Continuing Education Courses

NICU Care

Discover more about the prevention and treatment of intravenous extravasation injuries in neonates, including ultrasound-guided PICC placement in NICU patients, new products and techniques for securement of central venous catheters and extended dwell intravenous catheters.

CLINICAL CARE

Benefits of proper positioning | Goal of supportive positioning and positioning practices | Parent and family integration and partnership | Implications for providing individualized, supportive care

EQUITABLE CARE

Learners will be able to define health care disparities | Describe upstream factors that preclude the delivery of equitable health care | Share critical steps to reduce the gulf between healthcare disparities and health equity.

EQUITABLE CARE

This CE opportunity helps healthcare professionals learn the history of black women’s health and how to advocate for them in a medical setting. The discussion covers how the biological concepts of race, structural racism and implicit bias contribute to health inequalities.

EQUITABLE CARE

Target Audience: OT, SLP, PT, RN, MD and Neonatal professionals. Learners will review trends in neonatal/maternal mortality with emphasis on racial disparities, highlighting life course perspective and social determinants of health. 6 areas of expertise for neonatal therapists are highlighted to improve health equity by directly empowering marginalized parents.

EQUITABLE CARE

Dr. Nurse is a Women’s Health Practitioner and Associate Professor at the Nelda C. Stark College of Nursing. This CE will focus on bias, microaggression, impact on patient outcomes and interventions for nurses to assist in providing respectful nursing care.

EQUITABLE CARE

Learn how to apply an equity-informed approach to your nursing practice, while also identifying determinants of health and how they impact neonatal outcomes. Explore what actions can be taken to promote equity within your institution or community.

MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Discuss strategies to fuel post-traumatic growth, restore commitment levels, build sustainable resiliency, evolve people, and revitalize spirits from the demands of 2020-2021.

MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP

At the 2023 NICU Leadership Forum, family nurse practitioner, Tad Adugnaw Worku, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CEN discusses the importance of seeking hope in the face of challenges and how it takes courage to find it. In this symposium, Worku offers up knowledge and experience on how stories, music, relationships and hope can shape us and help us recognize the good around us.

MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Hear from Terry S. Johnson, APN, NNP-BC, ASPPS, CLEC, MN and the Academy of Neonatal Nursing on the latest developments of neonatal nursing, opportunities to improve the quality of care and how you can develop a personalized plan for your future. This course offers one continued education credit for participants.

MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Examining the many challenges nurses are currently facing, while highlighting the critical impact they have on patients, families, and society at large. Learn to identify strategies to strengthen your personal engagement, as well as actions you can take to increase your impact.

NICU CLINICAL CARE

Identify key components of developmental care to support long-term outcomes in preterm infants | Strategies to promote brain and sensory development | Incorporating parents | Mitigation of pain and discomfort

NICU CLINICAL CARE

Review common myths and misperceptions in the care of opioid-exposed mother infant dyads | Support families impacted by substance use disorder at a vulnerable time following delivery | Provide non-stigmatizing, patient-centered, trauma informed care to opioid-exposed dyads in the inpatient or outpatient setting

SKIN CARE

Strategy to address skin issues that challenge nurses in routine care of premature and full-term NICU patients | Causes of skin compromise serve as basis for evidence-based approach for facilitating skin development and preventing and restoring skin damage

SLEEP

Dr. Charlotte Wool discusses the importance of sleep and offers strategies that will personally benefit professionals like you and those in your care. After viewing this webinar, you will be well equipped to apply sleep assessment tools, understand the dangers of poor sleep patterns, and gain approaches to support the crucial “sleep drive.”

MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Discusses how to not only survive in times of crisis, but to ensure that your team comes through these times better for it, evolved by it, and changed from it. Learn how to leverage these current challenges and develop increased resilience in your teams.

NICU CLINICAL CARE

Explore the challenges to team-based interdisciplinary care when caring for infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

NICU CLINICAL CARE

Describe the current trends in the incidence of NAS in the US and at least one effect this trend has on the healthcare system and/or on NICU’s | Outline two or more challenges frequently encountered when using clinical assessment tools for infants with NAS, and two recent innovations | List three pharmacologic and/or non-pharmacologic treatment options for infants with NAS | Discuss two reasons why understanding local data prior to implementing process change is critical for a program’s success