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Catalog number Course Description Member Price Non-Member Price  
PSNA_CE08-004 Mastering the Art of Politics
FREE
$10.00
This course will help you identify the steps in becoming a politically active nurse and understand the importance of the 'collective voice' of a nursing organization's political influence.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE08-005 Pennsylvania Workforce Development: What Healthcare Leaders Need To Know
FREE
$10.00
After completing this article, the reader will be able to: 1. Demonstrate broad knowledge of the Pennsylvania Workforce Development system. 2. Articulate the difference between training/education and workforce development initiatives. 3. Identify resources within the Pennsylvania Workforce Development system that may be beneficial to their own professional development and to their employer organization.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE08-006 Nurses Serve on Front Line of Battle with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
FREE
$10.00
1. The reader should have a basic understanding of the symptoms and characteristics of CMT.
2. The reader should know whom patients can be referred to for further assistance and education.
3. The reader should become familiar with research strategies that hold promise for a treatment or cure for CMT.
4. The reader should understand how to help a patient prepare for a clinic visit.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   0.8
PSNA_CE09-001 Do You Know What Your Patients Are Learning On-Line?
FREE
$10.00
Objectives: " Discuss the patterns of online health seeking behaviors of U.S. adults " Analyze the role of the professional nurse in assisting patients with access and prudent use of online health services
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE09-003 Nursing in disaster situations: Are you prepared to answer the call?
FREE
$10.00
Nurses, invariably, are ambivalent about disaster training. We know that "theoretically" disaster can strike at any given time without notice, but we also tend to believe that disasters could never affect us. But what happens when disaster does strike? Are you prepared to meet the demands of the disaster situation? In this article we will explore disaster response from a slightly different perspective-the individual nurse and the general skills needed to respond in times of disaster.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   0.5
PSNA_CE09-004 Transcultural Perspective of Perinatal Loss and Bereavement: An Overview
FREE
$10.00
As perinatal providers, we deal with the families who suffer a perinatal loss from an ever-widening variety of ethnic and cultural groups as the face of America changes. Therefore, we need to have a better understanding of how to assist these culturally diverse families during their loss.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.1
PSNA_CE09-005 Understanding Living Wills and DNR Orders
FREE
$10.00
A living will is a document intended to convey a patient's preferences regarding end-of-life healthcare decisions when the patient cannot express them personally to a physician or other healthcare provider. A living will directs healthcare providers or a patient's authorized representative about the types of medical care the patient wishes to have provided or to forgo at the end of life, consistent with the patient's values and autonomy. A do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order is a medical order issued by a physician or other practitioner authorized to issue medical orders that directs clinicians not to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest. A DNR order, by itself, does not address the withdrawal or withholding of any medical care other than resuscitation.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE09-006 Medication Errors Associated with Documented Allergies
FREE
$10.00
The selection of appropriate medications and dosages is dependent upon the availability and review of critical patient information. Without patient-specific clinical information, such as age, weight, allergies, diagnosis, and laboratory values, healthcare practitioners cannot develop safe and effective treatment plans. As many as 18% of serious, preventable adverse drug events stem from practitioners having insufficient information about the patient before prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.1
PSNA_CE09-007 Hospice Myths: What is Hospice Really About?
FREE
$10.00
Hospice. The word alone can incite fear in those who hear it. Why? Often, when people hear the word "hospice," certain images come to mind: a loved one in bed - a loved one dying without food or water - a loved one who is lacking skilled care.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   0.8
PSNA_CE10-0001 Pressure Ulcers - New Staging, Reporting, and Risk Reduction Strategies
FREE
$10.00
The goal of this revision was to increase the number of correctly staged pressure ulcers.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE10-0002 Safety in the MR Environment
FREE
$10.00
Effective screening of patients and nonmagnetic resonance personnel before entering the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is an extremely important process in ensuring the safety of individuals in the magnetic resonance (MR) environment.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE10-0003 What's in a Title?
FREE
$10.00
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   0.6
PSNA_CE10-0004 Nursing Practice Breakdowns
FREE
$10.00
Registered nurses (RNs) practice safe and effective nursing care day after day. They are quietly delighted when their caregiving efforts result in patients feeling better and getting better (Pask, 2003). They make a difference in patients lives and are compassionate and caring. In spite of institutional and personal stressors, most nurses put the welfare of their patients first (Rudolfsson, von Post & Eriksson, 2007) and adhere to ethical codes of behavior (Fagerström, 2006).
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.1
PSNA_CE10-0005 Medication Errors: Significance of Accurate Patient Weights
FREE
$10.00
A patients weight is important information because it is often used to calculate the appropriate medication dose. When medication errors arise due to inaccurate or unknown patient weights, the dose of a prescribed medication could be significantly different from what is appropriate. Nearly 480 event reports submitted to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority specifically mentioned medication errors that resulted from breakdowns during the process of obtaining, documenting, and/or communicating patient weights. Analysis reveals that 67.2% of the events reached the patient. The unit mentioned most frequently in reports was the emergency department. All the frequently mentioned medications can be dosed based on a patients weight (i.e., weight-based dosing), and 5 of the top 10 medications are high-alert medications. Breakdowns described in reports most frequently involved failures to obtain accurate patient weight measurements. Once a value was obtained, errors arose from misuse of that value. Examples include problems when patients arrive at a hospital and are not weighed, leading to estimates of patient weights; assumptions that documented weights are current and/or accurate; and documentation breakdowns (e.g., the patient is weighed in pounds, but the weight is erroneously documented as kilograms). Strategies to address these problems include providing all units with the necessary equipment to weigh patients, weighing every patient during triage or admission to facilities, and weighing patients and documenting patient weights only in kilograms. (Pa Patient Saf Advis 2009 Mar;6[1]:10-5.)
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0
PSNA_CE10-0006 Patient Screening and Assessment in Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
FREE
$10.00
Ambulatory surgical facilities (ASFs) provide surgical care to patients who do not require hospital admission for their postoperative care. The popularity and growth of ASFs on a national scale has been attributed to an increased throughput of patients, reduction in staff and surgical costs, and more personalized care. Along with the progression in volume, increasingly complex procedures are being performed at ASFs. In addition, patients with more complex medical conditions are having surgery in the ASF setting. Thorough initial assessment of patients is required to identify any concerns or disease processes, such as obstructive sleep apnea or cardiovascular disease, which could potentially cause intraoperative or postoperative problems. From June 2004 to December 2008, the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority received 467 reports related to the preoperative screening or assessment process in ASFs. Two hundred three of these reports indicate the patient experienced harm. Risk factors are discussed, as well as processes to ensure a thorough preoperative screening and assessment of patients to identify risk factors.
% to Pass 80%   Contact Hours   1.0

PA State Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

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