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• We've Listened
By Karen Siroky, RN, MSN, director of education
In the coming months, RN.com users will see exciting changes to our site, culminating in a new site launch during the second quarter of this year. Read more
• RN.com Offers Group Education Discounts
Why not help your staff members keep their licenses current with RN.com? RN.com offers 100 top courses that your staff want and need! Content is accredited in all 50 states by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. By providing courses online, RN.com offers a simple solution for your staff to earn continuing education credits that can be taken anytime and anywhere. Group discount rates are available for your facility or department. Read more
• Professional Online Networking for Nurses is Finally Here
Do you want to get in touch with what’s happening in nursing? Reconnect with former colleagues and meet new friends? Share on-the-job experiences you’ve had and learn about those of others? Stay on top of all the latest trends and news in the industry? You can find all this and more in one convenient place: NurseConnect.com, the online community where nurses network. It’s free and it’s fun. Sign up today!
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RN.com recently added:
• Accidental Childhood Poisoning
Health care professionals can learn useful information about poisoning in children in this two-contact-hour nursing education course. Read more
• Autism and Other ASDs
This one-contact-hour nursing education course provides information about autism and other autism spectrum disorders. Read more
• Work Smarter, Not Harder: Critical Thinking Skills
Develop and apply critical thinking skills in everyday practice in this three-contact-hour nursing education course. Utilize the seven steps of critical thinking. Read more
The following course has been updated with the latest and most reliable information available:
• Fast Facts about Premature Ovarian Failure
This one-contact-hour continuing education course presents health care providers with information about the current pharmacological treatment for common pediatric mental health. Read more
• The Healthy Pregnancy
Learn about the syndrome of premature ovarian failure , its causes, treatments and complications in this two-contact-hour continuing education course. The course also addresses associated fertility issues. Read more
• The Mystery of Pete's Seizures
This four-contact-hour continuing education course uses a "mystery" format to teach about the critical issue of monitoring drug therapy. Join our sleuth as she discovers the reasons behind the increase in seizures in one of her patients. Read more
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• Nurses Take Action to Improve Babies' and Moms' Health
By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
The optimal time to start preparing for a healthy pregnancy comes before conception, and nurses play an important role in ensuring women know what steps they can take to improve their odds of a good outcome. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified more than a dozen risk factors and conditions requiring intervention before pregnancy to be effective. Read more
• Cultural Competence in Diabetes Care
By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
Educating patients with diabetes to properly care for themselves and to keep their blood sugars under control requires sensitivity to cultural influences, food preferences and established behavioral patterns. When nurses tailor the message to different ethnic groups, it improves adherence and outcomes. Read more
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Unwanted Travel Companions: Bed Bugs
By Robin Varela, RN, BSN, content specialist
It’s midnight, and feeling exhausted after a long flight, you finally arrive at your hotel. You drop your bags on the floor and flop down on the bed. Moments later, you feel something brush your leg and an odd thought crosses your mind about something your friend said right before you left on vacation – "Don’t let the bed bugs bite!" Now you are wide awake. Was she joking or what? According to the Centers for Disease Control, there has been a resurgence of bed bugs in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Read more
• Preparing for Climate Change
By Robin Varela, RN, BSN, content specialist
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, climate change is not speculation, it's documented fact. Not to be confused with global warming, climate change is different and is a much larger phenomenon than global warming. It includes any significant change in various measures of climate such as precipitation, wind or temperature that can last for decades or longer. Health care professional should be aware of the correlation between weather events and the health effects on at-risk populations. Read more
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Limiting the Risk of Needleless IV Infections
By Robin Varela, RN, BSN, content specialist
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices recently reported an unexpected increase to intravenous infection rates directly linked to needleless IV systems. According to the Institute, health care professionals are omitting two important infection control practices when it comes to using a needleless system for IV therapy. Read more
• Virus Sharing
By Robin Varela, RN, BSN, content specialist
Virus sharing? Most of us want to avoid anything remotely close to "virus sharing." However, scientists and researchers routinely share virus samples from around the world in an ongoing quest to develop new and improved vaccines against viral illness. Read more
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