This course will require the average learner 1,500 minutes to complete and awards 30 contact hours of nursing continuing education.

After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

• List and discuss three issues faced by modern day nurses.
• List three best practices and three practices to avoid for proper nursing documentation.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of seasonal influenza infection, including red flags which indicate serious infections.
• Understand the importance of patient education and proper vaccination in the prevention of spread of the measles virus.
• Identify the basics of diagnosis and treatment of asthma in children.
• Identify the importance of fluid resuscitation in sepsis and list three measurements or end-goals that may be utilized to guide fluid resuscitation.
• List four strategies that can be utilized to increase adherence to the one hour treatment window for sepsis patients.
• Identify the proper care and monitoring required for patients with chest tubes, including basic troubleshooting for chest tubes.

Target audience:

RN (Registered Nurses)

LVN (Licensed Practical Nurses)

APRN (Advanced Practice Nurses)

Requirement for completion:

1.) Enrollment in the course by the learner

2.) Read and learn all course materials

3.) Complete the course evaluation

4.) Attest and testify learning of the course materials

Course offering: #16

Accreditations and approvals:

ANCC (Provider# P0614)
California BRN (Provider # 17418)
Kentucky Board of Nursing (Provider# 7-0090)

Course expiration date: April 1, 2022

Conflict of interest statement: Nursing CE Central nor any of the authors, planners, content experts or any contributors have a commercial interest nor were influenced by commercial interests in the creation of this course, financially or otherwise.

This course contains similar content and/or objectives to the following courses. Users who take the course “2019 comprehensive nursing update” may not receive credit for any of the following individual courses:

1.) Issues faced by modern day nurses

2.) Nursing documentation: how to guard your license

3.) Influenza: recognition, treatment, and reg flags

4.) Measles: The forgotten virus is making a comeback

5.) Childhood asthma: Prevention, recognition, and treatment

6.) Fluid resuscitation in sepsis: How much and what kind

7.) The one hour sepsis bundle: How to act in 60 minutes

8.) Chest tubes 101

9.) Drains: Everything you need to know

10.) Care of the aortic stenosis patient undergoing transaortic valve replacement (TAVR)

11.) Liver transplant: Beyond the basics