Expanding Clinical Nurse Specialist Expertise in Implementation Science
This 1-hour course is designed for clinical nurse specialists. Implementation remains the most difficult aspect of introducing and sustaining evidence-based practice...
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An ever-changing healthcare environment requires that Clinical Nurse Specialists engage in lifelong learning to keep your edge. To support CNSs in achieving this, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists provides a variety of learning opportunities both live through our conferences and summits and on demand for self-paced learning. Many of these offerings are free to members.
Advocating for Patients with HRrEF by Implementing & Optimizing Guideline Directed Medication Therapies
This 1.5-hour webinar will discuss how the CNS can utilize pharmaceutical guidelines treat heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. It will also discuss how CNSs...
CNS Role in Prescribing and Managing SGLT-2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Therapy for DMII Patients
This 1-hour webinar will discuss how the CNS can utilize pharmaceutical guidelines to prescribe and manage GLP1 therapy and SGLT2 inhibitors to treat Type 2 Diabetes...
Innovation Beyond Traditional Pain Management
This 1 hour course is designed for nursing professionals who treat or manage patients in pain. This course will review palliative indications for the use of lidocaine,...
Journey to Full Practice Authority: Clinical Nurse Specialists in Action
This webinar will discuss legislative and regulatory concerns facing NACNS. Full practice authority and the consensus model will be discussed along with testimonies...
PADIS Guidelines: The Pharmacological Management of Critically Ill Patients
This webinar will describe the SCCM's clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of pain, agitation/sedation, delirium, immobility, and sleep...
Innovation and Business Planning for Clinical Nurse Specialists
Many will provide their talents and skills inside the walls of the hospital, many will identify a device they need when none exists, and many will strike out on their...
Leadership for Older Adult Caregivers
This 4.75 hour course provides a foundation for working with teams to develop and implement quality improvement strategies that will impact quality outcomes for...
Nursing Care of the Older Adult
This 3 hour course will address atypical presentation of illness in the older adult including operational approaches to detect and manage acute change of condition....
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
This 1-hour webinar will assist the learning in how to identify or diagnosis DIC, describe the pathophysiology and causes, and discuss management strategies for...
Introduction to Qualitative Research & Application to CNS Practice
This 1 hour presentation will discuss the purpose of qualitative research, identify qualitative research methods and discuss how to develop an outline for a...
Pediatric Sepsis: Recognition, Assessment, and Response
This 1 hour presentation will recognize the importance of the early recognition of sepsis in pediatric patients and the role of the CNS as part of the sepsis...
Alarm Management and the CNS Role
This 1-hour webinar will discuss current literature on alarm management and alarm fatigue, interventions to safely manage alarms, and integrate the CNS competencies...
A Clinical Nurse Specialist Student's Drive to Validate Surgical Instrument Cleanliness with Adenosine Triphosphate Technology
This webinar discusses whether Adenosine Triphosphate technology can effectively assess instrument cleanliness in the absence of published guidelines.
Question the Culture: Use of Case Reviews to Determine Specimen Culture Necessity
This 1-hour webinar will outline a quality improvement project implemented at a community hospital to help reduce hospital acquired catheter associated urinary tract...