Courses

The Nursing Assistant Fundamentals specialization prepares students for a successful Nursing Assistant career in diverse healthcare settings, emphasizing patient care assistance, health care setting navigation, effective communication in healthcare, hygiene and safety protocols, and patient mobility and comfort. IMPORTANT: This specialization is not designed to prepare students for national certification. Enrollees will gain the foundational/fundamental knowledge on subject matter relevant to the profession. However, to gain industry certification, a more comprehensive program must be completed through enrollment via approved/eligible schools such as MedCerts.

Nursing Assistant Essentials is a beginner-level course designed to build the fundamental knowledge and skills to provide compassionate and effective patient care. Through these three lessons, students will learn how to support patients across various healthcare settings. In Lesson 1: The Workplace: Health Care Settings, students explore the diverse environments where nursing assistants work, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care settings. Lesson 2: The Nursing Assistant Role delves into the specific duties of a nursing assistant, including patient interaction, assisting with daily activities and providing essential support to nursing teams. Students learn to communicate effectively with patients and other healthcare professionals, fostering a positive and supportive care environment. In Lesson 3: Daily Hygiene: Grooming, Bathing, Toileting, Oral Care, and Dressing, students gain hands-on knowledge of assisting patients with personal hygiene tasks. They learn the proper techniques for ensuring patient comfort, dignity, and safety while performing essential daily care routines. This course is unique in its practical, patient-centered approach, blending theoretical understanding with essential hands-on skills to prepare students for real-world healthcare roles.

This specialization is intended for people seeking to understand better the role of a certified nursing assistant (CNA). You'll learn about the tasks and nursing care provided by CNAs and how they fulfill a critical role within the healthcare system.

Considering a career as a certified nursing assistant (CNA)? Learn about the critical responsibilities of CNAs to help you determine if it's the right job for you.

Do you know what it takes to become a certified nursing assistant (CNA)? In this course, you'll learn about the basics of becoming a CNA, including exploring training programs and requirements, covering personal care topics, vital signs, range of motion, restorative care, and rehabilitative care.

This introductory course on watsonx Assistant is designed for anyone interested in exploring the latest advancements in Generative AI and how they can enhance customer and employee experiences through the creation of AI assistants.

Nursing 301: Nursing Informatics has been evaluated and recommended for 3 semester hours and may be transferred to over 2,000 colleges and universities. This self-paced course is taught by expert instructors who use a fun and simple teaching style. Finish this course to earn transfer credit and save money in school.

Medical Nursing and Infectious Disease Nursing are core courses in the nursing major. They were awarded national-level online quality courses in 2016 and 2022 respectively. These courses are provided for nearly 800 second-year university students majoring in three-year vocational nursing, midwifery, oral nursing, traditional Chinese medicine nursing, and foreign-related nursing programs as pre-class previews and post-class reviews. They also cater to individuals in society who have a passion for nursing and possess equivalent educational backgrounds, allowing them to engage in self-directed learning.The course content primarily covers nursing knowledge related to common diseases in the eight major systems of medical nursing, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, coronary heart disease, peptic ulcer, and iron-deficiency anemia. Infectious Disease Nursing mainly focuses on teaching about diseases such as COVID-19, AIDS, and viral hepatitis. The concise and informative video content, with in-depth yet easily understandable explanations of diseases, is closely integrated with the content of the nurse licensing examination. This effectively enhances students' interest in learning and improves teaching effectiveness. This international MOOC is based on two national-level quality courses in Medical Nursing and Infectious Disease Nursing, selecting common clinical diseases in internal medicine and infectious diseases for English explanations. The instructors have over ten years of work and clinical experience and hold "Bi-qualified teacher" qualifications. They are able to combine the content of the Chinese Nurse Licensing Examination and the US Registered Nurse (RN) Examination to provide explanations.Each disease introduction is case-based, utilizing problem-based learning (PBL) teaching methods. The course employs self-developed information resources such as diagrams, tables, animations, videos, etc., to present the key points and difficult concepts in a clear and concise manner. Each video is short but packed with essential information, condensing lengthy knowledge from textbooks. The teaching style is lively and engaging, and there are summary and recap sessions before and after each lecture to facilitate student consolidation and review. This MOOC serves as a valuable assistant for self-directed learning and blended teaching approaches.

Gain insights into the life of a US Air Force Flight Nurse as Tim Davis, a Cardiac Cath Lab Nurse at Mary Greeley Medical Center, shares his experiences from a recent deployment to Afghanistan. Discover how nursing skills and knowledge are applied in challenging military environments, and learn about the unique aspects of flight nursing during this 39-minute talk. Explore the intersection of civilian and military healthcare as part of a special Nurses Week presentation highlighting nurses who extend their expertise beyond the hospital setting.

The structure of this program is designed to allow for flexible studying to fit around your life. You can study at your own pace and at a time which suits you, with a dedicated support team and online facilitators to help you every step of the way. This enables a wide group of UK and internationally-based nurses with demanding workplace schedules to still benefit from career development opportunities. There is a global need for postgraduate nursing skills, so our online MSc Nursing course has been developed to meet that need with life-changing learning and enhanced career development.

Nursing as a profession has been developed very rapidly, so nursing research has become a major force in the nursing profession to change practice, education, and health policy. Through the nursing research, nurses can refine the existing knowledge, generate new knowledge, and provide nursing clients with evidence-based practice. By doing so, it can promote high quality, cost-effective health care outcomes for patients and families, and other nursing clients. Therefore, It is critically important that all nurses should have an understanding of research and its link to the development of evidence-based practice for nursing.In this course, the team has shared the basic knowledge, skills, and the experience on nursing research with students. The students will learn how to conduct a nursing research step-by-step. At the end of the course, students will finish one research proposal under the help of the team. This proposal might be implemented in the near future in the realistic world by students.

You will identify ways to implement the six principles of Integrative Nursing in your work setting, then learn how to practice and apply specific integrative therapies at work, in alignment with the research evidence and safety and quality considerations. In short, you will be ready to partner with patients on developing a plan of integrative care that fits their needs and preferences. Each course is eligible for Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards.

This course explores the principles of professionalism in nursing and healthcare. Learners will understand the importance of ethics, accountability, and integrity in clinical practice. Through practical examples, the course highlights how professional behavior, cultural competence, and ethical decision-making enhance patient trust, teamwork, and quality of care.

Gerontological nursing is a subject that studies the characteristics of physical health, mental health and disease care for the elderly, as well as preventive health care for the elderly, from physiological, psychological, socio-cultural and developmental perspective of the elderly. This course focuses on the knowledge of aging and care systems for the elderly, health assessment for the elderly, daily care for the elderly, mental health and mental care, medication safety and nursing, common health problems and care during sickness, hospice care, etc. The lecturer provides meticulous, lively and systematic teaching, combined with case-based teaching and the latest development in elderly care in China as well as globally, to present learners with the knowledge and skills of caring for the elderly. Therefore, students of this course, in their future clinical practice, will be able to help the elderly achieve or maintain optimal health status, as well as help them to pass away with peace and dignity, thereby improving their quality of life, and contributing to the process of active aging.

"Rehabilitation Nursing" is a career development course of higher vocational nursing major, which is an integrated course of science and practice. It requires students to master the rehabilitation nursing evaluation and technology of the disabled, the elderly and people with common chronic diseases. The total credit hours of the course is 32 credit hours, including the basic theory of rehabilitation nursing, rehabilitation nursing evaluation, rehabilitation nursing technology and rehabilitation nursing for common diseases. The purpose of the course is to promote students to master the rehabilitation nursing evaluation, operation technology and health guidance of stroke, craniocerebral injury, cervical spondylosis, senile dementia and other diseases, so as to improve the quality of life of patients.

Geriatric Nursing is targeted at third-year undergraduate students majoring in nursing in full-time programs, with an annual enrollment of 1500 to 2000 students in China. Based on the core and key content of geriatric nursing and incorporating the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine institutions, this course is divided into four major parts: General Introduction (primarily introducing important concepts, backgrounds, physical and mental assessments of the elderly, and medication nursing characteristics related to geriatric nursing), Nursing Care for Common Health Problems in the Elderly (focusing on the most clinically common health issues in the elderly such as falls, frailty, wasting-malnutrition, presbyacusis, and senile constipation), Nursing Care for Common Diseases in the Elderly (focusing on diseases specific to the elderly such as degenerative osteoarthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and gastroesophageal reflux disease in the elderly), and Common Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Techniques for the Elderly. Through meticulous, vivid, and systematic explanations by the instructors, learners are presented with systematic knowledge of geriatric health and diseases, as well as common traditional Chinese medicine nursing skills for caring for the elderly.

You will identify ways to implement the six principles of Integrative Nursing in your work setting, then learn how to practice and apply specific integrative therapies at work, in alignment with the research evidence and safety and quality considerations. In short, you will be ready to partner with patients on developing a plan of integrative care that fits their needs and preferences. Each course is eligible for Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards.

Explore how to build a truly personal AI assistant that knows you as an individual in this 19-minute conference talk from the AI Engineer World's Fair. Discover why current large language models like GPT-4, despite their massive training datasets, cannot provide personalized assistance without significant user input. Learn about an innovative approach that creates a personal, private, and proactive AI assistant by downloading your transaction logs from major consumer platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, DoorDash, Strava, and Uber directly to your local device. Understand how implementing a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system using this personal data enables immediate utility without requiring extensive user configuration. Gain insights into how a modest amount of powerful personal data can unlock the true potential of personalized AI assistance, moving beyond generic responses to truly individualized support.

Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Nursing Grand Rounds “ Nursing Burnout and Coping Strategies, 6/21/2021 8:00:00 AM - 6/21/2024 8:00:00 AM, This presentation will provide education on the topic of nursing burnout including risk factors for developing burnout, signs and symptoms, and methods for prevention and treatment. A variety of coping strategies and practical leadership qualities will be discussed. A brief overview of a recent project evaluating nurses™ knowledge of burnout on a medical-surgical unit at DHMC will be reviewed along with the results of the project. Activity Details View Presentation Presenter Katie D. Smith, MSN, RN, CNL Antibiotic Nurse Specialist, Infectious Disease & International Health, DHMC Learning Outcome(s) At the conclusion of this activity, (at least 75% of) participants will be able to identify burnout in nurses in order to offer optimal prevention and treatment options. Disclosure The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose. *A financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy. Bibliographic Resources Reference list is included at the end of the presentation.

Explore nursing inquiry resources and learn how to access them in this informative conference talk from the 2023 SHINE Conference. Discover valuable insights from Stella Seal, MLS, Lead Informationist at the Johns Hopkins Welch Library, as she delves into the various tools and resources available to nurses for advancing their research and practice. Gain a deeper understanding of how libraries support nursing science and enhance your ability to utilize these essential resources effectively. Perfect for nurses, researchers, and healthcare professionals looking to expand their knowledge and improve their information-seeking skills in the field of nursing.