Healthcare professionals face a challenge when caring for Americans with heart failure, and this patient population is increasing. This module provides information about medical therapy, best practice recommendations for treatment and interprofessional collaboration.

When caring for post-cesarean section patients, nurses must be able to assess for signs of infection, as well as educate the patient on proper wound care. This module provides evidence-based guidelines on these topics.

Evidence-based practice helps leaders make effective decisions based on research and knowledge rather than traditions, hunches and the advice of colleagues. This CE activity explores five evidence-based strategies to improve leadership effectiveness.

Research shows suctioning, saline instillation and chest physiotherapy techniques need to be updated so the lungs can be cleared more safely and efficiently. This module reviews three key areas of secretion management: suctioning timing and techniques, and more.

Nurses can use technology to access resources that can help them provide patients with the best evidence-based interventions and treatments. This CE module reviews the evidence behind breathing trials for patients on mechanical ventilation, preventing CLABSIs and other topics.

As with parenteral chemotherapy, patient outcomes for oral therapy depend on effective patient education, adherence to the prescribed regimen and management of treatment-related symptoms. This module explores the effective management of patients receiving oral chemotherapy.

This comprehensive six-contact hour course provides evidence-based information for an interprofessional collaborative approach to effective, safe, patient-centered pain management to achieve improved outcomes.

IV therapy and vascular access devices have become so common that it’s easy to forget that serious complications can arise from improper assessment and care. Patient safety requires that clinicians dealing with these devices be knowledgeable about current evidence-based guidelines.

Having sound decision-making skills makes the difference between keeping patients safe and putting them in harm’s way. This educational activity reviews key studies and addresses the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for critical thinking and clinical reasoning.

The nurse’s understanding of CLABSI and evidence-based bundle practice can significantly improve patient outcomes. This CE activity informs nurses of the severity and causes of central line-associated bloodstream infections and describes the central-line bundle.