SDOH.
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.
The New Business of Healthcare
The New Business of Healthcare

Dynamic and evolving changes continue to ensue in the healthcare industry, affecting all healthcare organizations. These changes affect the consumer and the work of healthcare providers in all types of care settings. This course provides nurses with the foundational components that comprise the business of healthcare and the movement toward a value-based healthcare system.
Using Evidence in Clinical Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition
Using Evidence in Clinical Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition

Evidence-based practice (EBP) relies on scientific research findings to modify or develop policies and procedures that incorporate the latest evidence into clinical practice. The purpose of this course is to help nurses incorporate nursing research findings into their practice for the maximum benefit of patients and the facilitation of professional growth and development.
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.
Workplace Sexual Harassment for California Health Care Professionals – N33527
Workplace Sexual Harassment for California Health Care Professionals – N33527

About the Course:
This course provides health care professionals with information to reduce the occurrences of sexual harassment, to work to prevent it, and to intervene when it occurs. The course meets the California requirement for 1 contact hour of sexual harassment and abusive conduct prevention training to non-managerial employees once every 2-year period.
A Nurses' Palette of Grief: Effects of COVID-19
A Nurses' Palette of Grief: Effects of COVID-19
About the Course
Clinicians working across all healthcare settings recognize the impact of personal and professional losses due to COVID-19. A major emphasis of this course is to provide an understanding of the impact of loss, grief, and bereavement on the clinician. Recognizing grief reactions in clinicians after a patient dies by the coronavirus is explored. Whether the learner is a bereaved clinician or a supervisor who wants to help their team, they will gain insight into coping with COVID-19 related loss, posttraumatic growth, and meaning making. The course also describes how clinicians can manage their grief by identifying their strengths and building their personal resilience.
Boundaries and Burnout: Strategies for Nurses to Maintain Self
Boundaries and Burnout: Strategies for Nurses to Maintain Self
In today’s fast-paced, high-demand world, it’s become hard to separate work and home. In addition, COVID has further blurred those lines causing us to be even more susceptible to burnout. Burnout impacts every part of our physical, social, and psychological self and can have dramatic effects. This course, presented by Trish Hart, a national expert in mindfulness and stress management, investigates the stages of burnout, how to prevent burnout, and stress management strategies to implement to continue to be a high performer and more mindful in your daily living.
Building and Leading High Performing Teams in Healthcare
Building and Leading High Performing Teams in Healthcare
About the Course
Building and leading high-performing teams in healthcare requires new approaches to teamwork and leadership. This course challenges the status quo and focuses on the emerging body of team science informed by multiple disciplines, to include social psychology, reliability science, organizational behavior, and crisis management.
This 10 lesson multimedia course provides essential information for both the novice and the expert in the development, participation, and management of teams. The basic components and principles for teamwork are presented as the foundation for the course and compared with the complexity and challenges encountered by healthcare teams during routine times and in times of crisis. Five stages of team development are presented, as well as practical exercises, tools, methods of inquiry, and strategies to overcome obstacles and optimize team performance.
The authors use an informal and engaging dialogue approach to present important content and methods needed to transform organizations into high performing interdisciplinary teams. It is through these teams that organizations will have the best opportunities for organizational change, clinical transformation, and improved patient safety. Throughout this course, learners are engaged with workbook activities and self-reflection.
COVID-19: Ethical Considerations for Nurses
COVID-19: Ethical Considerations for Nurses
About the Course
This course provides an overview of ethical issues encountered by nurses during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and will consider ethical issues that remain as we navigate our country’s “new normal.” The course reviews a variety ethical challenges nurses face, including issues of rationing, changes in end-of-life care practices, concerns about PPE shortages, and the related concept of the “duty to care” and staffing challenges. The connection between these issues and moral distress and the related idea of moral resilience are discussed, as well as the ongoing ethical issues nurses are likely to face as the pandemic continues to progress and evolve, and strategies for navigating these.
COVID-19: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement: Helping Families Cope
COVID-19: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement: Helping Families Cope
About the Course
COVID-19 has impacted nurses in a way that brings them together. They may be confronted by grieving family members in months, if not years to come. A major emphasis of this course is providing an understanding of how families mourn their loved ones during a pandemic. The course explores practical strategies to help bereaved families by identifying contemporary mourning theories and focuses on understanding how theories and models of loss, grief, and mourning can move families through their painful loss experience in a healthy and meaningful way.
Celebrating Nursing: Becoming the Best Version of Yourself
Celebrating Nursing: Becoming the Best Version of Yourself
About the Course
Nurses perform heroic acts every day, yet when called “heroes” they often downplay such compliments because they are just “doing their jobs.” This course is designed to provide inspiration and practical strategies to help nurses become more heroic in their practice and to believe that what they do makes a difference, providing a healthy dose of inspiration for nurses who are struggling with morale and burnout.
Crisis Readying Your Mind So You Can Better Serve Your Patients Through Challenging Times
Crisis Readying Your Mind So You Can Better Serve Your Patients Through Challenging Times
About the Course
Our current reality is that crisis is unprecedented; no one has all the answers. Every day there are new developments and amplifications in impact. People are scared and are seeking guidance and leadership. This course will help you get your mind “crisis ready” through strategic foresight and planning to embed this mindset, providing you an emotional and professional advantage in this volatile and escalating global pandemic. The course demonstrates how to proactively execute on a plan for the better of your well-being and that of your patients, colleagues, and community.
Cultural Competency in Healthcare: A Contemporary Perspective
Cultural Competency in Healthcare: A Contemporary Perspective
About the Course
Cultural competency is not a measured achievement but rather a continual awareness of implicit personal biases toward others. Implicit biases are learned unconscious views about particular people. This video aims to assist the learner in recognizing and reducing unintentional preconceptions.
Documentation: Are you Leaving Your License at Risk
Documentation: Are you Leaving Your License at Risk
About the Course
This webinar will provide a brief overview of nursing documentation, including practical techniques and potential legal consequences. Real-life scenarios will be presented that demonstrate how documentation can support or negate the patient care provided.
Easing COVID-19 Stress Through Yoga's Breath and Body Connection
Easing COVID-19 Stress Through Yoga's Breath and Body Connection
About the Course
When today’s world feels stressful and uncertain, the ancient practice of yoga offers tried-and-true techniques for focusing the mind, empowering the body, and soothing the spirit. During this course, longtime yoga teacher Becky Vollmer, Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) 500, will explain how yoga – including movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and meditation – can help improve flexibility and strength in the muscles, improve both mobility and stability in the joints, and engage the body’s parasympathetic nervous system to reduce physical and mental stress. You’ll learn simple breathing, stretching, strengthening, and mindfulness practices that can be done practically anywhere – whether on the job, in the car, or at home. No experience, no stretchy pants, and no yoga mat required!
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A World View
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A World View
About the Course
Although we have all considered the potential impact of emerging infectious disease, the world’s current battle with COVID-19 is shifting the hypothetical into a reality, impacting each global citizen. At the root are a variety of infectious pathogens, some representing a resultant disease and each featuring varying abilities to pass between people. The world has suffered from deadly infectious diseases for many years, with some pathogens resulting in far worse consequences than others. COVID-19 will pass with yet unknown societal impact. Nurses will always be on the front line – playing key roles in fighting the disease and showing their patients how to best adapt to life in a non-sterile world.
Emotional Intelligence and Team Collaboration
Emotional Intelligence and Team Collaboration
About the Course
Emotional intelligence and collaboration are intrinsic to healthcare under normal circumstances, but during a pandemic such as COVID-19, the stakes are higher, and lack of team cohesion can have dire consequences for staff and patients alike. In this course, nurse thought leader, holistic career coach, podcaster, and motivational speaker Keith “Nurse Keith” Carlson will lead you through the process of understanding the basics of emotional and relational intelligence; how to access such gifts within ourselves; and then to operationalize those gifts in the interest of saving lives, helping to prevent unnecessary workplace stress, and holding our overtaxed healthcare system together in these chaotic and uncertain times.
Exploring the Nurse Practitioner Career with Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald
Exploring the Nurse Practitioner Career with Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald
About the Course
The need for Nurse Practitioners (NPs) has grown significantly, opening the door to opportunities inside and outside of the clinical setting. During this course, Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald explains how earning a degree as a NP provides an education that offers an investment in your future, flexible programs and different specializations that prepare individuals for exciting and rewarding new career opportunities, the commitment to providing quality healthcare, and why it still makes sense to become a NP in today’s new normal.
From Exhaustion to Extraordinary: Strategies to Reverse Nurse Fatigue
From Exhaustion to Extraordinary: Strategies to Reverse Nurse Fatigue
About the Course
Imagine a world where everyone got along and went out of their way to support each other – where resources were abundant, and patients and their families were always happy and satisfied. Wouldn’t it be a joy to work in a world like that? The reality is that nurses work in unpredictable worlds where they don’t always support each other, have the necessary resources, and struggle to meet the increasing needs of patients. This course provides nurses with simple proven strategies to flip the switch from exhausted to extraordinary! Equipping yourself to deal with the daily challenges of your job can have an exponential impact on the work environment and patient care.
Healthcare Humor: Take Time to Laugh
Healthcare Humor: Take Time to Laugh
About the Course
Who would have ever thought that the first six months of 2020, “The Year of the Nurse,” would be like they were? Let’s take a confident look back on a tumultuous and crazy year in our profession. Never before have nurses been so needed and risen to the occasion! While a pandemic is never funny, we know that nurses are experts at using humor to cope in any situation. This promises to be a humorous, inspiring, thankful, and reflective presentation from someone on the front lines!
Helping Patients and their Families Cope with COVID-19 and Its Lasting Effects
Helping Patients and their Families Cope with COVID-19 and Its Lasting Effects
About the Course
We are told by some that the pandemic is abating. Cases are leveling out. We can enter our “new normal” at varying rates of speed. But what does this mean? The issue becomes even more confusing when we hear about the “second wave” of cases. Probably the biggest concern is that there are still so many unknowns. What does “new normal” look like? As with the pandemic itself, nurses will be called on to help others deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This course examines some of the possible long-term effects of this global health problem and explores potential ways nurses can help patients and their families deal with life after the pandemic.
Implicit Bias Core Course for Healthcare Professionals
Implicit Bias Core Course for Healthcare Professionals
About the Course
This course approaches Implicit Bias from a wide range of topics by several diversity experts. The course starts with core definitions of bias in both every day and professional life. It then expands to specific examples and strategies to deal with the same. Three national experts provide perspectives from three different points of view. There is then a dynamic panel discussion of three real world case studies illustrating various aspects of bias. Evaluation for the course is focused on personal assessments of understanding and beliefs. Learners are encouraged to complete the Harvard Implicit Bias assessments both before and following the course to determine if their beliefs and attitudes have changed. The desired outcome for this course is one of self-awareness and exploration of one’s one belief as well as strategies for increased understanding and modification.
Implicit Bias Education and Training in Healthcare
Implicit Bias Education and Training in Healthcare
About the Course
Implicit bias is a learned automatic stereotype that can be unintentional. It can be deeply ingrained, seemingly associative and has the potential to influence behavior. Every healthcare professional, regardless of what, where and how they practice cares for people from various backgrounds. This course will present evidence-based implicit bias training for healthcare professionals as well and medical and birthing centers.
Implicit Bias for Healthcare Leaders
Implicit Bias for Healthcare Leaders
About the Course
The Implicit Bias leadership course focuses on the changes required to reduce unconscious bias in the workplace. The intended audience is for leaders responsible for implementing programs to reduce implicit or unconscious bias. The course is presented by same team that provided the Implicit Bias Core Course for Healthcare Professionals. This 3-hour self-paced multimedia video course providers managers and leaders with strategies to use with their staff. The course also has a “toolkit” that may be downloaded by the leader to use as a staff guide or workbook.
Leading Nursing Innovation
Leading Nursing Innovation
About the Course
Nurses are often leaders and participants in innovation efforts across the health system yet lack formal knowledge of how innovation occurs. This course will discuss the evidence for why organizations and industries innovate, how successful innovation occurs, and the leadership characteristics that support change and innovation.
Leading With Compassion, Even When You Feel Emotionally Depleted
Leading With Compassion, Even When You Feel Emotionally Depleted
About the Course
The effects of COVID-19 are playing a devastating emotional and physical toll on healthcare providers – working around the clock, seeing the impacts of the virus up front and personal, missing one’s family, and not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Will it finally start getting better or is there still worse to come? Meanwhile, healthcare providers continue to give the care that is required while running on near-empty themselves. This course provides a framework and examples that help inspire ways to continue to lead with compassion when you’re fatigued, drained, and worried and will showcase the powerful effect this has on you, your patients and your community.
Mindful Avoidance of Maladaptive Coping
Mindful Avoidance of Maladaptive Coping
About the Course
It’s tempting to escape difficult emotions after a shift by shutting them out or drinking them away, but there are better ways to manage burdens. This course will help you cultivate a deeper awareness of your personal experience of stress and uncover tendencies to engage in unhealthy habits. You’ll learn powerful strategies to mindfully respond to internal and external stimuli, enabling yourself to be more fully present and proficient, not only at the bedside but in your capacity to care for the most important person in the room – YOU!
Nurse Leadership Resiliency
Nurse Leadership Resiliency
About the Course
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the burnout crises in the healthcare workforce, especially for nurses. Nurse leaders are an often overlooked role that can deal with additional job and organizational stressors. The purpose of this course is to deepen one’s understanding of the complex nature of burnout and secondary trauma in order to identify how to apply effective strategies for well-being.
Nurse Resilience in the Age of COVID-19
Nurse Resilience in the Age of COVID-19
About the Course
Both the personal and the professional aspects of resilience are of great importance in unprecedented times, and such times are upon us. In this course, we will discuss the topic of nurses’ resilience in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. What does it take to be a resilient nurse and human being when the winds of adversity are blowing? Let’s dive deep and discover the keys to building our resilience in the interest of our own well-being and survival.
Purpose, Passion, and a Path Forward
Purpose, Passion, and a Path Forward
About the Course
Many who have pursued a career as nurses and in healthcare feel like the profession chose us instead of us choosing it. Our deep-rooted passion for the caring and healing of others, our patients, and their families, calls us to the profession. And this passion is the life energy that fuels our commitment to our practice. During this course, you will learn how to disconnect from life’s competing priorities and reflect back on the passion that fuels you and the purpose that keeps you going. You’ll gain insights and inspiration to continue forward on a path of countless opportunities in the nursing profession.
Self-Care Shortcuts: Discover The Science Behind Your Story
Self-Care Shortcuts: Discover The Science Behind Your Story
About the Course
This presentation describes the science behind why our childhood experiences can play a significant role in our overall health and well-being throughout our lifetime. You will learn how to apply the findings of the ACEs Study to the contemporary world we, as nurses, live and work in today. The COVID-19 crisis presents a major challenge for provider’s emotional, mental, and physical health. The “what” we have learned about chronic toxic stress from the ACEs Study also applies to current conditions nurses are facing in the workplace; learn strategies to minimize the effects of toxic stress.
Stress and Self-Care for Nurses in the Time of COVID-19
Stress and Self-Care for Nurses in the Time of COVID-19
About the Course
This course provides a chance for participants to learn about the connections between stress and health, assess stress in their own lives, as well as learn, practice, and apply stress management strategies. Strategies include behavioral and cognitive changes, assertiveness, time management, nutrition, meditation, and other relaxation techniques. The course draws from the work of many theorists and researchers including Kabatt-Zinn, Benson, Folkman and Lazarus, and Candace Pert.
Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care in the Face of COVID-19
Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care in the Face of COVID-19
About the Course
In this course, holistic nurse career coach Keith “Nurse Keith” Carlson discusses how stress and burnout can sabotage a nurse’s ability to stay balanced, healthy, productive, and highly functional during chaotic times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic we all now face. We will also review simple yet effective self-care techniques for finding moments of sanity and health even amidst such a chaotic, frightening, and difficult moment in human history.
The Art of Giving a Cancer Patient Bad News
The Art of Giving a Cancer Patient Bad News
About the Course
This course provides insight into the issues that cancer patients face once diagnosed with advanced disease, how to effectively address them, and ways to become more comfortable discussing bad news, even talking about death. You will learn how to effectively support a patient and their family so that the patient is informed and able to participate in decision making about their care. How to orchestrate a good and peaceful death is presented, and in the end, you will have the resources and tools you need to improve your skill set in giving patients bad news and supporting them along their journey into end-of-life.
The Conscious Evolution of Your Nursing Career: Strategies for Success
The Conscious Evolution of Your Nursing Career: Strategies for Success
This course offers insights and strategies for the development and nurturing of a personalized, informed, thoughtful, and forward-thinking career journey. The course discusses why a clear and comprehensive career plan is necessary in the 21st century and how there is a burgeoning array of opportunities available for nurses who would like to expand their professional horizons. The course also presents strategies, such as building a robust professional network using assertive networking skills and online tools such as LinkedIn; the usefulness of personality assessments for self-knowledge; as well as why a targeted, strategic resume and personal brand are key to the successful and satisfying evolution of one’s nursing career.
The New Self-Care
The New Self-Care
About the Course
Let’s be real. If you’re working on the frontline, personal protective equipment isn’t the only commodity you’re short on! How about time? Could you use a few more hours in the day? We understand. We know how important your emotional and physical health are. We also understand that “time” is an issue. Finding time for self-care shouldn’t stress you out! We can’t add more hours to your day, but we can give you practical tips on how to calm your mind, body and brain anytime, anywhere.
Trust Matters: Regaining Trust During COVID-19
Trust Matters: Regaining Trust During COVID-19
This course was recorded from a live webinar that took place on February 10, 2021.
About the Course
Nursing has been named the most TRUSTED profession in America for the 19th consecutive year. What an amazing accomplishment. So why then is trust in such short supply within the profession? COVID-19 has amplified the declining levels of trust exponentially. Whether due to strains on staffing, poor organizational communication or PPE shortages, trust between frontline caregivers and nurse leaders has been negatively impacted. This course presents the inextricable link between Cultures of Trust and higher employee engagement, increased teamwork and empowerment, increased performance, and lower turnover. You will learn the role each of us can play in rebuilding trust that has eroded during the demands and stressors in the work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We Are All Public Health Nurses: How Your Practice Impacts the Health of Humanity
We Are All Public Health Nurses: How Your Practice Impacts the Health of Humanity
About the Course
Every nurse, regardless of what, where and how they practice, impacts public health through prevention, education, advocacy, activism, assessment, and evaluation. This course includes a definition and overview of public health, key initiatives on global, national, and regional levels and discusses ways that every nurse contributes to the health of larger populations. The crucial impact of an effective, large-scale vaccination program and how nurses play a lead role is also discussed. As the country and the world continues to manage the global COVID-19 pandemic and the health of national and global populations remain a top priority, this course and the discussion is timely and relevant for all nurse audiences.
What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare
What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare
About the Course
The purpose of this course is to provide a historical context of race and racism and its relationship to the development of racial implicit bias. The development of implicit bias will be discussed along with research demonstrating the impact of implicit bias on the clinical encounter. Recommendations for mitigating implicit bias are offered.
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