Nursing Courses

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

136 reviews

Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues.

• FutureLearn
• 4 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Carolina

Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes

10 reviews

Learn about the role of environment in disease transmission and how to implement standard and transmission-based precautions to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria and other infections in your facility.

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)

Now that you’ve carefully planned your patient safety and quality improvement project, the real work can begin. This course will introduce students to the unique challenges encountered when implementing, maintaining, and expanding a patient safety and qu…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Designing for Sustainment: Keeping Improvement Work on Track (Patient Safety IV)

Keeping patient safety and quality improvement projects on track, on time, and on budget is critical to ensuring their success. In this course, students will be introduced and given the opportunity to apply a series of tools to guide and manage patient s…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

How will you know if your patient safety and quality project is meeting its objectives? Peter Drucker once said “What gets measured, gets managed.” In this course, students will learn why measurement is critical to quality improvement work. Equally impor…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Neuromuscular Monitoring Course

This CME activity is designed for all anesthesia care providers to learn more about residual neuromuscular blockade and neuromuscular monitoring.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Essentials of Palliative Care

Palliative care can help ease suffering and improve wellbeing in people living with serious illnesses such as cancer. Palliative Care Always is an online, case-based course for health care practitioners who work in cancer care.

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

This course should be taken after the Essentials of Palliative Care course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support and goals of care. You will learn how to screen, assess, and manage both physical…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Supporting Families and Caregivers

This course takes a deep dive into the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend. Supporting Families and Caregivers especially focuses…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

This course should be taken after the Symptom Management course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support, goals of care and symptom management. You will explore transitions in care such as survivors…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

The Palliative Care Always Capstone course is designed to let you test your knowledge about palliative and help others understand the value of palliative care, while showing your creative side. In this course, you will impact community awareness about pa…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 4th Apr, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby

2 reviews

In this course, you will learn some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born.

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Knowledge and Skills for Dementia Care: the SSLD Approach

This course is designed and produced by Professor Ka Tat Tsang of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in collaboration with the Institute for Life Course and Aging at the University of Toronto. This course aims to inform learners about dementia…

• Coursera
• 29 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

GWU

Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety

1 review

Ensuring patient safety and healthcare quality is critical and should be a key focus of everyone in healthcare practice. This course provides healthcare practitioners and others with an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to lead patient safe…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Palliative Care Always

Palliative Care Always is a specialization for health care practitioners, patients and caregivers. We’ve designed this specialization to demonstrate how palliative medicine integrates with patient care, and to help you develop primary palliative care ski…

• Coursera
• 2 hours a week, 26 weeks long
• Paid Course
• 5 courses