What Are the Continuing Education Requirements for Registered Nurses in Virginia

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The courses included in this license renewal pacakage cover topics such as Medication Error Prevention and Working as an Interprofessional Team. Click show more for a full list of include courses.

• Preventing Violence in the Healthcare Setting - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to enhance nurses' ability to deal with violence in the healthcare setting. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Identify five risk factors for violence in a healthcare setting
     • List five warning signs of an impending violent outburst
     • Identify three interventions that could prevent violence
  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Clearing Up the Confusion About Delirium - No Test

  1. The goal of this delirium continuing education program is to inform nurses and social workers about the characteristics of delirium, conditions under which delirium may occur, and nursing actions that are indicated. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Identify conditions that may be associated with delirium across the life span.
     • Describe the most common symptoms of delirium.
     • Discuss the appropriate nursing actions when delirium is suspected.

  2. Connie Vogel

     PhD, RN, CNS-BC, CNE

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Nursing Theory: At the Heart of Practice - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education course is to help nurses to realize how using nursing theory improves care for individuals, families, and communities; to recognize types of theoretical works in nursing; and to understand the basis of several nursing theories. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession.
     • Discuss types of theoretical works in nursing.
     • Identify the major focus of selected nursing theories.

  2. Beth L. Rodgers

     PhD, RN, FAAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Prescription Drug Abuse: Knowing the Danger Signs - No Test

  1. The goal of this CE module is to provide nurses with information about prescription drug abuse, high-risk groups, factors related to misuse, and assessment/treatment strategies.After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify three populations at greatest risk for prescription drug abuse.
     • Discuss two reasons why healthcare providers may over prescribe drugs of abuse.
     • Discuss medications that are high risk for abuse and associated adverse effects.
     • Describe two assessment strategies for suspected patient prescription drug abuse.

  2. Susanne J. Pavlovich-Danis

     MSN, ARNP-C, CDE, CRRN

     Michael G. Danis

     BSN, RN, CCRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Document It Right: Would Your Charting Stand Up to Scrutiny? - No Test

  1. The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with information about the value of laws and standards governing nursing documentation, legal basics for appropriate documentation, and techniques for documenting changes in a patient's condition. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • Provide the legal definition of nursing negligence
     • Describe four characteristics of legally credible charting
     • Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal problems

  2. Julie Smith Jonson

     JD, BSN, RN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• A Complementary and Integrative Practices Potpourri - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to familiarize nurses, physical therapists, and respiratory therapists with current practice uses of some of the most popular complementary and integrative healthcare modalities.

     • Differentiate between the practices of complementary, alternative, and conventional medicine.
     • Identify current complementary health practices used in the U.S.
     • Describe at least 10 different complementary therapies that healthcare professionals can learn and incorporate into their care.

  2. Sooa Devereaux

     MSN, RN-BC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Transformational Leadership: A Growing Promise for Nursing - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education program is to inform nurses about transformational leadership in healthcare. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

     • State the four components of transformational leadership.
     • Compare transactional and transformational leadership styles.
     • Discuss the relationship between transformational leadership in healthcare organizations, workplace empowerment, job satisfaction among nurses, and positive patient outcomes.

  2. Rose O. Sherman

     EdD, RN, NEA-BC, CNL, FAAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing professionals with an up-to-date overview of cervical cancer in order to improve and inform patient care. After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three risk factors for cervical cancer.
     • Describe the classification of cervical dysplasia.
     • Appraise current treatment modalities for cervical dysplasia depending on unique cytology results.

  2. Jennifer Stephens

     PhD(c), MA, RN, OCN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Ethics for Nurses - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of ethics as it applies to nursing care, as well as provide guidance for ethical dilemmas as they arise in your daily practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
     • Apply these standards to patient situations that often present as morally distressing.
     • Identify how to foster a culture of ethics within the acute care setting.

  2. Nicole Strickland

     BA, BSN, RN, CPAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• The Art and Science of Caring - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to reinforce and teach nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the combined art and science of caring.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify caring practices and theories.
     • Recognize the effect that nurse caring has on patient experience and outcomes.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Lorry Schoenly

     PhD, RN, CCHP-RN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Emotional Intelligence Helps Nurses Work Smart - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to introduce nurses in healthcare settings to the concept of EI, describe how it can help nurses enhance their work lives, and provide strategies for developing one's own EI.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Define emotional intelligence and its relevance to nursing.
     • Identify at least three components of emotional intelligence and four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.

  2. Sheila J. Leis

     MS, RN, BC

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Working as an Interprofessional Team - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to enhance the knowledge and ability of nurses, health educators, dietitians, and radiology technologists in the acute care setting to work as cohesive members of the interprofessional team.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the characteristics of a healthcare professional who uses the interprofessional approach to patient care.
     • Apply the principles of interprofessional teamwork in specific patient scenarios.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• How to Develop Your Leadership Potential - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses with practical strategies to help them establish customized plans for developing their leadership potential.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss why it is important for nurses to develop leadership potential.
     • Identify effective leadership styles and characteristics.
     • Describe ways to develop leadership characteristics.

  2. Ashley Coffey

     RN, BSN, BA

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide an overview for respiratory therapists (RTs) and nurses in the acute care setting on mechanical ventilation and the weaning process for critically ill patients.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common modes and ventilator settings.
     • Recognize the assessments and interventions provided by nurses and respiratory therapists in mechanically ventilated patients.
     • Recall methods of ventilator weaning to ensure safe patient outcomes.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Paul Teelin

     MSN, RN-BC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• General Principles of Infectious Microbes and Disease - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to broaden and update nurses' and respiratory therapists' knowledge of infectious disease causation and prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the three components common to all infectious diseases.
     • List four factors associated with the emergence or resurgence and transmission of disease.
     • Define the six components of the chain of infection.

  2. Sooa Devereaux

     MSN, RN-BC

     Barbara Barzoloski-O'Connor

     MSN, RN, CIC

  3. Contact Hours: 1.25

• Communication with Patients - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nurses, clinical laboratory professionals, nutrition and dietetics professionals, social work professionals, physician assistants, physicians, respiratory therapy professionals, and speech-language and pathology/audiology professionals with information about how to effectively communicate with patients in healthcare settings.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify at least three specific elements of effective communication and how communication affects the patient and family experience.
     • Recall important components of cultural competence and inclusivity when communicating with patients and families.

  2. Laura Bell

     Laura Bell, BSN, RN, CCRN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Medication Error Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate healthcare professionals about approaches to prevent medication errors.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Define types of medical errors and their impact on healthcare.
     • Discuss how a culture of patient safety influences reporting and resolving errors.
     • Explain strategies to reduce medication errors.

  2. Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Preventing Suicide in Older Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide skills to nursing and social work professionals in the acute care setting to identify, assess, and respond to suicide risk in older adults.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Recognize three important warning signs for suicide risk in older adulthood.
     • Identify five risk factors for suicide in older adulthood.
     • Describe evaluation and prevention methods of suicide in older adulthood.

  2. Bridgett Ross

     PsyD

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Parental Stress in the NICU - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses and social workers about family-centered interventions for families with infants in the NICU, focusing on up-to-date stress management and coping interventions in evidence-based neonatal practice.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the common stressors of parents with an infant in the NICU and the relationship between parental stress and infant health.
     • Recall interventions for parental stress and coping and how to use them in practice.

  2. Claire Hartman

     RN, BSN, IBCLC

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Dating Violence in Adolescence - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education module is to inform healthcare professionals so they can recognize adolescent victims of dating violence.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Differentiate between the diverse types of dating violence.
     • Recognize risk factors for becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence within a dating relationship.
     • Explain areas of focus for healthcare and prevention of dating violence.

  2. Olive Peart

     MS,RT(R)(M)

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• HIPAA and Confidentiality for Licensed Professionals - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide licensed professionals with an understanding of HIPAA, privacy, and security.

     Unless otherwise stated, the information in this course was sourced from 45 C.F.R. §160, 162, 164 (2021).

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the intent of HIPAA.
     • Apply professional practices that protect privacy.
     • Recognize practices that protect the security of electronic protected health information.

  2. Jennifer Burks

     BSM

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Common Sleep Disorders - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide nursing and respiratory therapy professionals with knowledge of the importance of sleep assessment in the clinical setting and to provide clinical assessment strategies and common assessment/diagnostic tools for impaired sleep and sleep disorders.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify common sleep disorders and how they affect the general population.
     • Describe common sleep disorders and ways to incorporate a routine sleep assessment into practice.
     • Discuss common sleep assessment tools and the indications for using these tools.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Providing Culturally Competent Care to the Muslim Population - No Test

  1. The goal of this continuing education course is to educate nurses and health educators in all settings on providing culturally competent care to patients who are Muslim.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify Islamic health-related practices or beliefs.
     • Identify strategies when caring for patients who are Muslim.

  2. Zeliha Ozen

     MSN, RN, CCRN, CNL

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Calming the Patient with Cognitive Impairment - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to enrich the knowledge of nursing professionals in the acute care setting about the use of music, touch, exercise, and animals to calm cognitively impaired patients.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the different types of behavioral and psychological symptoms that patients with dementia exhibit.
     • Identify the ways music, touch, exercise, and animal presence benefit patients with cognitive impairment.

  2. Amy Bonadies

     RN, BSN

     Elizabeth Vaccaro

     BSN, RN, MSCN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Recognizing and Treating Five Shock States - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses in acute care settings about how to recognize and treat different types of shock.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify changes in circulation, perfusion, and cellular function that take place during shock.
     • Differentiate five subtypes and four stages of shock.
     • List evidence-based nursing guidelines for the identification and treatment of shock states.

  2. Rakesh Tripathi

     MPH, BSN, RN, CEN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Professional Responsibility in Infection Prevention - No Test

  1. The goal of the course is to discuss professional responsibilities that nurses and medical assistant professionals have in applying effective infection prevention principles to reduce the transmission of pathogens.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Discuss the transmission of infectious organisms.
     • Identify ways in which healthcare professionals can break the chain of infection.
     • Recognize the professional's responsibility to practice infection prevention and adhere to standard infection prevention practices.

  2. Tracy Garrison

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Pain Control: Evidence-Based Approaches - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with evidence-­based guidance for managing pain while weighing the risks and benefits of pain medications with functional improvement and harm prevention.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Describe the need for and methods to balance harms associated with uncontrolled pain with potential harms associated with pain treatment.
     • Select appropriate tools to assess pain.
     • Discuss the physiologic processes and terminology related to pain.
     • Identify components of pain treatment that can be combined to form multimodal treatment plans.

  2. Paul Arnstein

     RN, PhD, FAAN

     Cathryn Ayers

     RN, MSN

  3. Contact Hours: 2

• Coping with Shingles - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to provide up-to-date information to nurses about the signs and symptoms of shingles, treatment moalities, interventions, and patient education issues.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the cause of shingles and adjacent conditions, as well as the common signs and symptoms.
     • Describe treatment modalities for shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
     • List interventions to prevent transmission and help patients adjust functionally, psychologically, and physically to shingles infections.

  2. Rebecca Smallwood

     MBA, RN

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Battling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to educate nurses with information about VRE and VRE infection in healthcare settings. This educational activity educates nurses on infection control practices to prevent VRE transmission for patient safety.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Recognize the epidemiology and severity of VRE.
     • State at least three strategies to prevent and control the spread of VRE in healthcare facilities.

  2. May Mei-Sheng Riley

     RN, MSN, MPH, ACNP, CCRN, CIC

  3. Contact Hours: 0.5

• Acute Stroke: Treatment and Outcomes - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to equip nurses in the acute care setting about the causes of strokes; acute treatment strategies; and the physical, mental, and emotional effects of strokes based on the area of the brain injury. DSM™ and DSM-5™ are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association. The American Psychiatric Association is not affiliated with nor endorses this course.

     After taking this course, you should be able to:

     • Identify the risk factors, causes, and acute treatment strategies of strokes.
     • Recognize the neurologic deficits associated with left- and right-sided strokes, the significance of post-stroke depression, and the importance of depression screening.

  2. Andrea Powell

     RN, BSN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

• Asthma in Adults - No Test

  1. The goal of this course is to prepare nurses and respiratory therapists working in acute care settings with information to better care for patients with asthma. This course is not affiliated with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

  2. Paul Teelin

     MSN, RN-BC

     Nicole Strickland

     BA, BSN, RN, CPAN

  3. Contact Hours: 1

Goal and Learning Outcomes

• Describe why new diseases emerge or reemerge in the United States and the benefits of adhering to standards of infection control.
• Examine sources and types of medication errors.
• Describe interventions that could prevent violence.
• Explain the connection of nurse caring with patient outcomes.
• List the appropriate nursing actions when delirium is suspected.
• Describe the intent of HIPPA
• Describe what nurses and institutions can do to foster effective collegial nurse-physician relationships.
• Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession.
• List the items of best practice associated with effective communication, cultural competence, and patient- and family-centered care across the continuum of care.
• Identify populations at greatest risk for prescription drug abuse.
• Define the core competencies required for successful interprofessional collaborative practice.
• Identify suicide risk factors that indicate a patient is at increased risk for self-harm.
• Recognize different types of ADEs.
• Provide the legal definition of nursing negligence.
• Define key terminology related to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender.
• List three reasons why patients seek complementary healthcare treatment.
• State two ways alternative therapies can be used to calm patients.
• Describe teamwork and partnerships among diverse patients, families, and staff members.
• Discuss the nursing care of mechanically ventilated patients.
• Compare and contrast transactional and transformational leadership styles.
• Explain core concepts related to sexuality, sexual health, and sexual function.
• List three risk factors for the development of alcoholism.
• List modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors of stroke.

Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and  West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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